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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.
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