Professor Valerie Walkerdine
Professor
- walkerdinev@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 75567
- Fax:
- +44 (0)29 208 74175
- Media commentator
- 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
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
Publications
2020
- Blackman, L. and Walkerdine, V. 2020. Pioneer of cultural, post-colonial and social theory. Subjectivity 13, pp. 1-4. (10.1057/s41286-020-00101-0)
- Walkerdine, V. 2020. What’s class got to do with it?. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (10.1080/01596306.2020.1767939)
- Walkerdine, V. 2020. ‘No-one listens to us’: post-truth, affect and Brexit. Qualitative Research in Psychology 17(1), pp. 143-158. (10.1080/14780887.2019.1644407)
2019
- Walkerdine, V. 2019. Neoliberalism. In: Stavrakakis, Y. ed. Routledge Handbook of Pyschoanalytic Political Theory. Routledge Handbooks Routledge
2017
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Walkerdine, V. 2017. Foucauldian discourse analysis. In: Willig, C. and Stainton Rogers, W. eds. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology 2nd Edition. Sage, pp. 110-123.
- Walkerdine, V. 2017. Of dinosaurs and divas: is class still relevant to feminist research?. Subjectivity 10(1), pp. 1-12. (10.1057/s41286-016-0021-7)
2016
- Walkerdine, V. 2016. Affective history, working class communities and self-determination. The Sociological Review 64(4), pp. 699-714. (10.1111/1467-954X.12435)
- Studdert, D. and Walkerdine, V. 2016. Rethinking community research: inter-relationality, communal being and commonality. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2015
- Walkerdine, V. 2015. Transmitting class across generations. Theory and Psychology 25(2), pp. 167-183. (10.1177/0959354315577856)
2014
- Walkerdine, V. 2014. Coming to know. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 27
2012
- Walkerdine, V. and Jimenez, L. 2012. Gender, work and community after de-industrialisation: a psychosocial approach to affect. Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1057/9780230359192)
2011
- Pini, M. and Walkerdine, V. 2011. Girls on Film: Video Diaries as 'Autoethniographies'. In: Reavey, P. ed. Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research. Hove: Psychology Press, pp. 139-152.
- Jimenez, L. and Walkerdine, V. 2011. A psychosocial approach to shame, embarrassment and melancholia amongst unemployed young men and their fathers. Gender and Education 23(2), pp. 185-199. (10.1080/09540253.2010.490202)
- Walkerdine, V. 2011. Neoliberalism, working class subjects and higher education. Contemporary Social Science 6(2), pp. 255-271. (10.1080/21582041.2011.580621)
2010
- Walkerdine, V. 2010. Communal beingness and affect: An exploration of trauma in an ex-industrial community. Body & Society 16(1), pp. 91-116. (10.1177/1357034X09354127)
- Walkerdine, V. and Squire, C. M. 2010. Reading the rereadings: Valerie Walkerdine responds to the commentaries on 'Video Replay'. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 15(4), pp. 412-417. (10.1057/pcs.2010.24)
- Walkerdine, V. and Bansel, P. 2010. Neoliberalism, work and subjectivity: towards a more complex account. In: Wetherell, M. and Talpade Mohanty, C. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Identities. London: SAGE, pp. 492-507.
2009
- Walkerdine, V. 2009. Steel, identity, community: regenerating identities in a South Wales town. In: Wetherell, M. ed. Identity in the 21st Century: New Trends in Changing Times. Identity Studies in the Social Sciences Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 59-75.
2008
- Blackman, L.et al. 2008. Creating subjectivities [Editorial]. Subjectivity 22(1), pp. 1-27. (10.1057/sub.2008.8)
- Walkerdine, V. 2008. Contextualizing debates about psychosocial studies. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 13(4), pp. 341-345. (10.1057/pcs.2008.31)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Walkerdine, V. 2008. Foucauldian discourse analysis. In: Willig, C. and Stainton-Rogers, W. eds. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. London: Sage, pp. 91-108.
- Walkerdine, V. and Blackman, L. 2008. Psychology and cultural analysis. In: Bennett, T. and Frow, J. eds. The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis. London: Sage, pp. 66-85.
2007
- Walkerdine, V. 2007. Children, gender, video games: towards a relational approach to multimedia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2006
- Walkerdine, V. 2006. Workers in the New Economy: Subjectivity as Border Crossing. Ethos 34(1), pp. 10-41. (10.1525/eth.2006.34.1.010)
2002
- Walkerdine, V. 2002. Challenging subjects : critical psychology for a new millennium. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2001
- Walkerdine, V., Lucey, H. and Melody, J. 2001. Growing up girl: psycho-social explorations of gender and class. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
2000
- Walkerdine, V. and Blackman, L. 2000. Mass hysteria: critical psychology and media studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
1998
- Henriques, J.et al. 1998. Changing the subject: psychology, social regulation and subjectivity. London ; New York: Routledge.
Teaching
Graduate Supervision:
- Subjectivity
- Psychosocial studies and critical psychology
- Gender and class
- Work, globalisation, regeneration, community
- New media and embodiment
- Cultural theory and affect
- 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