Psychology

Profile

Background

After completing my BSc (Hons) in Psychology at the University of Surrey in 2004 I stayed on to complete my Ph.D. with the aid of a university bursary.  My Ph.D. (supervised by Dr Mick Finlay) focused on Discourses about Empowering People with Learning Disabilities. I took up a post here, at the University of Portsmouth in January 2009.

Teaching Responsibilities

I currently teach on the distance learning MSc Applied Psychology of Intellectual Disabilities course, where I co-ordinate two units: Social Construction of Learning Disabilities and Empowering People with Learning Disabilities.  I also teach qualitative methodologies to Level 2 BSc Psychology undergraduates.  I am happy to supervise Level 3, MSc and PhD students and my particular strengths lie in supervising research using discourse analysis, conversation analysis and interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Research Interests

My main research interests involve examining talk about facilitating the choices and control of people with learning disabilities, power relations in interactions with people labelled as learning disabled and how the support staff /carer/parent identity and learning disabled identity are constructed in talk.  I am also developing an interest in how elements of liberal style discourses may be invoked in arguments in different contexts.  For instance, how liberal discourses are invoked to argue against the very things that liberal discourses would promote (e.g. empowering people with learning disabilities) and how they may be invoked to justify racist practices.

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Indicative Publications

Jingree, T. and Finlay, W.M.L. (in press).  "Expressions of dissatisfaction and complaint by people with learning disabilities: a discourse analytic study".  British Journal of Social Psychology.

Conferences

Jingree, T. (2011) "The Powers That Be": An Examination of Professional-Carer and Family-Carer Talk about Empowering People With Learning Disabilities.  Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

Jingree, T. (2007) “You can’t do it...it’s theory rather than practice”: An examination of the practice/principal rhetorical device in staff talk on increasing choices and control for people with learning disabilities.  Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Conference, Canterbury, Kent.

Jingree, T. (2007) “You can’t do it...it’s theory rather than practice”: An examination of the practice/principal rhetorical device in staff talk on increasing choices and control for people with learning disabilities.  Paper presented at the Annual Psychology Research Student Conference. Department of Psychology, University of Surrey

Jingree, T. (2006) An examination of how people with learning disabilities are constructed by their care workers and the implications this has on how they are given autonomy.  Paper presented at the Annual Psychology Research Student Conference. Department of Psychology, University of Surrey

Jingree, T. (2005) The conflict faced by care staff between providing care and respecting the autonomy of people with learning disabilities.  Poster presented at the Annual Psychology Research Student Conference. Department of Psychology, University of Surrey