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Tim Auburn Dr Tim Auburn
Role Qualifications & background I obtained my first degree (B.Sc. Psychology hons) from the University of Leeds in 1977. From there I went to study on the M.Sc. in Environmental Psychology at the University of Surrey which I successfully completed in 1978.
I then spent two years as a Research Assistant in the Department of Applied Psychology at the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) where I worked under Dr. Dylan Jones and Dr. Tony Chapman. The project on which I worked concerned the effects of noise on human performance and social behaviour. I registered for a Ph.D. on this topic which I eventually completed in 1985.
Since 1980 I have worked as a lecturer/senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth. Professional membership Teaching interests Staff serving as external examiners Research interests My research interests centre on discursive psychology and social interaction particularly in relation to institutional contexts such as the criminal justice system. More recently in collaboration with Christianne Pollock I have been investigating how children with severe autism interact with their teachers, parents and therapists. I also have research interests in the psychology of place within the field of environmental psychology.
My research interest in conversation analysis and discursive psychology entails the detailed examination of how social interaction unfolds moment to moment. This examination produces an understanding of how particular contexts are brought into being and rendered meaningful through people's engagement with one another. Particular research projects in which I have used this approach are:
>> Examining the social organisation of police-suspect interviews.
>> The analysis of prison-based sex-offender treatment groups for how treatment is oriented to and accomplished.
>> How students construct the experience of a placement year and the effects of this year on their subsequent course of study.
These research projects have yielded several research publications which have been published in Discourse and Society, British Journal of Social Psychology, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. In addition research project funding has been obtained from the Nuffield Foundation, as well as a travel grant from the ESRC.
My other main area of research interest is in place. With Beccy Barnes, who undertook a Ph.D. on Place and Citizenship, I have been interested reconceptualising the traditional environmental psychology idea of place. To this end we have examined how place is 'storied into being' and what follows from or is consequential for, particular versions of place. This research has been published in the British Journal of Social Psychology and the Journal of Environmental Psychology. UoP Research group membership Centre for Research in Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (CBCB)Research degrees awarded to supervised students Barnes, R. Losing Ground: Locational Formulations in Argumentation over New Travellers. Ph.D. Awarded December, 2000 Grants & contracts
Chapters
(2007)
'Narrative Reflexivity as a Repair Device for Discounting Cognitive Distortions in Sex Offender Treatment'
in Potter J (ed.)
Discourse and Psychology
Sage Publications
(1999)
'It's your opportunity to be truthful: Disblief, mundane reasoning and the investigation of crime'
in Willig C (ed.)
Applied Discourse Analysis: Social and Psychological Interventions
Buckingham, UK:
Open University Press
pp 44 - 65
http://www.openup.co.uk/
'A preliminary investigation of the potential for thermographic images to influence householders' understanding of home energy consumption'
in Dainty B (ed.)
Proceedings of ARCOM conference 2009
pp 971 - 979
Conference Papers
(2002)
'Discursive Practices in the Construction of Citizenship'
in Paper (ed.)
International Conference on Conversation Analysis, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark..
'Joking in teaching contexts by children with severe autism'
International Conference on Conversation Analysis.
University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
04/07/2010
- 08/07/2010
'Laughter is the shortest distance between two people: Laughter in the interaction of children with severe autism'
Conference on Laughter and Humour in Interaction.
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
24/06/2009
- 25/06/2009
'That's it we're having more insulation: Will householders change behaviours and attitudes after being shown an infrared image of their homes leaking heat?'
XXIX International Congress of Psychology.
University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
20/07/2008
- 25/07/2008
'Interactions of Children with Severe Autism'
International Meeting for Autism Research.
London, UK
15/05/2008
- 17/05/2008
'Social organisation of sex offender treatment groups(or cognitive distortions as the discursive psychologist sees them)'
Sex Offenders: New Perspectives New Approaches Conference.
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
15/12/2006
- 15/12/2006
'Warranting actions through speaker investment in place'
International Conference on Conversation Analysis.
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
10/05/2006
- 14/05/2006
'Place as an interactional resource'
British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Annual Conference.
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
30/08/2005
- 01/09/2005
'Conversation's Been Struck Up': The Organisation of Agency and Responsibility in a Rape Narrative.'
Language and Therapeutic Interaction Conference, Brunel University.
30/08/2001
- 31/08/2001
Reports
(2007)
Evaluation of the Community Advice and Support Service (CASS) at the Magistrates Court in Plymouth and Bodmin.
Prison Advice and Care Trust; Devon and Cornwall Local Criminal Justice Board.
Journals
Articles
(2011)
'The place of an advice and support service in a magistrates' court'
Probation Journal
,
http://prb.sagepub.com/
, DOI: 10.1177/02645505
(2010)
'Cognitive distortions as social practices: An examination of cognitive distortions in sex offender treatment froma discursive psychology perpective'
Psychology, Crime & Law
16
(1-2),
pp 103 - 123
http://www.informaworld.com/
, DOI: 10.1080/10683160802621990
(2007)
'Identity and placement learning: student accounts of the transition back to university following a placement year'
Studies in Higher Education
32
(1),
pp 117 - 133
(2006)
'Producing place: A neo-Schutzian perspective on the 'psychology of place''
Journal of Environmental Psychology
26
(1),
pp 38 - 50
(2005)
'Narrative reflexivity as a repair device for discounting 'cognitive distortions' in sex offender treatment'
Discourse & Society
16
(5),
pp 697 - 718
(2004)
'Citizenship in practice'
British Journal of Social Psychology
43,
pp 187 - 206
(2003)
'Doing cognitive distortions: A discursive psychology analysis of sex offender treatment talk'
British Journal of Social Psychology
42,
pp 281 - 298
(2001)
'The social construction of rape in the talk of a convicted rapist'
Feminism & Psychology
11
(1),
pp 11 - 33
(1995)
'THE EFFECTS OF SUPERVISED WORK EXPERIENCE ON THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY UNDERGRADUATES'
APPL PSYCHOL-INT REV
44
(2),
pp 95 - 110
(1989)
'AN EVALUATION OF THE PHYSICAL-ENVIRONMENT OF 2 COMMUNITY BASED HOMES FOR THE MENTALLY-HANDICAPPED'
BRIT J MENT SUBNORM
35
(69),
pp 83 - 93
(1987)
'AROUSAL AND THE BAKAN VIGILANCE TASK - THE EFFECTS OF NOISE INTENSITY AND THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS'
CURR PSYCHOL RES REV
6
(3),
pp 196 - 206
(1984)
'Effects of loud noise and signal probability on visual vigilance.'
Ergonomics
27
(8),
pp 855 - 862
, DOI: 10.1080/00140138408963559
(1979)
'LONG ARM OF STRESS - SOME SOCIAL AFTEREFFECTS'
B BRIT PSYCHOL SOC
32
(JAN),
pp 17 - 17
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