Valerie HeyEmeritus Professor (Education)
Research
My interests are on the social, material and psychological construction of identities. I am intrigued by questions of how the subject is formed inbetween the processes and practices of psychological and social creation and reformation. I have always been 'post-disciplinary' in my research imagination and outlook - in the sense that my reading of education and the social has been heavily influenced by cultural studies in its various incarnations. I have written on: 'pub cultures'; the social and ideological construction of pre-mentrual tension; emotion and higher education as well as the academy's contract culture and its 'perverse pleasures'. Currently I am developing work on systematising how the field of 'girls' studies has been constituted with colleagues at the Open Â鶹´«Ã½ and Goldsmiths, and how we might begin to reimagine The Â鶹´«Ã½ of The Future with colleagues in CHEER.