About

I am an academic whose research focuses on the ways in which language shapes our social worlds and the ways in which we eat. My research is based within social psychology though I work across disciplines, being particularly curious about what happens at the boundaries between things. As a Professor in Discursive Psychology, I focus on how psychological matters­–from our identities to our food likes, from food pleasure to disgust–become part of our social realities through our everyday conversations around food and mealtimes. I analyse video recordings of everyday mealtimes, in the home and in preschool, with a focus on how eating becomes a certain kind of thing through our words, sounds, and actions. I’m interested, therefore, not just in how we talk about eating, but the consequences of this for how and what we eat. 

Contact

Dept of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, SE-58 183. Sweden.

Email: sally.wiggins.young@liu.se

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