Margaret Wetherell, Date of Birth

Margaret Wetherell

social psychologist

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1954

Profession: psychologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Margaret Wetherell (born 24 November 1954), is a prominent academic in the area of discourse analysis.
Her 1987 book, Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour, cowritten with Jonathan Potter, was very influential, particularly in social psychology, though also in other fields (e.g.
Wood & Kroger, 2000).
While discourse analysis has many different meanings, Wetherell's approach has been quite catholic in line with other anglophone discourse analysts like Gilbert & Mulkay (1984). Wetherell is currently Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University in the United Kingdom, and in 2010/11 led a collaboration on identity funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).