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Contact Details

Dr Sally Wiggins

senior lecturer

6.82A

sally.wiggins@strath.ac.uk

Tel : +44 (0)141 548 4461 (Ext. 4461)

Projects

Exploring health-related hair prosthesis use and user requirements in Scotland (Principal investigator)
Development and implementation of PBL materials and peer-tutoring across the Psychology programme (Principal investigator)
Developing problem based learning materials for teaching qualitative research methods (Principal investigator)

Education: MA Hons. (Dundee), PhD (Loughborough)

I joined Strathclyde in 2004, having previously worked in the Psychology Division at Nottingham Trent University. I am a qualitative social psychologist, with a particular interest in discursive approaches to interaction.

My research focuses on 3 key areas:

Understanding food and eating practices within family mealtimes. This work to date has examined the production of food evaluations in talk (with Jonathan Potter at Loughborough University), gustatory pleasure and disgust, and is beginning to examine the collaborative achievement of satiety (with Eric Laurier, at the University of Edinburgh).
Embodied identities. This work focuses on the interactional management of embodiment, exploring those moments when bodies are invoked and become socially accountable objects.
Problem-based learning (PBL). This research works closely alongside my teaching responsibilities and interests, to understand the social psychological processes that underpin group work in PBL environments. I am also the Director of POLLEN: The Psychology of Learning Lecturers' Network, a new national network that aims to support and undertake research into teaching and learning issues in Psychology higher education across Scotland.

I teach across all 4 levels of the Psychology undergraduate curriculum at Strathclyde, and also teach and supervise at Masters and PhD level. I am available to supervise postgraduate work in any of the 3 areas above, and have specific expertise in using discursive psychology as an analytical approach.

Research Grants

2012-2015	Constructing knowledge through talk: Unpacking the dynamics of group interaction in problem-based learning. Higher Education Academy Doctoral Programme Award, £54, 516. See info at: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/Sally_Wiggins
2011-2012	Exploring health-related hair prosthesis use and user requirements in Scotland. University of Strathclyde Faculty Strategic Fund, £9, 410.
2011-2012	Development and implementation of problem-based learning and peer-tutoring across the Psychology programme. University of Strathclyde Education Excellence Fund, £25, 938.
2007-2008	Development of problem-based learning materials for teaching qualitative research methods. Higher Education Academy mini-project. £5,451.
2007-2008	Development of a web-based resource to aid the teaching of qualitative research methods at undergraduate level. Grant funded as part of TQRMUL working group ('Teaching qualitative research methods at undergraduate level'). Higher Education Academy mini-project. £5,933.
2007-2008	Human respondent researchers: Sharing best practice across 3 faculties. University of Strathclyde Research Enhancement Group Initiatives. £5,000.
2004-2005	Discourses, identities and accountability in weight management groups'. Strathclyde University Research & Development fund award, £6,849.

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Recent Publications

Books/book chapters

Wiggins, S. (forthcoming, 2013). Family mealtimes, yuckiness and the socialization of disgust in preschool children. In P. Szatrowski (Ed.) Experiencing food through verbal and nonverbal behaviors across languages. John Benjamins press.

Wiggins, S. & Riley, S. (2010). Discourse analysis. In M.A. Forrester (Ed.) Doing qualitative research in psychology: A practical guide. London: Sage.

Wiggins, S. (2009). Discourse analysis. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Sage Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Pp. 427-430. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Riley, S., Burns, M., Frith, H., Wiggins, S. & Markula, P. (2008) (Eds.). Critical bodies: Representations, practices and identities of weight and body management. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Riley, S., Frith, H., Wiggins, S., Markula, P. & Burns, M. (2008). Critical bodies: Discourses of health, gender and consumption. In Riley et al (Eds.) Critical bodies. Pp. 193-203. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wiggins, S. & Potter, J. (2008) Discursive psychology. In C. Willig & W. Stainton Rogers (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of qualitative research in psychology. (P 72-89) London: Sage.

Wiggins, S. & Hepburn, A. (2007). Food abuse: Mealtimes, helplines and 'troubled' eating. In A. Hepburn & S.Wiggins (Eds.) Discursive research in practice. Pp. 263-280. Cambridge: CUP.

Wiggins, S. & Hepburn, A. (2007). Discursive research: applications and implications. In A. Hepburn & S.Wiggins (Eds.) Discursive research in practice. Pp. 281-291. Cambridge: CUP.

Hepburn, A. & Wiggins, S. (2007). (Eds.). Discursive research in practice: New approaches to psychology and everyday interaction. Cambridge: CUP.

Stokoe, E.H. & Wiggins, S. (2005). Discursive approaches. In J. Miles & P.Gilbert (Eds.) Handbook of research methods in clinical and health psychology. Pp. 161-174. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Wiggins, S. (in press, 2012). The social life of 'eugh': Disgust as assessment in family mealtimes. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Ritchie, S., Wiggins, S. & Sanford, A. (2011). Perceptions of cosmesis and function in adults with upper limb prostheses: A systematic literature review. Prosthetics & Orthotics International. Vol. 35 (4): 332-341

Laurier, E. & Wiggins, S. (2011). Finishing the family meal: The interactional organisation of satiety. Appetite. Vol. 56 (1): 53-64.

Wiggins, S. (2009). Managing blame in NHS weight management treatment: Psychologising weight and 'obesity'. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. Vol. 19 (5): 374-387.

Wiggins, S. & Burns, V. (2009). Research methods in practice: The development of problem based learning materials for teaching qualitative research methods to undergraduate students. Psychology Learning and Teaching. Vol. 8 (1): 29-33.

Horne, J. & Wiggins, S. (2009). Doing 'being on the edge': Managing the dilemma of being authentically suicidal in an online forum. Sociology of Health and Illness. Vol. 31 (2): 170-184.

McCreaddie, M. & Wiggins, S. (2009). Reconciliing the good patient persona with problematic and non-problematic humour: A grounded theory. International Journal of Nursing Studies. Vol. 46 (8): 1079-1091.

Horton-Salway, M., Montague, J., Wiggins, S. & Seymour-Smith, S. (2008). Mapping the components of the telephone conference: An analysis of tutorial talk at a distance learning institution. Discourse Studies. Vol. 10 (6): 737-758.

McCreaddie, M. & Wiggins, S. (2008). The purpose and function of humour in health, healthcare and nursing: A literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing. Vol. 61 (6): 584-595.

Hepburn, A. & Wiggins, S. (2005). Size matters: Constructing accountable bodies in NSPCC helpline interaction. Discourse & Society. Vol. 16(5): 625-645

Wiggins, S. & Forrest, S. (2005). Integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches in psychology research methods teaching: The example of a classroom debate. Psychology Learning and Teaching. Vol. 4(2): 90-94

Wiggins, S. (2004). Talking about taste: Using a discursive psychological approach to examine challenges to food evaluations. Appetite. Vol. 43: 29-38.

Wiggins, S. (2004). Good for 'you': Generic and individual healthy eating advice in family mealtimes. Journal of Health Psychology. Vol. 9 (4): 535-548.

Wiggins, S. & Potter, J. (2003). Attitudes and evaluative practices: Category vs. item and subjective vs. objective constructions in everyday food assessments. British Journal of Social Psychology. Vol. 42: 513-531.

Wiggins, S. (2002). Talking with your mouth full: Gustatory 'mmm's and the embodiment of pleasure. Research on Language and Social Interaction. Vol. 35 (3): 311-336.

Wiggins, S. (2001). Construction and action in food evaluation: Examples from conversation. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. Vol. 20 (4): 445-463.

Wiggins, S., Potter, J. and Wildsmith, A. (2001). Eating your words: Discursive psychology and the reconstruction of eating practices. Journal of Health Psychology, 6 (1): 5-15.

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