Caroline Howarth

Caroline Howarth is a British lecturer in social psychology at the Institute of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics. She is also associate editor for the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology and serves on the editorial board of the online journal Papers on Social Representations.

Biography
Caroline Howarth grew up in in Kenya, South Africa, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. Caroline Howarth has lectured at Stirling University and Nottingham Trent University, before joining the London School of Economics.

Research and Intellectual Interests
Caroline Howarth's research focuses on the inter-relationships between social representations and identity. She is well known for her study of Brixton youth, and combining social identity theory with social representations theory. In particular, she explores how representations of different communities and social groups impinge on how these communities and groups define and re-present themselves. Growing up in multicultural communities has influenced her social psychology, directing her interests towards the political interconnections between community, identity, representation and resistance.

Publications
Howarth, C. (2007) Racialisation, Re-presentation and Resistance. “Within applied representation: Identity as content, process and power”. G. Moloney and I. Walker. (eds) London, Palgrave Macmillan.

Howarth, C. (2006). "A social representation is not a quiet thing: Exploring the critical potential of social representations theory." British Journal of Social Psychology. 45, pp. 65 - 86.

Howarth, C. (2006). Race as stigma: Positioning the stigmatised as agents, not objects. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology - Special issue by C. Campbell and H. Deacon on 'Understanding and Challenging Stigma'.

Howarth, C. (2006). How Social Representations of Attitudes have informed Attitude theories: the consensual and reified. Theory and Psychology.

Howarth, C. (2006) School exclusion: when pupils do not feel part of the school community. School Leadership.

Howarth, C. and Hook, D. (2005). "Towards a Critical Social Psychology of Racism: points of disruption." Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology - Special Issue by C. Howarth and D. Hook. 15, pp. 425 - 431.

Hook, D. and Howarth, C. (2005). "Future directions for a critical social psychology of racism/antiracism." Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology - Special Issue by C. Howarth and D. Hook, 15, pp. 506 - 512.

Voelklein, C. and Howarth, C. (2005). A review of controversies about Social Representations Theory - A British Debate. Culture and Psychology, 11 (4), pp. 431 - 454.

Howarth, C. (2004). "Re-presentation and resistance in the context of school exclusion: Reasons to be critical." Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology 14, pp. 356-377.

Howarth, C., Foster, J. and Dorrer, N. (2004). "Exploring the potential of the theory of social representations in community-based health research." Journal of Health Psychology 9(2), pp. 229-243.

Howarth, C. (2003). Review of Bar-Tal ‘Shared beliefs in a Society: Social Psychological Analysis’. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 13.

Howarth, C. (2002). "Identity in whose eyes? The role of representations in identity construction." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 32(2), pp 145-162.

Howarth, C. (2002). "Using the Theory of Social Representations to Explore Difference in the Research Relationship." Qualitative Research 2(2), pp. 21-34.

Howarth, C. (2002). "'So, you're from Brixton?' The Struggle for Recognition and Esteem in a Multicultural Community." Ethnicities 2(2), pp. 237-260.

Howarth, C. (2002). "Overcoming school exclusion and achieving successful youth transitions within African Caribbean communities." Education - Race on the Agenda supplement 18.

Howarth, C. (2002). Review of Blair ‘Why Pick on Me? School Exclusion and Black Youth’. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 25.

Howarth, C. (2001). "Towards a Social Psychology of Community." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 31(2): 223-238.

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