Dr Jane Montague
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Job title: Acting Head of Psychology
Email: j.montague@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 593044
Room: N204b
Recent publications
Gale, C., Baldwin, L., Staples, V., Montague, J., & Waldram, D. (2012). An exploration of the experience of mental health service users when they decide they would like to change or withdraw from prescribed medications. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. (Online access)
Guy, L. and Montague, J. (2008). Analysing men's written friendship narratives. Qualitative Research, 8: 389-397.
High, C. and Montague, J. (2006). Organisation. In Potter, S. (Ed.). Doing Postgraduate Research (2nd Edn.).Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Horton-Salway, M., Montague, J., Wiggins, S. and Seymour-Smith, S. (2008). Mapping the components of the telephone conference: an analysis of tutorial talk at a distance learning institution. Discourse Studies, 10: 737-758.
Montague, J. (2009). Developing research with a familiar group. Social Psychology Review, 11, 1: 39-44.
Montague, J. and High, C. (2006). Planning your research. In Potter, S. (Ed.). Doing Postgraduate Research (2nd Edn.). Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Montague, J. (2006). Family photographs as a topic for conversation. In D. Robinson, N.Kelly and K.Milnes (Eds.) (2006) Narrative and Memory: Selected Papers from the Sixth Annual Conference. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield.
Montague, J. (2005). Researching relationships in talk amongst women who are personally connected. In Holland, C. (Ed.) (2005) Recruitment and Sampling. Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies, Open University and the Centre for Policy on Ageing, London.
Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences
School: School of Science
Subject Area: Psychology
I completed my undergraduate degree as a CAMS student (now JHS), here at Derby in 1998, in Psychology with Health and Society. Alongside this I also completed modules in the Social History of Fashion. After gaining some practical experience, both within and outside academia, I moved to the Open University to complete a PhD looking at older women's talk about their relationships. I continued lecturing on a sessional basis including roles at the Open University in Milton Keynes, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, De Montfort University in Leicester and here at the University of Derby.
In my current role within the subject area I am acting as our interim Head of Subject. I am involved in teaching within the areas of social psychology, the psychology of gender and qualitative methods at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. I am also part of the supervision team for two PhD students with two more having just completed their research.
Teaching responsibilities
My teaching responsibilities include leading modules in social psychology and the psychology of gender. I am also involved in our provision of research methods training for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Research interests
My research interests are diverse but have several common links. I am particularly interested in the construction of personal and social identity, with specific regard to its relational context. I am also interested in the ageing process, taking a more positive view of ageing and its contexts than is often the case in Psychology. With regard to both of these topic areas my focus is on their construction within mundane, everyday settings.
I have been funded internally for several small research projects. These have included exploring pedagogic developments in supporting distance and online learning students alongside colleagues from several other institutions; cross-faculty research looking at the effects of collaboration on how a witnessed crime is remembered in talk; and research exploring homophobic bullying in secondary schools from the perspectives of school staff.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
I am a member of the British Psychological Society's Social Psychology Section committee, with responsibility for editing the biannual journal produced by the section: Social Psychological Review.
Recent Conferences
September 2009: 'Who's Who? Constructing Identity in an Online Tutorial', Paper accepted at BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, Sheffield.
July 2009: 'Older women's constructions of their changing relationships'. Paper presented as part of the symposium: Analysing changing family/personal/intimate relationships, 11th European Congress of Psychology, Oslo.
June 2009: 'Laughter in a teaching contexts: The use of 'lol' in MSN Messenger tutorials', Paper presented at the Conference on Humour and Laughter in Interaction, Huddersfield.
June 2009: 'Does collaboration affect the construction of eyewitness remembering?', Paper presented at Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference, Preston.
June 2008: 'A comparison of two methods of synchronous (real-time) interaction in distance learning', Paper presented at the PLAT Conference, York.
March 2008: 'Exploring interactions through two methods of synchronous communication'. Paper presented as part of the symposium: The application of qualitative research in real world settings, BPS Annual Conference, Dublin.
Undergraduate qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Psychology with Health and Society, University of Derby
Research qualifications
- PhD on Older women's constructions of their relationships, Open University
