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email:s.condor@lancaster.ac.uk

Research Interests

  • The dynamics of racism and prejudice in everyday social life.

  • Understandings of historical events and processes in intergroup contexts.

  • Everyday understandings of political processes. National identity, citizenship, civility and civic responsibility; Common sense political philosophy; Ideological dilemmas of liberalism.

Current research topics:

  • Stereotype expression and suppression in complex social contexts.

  • English and British national identity.

  • European identity and attitudes towards the EU.

Professional association memberships:

*British Psychological Society (BPS)

*International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP)

*Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)

*Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

*European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)

Publications

Condor, S. (forthcoming). Understanding English public reactions to the Scottish Parliament. National Identities, , .
Condor, S. (2011). Sense and Sensibility: The Conversational Etiquette of English National Self-Identification. Chapter in : A. Aughey & C. Berberich (eds) These Englands: A Conversation on National Identity. Manchester University Press.. .
Condor, S. (2011). Towards a social psychology of citizenship? Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 21, .
Condor, S. and Figgou, L. (2011). Rethinking the prejudice problematic: A collaborative cognition approach. Chapter in : J. Dixon, & M. Levine, (Eds). Beyond Prejudice: Extending the social psychology of intergroup conflict, inequality and social change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . .
Susan Condor (2011). Rebranding Britain? Ideological Dilemmas in Political Appeals to British Multiculturalism Chapter in : Martyn Barrett, Chris Flood and John Eade (Eds) Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. .
Condor, S. (2010). Devolution and National Identity: the rules of English disengagement. Nations and Nationalism, 16, 525-543.
Gibson & S. Condor (2009). State institutions and social identity: National representation in interview talk concerning military service. British Journal of Social Psychology, , .
Condor, S. (2008). Multiculturalism, liberal fundamentalism and banal nationalism. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 17, 369-374.
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, 97-116.
Condor, S. & Gibson, S. (2007). 'Everybody's entitled to their own opinion': Ideological dilemmas of liberal individualism and active citizenship Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 17, 115-140.
Figgou, L. & Condor, S. (2007). Categorizing category labels in interview accounts about the 'Muslim minority' in Greece Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33, 439-459.
Stevenson, C.P., Condor, S. & Abell, J. (2007). The minority-majority conundrum in Northern Ireland Political Psychology, 28, 105-125.
Abell, J., Condor, S. & Stevenson, C. (2006). 'We are an island': Geographical imagery in accounts of citizenship, civil society and national identity in Scotland and in England Political Psychology, 27, 191-217.
Condor, S. (2006). Public prejudice as collaborative accomplishment:Towards a dialogic social psychology of racism Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 16, 1-18.
Condor, S. (2006). Temporality and collectivity:Diversity, history and the rhetorical construction of national entitativity British Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 657-682.
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 (pp 51-75). London: Ashgate.
Condor, S. & Abell, J. (2006). Romantic Scotland, tragic England, ambiguous Britain: Versions of 'the Empire' in post-devolution national accounting Nations and Nationalism, 12, 451-470.
Condor, S., Figgou, L., Abell, J., Gibson, S. & Stevenson, C. (2006). 'They're not racist': Prejudice mitigation and suppression in dialogue British Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 441-462.
Condor, S., Gibson, S. & Abell, J. (2006). English identity and ethnic diversity in the context of UK constitutional change Ethnicities, 6, 123-158.
Figgou, L. & Condor, S. (2006). Irrational categorization, natural intolerance and reasonable discrimination: Lay representations of prejudice and racism British Journal of Social Psychology, 25 , 219-243.
Rosie, M., MacInnes, J., Petersoo, P., Condor, S. & Kennedy, J. (2004). Nation speaking unto nation? National identity and the press in the devolved UK Sociological Review, 52, 437-458.
Condor, S. (2003). 'The least doubtful promise for the future?' The short history of Tajfel's 'sociopsychological' approach to laboratory experimentation Chapter in Laszlo, J. & Wagner, W. (eds): Theories and Controversies in Societal Psychology. New Mandate.
Condor, S. & Faulkner, M. (2002). Discourses of national identity and integration in England and Scotland Chapter in Meyer-Dinkgrafe, D. (Ed): European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Golbalisation, Aberystwyth. .
Condor, S. (2001). Nations and nationalisms: Particular cases and impossible myths British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 177-181.
Condor, S. (2000). Pride and Prejudice: Identity management in English people's talk about 'this country'. Discourse and Society, 11, 163-193.
Condor, S. (1997). Having history: A social psychological analysis of Anglo British autostereotypes Chapter in C. Barfoot: Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodolpi.
Condor, S. (1996). Social identity and time Chapter in P. Robinson: Social Groups and Identities: Developing the legacy of Henri Tajfel . Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann.
Condor, S. (1996). Unimagined community? Some social psychological issues concerning English national identity Chapter in G. Breakwell & E. Lyons: Changing European Identities. London: Butterworth Heinemann.

Grants

  • 2001 (for 3 years) from The EC.
    Orientations of Young Men and Women to citizenship and European Identity
    with Professor Claire Wallace, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria; Professor Klaus Boehnke, International University Bremen; Professor Bernhard Nauck, Technische Universitaet Chemnitz, Germany; Professor Ladislav Mach�¡ek; Dr. Gabriel Bianchi, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia; Professor Maria Ros, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Dr. Hector Grad, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain; Professor Lynn Jamieson (co-ord), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
    More details about this grant can be found here.
  • 2000 (for Three years) from Leverhulme Trust.
    The role of the media (in national identity)
    with John MacInnes (Edinburgh University).
    More details about this grant can be found here.
  • 1999 (for 5 years) from Leverhulme Trust.
    Migrants and Nationals.
    with David McCrone & Frank Bechhofer, Edinburgh University.
    More details about this grant can be found here.
  • 1997 (for Three Years) from The EC.
    Lay and Scientific theories of prejudice
    with Lia Figgou (University of Athens).

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