Carrie Childs

Department of Social Sciences 
Loughborough University 
Loughborough 
Leicestershire LE11 3TU 
England

Email: c.childs@lboro.ac.uk

Nationality: British

Start Date: October2008

Status: Full-tme

Academic Biography:

BA Hons Psychology/Writing (First Class), Manchester Metropolitan University, 2006
MRes Psychology, The University of Manchester, 2008

Current Research:

My PhD involves analysis of everyday interaction between family members. I am currently focusing upon the interactive uses of mental state expressions, in particular that of ‘wanting’, and how these are a part of doing socialization.

Research Interests:

Discursive psychology, conversation analysis, family communication, accounts of anomalous experiences.

Funding Body: Economic and Social Research Council.

Supervisors: Professor Derek Edwards and Dr Alexa Hepburn.

Involvement in the Department:

Member of Discourse and Rhetoric Group.

Research

Publications:

Childs, C. (2010). ‘Wanting’ in an interactional context: The performative nature of mental state expressions in everyday family interaction. Paper presented at The Fifth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Cambridge, August 2010.

Childs, C. (2010). Interactive uses of the mental state expression 'want' in everyday family interaction. Paper presented at The British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Stratford-Upon-Avon, April 2010.

Childs, C., & Murray, C. (2010). 'We all had an experience in there together': A discursive psychological analysis of collaborative paranormal accounts by paranormal investigation team members. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 7: 1-13.

Childs, C., & Murray, C.  (2009). A discursive psychological analysis of paranormal accounts. Paper presented at the Society of Psychical Research 33rd International Conference, University of Nottingham, September 2009.

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