Outputs (5)

Making a difference with psychology: reporting on a module to develop psychological literacy in final year undergraduates (2015)
Journal Article
Kent, A., & Skipper, Y. (2015). Making a difference with psychology: reporting on a module to develop psychological literacy in final year undergraduates. Psychology Teaching Review, 35-47

Improving students' psychological literacy has become a key part of the new British Psychological Society accreditation. This is fuelling an emphasis on helping students to apply their degree knowledge critically and innovatively, both to enhance the... Read More about Making a difference with psychology: reporting on a module to develop psychological literacy in final year undergraduates.

Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology: Taking up the challenge of Sacks’ Legacy (2015)
Book Chapter
Kent, A. (2015). Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology: Taking up the challenge of Sacks’ Legacy. In Discursive Psychology Classic and contemporary issues (43-56). (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315863054-5

Conversation analysis and discursive psychology (2015)
Book Chapter
Kent, A. (2015). Conversation analysis and discursive psychology. In Discursive Psychology. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315863054-5

“Please, I need help, please!”: Reflections on Involving Undergraduate Psychology Students in a Conversation Analytic Study of 999 and 101 Police Calls (2015)
Journal Article
Kent, A., Melia, C., Marok, P., & Waterman, C. (2015). “Please, I need help, please!”: Reflections on Involving Undergraduate Psychology Students in a Conversation Analytic Study of 999 and 101 Police Calls. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin,

This paper describes a summer Research Assistantship Scheme undertaken by three undergraduate students in the School of Psychology at Keele University. The research used a conversation analytic approach to explore interactions during emergency and no... Read More about “Please, I need help, please!”: Reflections on Involving Undergraduate Psychology Students in a Conversation Analytic Study of 999 and 101 Police Calls.

Offering alternatives as a way of issuing directives to children: Putting the worse option last (2015)
Journal Article
Antaki, C., & Kent, A. (2015). Offering alternatives as a way of issuing directives to children: Putting the worse option last. Journal of Pragmatics, 25 -38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2015.01.004

In a corpus of c. 250 h of recorded interactions between young children and adults in USA and UK households, we found that children could be directed to change their course of action by three syntactic formats that offered alternatives: an imperative... Read More about Offering alternatives as a way of issuing directives to children: Putting the worse option last.