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Dr Hannah Frith

Principal Lecturer

contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Email: H.L.Frith@brighton.ac.uk

Teaching

  • Research methodology and analysis
  • Social Psychology

Research interests

  • Visual methodologies
  • Social construction of identities
  • Body image and disfigurement
  • Critical psychology

Current projects

  • Investigating the appearance concerns of adolescents undergoing treatment for cancer
  • Exploring the construction of visual identities among people with learning disabilities
  • Examining the inter-connections between body image, bodily distress and clothing practices

Profile

Hannah gained her PhD in Social Psychology at Loughborough University for her thesis which explored young people's sexual negotiations. She has taught qualitative methods and social psychology at University College Northampton, University of the West of England, and Plymouth University before joining the University of Brighton in 2007.

Hannah has previously conducted research in schools with young people about their visual and textual representations of identity on a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research council.

Hannah is currently working on a qualitative study of the experiences of an altered appearance during cancer treatment for adolescent patients and their families funded by the charity CLIC Sargent.

Publications

Number of items: 18.

FRITH, HANNAH, RAISBOROUGH, JAYNE and KLEIN, ORLY (2012) Shame and pride in How to Look Good Naked: the affective dynamics of (mis)recognition Feminist Media Studies . ISSN 1468-0777

FRITH, HANNAH, RAISBOROUGH, JAYNE and KLEIN, ORLY (2012) Media and class-making: what lessons are learnt when a celebrity chav dies? Sociology, 47 (2). ISSN 0038-0385

Frith, Hannah (2012) Appearance and society In: Rumsey, Nichola and Harcourt, Diana, eds. Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Appearance. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199580521; 0199580529

Frith, Hannah (2011) Narrating biographical disruption and repair: exploring the place of absent images in women's experiences of cancer and chemotherapy In: Reavey, Paula, ed. Visual Methods in Psychology: using and interpreting images in qualitative research. Routledge, Hove. ISBN 0415483484; 978-0415483483

Frith, Hannah and Gleeson, Kate (2011) Qualitative data collection: asking the right questions (What data collection method should I use) In: Thompson, Andrew R and Harper, David, eds. Qualitative research methods in mental health and psychotherapy. A guide for students and practioners. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester.

Frith, Hannah, Raisborough, Jayne and Klein, Orly (2010) C'mon girlfriend: sisterhood, sexuality and the space of the benign in makeover TV International Journal of Cultural Studies, 13 (5). pp. 471-489. ISSN 1367-8779

Williamson, Heidi, Harcourt, Diana, Halliwell, Emma, Frith, Hannah and Wallace, Melissa (2010) Adolescents' and parents' experiences of managing the psychosocial impact of appearance change during cancer treatment Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 27 (3). pp. 168-175. ISSN 1043-4542

Frith, Hannah (2009) Sexual scripts, sexual refusals and rape In: Horvath, Miranda A.H. and Brown, Jennifer M., eds. Rape: challenging contemporary thinking. Willan Publishing, Cullompton, pp. 99-122. ISBN 9781843925200

FRITH, HANNAH and Gleeson, K. (2008) Dressing the body: the role of clothing in sustaining body pride and managing body distress Qualitative Research in Psychology, 5 (4). pp. 249-264. ISSN 1478-0887

Riley, Sarah, Burns, M, Markula , P, Wiggins, Sally and Frith, Hannah (2008) Critical bodies: Representations, identities and practices of weight and body management Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230517738; 0230517730;

Frith, Hannah and Harcourt, D. (2008) Women's experiences of an altered appearance during chemotherapy: an indication of cancer status Journal of Health Psychology, 13 (5). pp. 597-606. ISSN 1359-1053

Frith, Hannah, Harcourt, D. and Fussell, A. (2007) Anticipating an altered appearance: women undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer European Journal of Oncology Nursing (11). pp. 385-391. ISSN 1462-3889

Frith, Hannah and Harcourt, D. (2007) Using photographs to capture women's experiences of chemotherapy: reflecting on the method Qualitative Health Research, 17 (10). pp. 1340-1350. ISSN 1049-7323

Frith, Hannah and Gleeson, Kate (2006) (De)constructing body image Journal of Health Psychology, 11 (1). pp. 79-90. ISSN 1359-1053

Frith, Hannah and Johnstone, Lucy (2005) Discourse analysis and the experience of ECT Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 78 (2). pp. 189-203. ISSN 1476-0835

Frith, Hannah and Gleeson, Kate (2004) Clothing and embodiment: men managing body image and appearance Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 5 (1). pp. 40-48. ISSN 1524-9220

Frith, Hannah and Kitzinger, Celia (2001) Reformulating sexual script theory: developing a discursive psychology of sexual negotiation Theory and Psychology, 11 (2). pp. 209-232. ISSN 0959-3543

Frith, Hannah and Kitzinger, Celia (1998) "Emotion work" as a participant resource: a feminist analysis of young women's talk-in-interaction Sociology, 32 (2). pp. 299-320. ISSN 0038-0385

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