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Professor Valerie Walkerdine

Professor

School of Social Sciences

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Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD students and establishing research collaborations that relate to a number of research topics and fields:

  • Subjectivity
  • Psychosocial research
  • Critical psychology
  • Class and gender
  • Community
  • Intergenerational transmission
  • Cultural theory
  • Artistic practice - especially performance and film in relation to any of the above topics and research that crosses arts, humanities and social sciences in terms of topic and method

Publication

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

  • Walkerdine, V. 2019. Neoliberalism. In: Stavrakakis, Y. ed. Routledge Handbook of Pyschoanalytic Political Theory. Routledge Handbooks Routledge

2017

2016

2015

2014

  • Walkerdine, V. 2014. Coming to know. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 27

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2002

2001

2000

1998

Articles

Book sections

Books

Research

  • Subjectivity
  • Gender and class
  • Psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies
  • Post foundational approaches to psychology and the  psi sciences
  • Affect and experience
  • Cultural theory and artistic practice
  • Community regeneration, affect and the global labour market
  • Working class communities after Brexit
  • Deindustrialisation
  • Working Class Studies
  • Neoliberalism and subjectivity in Latin America

Teaching

Graduate Supervision:

  • Subjectivity
  • Psychosocial studies and critical psychology
  • Gender and class
  • Work, globalisation, regeneration, community
  • New media and embodiment
  • Cultural theory and affect

Biography

Other appointments and positions:

  • Distinguished Research Professor
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
  • Fellow the Learned Society of Wales
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
  • Visiting Professor Kings College, London University, 1999
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor School of Education University of Stockholm, 2001
  • Visiting Professor Gender Centre London School of Economics 2000-2003
  • Visiting Adjunct Professor University of Western Sydney 2003 - date
  • Visiting Fellow University of California Santa Barbara 2015-16
  • Fellow Centre for Feminist Research Goldsmiths University of London
  • Visiting Faculty Transart Institute

Honours and awards

'Valerie Walkerdine Prize' awarded  for best work  on gender, School of Education, Stockholm University – awarded annually, beginning 2006