Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson - Sue Wilkinson

Sue Wilkinson

Wilkinson is Professor of Feminist and Health Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University in Leicestershire.

Wilkinson also has had a successful academic career. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Leicester, graduating with a B.Sc. degree in psychology. From there, she proceeded to earn a Ph.D. specialising in gender issues, particularly regarding the role of women in psychology.

Wilkinson's first academic post was as a lecturer at the University of Liverpool; following this she took position as Head of the Psychology department at Coventry University. After Coventry Wilkinson accepted a research post at the University of Hull, however she left this post to accept a Visiting Professorship at the University of Waikato. After this position in 1999 Wilkinson was granted a full professorship at Loughborough, having been associated with the university since 1994. Despite this, Professor Wilkinson decided to accept a sabbatical between 2001 and 2002; she spent this year firstly working at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then serving as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. The following year she took special leave so as to take chair as the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Professor of Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada. It was whilst in Canada that Professor Kitzinger and Professor Wilkinson decided to marry.

Wilkinson has also received great recognition as an accomplished academic, and has a strong involvement with the British Psychological Society, being instrumental in the foundation of its Psychology of Women section, for which she served as the first head, and also its Lesbian and Gay Psychology section.

Professor Wilkinson is currently researching the expression of emotions in talk-in-interaction, as part of her role at Loughborough.

Throughout her career Wilkinson has co-authored four books with Kitzinger, and serves as the editor of the academic journal Feminism & Psychology.