Professor Valerie Walkerdine
Professor
- 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
Publication
2022
- Walkerdine, V. 2022. 'I just wanna be a woman': some not so simple ways: families, femininity and/as affective entanglement. Qualitative Inquiry 28(10), pp. 998-1006. (10.1177/10778004221098204)
- Walkerdine, V. 2022. Social Class. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-22., (10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9_18-1)
2021
- Walkerdine, V. 2021. Psychologization. In: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Wiley
- Walkerdine, V. 2021. What’s class got to do with it?. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 42(1), pp. 60-74. (10.1080/01596306.2020.1767939)
2020
- Pini, M. and Walkerdine, V. 2020. Girls on film: video diaries as ‘autoethnographies’. In: Reavey, P. ed. A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research 2nd Edition. Routledge, pp. 187-201., (10.4324/9781351032063-1411)
- 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. ‘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. (10.1057/978-1-137-51453-0)
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., Cromby, J., Hook, D., Papadopoulos, D. and Walkerdine, V. 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., Hollway, W., Urwin, C., Couze, V. and Walkerdine, V. 1998. Changing the subject: psychology, social regulation and subjectivity. London ; New York: Routledge.
Articles
- Walkerdine, V. 2022. 'I just wanna be a woman': some not so simple ways: families, femininity and/as affective entanglement. Qualitative Inquiry 28(10), pp. 998-1006. (10.1177/10778004221098204)
- Walkerdine, V. 2021. What’s class got to do with it?. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 42(1), pp. 60-74. (10.1080/01596306.2020.1767939)
- 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. ‘No-one listens to us’: post-truth, affect and Brexit. Qualitative Research in Psychology 17(1), pp. 143-158. (10.1080/14780887.2019.1644407)
- 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)
- Walkerdine, V. 2016. Affective history, working class communities and self-determination. The Sociological Review 64(4), pp. 699-714. (10.1111/1467-954X.12435)
- Walkerdine, V. 2015. Transmitting class across generations. Theory and Psychology 25(2), pp. 167-183. (10.1177/0959354315577856)
- Walkerdine, V. 2014. Coming to know. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 27
- 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)
- 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)
- Blackman, L., Cromby, J., Hook, D., Papadopoulos, D. and Walkerdine, V. 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)
- 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)
Book sections
- Walkerdine, V. 2022. Social Class. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-22., (10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9_18-1)
- Walkerdine, V. 2021. Psychologization. In: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Wiley
- Pini, M. and Walkerdine, V. 2020. Girls on film: video diaries as ‘autoethnographies’. In: Reavey, P. ed. A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research 2nd Edition. Routledge, pp. 187-201., (10.4324/9781351032063-1411)
- Walkerdine, V. 2019. Neoliberalism. In: Stavrakakis, Y. ed. Routledge Handbook of Pyschoanalytic Political Theory. Routledge Handbooks Routledge
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Books
- Studdert, D. and Walkerdine, V. 2016. Rethinking community research: inter-relationality, communal being and commonality. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1057/978-1-137-51453-0)
- 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)
- Walkerdine, V. 2007. Children, gender, video games: towards a relational approach to multimedia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Walkerdine, V. 2002. Challenging subjects : critical psychology for a new millennium. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Walkerdine, V., Lucey, H. and Melody, J. 2001. Growing up girl: psycho-social explorations of gender and class. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
- Walkerdine, V. and Blackman, L. 2000. Mass hysteria: critical psychology and media studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Henriques, J., Hollway, W., Urwin, C., Couze, V. and Walkerdine, V. 1998. Changing the subject: psychology, social regulation and subjectivity. London ; New York: Routledge.
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