Dr Kevin Buchanan

Kevin is a Senior Lecturer teaching on a variety of psychology modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including social psychology, critical psychology, the psychology of later life, transpersonal psychology, and qualitative research methods. His doctoral research focused on reminiscence work with older people in care settings. He continues to pursue his interest in the application of discourse analysis and conversation analysis to psychological topics.

Other publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Buchanan, K. & Middleton, D.J. (1995). Voices of experience: Talk, identity and membership in reminiscence groups. Ageing and Society, 15, 457-91.
• Buchanan, K. & Middleton, D.J. (1993). Is reminiscence working? Accounting for the therapeutic benefits of reminiscence work with older people. Journal of Ageing Studies, 7(3), 321-333.
• Middleton, D.J. & Buchanan, K. (1991). Some rhetorical resources in remembering collectively. Multidisciplinary Newsletter for Activity Theory, 9/10, 12-19.

Other Publications

• Buchanan, K. (1997). Reminiscence and Social Exclusion. Reminiscence, Issue 15 (August): 3.
• Buchanan, K. (1996). Talk and Identity in Reminiscence Groups. Reminiscence, Issue 13 (August): 3.
• Buchanan, K. & Middleton, D.J. (1994) Reminiscence Reviewed: A discourse analytic perspective. In Joanna Bornat (Ed.). Reminiscence Reviewed: Perspectives, evaluations, achievements. Buckingham: Open University Press.
• Buchanan, K. & Middleton, D.J. (1993) Discursively formulating the significance of reminiscence in later life. In Coupland N. and Nussbaum, J. (Eds.) Discourse and lifespan identity. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.

Selected Conference Presentations

• Lazard, L. & Buchanan, K. 'Proper' 'victims'? 'Proper' 'perpetrators'? A qualitative analysis of unwanted sexual attention as a heterosexualised relation. In Subjectivity International Conference Cardiff University, UK, 27th - 29th June 2008.
• Callaghan J., Lazard L., Buchanan K. & Capdevila, R. Deconstructing Harry: A discursive analysis of the Angry Harry website. In British Psychological Society's Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK, 30th August - 1st September 2005.
• Lazard, L., Buchanan, K. & Capdevila, R. Storied solutions: Discursive dealings with sexual harassment. In Women and Psychology Conference (The BPS Psychology of Women Section), University College Northampton, UK, 8th - 10th July 2003.
• Capdevila, R. and Buchanan, K. Legitimating marginality: Methodology and the mainstream. In British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Huddersfield, UK, 11th - 13th September 2003.
• Buchanan, K. & Capdevila, R. Reminiscences, genders and politics: Accounting for involvement in past and present tense. In The 3rd Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Conference, University College Northampton, England, 10th - 11th July 2001.
• Buchanan, K. Reminiscence and Social Exclusion. In Copenhagen Conference of the European Reminiscence Network: Reminiscence as a Means of Combating Social Exclusion, Copenhagen, November 1996.
• Buchanan, K. Voices of Experience: Talk and identity in reminiscence groups. In British Psychological Society's Psychologists Special Interest Group in the Elderly (PSIGE) Annual Conference: Tales from Canterbury: Psychology for an ageing community, University of Kent, UK, July 1993.
• Buchanan, K. & Middleton, D.J. Discursively formulating the significance of reminiscence in later life. In International Conference on Discourse and the Professions, Uppsala University, Sweden, August 1992.
• Middleton, D.J., Buchanan, K. & Suurmond, J. Communities of memory: Issues of remembering and belonging in reminiscence work with the elderly. In British Psychological Society's Psychologists Special Interest Group in the Elderly (PSIGE) Annual Conference, Thriving into the Nineties, Grey College, Durham University, June 1991.
• Middleton, D.J. & Buchanan, K. Reminiscence: Discourse analysis in socio-historical studies of collective remembering. Presented at the symposium on 'Collective Memory' at Second International Congress on Activity Theory, Lahti, Finland. May 1990.