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Citations
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7629
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Overview

Carla Willig is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including medicine and psychology, with a particular focus on psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, and general health professions.

Their research topics include:

  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being

Carla Willig has made contributions to several publication venues, with papers appearing in:

  • QMiP Bulletin
  • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • The Plant Journal
  • Journal of Men s Health
  • Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Carla Willig include:

  • Existential uncertainty in health care: A concept analysis (2021), Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • Engineering Agrobacterium for improved plant transformation (2025), The Plant Journal
  • Men's experience of their transition to first-time fatherhood during their partner's pregnancy: an interpretative phenomenological analysis (2021), Journal of Men s Health
  • Surrender to win: Constructions of 12-step recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction (2020), Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine
  • Existential uncertainty in the patient cancer experience: Delimiting the concept (2022), Palliative & Supportive Care

Frequent collaborators with Carla Willig include Conor Dwan, with whom they have co-authored multiple papers, Jamie Enoch, Ahalya Subramanian, Greg S. Goralogia, and Steven H. Strauss.

Best Publications

  • Introducing qualitative research in psychology : adventures in theory and method

    Carla Willig

  • The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology

    Carla Willig;Wendy Stainton-Rogers

  • Critical Realism in Discourse Analysis: A Presentation of a Systematic Method of Analysis Using Women's Talk of Motherhood, Childcare and Female Employment as an Example

    Wendy Sims-Schouten;Sarah C.E. Riley;Carla Willig

  • A Phenomenological Investigation of the Experience of Taking Part in `Extreme Sports':

    Carla Willig

  • Applied discourse analysis : social and psychological interventions

    Carla Willig

  • A Discourse-Dynamic Approach to the Study of Subjectivity in Health Psychology:

    Carla Willig

  • Painting pictures of embodied experience: the use of nonverbal data production for the study of embodiment

    Val Gillies;Angela Harden;Katherine Johnson;Paula Reavey

  • Perspectives on the epistemological bases for qualitative research.

    Carla Willig

  • Qualitative interpretation and analysis in psychology

    Carla Willig

  • Old Clothes and an Older Look The Case for a Radical Makeover in Health Behaviour Research

    Frances Mielewczyk;Carla Willig

  • Women's collective constructions of embodied practices through memory work: Cartesian dualism in memories of sweating and pain

    Val Gillies;Angela Harden;Katherine Johnson;Paula Reavey

  • Reflections on the Use of a Phenomenological Method

    Carla Willig

  • Cancer diagnosis as discursive capture: phenomenological repercussions of being positioned within dominant constructions of cancer.

    Carla Willig

  • Older Women and Everyday Talk about the Ageing Body

    Susan Paulson;Carla Willig

  • “I Don’t feel like melting butter”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of ‘inorgasmia’

    Maya Lavie;Carla Willig

  • What can qualitative psychology contribute to psychological knowledge

    Carla Willig

  • Discourses and Discourse Analysis

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  • ‘You get the nicotine and that in your blood’—constructions of addiction and control in women's accounts of cigarette smoking

    Val Gillies;Carla Willig

  • ‘I wouldn't have married the guy if i'd have to do that’: Heterosexual adults' constructions of condom use and their implications for sexual practice

    C. Willig

  • `You Punched Him, didn't You?': Versions of Violence in Accusatory Interviews

    Timothy Auburn;Sue Drake;Carla Willig

  • Interpretation in Qualitative Research

    Carla Willig

  • Old Clothes and an Older Look

    Frances Mielewczyk;Carla Willig

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela Harden
Angela Harden City, University of London
Brian E. McGuire
Brian E. McGuire University of Galway
David F. Marks
David F. Marks City, University of London
Nigel King
Nigel King University of Huddersfield

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