Profile

Biography

I have a two year appointment as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology and am contributing to teaching on the following undergraduate modules; Individual in Society, Conversation Analysis and Genders and Sexualities. 

I am also developing and maintaining the Yorkshare Virtual Learning Environments for these modules. 

Research

Overview

Using Feminist Conversation Analysis, the aim of my research is to explicate the social construction of gender and sexuality in the mundane interactions of young women.

I am collecting recordings of telephone calls made by girls aged 12 to 18. So far, I have seventy calls, amounting to some 17 hours of talk. I hope to address the literature that positions young women as particularly powerless due to their gender and stage of life. Following a conversation analytic tradition, I will show that gender and sexuality do not somehow transcend talk to become omni-relevant, but are instead only one set of possibly relevant categories to which these speakers may belong. Thus, gender, sexuality and powerlessness, if they appear at all, are located in the talk rather than in a priori designated categories of speakers.

This will contribute to research on adolescence and gender, in much of which young women´s lives are interpreted in realist terms for what they reveal about presumed sex- and age-differences, and to our understanding of the basic structure of human interaction.

Current projects

• Supervisor: Prof Robin Wooffitt
• Registration: Part Time MPhil / PhD

Publications

Selected publications

Articles

• Hepburn, A. and Jackson, C. (2009) A discursive psychological approach to cognition and emotion. In D. Fox, I, Prilleltensky and S. Austin (Eds) Critical Psychology: An Introduction (2nd ed.) London: Sage
• Jackson, C (2010). The Gendered I in S.A.Spear and E.H.Stokoe (eds) Gender and Conversation, Cambridge: CUP
• Stockill, C. (2007) Trust the Experts?  Notes and Observations on Choice and Control in Childbirth. A Response to Crossley.  Feminism & Psychology, 17,571 - 577
• Stockill, C. and Kitzinger, C. (2007) Gendered people: How linguistically non-gendered terms can have gendered interactional relevance. Feminism & Psychology, 17,224-236

Conference Papers

• Jackson, C. (2010) Placing known others at a distance in order to complain: A marked use of non-recognitional person reference. Abstract submitted to the Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, British Psychological Society, September 2010
• Jackson, C. and Jones, D. (2010) 'Well they had a couple of bats to be truthful': Well-Prefaced Self-Repairs in Managing Precision in Interaction.
• Paper accepted to the International Conference in Conversation Analysis, Manheim, July 2010
• Jackson, C. (2009) 'Why do these people's opinions matter?: Alternative Less-than-Recognitional Person Reference. Paper presented at ASA Annual Conference, San Francisco, August 2009
• Jackson, C. (2008) Conversation Analysis: Researching social life as situated achievement. Symposium for the Qualitative Methods in Psychology Conference, Leeds, September 2008
• Jackson, C. (2008) Making Gender Relevant. CA for Psychologists Workshop, hosted by the Feminist CA Unit and funded by the British Psychological Society
• Jackson, C. (2008) The Gendered 'I'. Conference paper presented at the Psychology of Women Section (BPS) Annual Conference, July 2008.
• Stockill, C. and Kitzinger, C. (2007) Use of Alternative (Non-) Recognitionals: A Marked Practice to Display Social Distance. Paper presented at the 10thInternational Pragmatics Association Conference, Sweden, July 2007
• Stockill, C. and Kitzinger, C. (2007) Use of Alternative (Non-) Recognitionals: A Marked Practice to Display Social Distance. Conference paper presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Sweden, July 2007  

Book Reviews

• Review of Speer, S.A.(2005) Gender Talk: Feminism, Discourse and Conversation Analysis. London: Routledge.. Feminism & Psychology, 2006, 16, 4:501-504
• Review of McGowan, T. (2004) The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the
• Emerging Society of Enjoyment. New York: SUNY Press. Psychology of Women
• Section Review, 2006, 8:70-71
•  Review of Willig, C. (2001) Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology Adventures in Theory and Method. Buckingham: Open University Press in Psychology of Women Section Review, 2004, 6, 73-75