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Inaugural Lecture

Identities, Relationality and the Psychosocial: Different Journeys to the Same Place?

Prof. Brenda Gourley, Professor Margie Wetherell, Professor Ann Phoenix, Professor Wendy Hollway, Professor Stephen Frosh
This event took place on 2nd March 2005
Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Programme
In the first half of the inaugural event, each Professor will take 15 minutes to examine aspects of what it means to take a psychosocial approach to understanding identities and in the process the different emphases, as well as what each of the approaches have in common, will become apparent. In the second half of the programme, after a half hour refreshment break, they will each provide a more detailed illustration of what is particular about their research interests and writing. The event will be introduced by the Vice-Chancellor of the Open University, Professor Brenda Gourley, and closed with a few words by Professor Stephen Frosh, Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Research, Birkbeck College, University of London.

3.00 - 3.30 Tea on arrival
3.30 - 3.40 Introduction from the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gourley
3.40 - 3.55 Introduction from all three Professors
3.55 - 4.10 Relationality, Professor Wetherell
4.10 - 4.25 Identities, Professor Phoenix
4.25 - 4.40 Subjectivity, Professor Hollway
Break
5.10 - 5.25 The Discursive Turn, Professor Wetherell
5.25 - 5.40 Everyday Life and Social Policy, Professor Phoenix
5.40 - 5.55 Becoming a Mother and the Capacity to Care, Professor Hollway
5.55 - 6.05 Concluding Commentary, Professor Stephen Frosh, Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Research, Birkbeck College
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