Eunice was in the last three years of her career setting up a degree programme and the college had lots of funding for PhDs, as part of its quest for university status. But the clincher was meeting Eunice Fisher at Nene College (now Northampton University), where we bonded over a shared love for feminist crime fiction and a shared birthday. So basically I applied for anything in The Guardian with “psychology” in the advert, which generated an interview at Reading to do a PhD related to airport security. I had a place on the master’s at Leicester, but no funding.
SLOW MOTION FOR ME CRACKER
I had a place on the publishing master’s at Oxford Brookes and then thought about specialising in forensic psychology: I suppose that was the time when Cracker was influencing a whole generation. But she says that a one-week internship at Hodder and Stoughton was ‘enough to convince me, fascinating though that world was, I wasn’t the Bridget Jones type. In her second year Liz got a job at a bookshop in Hay-on-Wye (‘I was very bookish’) and thought about going into publishing. And psychology didn’t impact on me in a big way at that stage.’ ‘I didn’t really have the traditional “university experience” for various reasons I spent the first week living in Pontins Southport, for instance. I originally intended to do combined maths and psychology at what was then Preston Poly (now the University of Central Lancashire), but when I arrived the maths part hadn’t registered so I ended up on a straight psychology course.’ It’s clear from the way Liz talks that she didn’t enjoy her degree. ‘I was taking science A-levels but I dropped physics in favour of psychology because I was pretty bad at physics. On Pontins Southport, Cracker and feminist crime fiction Liz’s first words when I got to her office were ‘I’m not that interesting’. Universities, like hospitals, are a challenge to get around and, this was made worse by extensive building work. Most of the staff of Loughborough University had decamped to the Olympics where, no doubt, they were watching former students competing. I see it as an award for discursive psychology’). I nearly didn’t open the e-mail – I thought it was a circular.
Liz became a Chartered Psychologist in 2000, and in 2011 received the British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section’s Mid-Career Award (‘It was a real surprise. We meet two of them based at Loughborough University this month, beginning with Elizabeth Stokoe, Professor of Social Interaction in the Department of Social Sciences. I recently realised that we had hardly featured social psychologists in the ‘Careers’ section of The Psychologist and I have to thank Chris Walton, press officer of the Social Psychology Section, for putting me in touch with a number of potential interviewees.
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