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Beverly Walker

BA (Hons), PhD

Position:

• Associate Professor

Research Interests:

• My research is based on the assumption that it is the sense we make of ourselves and our environment that is crucial to how we live our lives. The relationship we have with other people, how we depend on others, is the area that I have explored most extensively. The approach I use is termed Personal Construct Psychology. Recent work has concerned the relationships between personal identity and stereotypes.

Research Group:

• Illawarra Institute for Mental Health

Affiliations:

• Australasian Personal Construct Group
• Personal Construct Interest Group

Research Labs:

• Personal Construct Research Lab

Recent Publications:

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date.

Bailey, A. & Walker, B.M. (2003). Using psychophotography as a non-verbal measure of constriction. In G. Chiari & M-L. Nuzzo Psychological constructivism and the social world. Milano: FrancoAngeli. pp. 306-324.

Kalekin-Fishman, D. & Walker, B.M. (Eds.) (1996) The construction of group realities:Culture, society and Personal Construct Theory. Malabar, Fl.: Krieger.

Walker, B. M. (2003). Identity and travelling. In J.W. Scheer (ed.). Crossing borders – going places: Personal constructions of otherness Giessen: Psychosozial-verlag, pp. 82-92.

Walker, B.M. (2003). Making sense of dependency. In F. Fransella (ed.). International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology. London: Wiley, pp. 171-180.

Walker, B.M., Harper, J., Lloyd, C. & Caputi, P. (2003). Methodologies for the exploration of computer and technology transference. Computers in Human Behavior, 19, 523-535.

Interests:

• Bridge, detective fiction and theatre