Professor Ann Weatherall

Head of School of Psychology

Prof Ann Weatherall
I was born in Cambridge, UK but spent my formative years in Aotearoa New Zealand. After studying experimental social psychology at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand I was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study for a PhD at Lancaster University. During this time, I became involved as a graduate representative on the then-new Psychology of Women section of the British Psychological Society. I was also active in the academic community advancing a discursive turn in the discipline. After gaining my doctorate, I took up a lectureship position in the School of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington where I became full professor in 2015. In 2021 I returned to the UK permanently, initially joining the School of Psychology at Roehampton University, moving to Bedfordshire University a year later as professor and Head of School of Psychology.

My work develops knowledge from discursive and feminist perspectives by developing critical and qualitative methodologies to study topics and issues at the heart of contemporary social science scholarship including age, gender, embodiment, emotion, identity, sexism, and violence against girls and women. I have studied a wide range of settings including calls for social support, dispute resolution, clinical/health care encounters and sustainability initiatives. My most recent projects examine personal safety training (see talkandthebody.com), calls to the police about family harm and cat fostering.

I have collaborated widely with leading scholars who study social interaction in ordinary, professional and institutional settings, spending substantive sabbaticals with international scholars including Professors Emanuel Schegloff and John Heritage at the University of California (2006-2007); Professor Leelo Keevallik at Linköping University in Sweden (2013-2014), and Professor Lorenza Mondada at Basel University in Switzerland (2019).

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PhD in Psychology – Lancaster University, 1994
BA (Hons) Psychology – University of Otago, 1989

Chartered psychologist, British Psychological Society.
Fellow, Higher Education Authority.
Adjunct professor, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
External supervisor, School of Psychology, Roehampton University
Conversation Analysis Role-Play Method (CARM) Affiliate, Loughborough University

Social and discursive psychology
Feminist psychology
Conversation analysis
Video studies of social interaction
Helplines and clinical interactions
Violence against women and girls

Editorial board member for Research on Language and Social Interaction from 2018
Associate Editor for British Journal of Social Psychology from 2013
Consulting Editor for Feminism and Psychology from 2013

Using Talk and the Body to Prevent Gender Based Violence. A Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden funded project. (Principal Investigator 2020 – 2024)
Fostering cats for health: How do cat fostering programmes benefit companion animals and humans? Funded by the New Zealand Companion Animal Health Foundation (Co-principal Investigator 2021-2022)
Rape and barriers to accessing support. A Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden funded project (Principal Investigator 2014-2018)

Weatherall, A (2023) "Oh my god that would hurt". Pain cries in feminist self-defence classes. Language and Communication, 90, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.004

Keevallik, L., Hofstetter, E., Weatherall, A., & Wiggins, S. (2023). Sounding for others: Communicating the sensing body. Discourse Processes, https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2023.2165027

Weatherall, A., Tennent, E., & Grattan, F., (2022) "Sorry everything’s in bags": The accountability of selling bread at a market during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discourse & Society, 33, 89-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211048732

Weatherall, A. (2021). "Scuse the snivelling": Talking and the moral accountability of crying. In Weatherall, A. & Robles, J.J. (Eds.) How emotions are made in talk . Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Tennent, E., & Weatherall, A. (2021). Feminist Conversation Analysis. Examining Violence Against Women. In Jo Angouri and Judith Baxter (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality (258-271). Routledge

Weatherall, A., Keevallik, Leelo, K., La, J. Dowell, T. & Stubbe, M. (2021). The multimodality and temporality of pain displays. Language and Communication, 80, 54-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.05.008

Skogmyr-Marian, K., Malabarba, T. & Weatherall, A. (2021). Repetition plus turn expansion: Confirming and claiming entitlement, Language and Communication, 78, 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.01.004

Weatherall, A., & Tennent, E. (2020) "I don’t have an address": Housing instability and domestic violence in help-seeking calls to a support service. Feminism & Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353520963977

Gasiorek, J., Weatherall, A., & Watson, B. (2020). Interactional Adjustment: Three Approaches in Language and Social Psychology. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X20965652

Weatherall, A. (2020) Constituting agency in the delivery of telephone-mediated victim support. Qualitative Research in Psychology: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2020.1725951

Books

Weatherall, A., & Robles, J. (Eds) (2021) How emotions are made in talk. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Weatherall, A., Gallois, C., & Watson, B. (Eds.). (2007). Language, discourse and social psychology. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.

Office: A212c

University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
LU1 3JU

T: +44 (0)1582 743007
Ext: 3709
E: Ann.Weatherall@beds.ac.uk