Qualifications

PhD Surrey, MSc Surrey

Teaching

Module Leader:
Qualitative Research Methods (MSc)
Groups in Conflict: Social Psychological Issues (BSc)


Also teaching on:
Research Techniques in Psychology (BSc)
Contemporary Social Psychology (BSc)

Research

• Learning/intellectual disabilities (verbal/non-verbal communication and interaction; identity; methodological issues in research; assessment)
• Intergroup conflict; extremism; political violence; political discourse

Publications

Finlay, W.M.L. & Antaki, C. (in press). How staff pursue questions to adults with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research.

Antaki, C. & Finlay, W.M.L. (in press) Trust in what others mean: breakdowns in interaction between adults with intellectual disabilities and support staff. In C. Candlin & J. Crichton (Eds) Discourses of Trust. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Jingree, T. & Finlay, W.M.L. (in press). Expressions of dissatisfaction and complaint by people with learning disabilities: a discourse analytic study. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Jingree, T. & Finlay, W.M.L. (in press) "It's got so politically correct now": an examination of parent talk about empowering individuals with learning disabilities. Sociology of Health and Illness

Finlay, W.M.L., Walton, C. & Antaki, C. (in press). Giving feedback to staff about offering choices to people with intellectual disabilities. In C. Antaki (Ed) Applied Conversation Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave

Antaki, C, Finlay, W.M.L. & Walton, C. (2010). Identity at home: offering everyday choices to people with intellectual impairments. In M.Wetherell (Ed) Theorizing Identities and Social Action. Basingstoke: Palgrave

Antaki, C, Finlay, W.M.L., Walton, C. & Pate, L. (2009). Choices for people with an intellectual impairment: official discourse and everyday practice. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities 6 (4), 260-266.

Hughes, R, Hayward, M. & Finlay, W.M.L. (2009) Patients' perceptions of the impact of involuntary inpatient care on self, relationships and recovery. Journal of Mental Health 18, 152-60

Finlay ,W.M.L, Antaki, C., Walton, C. & Stribling, P. (2008) The dilemma for staff in "playing a game" with a person with profound intellectual disabilities: empowerment, inclusions and choice in interactional practice. Sociology of Health and Illness, 30 (4), 531-549

Finlay, W.M.L., Antaki, C. & Walton, C. (2008) Saying no to the staff: an analysis of refusals in a care home for people with intellectual disabilities. Sociology of Health and Illness, 30, 55-75

Finlay, W.M.L., Antaki, C. & Walton, C. (2008) Promoting choice and control in residential services for people with learning disabilities. Disability and Society, 23 (4), 349-360

Finlay, W.M.L., Walton, C. & Antaki, C. (2008). A manifesto for the use of video in service improvement and staff development in residential services for people with learning disabilities. British Journal of Learning Disabilities. 36, 227-231

Stone, L. & Finlay, W.M.L. (2008) A cross-cultural comparison of Afro-Caribbean and White-European young adults' conceptions of schizophrenia symptoms and the diagnostic label. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 54, 242-261.

Antaki, C, Finlay, W.M.L., Walton, C. & Pate, L. (2008). Offering choices to people with intellectual disabilities: an interactional study. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 52, 1165-1175.

Walton, C. & Finlay, W.M.L. (2008) Learning disabilities: barriers to choice in residential services. Community Care, July 31, p30.

Jingree, T. & Finlay, W.M.L. (2008) "You can't do it...it's theory rather than practice": staff use of the practice/principle rhetorical device in talk on empowering people with learning disabilities. Discourse & Society 19, 705-726

Wood, C. & Finlay. W.M.L. (2008) British National Party representations of Muslims after the London bombings: homogeneity, threat and the conspiracy tradition. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 707-726

Finlay, W.M.L. (2007). The propaganda of extreme hostility: denunciation and the regulation of the group. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 323-341.

Antaki, C., Finlay, W.M.L. & Walton, C. (2007) Conversational shaping: staff-members' solicitation of talk from people with an intellectual impairment. Qualitative Health Research, 17, 1403 - 1414

Finlay, W.M.L, Antaki, C. & Walton, C. (2007) On not being noticed: intellectual disabilities and the non-vocal register. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 45, 227-245

Antaki, C., Finlay, W.M.L. & Walton, C. (2007). Identity issues in proposing activities to persons with a learning disability. Discourse and Society, 18, 393-410

Jones, F.W., Long, K, & Finlay, W.M.L. (2007). Symbols can improve the reading of adults with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 51, 545-550.

Antaki, C., Finlay, W.M.L. & Walton, C. (2007). The staff are your friends: intellectually disabled identities in official discourse and institutional practice. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 1-18.

Antaki, C., Finlay, W.M.L., Sheridan, E., Jingree, T. & Walton, C. (2006). Producing decisions in service-user groups for people with an intellectual disability: two contrasting facilitator styles. Mental Retardation, 44, 322-343.

Jones, F.W., Long, K. & Finlay, W.M.L. (2006). Assessing the reading comprehension of adults with learning disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 50, 410-418

Wilcox, E., Finlay, W.M.L. & Edmonds, J. (2006). "His brain is totally different": An analysis of care staff explanations of aggressive challenging behaviours and the impact of gendered discourses. British Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 197-216

Jingree, T., Finlay, W.M.L. & Antaki, C. (2006). Empowering words, disempowering actions. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 50, 212-226

Finlay, W.M.L. (2005). Pathologizing dissent: Identity politics, Zionism and the "self-hating Jew". British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 201-222

Finlay, W.M.L. & Lyons, E (2(05). Rejecting the label: a social constructionist analysis. Mental Retardation, 43, 120-134

Finlay, W.M.L. (2005). Psychometric assessment of mood disorders in people with intellectual disabilities. In P. Sturmey (ed) Mood disorders in people with mental retardation. Kingston, NY: NADD Press.

Dinos, S., Lyons, E. & Finlay, W.M.L (2005). Does chronic illness place constraints on positive constructions of identity? Temporal comparisons and self-evaluations in people with schizophrenia. Social Science and Medicine, 60, 2239-2248

Glasman, D., Finlay, W.M.L. & Brock, D. (2004). Becoming a self-therapist: Using cognitive-behavioural therapy for recurrent depression and dysthymia after completing therapy. Psychology and Psychotherapy, 77, 335-351.

Finlay, W.M.L., Rutland, A. & Shotton, J. (2003). "They were brilliant, I don't know what I would've done if they hadn't been here.": The group concept problem revisited. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 13, 300-313.

Antaki, C., Young, N. & Finlay, W.M.L. (2002). Shaping clients' answers: Departures from neutrality in care-staff interviews with people with a learning disability. Disability & Society, 17 (4), 435-455.

Finlay, W.M.L. & Lyons, E. (2002). Acquiescence in interviews with people with mental retardation. Mental Retardation, 40 (1), 14-29.

Camp, D.L., Finlay, W.M.L. & Lyons, E. (2002). Is low self-esteem an inevitable consequence of stigma? An example from women with chronic mental health problems. Social Science and Medicine, 55, 823-34.

Finlay, W.M.L., Dinos, S. & Lyons, E. (2001). Stigma and multiple social comparisons in people with schizophrenia. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 579-592

Finlay, W.M.L. & Lyons, E. (2001). Methodological issues in interviewing and using self-report questionnaires with people with mental retardation. Psychological Assessment, 13, 319-335.

Finlay, W.M.L. & Lyons, E. (2000). Social categorizations, social comparisons and stigma: Presentations of self in people with learning difficulties. British Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 129-146.

Finlay, W.M.L. & Lyons, E. (1998). Social identity and people with learning difficulties. Disability and Society 13 (1), 37 - 51

Finlay, W.M.L. & Bernal, J. (1996). Tourette's Syndrome and challenging behaviour: A case study. British Journal of Learning Disabilities 24 (2), 80 - 83.

Finlay, W.M.L., Duckett, S. & Eliatamby, A. (1995). Intensive community assessment and intervention for challenging behaviour: A case study. British Journal of Learning Disabilities 23 (1), 18 -23.

Consultancy

April - May 2009 - Allianz Insurance - Design of media training package based on analysis of press interviews by company representatives.

March 2008 - HM Government. Understanding and representing small-scale human collectivities. Report on tool for creating and modelling synthetic groups.

Reports

Braye, S., Finlay, M. & Taylor, I. (2011). Carer support in hospital: Evaluation of a pilot service at Royal Sussex County Hospital. University of Sussex. Funded by South East Regional Improvement & Efficiency Partnership and Department of Health South East Regional Office.

Antaki, C. & Finlay, W.M.L. (2008). Identity conflicts of persons with a learning disability and their professional carers. Funded by ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme.