Media and Other External Consultations
“The Persuasive Power of Political Narratives” (Film by Kesi Mahendran, The Open University) The Persuasive Power of Political Narratives - Open Psychology Research Centre
Consultant, “Unclaimed” (curated by The Liminal Space) Exhibition at the Barbican Centre, 11 February – 3 May 2019.
BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour, interviewed by Jane Garvey on Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life, 30 January 2017.
Discussant, Old Vic post-performance Q & A following production of “Ages”, Old Vic New Voices and BBC Community Production, June 2015.
Interviewed for BBC Radio 4 programme, “Something Understood” episode on “Story: The Impulse for Meaning” June 2012.
Extensively interviewed for, and quoted in New York Times “Nice Resumé: Have you considered Botox?” , by Natasha Singer, January 24th, 2008.
Extensively interviewed for, and quoted in The Telegraph, “Age No Bar” February 12, 2008.
Quoted in The Telegraph, “Charla Krupp’s How Not to Look Old: The ageing debate gets ugly” March 23, 2008.
Consulted for BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour programme “Beauty of the Aging Female Face”, November 2006.
Lost and Found Exhibition, The Barbican London
Grants and Awards
“A multidisciplinary exploration of personal narratives and scholarship” Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, 2023-2025, The Leverhulme Trust.
Leading Researcher Grant, The Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies, University of Tallinn, Estonia. Autumn 2021.
Project partner, “The Literary in Life: Exploring the Boundaries between Literature and the Everyday”, Academy of Finland (2015-2019)
Co-investigator, “Narratives of Varied Everyday Lives and Linked Approaches,” (NOVELLA) ESRC-funded, National Centre for Research Methods Phase III node, £1,292.164; 2011-2014.
Project support, Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin, €30,000 2010-2012.
Fellow, Higher Education Academy, Standard Descriptor 3. Awarded 2011.
University Teaching Fellow, University of East London. 2011.
2008 Outstanding book of the year award, American Education Research Association Narrative and Research Special Interest Group.
ESRC seminar series: “Methods in Dialogue” Award Ref RES – 451-26-0097, November 2003 – May 2005. Award held jointly between London East Research Institute and the Centre for Narrative Research
British Academy, July 2002. Travel Grant. To attend conference in Cape Town, at which I was a keynote speaker. £600
The Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 1998-1999,
"Gender and Aging: Cohort Effects on the Salience of Gender" £15,000
l990 Social Issues Dissertation Award. Awarded by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues branch of the American Psychological Association. August l990.