Staff Directory: Dr Jane Callaghan

Jane trained as an Educational Psychologist, in South Africa, and moved to the UK in 1999 to pursue doctoral studies in psychology. Her academic interests are broad ranging, unified by an interest in critical and discursive approaches. Her work covers issues relating to mental health, professional identities, race, gender, class and ethnicity, migration, and violence. Current projects include internet usage and identities, and the construct of whiteness in post apartheid South Africa.

Other publications

Publications and other scholarly outputs

Journal articles:

Callaghan, J. and Lazard, L. (in press) Please don't put the whole dang thing out there! A discursive analysis of internet discussions on breastfeeding. Psychology and Health.

Youell, J. and Callaghan, J. (in press) An investigation into the changes in intimacy in long-term relationships when one partner has dementia. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice.

Capdevila, R. & Callaghan, J.E.M. (2008) 'It's not racist. It's common sense.' A critical analysis of political discourse around asylum and immigration in the UK. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 18(1), 1-16.

Callaghan, J.E.M. & Capdevila, R. (2008) Globalisation, migration & asylum: The peril of the alien and the safety of the familiar. Editors' Introduction. Annual Review of Critical Psychology. 6, 1-3.

Callaghan, J (2005) Professionalisation and Depoliticisation: South African women students in professional psychological training. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 13.

Duckett, J., Callaghan, J and Wagner, C (2005) Group identification and outgroup attitudes in four South African ethnic groups: A multidimensional approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 31(5): 633-645

Callaghan, J (2005) Becoming a professional psychologist: Possibilities for activism? Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 4: 139-154

Callaghan J, Young B, Pace F & Vostanis P (2004) Evaluation of a new mental health service for looked after children.  Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 9: 130-148

Callaghan J, Pace F, Young B & Vostanis P (2003) Mental health support for Youth Offending Teams: a qualitative study. Health and Social Care in the Community 11(1), 55-63

Callaghan J, Pace F, Young B & Vostanis P (2003) Primary Mental Health Workers within Youth Offending Teams: a new service model.  Journal of Adolescence 26, 185-199

Callaghan J, Young B, Richards M & Vostanis P (2003)  Developing new mental health services for looked after children: a focus group study.  Adoption and Fostering.

Callaghan, J (2003) Township Girls Agenda, 57

Other publications in peer reviewed journals

Callaghan, J. (2005) Book Review: Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Women Executives Feminism & Psychology 15: 359-361

Callaghan, J. (2008) Book Review: Just War. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 6.

Editorship of peer reviewed journals and other editorial activity

Callaghan, J. & Capdevila, R. (2008) Annual Review of Critical Psychology. MMU. Guest editor of Globalisation, Migration & Asylum: The peril of the alien and the safety of the familiar.

Member of the editorial board for Annual Review of Critical Psychology.

Member of the advisory board for Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education

Reviewer, National Institute of Health Research, SDO programme

Peer reviewed book chapters

Callaghan, J. (2011) Professional identities and communities. In Walker, C.J. and Johnson, K. and Cunningham, L. Community psychology and the economics of mental health: Global perspectives.Palgrave MacMillan.

Barber, H. and Callaghan, J.(2010) Virtual friends: experiences of an online fan community.In:Mousoutzanis, A.and Riha, D.(eds.)New Media and the Politics of Online Communities.Freeland, Oxfordshire, England: Inter-Disciplinary Press.

Callaghan, J and Clark, J (2006) Feminist theory and conflict. Ratele, K and Suffla, S (editors) Intergroup Psychologies. Cape Town: Juta

Callaghan, J. (2006) Becoming a psychologist: Feminism, activism, professionalism. In Shefer, T, Boonzaier, F. and Kiguwa, P. (editors) (2006) The Gender of Psychology. Cape Town: Juta.

Callaghan J, Young B, & Vostanis P (2004) The mental health of vulnerable young people, Book chapter in Diwedi, K and Harper, P (editors) Preventing Mental Health Problems in Children and Adolescents. Jessica Kingsley.

Books

Callaghan, J. and Lazard, L. (2011) Social Psychology. Learning Matters (Critical Psychology Series).

Other publications: Official reports

Butcher, P., Lazard, L., Hay, J., Sedgewick, P., Callaghan, J. (2010) 'We take on round pegs and try to assess them in square holes: 'Reflective report on the work of the HEA Summit Developing Inclusive Learning and Teaching (2009-10). Report written for Higher Education Academy.

Lazard, L., Callaghan, J. & Maunder, R. (2009). Staff perceptions and understandings of continued professional development: A focus group study. Conducted on behalf of Ryehill Prison.

Callaghan J and Lazard, L. (2007) Neighbourhood Renewal and Rural pathfinder in Northamptonshire: A report on a focus group facilitation. (Report prepared for Northamptonshire Local Authority).

Lazard, L., Buys, D., Callaghan, J., Keating, S & Motzkau (2007) Hidden Crimes Secret Pain: a consultation paper on a proposed regional strategy for addressing sexual violence in Northern Ireland. British Psychological Society

Callaghan J, Young B, Pace F, Vostanis P (2003) Evaluation of a New Mental Health Service for Looked After Children (Report prepared for Leicestershire Health Authority)

Callaghan J, Young B & Vostanis P (2002) Primary Mental Health Workers within Youth Offending Teams: evaluation of a new service model (Report prepared for Leicestershire Health Authority)

Invited addresses

Callaghan, J. (2011) There's something happening here: Visual images of the EDL and BNP. Discourse Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University, 26 February 2011.

Callaghan, J. and Dann, C. (2010) Conforming and resisting: femininities, embodiment and fashion. Presented to Centre for Children and Youth, Northampton, 14 October 2010.

Callaghan, J. (2008) Social and geographic mobility: raced, classed and gendered. International Symposium on Migration and Forced Removals, Johannesburg, 5 March 2008.

Callaghan, J. (2008) Race, class and gender in women students accounts of professional training in Psychology. Invited Presentation, Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 6 March, 2008.

Callaghan, J. (2008) Discourses of township, community and profession. Invited presentation, Department of Psychology, University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, 20 March, 2008

Gale, F. Callaghan, J. and Harrison, P. (2004) Developing the Role of the Child Primary Mental Health Worker in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Commissioning, Service Provision and Training. Invited presentation, CAMHS National Conference, Department of Health. Birmingham NEC, 29 November 2004.

Conference presentations:

Callaghan, J. (2010) All about me? Professional identities, whiteness, and reflexivity. Presented at BPS Psychology of Women Section Conference, Windsor, July 2010.

Erathali, S.M.A and Callaghan, J. (2010) "Everyone is afraid of HIV/AIDS.....": Accounts of healthcare professionals working with HIV/AIDS in Tamilnadu, India. Presented at BPS Psychology of Women Section Conference, Windsor, July 2010.

Callaghan, J. and Barber, H. (2010) Reality, virtuality and fandom: Exploring gender in online fan communities. Presented at BPS Psychology of Women Section Conference, Windsor, July 2010.

Callaghan, J, Barber, H. and Buchanan, K. (2010) Chatting online: The use of instant messaging in qualitative research. Presented as part of a symposium at BPS Qualitative Research in Psychology Conference, Nottingham 2010

Callaghan, J. (2010) Just the facts, ma'am: Decentring the analysis of content in focus group research. Presented as part of a symposium at BPS Qualitative Research in Psychology Conference, Nottingham 2010.

Willis, M. Lazard, L. and Callaghan, J. (2010) In Britain's Best Interests? Discourses of race, place and identity in British party- political manifestos. Presented as part of a symposium at BPS Qualitative Research in Psychology Conference, Nottingham 2010.

Antoine, S. and Callaghan, J. (2010) 'Jus' how me pick up me roof jus' so they want me to pick up me life too, you hear dat' A thematic analysis of the experiences of adolescents following hurricane Ivan in Grenada. Presented at Qualitative Research in Mental Health Conference, Nottingham, August 2010.

Callaghan, J. (2010) Working with 'the community': Student accounts of community based work in South Africa. Presented at Qualitative Research in Mental Health Conference, Nottingham, August 2010.

Klindworth, K. and Callaghan, J. (2010) Culture, faith and embodiment: Young British Muslim women's accounts of corporeal identities and eating practices. Presented at Qualitative Research in Mental Health Conference, Nottingham, August 2010.

Callaghan, J. and Roberts, A. (2010)Communication between young people with autism and their care-givers. Presented at Qualitative Research in Mental Health Conference, Nottingham, August 2010.

Callaghan, J. and Lazard, L. (2007) Parenting online. Presented at BPS Psychology of Women Section Conference, Windsor, 18 - 21 July 2007.

Callaghan, J. (2006) Now you see it, now you don't: The appearance and disappearance of race class and gender in women students' accounts of professional training in psychology. Presented at Qualitative Research And Marginalisation Conference, University Of Leicester, 3 - 5 May 2006

Capdevila, R and Callaghan, J. (2006) 'It's not racist. It's common sense.' A critical analysis of political discourse around asylum and immigration in the UK, The International Society of Political Psychology 2006 Scientific Meeting, Barcelona, July 12-15, 2006

Callaghan, J. (2006) Crossing over: Managing race and gender in transition, BPS Psychology of Women Section Conference, Manchester, 5-7July 2006.

Callaghan, J (2005) "With theory, you know, everything is so clear and simple". Presented at the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, Cape Town, July 2005

Callaghan, J (2005) Working with 'the community': Student accounts of community based work in South Africa. Presented at International Critical Psychology Conference, Durban, South Africa, 28 June - 1 July, 2005.

Callaghan, J., Lazard, L., Capdevila, R. and Buchanan, K. (2005) Deconstructing Harry: A discursive analysis of the Angry Harry website. Presented at The 52nd BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, 30 August - 1 September 2005

Callaghan, J (2004) Professionalism, intimacy and motherhood Psychology of Women (POW) Conference, Brighton, 7-9 July 2004

Callaghan, J (2003) Township girls and mothers, Crossing the Boundaries Conference, Birkbeck, London, June 2003

Callaghan, J (2003) Professionalisation and Social Engagement Women and Psychology Conference (POWS), 8-10July 2003