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Dr Jessica Drakett
Senior Lecturer
Jessica is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University. She completed her doctoral research here in 2017, with the thesis titled Constructions of Gender and Humour in Technology Work: A Feminist Poststructuralist Analysis, supervised by Dr Bridgette Rickett, Dr Katy Day, and Dr Kate Milnes.
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About
Jessica is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University. She completed her doctoral research here in 2017, with the thesis titled Constructions of Gender and Humour in Technology Work: A Feminist Poststructuralist Analysis, supervised by Dr Bridgette Rickett, Dr Katy Day, and Dr Kate Milnes.
Jessica is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University. She completed her doctoral research here in 2017, with the thesis titled Constructions of Gender and Humour in Technology Work: A Feminist Poststructuralist Analysis, supervised by Dr Bridgette Rickett, Dr Katy Day and Dr Kate Milnes.
Jessica's research research explores the gender gap in technology from a feminist poststructuralist standpoint, with a specific focus on organisational and Internet humour (in particular, Internet memes). Prior to completing her PhD, Jessica achieved a BSc (Hons) in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University, before working as a software engineer for a company providing clinical software to the NHS and other organisations.
Jessica serves on the BPS Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES) committee, having previously managed the social media and web presence of the section, and is currently working as conference lead for the annual POWES conference. Between 2013 and 2017, she worked as co-editor of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) newsletter and blog.
Research interests
Jessica's research interests broadly span the following areas:
- qualitative research methods
- critical feminist psychology
- organisational psychology
- cyberpsychology
- social psychology
Publications (9)
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29 December 2023
The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Authors: Drakett J, Editors: Zurbriggen E, Capdevila RThis chapter explores the various ways in which we can conceive of gender and power in relation to technology. How do gender and power connect in technological contexts? What does power look like here, how is it shaped and allocated, and who possesses it? What possibilities may exist with regard to reshaping power through acts of resistance in and through technology? To examine these questions, this chapter attends to considerations of gender, power, and technology in relation to labor, focusing specifically on the domains of technology education and work, and activism in technological contexts. The chapter begins by firstly considering feminist approaches to gender and power via technology studies. Secondly, the chapter moves to examine the interplay of gender and power in relation to technology education and work. Finally, the chapter explores some of the possibilities and pitfalls new technologies may offer to feminist activists as both a tool and space of resistance and protest.
15 November 2018
Psychology of Women and Equalities Review1(2):44-48 The British Psychological Society
Drakett J, Kenny MRBook Review - Christine Hine, The Internet: Understanding Qualitative Research
2015
Qualitative Research in Psychology12(3):340-342 Taylor & Francis (Routledge): STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles
One Does Not Simply Sample The Internet: On Coding The Race of Pokémon and Other First World Problems. A Thematic Analysis of Popular Internet Memes
“You should take the best people” - Exploring the Discourse of Meritocracy in Technology
08 February 2018
Feminism and Psychology28(1):109-127 SAGE Publications
The Internet is a space where the harassment of women and marginalised groups online has attracted the attention of both academic and popular press. Feminist research has found that instances of online sexism and harassment are often reframed as “acceptable” by constructing them as a form of humour. Following this earlier research, this present paper explores a uniquely technologically-bound type of humour by adopting a feminist, social-constructionist approach to examine the content of popular Internet memes. Using thematic analysis on a sample of 240 image macro Internet memes (those featuring an image with a text caption overlaid), we identified two broad, overarching themes – Technological Privilege and Others. Within the analysis presented here, complex and troubling constructions of gendered identity in online humour are explored, illustrating the potential for the othering and exclusion of women through humour in technological spaces. We argue that this new iteration of heteronormative, hegemonic masculinity in online sexism, couched in “irony” and “joking”, serves to police, regulate and create rightful occupants and owners of such spaces.
Gatekeepers and barriers to STEM: A feminist relational discourse analysis
“The Only Girl" - Being a Woman in IT
Current teaching
Jessica teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate psychology courses at Leeds Beckett University, including both onsite and distance learning provisions. She covers a range of topics within psychology including:
- qualitative and quantitative research methods
- statistics
- social psychology
- critical and philosophical issues in psychology
- dissertation supervision
She has also worked as a distance learning tutor in psychology for the Open University.
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