About the Project
I am interested in the social and emotional processes through which the identities of individuals and groups are formed with particular reference to gender and social class in the context of education, families and neighbourhoods. I take a psychoanalytically informed psychosocial approach in qualitative research with children, young people and adults. I have explored the changing nature of social class, young girls growing up, the production of masculine and feminine identities, home-school relations, educational success and failure, children in the city and the regulation of urban space, school choice policy and the production of education markets. More recently I’ve become interested in sibling relationships and have completed research on the everyday practices of siblings in different kinds of families for children and young people.
RESEARCH PROPOSAL - You must write your own research proposal on this topic. See our website at http://www.bath.ac.uk/study/pg/programmes/mphi-psyc for further details.
References
Lucey, H. (2009) Families and Personal Relationships. In Sage Handbook of Identities. (M. Wetherell & C. Talpade Mohanty, editors) London, Sage.
Holloway, W., Lucey, H. & Phoenix, A (Eds) (2007) Social Psychology Matters. London, Open University Press.
Gillies, V. & Lucey, H. (Eds) (2007) Power, Knowledge and the Academy: Exploring the Institutional and Personal Dynamics of Research. London, Palgrave Macmillan.
Edwards, R., Hadfield, L., Lucey H. and Mauthner, M. (2006) Sibling Identities and Relationships: sisters and brothers, London, Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
Walkerdine, V., Lucey, H. and Melody, J. (2001) Growing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class, London, Palgrave.