About Dr Katy Day
Katy is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Leeds Beckett University. Her interests are in critical, community and liberation psychology. She has particular expertise in feminist psychological approaches.
Katy's scholarly work is primarily concerned with intersections between gender and social class. In the past, she has published research on the gendered and classed dimensions of alcohol consumption, body management practices, eating distress and family food work. More recently, she has become interested in community and liberation psychology and in particular, the psychological impact of austerity, particularly on women. She has also published work recently on fourth-wave feminism and feminist methodologies. Her work has been published in Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, Feminism & Psychology, Qualitative Methods in Psychology, Journal of Gender Studies and Journal of Health Psychology, amongst others. To date, she has supervised six PhDs to completion in the aforementioned research areas.
Katy is also a co-lead for the Genders & Sexualities Programme of PsyCen at Leeds Beckett University and is a member of the British Psychological Society's Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) Section Committee.
Current Teaching
Katy currently teaches the following modules:
- Psychology of Women
- Psychology of Appearance
- Advanced Research Methods
- Critical and Philosophical Issues in Psychology
Research Interests
Katy is currently working on a co-authored book on critical social psychological approaches to social class. Her current research focuses on the experiences, lives and identities of working-class women.
Selected Publications
Journal articles (9)
- Day K; Rickett B; Woolhouse M (2014), Class Dismissed: Putting Social Class on the Critical Psychological Agenda. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, vol. 8 (8)
https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12118 - Day K (2013), Book review: Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives. JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 18 (8), p. 1115-1117.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105312473064 - Woolhouse M; Day K; Rickett B; Milnes K (2012), 'Cos girls aren't supposed to eat like pigs are they?' Young women negotiating gendered discursive constructions of food and eating.. JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 17 (1), p. 46-56.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105311406151 - Day K (2010), Book Review: Paula Saukko: The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008, 142pp. $19.95, ISBN 9780791474624 (pbk), $59.50, ISBN 9780791474617 (hbk). Feminism & Psychology, vol. 4 (2), p. 538-542.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353510375420 - Day K (2010), I. Pro-anorexia and 'Binge-drinking': Conformity to Damaging Ideals or 'New', Resistant Femininities?. FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 20 (2), p. 242-248.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353509351856 - Rickett B; Day K; Milnes K; Johnson S (2010), Exploring Women's Agency and Resistance in Health-related Contexts: Contributors' Introduction. Feminism and Psychology, vol. 20 (2), p. 238-241.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353509359761 - Day K; Keys T (2008), Starving in cyberspace: a discourse analysis of pro-eating-disorder websites. Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 17 (1), p. 1-15.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09589230701838321 - Day K; Gough B; McFadden M (2004), Warning! alcohol can seriously damage your feminine health. Feminist Media Studies, vol. 4 (2), p. 165-183.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1468077042000251238 - Day K; Gough B; McFadden M (2003), Women who drink and fight: A discourse analysis of working-class women's talk. Feminism & Psychology, vol. 13 (2), p. 141-158.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353503013002002
Chapters (3)
- Day K (2012) Class, socio-economic status and 'health-risk' behaviours: A critical analysis.. In: Day K Advances in Critical Health Psychology: Moralising, Action and Critique.. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, pp. .
- Day K; Keys T (2009) Anorexia/bulimia as resistance and conformity in pro-Ana and pro-Mia virtual conversations. In: Day K; Keys T Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders. London: Routledge, pp. .
- Day K; Keys T (2008) Starving in cyberspace: The construction of identify on 'pro-eating-disorder' websites. In: Day K; Keys T Critical Bodies: Representations, Practices and Identities of Weight and Body Management. Hampshire: Palgrave/MacMillan, pp. 81-100.
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Journal articles (18)
- WOOLHOUSE M; DAY K; MILNES K; RICKETT B (In press), 'Cos girls aren't supposed to eat like pigs, are they?': young women's discursive constructions of femininities, food, eating and the body.
- Day K; Murray R; Tobbell J (In press), Duvet Woman versus Action Man: The Gendered Aetiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome According to English Newspapers. Feminist Media Studies
View Repository Record - Woolhouse M; Day K; Rickett B (2019), "Growing your own herbs" and "cooking from scratch": Contemporary discourses around good mothering, food, and class‐related identities. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, vol. 29 (4), p. 285-296.
https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2400
View Repository Record - Day K; Sandle R; Muskett T (2018), Working to feel better or feeling better to work? Discourse of wellbeing in austerity reality TV. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal
View Repository Record - Drakett J; Rickett B; Day K; Milnes K (2018), Old Jokes, New Media - Online Sexism and Constructions of Gender in Internet Memes. Feminism and Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353517727560
View Repository Record - Rickett B; Day K; thompson L (2017), Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis: putting the personal in the political in feminist research. Qualitative Research in Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2017.1393586
View Repository Record - Day K; Rickett B; Woolhouse M (2014), Class Dismissed: Putting Social Class on the Critical Psychological Agenda. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, vol. 8 (8)
https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12118 - Day K (2013), Book review: Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives. JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 18 (8), p. 1115-1117.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105312473064 - Woolhouse M; Day K; Rickett B; Milnes K (2012), 'Cos girls aren't supposed to eat like pigs are they?' Young women negotiating gendered discursive constructions of food and eating.. JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 17 (1), p. 46-56.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105311406151 - Day K (2010), Book Review: Paula Saukko: The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008, 142pp. $19.95, ISBN 9780791474624 (pbk), $59.50, ISBN 9780791474617 (hbk). Feminism & Psychology, vol. 4 (2), p. 538-542.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353510375420 - Day K (2010), The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse. Feminism & Psychology, vol. 20 (4), p. 538-542.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353510375420 - Day K (2010), I. Pro-anorexia and 'Binge-drinking': Conformity to Damaging Ideals or 'New', Resistant Femininities?. FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 20 (2), p. 242-248.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353509351856 - DAY K (2010), Pro-anorexia and 'binge-drinking': Conformity to damaging ideals or 'new', resistant feminities. , vol. 20 (2), p. 242-248.
- Rickett B; Day K; Milnes K; Johnson S (2010), Exploring Women's Agency and Resistance in Health-related Contexts: Contributors' Introduction. Feminism and Psychology, vol. 20 (2), p. 238-241.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353509359761 - Day K; Keys T (2008), Starving in cyberspace: a discourse analysis of pro-eating-disorder websites. Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 17 (1), p. 1-15.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09589230701838321 - McDaid C; Hartley S; Bagnall AM; Ritchie G; Light K; Riemsma R (2005), Systematic review of effectiveness of different treatments for childhood retinoblastoma.. Health technology assessment (Winchester, England), vol. 9 (48)
- Day K; Gough B; McFadden M (2004), Warning! alcohol can seriously damage your feminine health. Feminist Media Studies, vol. 4 (2), p. 165-183.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1468077042000251238 - Day K; Gough B; McFadden M (2003), Women who drink and fight: A discourse analysis of working-class women's talk. Feminism & Psychology, vol. 13 (2), p. 141-158.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353503013002002
Chapters (7)
- Day K; Rickett B; Woolhouse M (2017) Towards a critical social psychology of social class. In: Day K; Rickett B; Woolhouse M The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology. : , pp. 469-489.
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51018-1_23 - Woolhouse M; Day K (2015) Food, eating, and 'eating disorders': Analysing adolescents' discourse. In: Woolhouse M; Day K The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 422-437.
- Woolhouse M; Day K (2015) Food, eating, and 'eating disorders': Analysing adolescents' discourse. In: Woolhouse M; Day K The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health: Discourse and Conversation Studies. : , pp. 422-437.
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137428318.0033 - Day K (2012) Class, socio-economic status and 'health-risk' behaviours: A critical analysis.. In: Day K Advances in Critical Health Psychology: Moralising, Action and Critique.. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, pp. .
- Day K; Keys T (2009) Anorexia/bulimia as resistance and conformity in pro-Ana and pro-Mia virtual conversations. In: Day K; Keys T Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders. : , pp. 87-96.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203876442 - Day K; Keys T (2009) Anorexia/bulimia as resistance and conformity in pro-Ana and pro-Mia virtual conversations. In: Day K; Keys T Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders. London: Routledge, pp. .
- Day K; Keys T (2008) Starving in cyberspace: The construction of identify on 'pro-eating-disorder' websites. In: Day K; Keys T Critical Bodies: Representations, Practices and Identities of Weight and Body Management. Hampshire: Palgrave/MacMillan, pp. 81-100.
Conference contributions (16)
- Drakett J; Rickett B; Day K; Milnes K (2018) Gatekeepers and barriers to STEM: A feminist relational discourse analysis Windsor, UK 20180711. : .
- Drakett J; Rickett B; Day K; Milnes K (2017) "You should take the best people" - Exploring the Discourse of Meritocracy in Technology Windsor, UK . : .
- Day K; Woolhouse M (2016) "They'd live on what I call crap basically if you let them": Family foodwork, food femininities and social class Windsor, UK 20160706. : .
- Drakett J; Rickett B; Day K; Milnes K (2016) "As long as you can do the job, they don't give a shit" : Dissolving Gender in Technology Windsor, UK . : .
- Drakett J; Rickett B; Day K; Milnes K (2015) "The Only Girl" - Being a Woman in IT Windsor, UK . : .
- thompson L; rickett B; day K (2014) I should be a mum before I'm a police
officer. But I'm obviously not' - Negotiating and resisting feminine working identities
within the confines of post-feminism. Windsor, U.K 20140709. : .
- woolhouse M; day K; rickett B (2014) Girly girls', 'posh girls' and 'right bad tomboys': Negotiating constructions of classed femininities through talk around food, eating and body management practices Windsor, U.K 20140709. : .
- Rickett B; Drakett J; day K (2014) 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 Windsor, U.K 20140709. : .
- Day K; Woolhouse M (2013) 'Cooking from scratch' and 'living off the land': Contemporary discourses around good mothering, food and class-related identities' University of Bradford 20130722. : .
- Rickett B; Day K (2013) 'Contesting normativity in troubled times: Doing discourse analysis from a feminist standpoint' University of Bradford 20130722. : .
- WOOLHOUSE M; DAY K; RICKETT B (2011) "I couldn't imagine a really pretty lady stuffing her face": Mothers' and daughters' gendered and classed constructions of food and eating. Windsor, UK 20110713. : .
- THOMPSON LO; RICKETT B; DAY K (2011) Big enough for the both of us? Reconciling experience and discourse in a poststructuralist research setting Windsor, UK 20110713. : .
- Rickett B; Woolhouse M; Day K (2009) 'Pink, 'posh', slim and blonde: Young women negotiating discursive constructions of hetero-normative femininity' Lousanne, Switzerland . : .
- DAY K; RICKETT B (2009) Resistance and agency in discourse around women's health University of Lausanne, Switzerland . : .
- RICKETT B; DAY K (2009) Femininity, governance and resistance: Implications for women's health and safety University of Lausanne, Switzerland . : .
- WOOLHOUSE M; DAY K; MILNES K; RICKETT B (2008) 'Cos girls aren't supposed to eat like pigs, are they?': Young women's discursive constructions of femininities, food, eating and the body Windsor, UK 20080716. : .
