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Dr Matthew Adams BA (Hons) CPsychol

Principal Lecturer

contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 644518

Email: Matthew.Adams@brighton.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Culture, class and identity
  • Consumption (including ethical consumption)
  • Ecopsychology and human nature / non-human nature relationship
  • Fatherhood
  • Intersubjectivity
  • Reflexivity
  • Silence
  • Psychosocial studies
  • The dialogical self

Recent publications

Number of items: 16.

ADAMS, MATTHEW (2012) A social engagement: how ecopsychology can benefit from dialogue with the social sciences Ecopsychology, 4 (3). ISSN 1942-9347

Adams, Matthew (2012) Where's daddy? Researching what parents do in contemporary children's picturebooks. An info graphic The Psychologist, 25 (2). pp. 126-127. ISSN 0952-8229

Adams, Matthew and Raisborough, Jayne (2011) Encountering the fairtrade farmer: solidarity, stereotypes and the self-control ethos Papers on Social Representation, 20 . 8.1-8.21. ISSN 1021-5573

Adams, Matthew, Walker, Carl and O'Connell, Paul (2011) Invisible or involved fathers? A content analysis of representations of parenting in young children's picturebooks Sex Roles, 65 (3-4). pp. 259-270. ISSN 0360-0025

Adams, Matthew and Raisborough, Jayne (2011) The self-control ethos and the 'chav': unpacking cultural representations of the white working class Culture & Psychology, 17 (1). pp. 81-97. ISSN 1354-067X

Adams, Matthew (2010) Losing one's voice: dialogical psychology and the unspeakable Theory & Psychology, 20 (3). pp. 342-361. ISSN 0959-3543

ADAMS, MATTHEW and RAISBOROUGH, JAYNE (2010) Making a difference: ethical consumption and the everyday British Journal Of Sociology, 61 (2). pp. 256-274. ISSN 0007-1315

Adams, Matthew (2008) The Reflexive Self: A Critical Assessment of Giddens's Theory of Self-Identity VDM, Starrbrucken. ISBN 978-3-639-11304-1 2*

Adams, Matthew and Raisborough, Jayne (2008) What can sociology say about FairTrade? Class, reflexivity and ethical consumption Sociology, 42 (6). pp. 1165-1182. ISSN 0038-0385

Adams, Matthew (2007) Review essay - Lemert and Elliott's New Individualism Theory, Culture & Society, 24 (5). pp. 147-152. ISSN 0263-2764

Adams, Matthew (2007) Self and social change Sage Publications Ltd, United Kingdom. ISBN 9781412907118

Adams, Matthew and Burke, P.J. (2006) Recollections of September 11 in three English villages: identifications and self-narrations Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 32 (6). pp. 983-1003. ISSN 1469-9451

Adams, Matthew (2006) Hybridising habitus and reflexivity: towards an understanding of comtemporary identity Sociology, 40 (3). pp. 511-528. ISSN 0038-0385

Adams, Matthew (2004) Whatever will be, will be: trust, fate and the reflexive self Culture and Psychology, 10 (4). pp. 387-408.

Adams, Matthew (2003) The reflexive self and culture: a critique The British journal of sociology, 54 (2). pp. 221-238. ISSN 0007-1315

Adams, Matthew (2002) Ambiguity : the reflexive self and alternatives M/C : a journal of media and culture, 5 (5). ISSN 1441-2616

This list was generated on Sat Jan 12 20:06:27 2013 GMT.

Recent conference papers

Adams, M. and Raisborough, J. 'Between amity and antipathy: the stereotype content model and the fairtrade farmer' BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference 7-9 September 2010, The University of Winchester, Winchester, UK

Adams, M. and Raisborough, J. (2009) 'Departing from denigration: mediations of desert and fairness in ethical consumption' The British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2009: The Challenge of Global Social Inquiry 16-18 April, Cardiff City Hall, Cardiff
- download conference paper (pdf 478Kb)

Adams, M. (2008) 'Losing one's voice: dialogical psychology and the unspeakable' The 5th International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Cambridge, UK, 26-29 August 2008

Adams, M. and Raisborough, J. (2008) 'In the Shadow of Suffering: Consuming Fairtrade' Subjectivity: International Conference in Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies and Social Theory, University of Cardiff, 27-29 June 2008.

Adams, M. and Raisborough, J. (2008) 'Refetishising the reveal? FairTrade and the sociological imagination' The British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2008: Social Worlds, Natural Worlds, University of Warwick, 28-30 March 2008

Raisborough, J. and Adams, M. (2008) 'Making a difference: Ethical consumption 'in the round' of everyday lives' The British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2008: Social Worlds, Natural Worlds, University of Warwick, 28-30 March 2008

Adams, M. (2006) 'Maybe it was meant to happen: Fate, reflexivity and the dialogical self' presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Dialogical Self, 1-3 June, 2006, University of Minho, Portugal

Adams, M. (2005) 'Reflexivity and tradition: a critique of the individualization thesis' presented at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, The Life Course: Fragmentation, Diversity and Risk - download conference paper (pdf 160Kb)

Research supervision

Matt is interested in supervising research students with interests broadly matching his own research interests and history. Contact him directly in the first instance.

PhD supervision

  • Natassia Ewington-Rogers – A psychosocial study of equestrianism (2011-current)
  • Eduard Moreno – What are the emotional processes involved in deceased organ donation and how do they influence donor kin? (2010-current)
  • Paul Hanna – Consuming sustainable tourism: ethics, identity, practice (PhD awarded 2012)

Background

Matt completed his PhD in 2001 at the Nottingham Trent University under the supervision of John Tomlinson and Mike Featherstone. The focus of his thesis was identity and social change, reflecting a longstanding critical interest in the conceptualisation of selfhood and subjectivity in social theory and the interface between sociology and psychology. After 2001 Matt held various research and teaching posts before joining the University of Brighton in 2003. In 2007 Sage published his book Self and Social Change, which draws on key approaches of recent years (Bourdieu, Butler, Foucault, Giddens etc.) to offer an account of identity in which class and other social structural divisions still loom large, though in socially novel ways. More recently he has published theoretical work on the social and psychological theorisation of various topics, and worked on the moral economies of various consumption and representation practices, often with Jayne Raisborough. Work-in-progress includes a growing interest in developing a psychosocial approach to the issue of human behaviour and ecological degradation, and the value of silence and illegibility for 'healthily' marginal identity positions.

Teaching

  • Subject leader for undergraduate psychology
  • Course leader for the Applied Psychology and Criminology degree
  • Co-ordinator for SS395 Ecopsychology undergraduate module
  • Teaching across psychology, social psychology and social science undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum