Dr. Vivien Burr
Reader in Psychology
Room: HHR1/01
Telephone Extension: 2454
Direct Telephone:
+44 (0) 1484 472454
E-mail: v.burr@hud.ac.uk
Qualifications: BA Psychology; PhD
General Biography
BA (Hons) Psychology
PhD
Reader in Psychology, Dept Behavioural Sciences
Associate Fellow British Psychological Society
Membership of editorial board:
Personal Construct: Theory and Practice (2005-present), Slayage (2005-present)
Teaching & Academic Responsibilities
Curriculum/subject interests: social psychology, social constructionism, Personal Construct Psychology; gender; the psychology of media and popular culture.
Module leader for HHB1002 Alternative Psychologies
HHS Director of Graduate Education
Research & Scholarship
Research & scholarship interests: social psychology, social constructionism, Personal Construct Psychology; gender; the psychology of media and popular culture; qualitative methods.
Projects in progress - I have just written a chapter for a book on reflexivity in Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) practice edited by Richard Butler. With Prof Nigel King, I am currently engaged in a research project funded by the HEA exploring the uses of 'reality TV' in teaching research ethics to undergraduates. We are also engaged in a project to explore women's identities through footwear using PCP methods.
Areas for doctoral Supervision
- Attitudes towards violent and sexual material on TV and TV censorship
- Audience reception of 'reality TV' shows
- Uses of popular culture in teaching
- The psychology of artistic and/or creative activities.
- Gender and identity
- The psychology/social psychology of relationships between people and non-human animals
Publications, Conference Presentations
Publications:
- Burr, V. (2009) Sex and censorship: the case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Feminism and Psychology 19 (1) 123:127.
- Hearn, J. and Burr, V. (2008) Introduction. In V. Burr and J. Hearn (eds) Sex, Violence and the Body: the erotics of wounding. Palgrave-Macmillan.
- Burr, V. and Hearn, J. (eds) (2008) Sex, Violence and the Body: the erotics of wounding. Palgrave-Macmillan.
- Burr, V. (2008) “Oh Spike you’re covered in sexy wounds!” The erotic significance of wounding and torture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In V. Burr and J. Hearn (eds) Sex, Violence and the Body: the erotics of wounding. Palgrave-Macmillan.
- Burr, V. (2008) ‘Bunches of grapes and bananas’: un-construing the human body in life-drawing. Special issue of Journal of Constructivist Psychology. Vol 21 (4): 321-327
- Burr, V. (2008) The contribution of feminist research to the rise of qualitative methods: Soft data instead of hard facts. In D. Stojnov (ed) Metateorijske Osnove Kvalitativnih Istrazivanja. Belgrade: Zeptor Book World. Pp119-128.
- Blyth, E., Burr, V. and Farrand, A. (2008) Welfare of the child assessments in assisted conception: a social constructionist perspective. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 26 (1) 31-43.
- Burr, V. and Jarvis, C. (2007) Imagining the Family: Representations of alternative lifestyles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Qualitative Social Work 6(3) pp 263-280.
- Burr, V. (2007) Bystander Intervention. In Taylor, S. and Langdridge, D.(eds) Critical Readings in Social Psychology. Open University Press.
- Burr, V. (2006) Friends are the families we choose for ourselves: Towards the democratisation of relationships. BPS Psychology of Women Section Review.
- Burr, V (2006) The Art of Writing: Embodiment and pre-verbal construing. In P.Caputi, H. Foster and L. Viney (eds) Personal Construct Psychology: New ideas. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
- Burr, V. (2006) Bad Girls Like it Rough (-And Good Girls Don’t?). Representations of BDSM in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Phoebe: Gender and Cultural Critiques 18 (1) 45-57
- Burr, V. (2006) "Becoming a Singer: PCT and voice" in Scheer,J.W and Sewell, K.W (Eds.) Creative Construing:Personal Constructions in the Arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag
- Burr, V. (2005) Scholar/'shippers and Spikeaholics: Academic and fan identities at the Slayage conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. European Journal of Cultural Studies 8 (3), 375-383.
- Jarvis, C. and Burr, V. (2005) Friends are the family we choose for ourselves: Young people and families in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research 13 (3), 269-283
- Butt, T.W.and Burr, V. (2004) Invitation to Personal Construct Psychology (second edition). London: Whurr Publishers. Originally published as Burr and Butt.
- Burr, V. (2003) Constructivism. In Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. London: Sage. (December)
- Burr, V. (2003) Buffy vs. the BBC: Moral questions and how to avoid them. Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies. No 8, April. [http://www.slayage.tv/]
- Burr, V. (2003) ’It all seems so real’: Intertextuality in the Buffyverse. Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, March, vol.2, 2003. [http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au/journalissues/vol2/vivienburr.html]
- Burr, V. (2003) Social Constructionism (second edition). London: Psychology Press.
- Burr, V. (2003) Ambiguity and sexuality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Sartrean analysis. Sexualities 6 (3).
- Burr, V. (2002) Judging gender from samples of adult handwriting: accuracy and use of cues. Journal of Social Psychology, 142(6), 691-700.
- Burr, V. (2002) The Person in Social Psychology. London: Psychology Press.
- Earlier Publications
Conferences:
- 'Making the Most of Methods: The future for PCP?' Paper presented (with Dr Trevor Butt) at the XVIIIth International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology, July 20-24, 2009, S. Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.
- '“In these shoes?” Exploring women’s identities through footwear.' Paper presented (with Prof Nigel King)at the XVIIIth International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology, July 20-24, 2009, S. Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.
- 'Exploring personal identities through constructions of footwear.' Workshop delivered (with Prof Nigel King) at the XVIIIth International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology, July 20-24, 2009, S. Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.
- A Constructivist’s Journey: From PCP to Social Constructionism - and back? Invited keynote paper to EPCA conference, Queen Mary University, London, July 2008
- 'The contribution of feminist research to the rise of qualitiatve methods: Soft data instead of hard facts.' Invited paper at international conference on qualitative methods, Institute of Educational Research Belgrade, March 2008.
- "Imagining the Family: Constructions of alternative families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Birkbeck University, March 2007.
- "I’d rather walk round Huddersfield with a nail in my foot than watch Buffy!": Reflections of using BtVS in teaching social science undergraduates in the UK. Paper presented to SC2 conference, Barnesville, GA, USA, 25-28 May 2006.
- "Bunches of grapes and bananas": un-construing the human body in life-drawing. Paper presented at the EPCA conference Kristianstad, Sweden, 2006
- Invited keynote paper to BPS Psychology of Women section conference, Huddersfield, July 2005.
- "PCP and Voice" paper presented to International Personal Construct Theory Congress, Columbus Ohio, July 2005.
- Invited keynote paper to POWS conference, Huddersfield , July 2005.
- "The Person in Social Psychology". Invited paper at Subjectiviisen Kokemuksen Sociaalipsykologiasta, Annual Social Psychology Conference, University of Tampere, Finland, Nov 2001.
- Society and Communities in Social Construction and Discourse Analysis." Keynote paper to conference on texts, Interaction and Communities: Qualitative Approaches to Social Action, University of Tamper, Finland May 2005
- Invited keynote paper to conference and run postgraduate workshop at University of Tampere, Finland, May 2005.
- "Scholar/'shippers and Spikeaholics: Academic and fan identities at the Slayage conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented to Bring Your Own Subtext conference, Huddersfield 2005.
- "Bad Girls like it Rough And Good Girls Don’t?: Representations of sexuality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Paper presented at Pleasure & Danger Revisited conference, Cardiff University, July 2004.
- "Bring Your Own Subtext: Audience reception of Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Paper presented at the Slayage conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Middle Tennessee University, Nashville, 2004.
- " Performing the Imaginative variation: Using Buffy to teach Sartre" Paper presented at the Slayage conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Middle Tennessee University, Nashville, 2004.
- "Friends are the familiy you choose for yourself" (with Christine Jarvis). Paper presented at the Slayage conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Middle Tennessee University, Nashville, 2004.
- "Constructing your own reality". Paper presented at EPCA conference, University of Stuttgart, April 2004.
- "The Case For The Person in Social Psychology". Paper presented at BPS Social Psychology Conference, University of Huddersfield, September 2002.
- "Making sense and the ambiguity of the lived world." Paper presented at EPCA Conference, Florence, March 2002.
- "The Person in Social Psychology". Invited paper at "Subjectiviisen Kokemuksen Sociaalipsykologiasta", Annual Social Psychology Conference, University of Tampere, Finland, Nov 2001.
- Earlier conference presentations
