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Research Interests

• National identity & football support (particularly support for the England football team).
• Discursive psychology, conversation analysis and rhetoric
• Place and identity: the construction of community and belonging
• Political and media discourses of xenophobia -- in particular the reproduction and legitimisation of prejudice towards Europe
• The management of public identities in high-profile televised interviews

Publications

	Stevenson, C.P., Condor, S., Abell, J. (under review). Strategic use of national loyalty in political rhetoric: Orange Order speeches in Northern Ireland Political Psychology, , .
	Abell, J. and Condor, S. (under review). "They think they're the greatest": Football support as a matter of 'national identity' in Scotland and England British Journal of Social Psychology , , .
	Myers, D., Abell, J., Kolstad, A., and Sani F. (forthcoming). Social Psychology .
	Abell, J. & Myers, G. (2008). Analysing Research Interviews. In R. Wodak and M. Krzyzanowski Chapter in : Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences . .
	Abell, J., Locke, A., Condor, S., Gibson, S., and Stevenson, C. (2008). Trying similarity, doing difference: The role of interviewer self-disclosure in interview talk with young people Chapter in : Interviewing II. 3.
	Stevenson, C.P., Condor, S. & Abell, J. (2007). The Minority-Majority Conundrum in Northern Ireland Political Psychology, 28 (1), 107-125.
	Abell, J., Condor, S., Lowe, R.D., Gibson, S. and Stevenson, C. (2007). Who ate all the pride? Patriotic sentiment and English national football support Nations & Nationalism, 13 (1), 97-116.
	Condor, S., Abell, J., Figgou, L., Gibson, S., Stevenson, C. (2006). "They're not racist": Prejudice denial, mitigation and suppression in dialogue. British Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 441-462.
	Abell, J., Condor, S., & Stevenson, C. (2006). 'We are an Island': Geographical imagery and dilemmas of British identity in Scotland and in England. Political Psychology, 27, 191-217.
	Abell, J., Locke, A., Condor, S., Gibson, S., Stevenson, C. (2006). Trying similarity, doing difference: The role of interviewer self-disclosure in interview talk with young people Qualitative Research, 6, 221-244.
	Condor, S., & Abell, J. (2006). Vernacular accounts of 'national identity' in post-devolution Scotland and England Chapter in Wilson, J., & Stapleton, K.: Devolution and Identity. London: Ashgate.
	Condor, S. & Abell, J. (2006). Romantic Scotland, Tragic England, Ambiguous Britain: Constructions of 'the Empire' in post devolution national accounting Nations & Nationalism, 12 (3), 453 - 472.
	Condor, S., Gibson, S., & Abell, J. (2006). English identity and ethnic diversity in the context of UK constitutional change Ethnicities, 6, 123-158.
	Gibson, S. & Abell, J. (2004). For Queen and Country? National frames of reference in the talk of soldiers in England. Human Relations, Vol 57(7), 871-891.
	Abell, J (2002). Mad Cows & British Politicians: The Role of Scientific and National Identities in Managing Blame for the BSE Crisis. Text, 22(2), pp.173-198.
	Abell, J. and Stokoe, E.H. (2001). Broadcasting the royal role: Constructing culturally situated identities in the Princess Diana <I>Panorama</I> interview. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 417-435.
	Abell, J., Stokoe, E.H., and Billig, M. (2000). The Discursive (Re)Construction of Events. Chapter in M.Andrews, S. Day Sclater, C. Squire, A. Treacher, (eds.): Lines of Narrative: Psychosocial Perspectives.. London: Routledge..
	Abell, J. and Stokoe, E. H. (1999). I take full responsibility, I take some responsibility, Ill take half of it but no more than that: Princess Diana and the location of blame in the Panorama interview. Discourse Studies 1, 3, 297-319.
	Hopkins, N., Regan, M., and Abell, J. (1997). On the context dependence of national stereotypes: Some Scottish data. British Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 553-563.