Gillespie, Alex


Dr Alex Gillespie  

Department

Position held

Institute of Social Psychology

Lecturer

Non LSE positions held

Department

Position held

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour published by Wiley-Blackwell

Co-editor

Experience keywords:

identity; tourism; trust; perspective-taking; care; dialogue; assistive technology for cognition; misunderstanding

Research summary > [Click to expand]

I study divergences of perspective between people and groups, focusing on misunderstanding, distrust, and perspective-taking. Key questions include: How are divergences of perspective related to identity, self-reflection and language? How do we routinely overcome divergences of perspective? And how do people avoid taking each other's perspective? How do they dismiss and ignore each other?

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

ConsultancyHealthcareInformation TechnologyMedia Technology and New Media

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream press

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7106

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Cooper, M. and Chak, A. and Cornish, F. and Gillespie, Alex (2013) Dialogue: bridging personal, community, and social transformation. Journal of humanistic psychology, 53 (1). pp. 70-93. ISSN 0022-1678

Gillespie, Alex (2013) Self. In: Oviedo, Lluis and Runehov, Anne, (eds.) Encyclopedia of sciences and religions. Springer, New York, USA. ISBN 9781402082641

2012

Gillespie, Alex and Kadianaki, I. and O’Sullivan-Lago, R. (2012) Encountering alterity: geographic and semantic movements. In: Valsiner, Jaan, (ed.) The Oxford handbook of culture and psychology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780195396430

Gillespie, Alex (2012) Position exchange: the social development of agency. New ideas in psychology, 30 (1). pp. 32-46. ISSN 0732-118X

Zittoun, Tania and Aveling, Emma-Louise and Gillespie, Alex and Cornish, Flora (2012) People in transitions in worlds in transition: ambivalence in the transition to womanhood during World War II. In: Bastos, Ana Cecília S. and Uriko, Kristiina and Valsiner, Jaan, (eds.) Cultural dynamics of women's lives. Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, USA. ISBN 9781617355608

Gillespie, Alex and Howarth, Caroline and Cornish, Flora (2012) Four problems for researchers using social categories. Culture and psychology, 18 (3). pp. 391-402. ISSN 1461-7056

2011

Moore, H. and Jasper, C. and Gillespie, Alex (2011) Moving between frames: the basis of the stable and dialogical self. Culture and psychology, 17 (4). pp. 510-519. ISSN 1461-7056

Jasper, C. and Moore, H. and Whittaker, L. and Gillespie, Alex (2011) Methodological approaches to studying the self in its social context. In: Hermans, Hubert and Gieser, Thorsten, (eds.) Handbook of dialogical self theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107006515

Gillespie, Alex and Richardson, Beth (2011) Exchanging social positions: enhancing perspective taking within a cooperative problem solving task. European journal of social psychology, 41 (5). pp. 608-616. ISSN 0046-2772

Zittoun, Tania and Gillespie, Alex (2011) Using diaries and self-writings as data in psychological research. In: Abbey, Emily and Surgan, Seth, (eds.) Emerging methods in psychology. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9781412842785

Gillespie, Alex (2011) Dialogical dynamics of trust and distrust in the Cuban Missile Crisis. In: Marková, Ivana and Gillespie, Alex, (eds.) Trust and conflict: representation, culture and dialogue. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415593465

Gillespie, Alex (2011) Contact without transformation: the context, process and content of distrust. In: Marková, Ivana and Gillespie, Alex, (eds.) Trust and conflict: representation, culture and dialogue. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415593465

Marková, Ivana and Gillespie, Alex, (eds.) (2011) Trust and conflict: representation, culture and dialogue. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415593465

Mitchell, Robb and Gillespie, Alex and O'Neill, Brian (2011) Cyranic contraptions. In:.

Sammut, Gordon and Gillespie, Alex (2011) Editorial: cultural encounters and social solidarity. Papers on social representations, 20 pp. 7-1. ISSN 1021-5573

Gillespie, Alex (2011) Foreword. In: Märtsin, Mariann and Wagoner, Brady and Aveling, Emma-Louise and Kadianaki, Irini and Whittaker , Lisa, (eds.) Dialogicality in focus: challenges to theory, method and application. Nova Press. ISBN 9781613244081

Wagoner, Brady and Gillespie, Alex and Valsiner, J. and Zittoun, T. and Salgado, J. and Simao, L. (2011) Repairing ruptures: multivocality of analyses. In: Märtsin, Mariann and Wagoner, Brady and Aveling, Emma-Louise and Kadianaki, Irini and Whittaker , Lisa, (eds.) Dialogicality in focus: challenges to theory, method and application. Nova Press. ISBN 9781613244081

Turner, Kenneth J. and Gillespie, Alex and McMichael, Lynne J. (2011) Rigorous development of prompting dialogues. Journal of biomedical informatics, 44 (5). pp. 713-727. ISSN 1532-0464

2010

Gillespie, Alex (2010) Autobiography and identity: Malcolm X as author and hero. In: Terrill, Robert E., (ed.) The Cambridge companion to Malcolm X. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK. ISBN 9780521515900

Gillespie, Alex (2010) Review: the dialogical turn: turning the corner?: PER LINELL, rethinking language, mind, and world dialogically: interactional and contextual theories of human sense-making. Charlotte, NC: Information Age, 2009. 482 pp. ISBN 978-1-5931-1996-6 (hbk). Theory & psychology, 20 (3). pp. 461-463. ISSN 0959-3543

Gillespie, Alex and Murphy, Joan and Place, Morag (2010) Divergences of perspective between people with aphasia and their family caregivers. Aphasiology, 24 (12). pp. 1559-1575. ISSN 0268-7038

Gillespie, Alex and Zittoun, Tania (2010) Using resources: conceptualizing the mediation and reflective use of tools and signs. Culture & psychology, 16 (1). pp. 37-62. ISSN 1354-067X

Gillespie, Alex and Cornish, Flora (2010) Intersubjectivity: towards a dialogical analysis. Journal for the theory of social behaviour, 40 (1). pp. 19-46. ISSN 0021-8308

Gillespie, Alex and Zittoun, Tania (2010) Studying the movement of thought. In: Toomela, Aaro and Valsiner, Jaan, (eds.) Methodological thinking in psychology: 60 years gone astray. Information Age Publishing, USA. ISBN 9781607524311

Gillespie, Alex (2010) The message of the medium: distributing academic knowledge in the digital age. Europe's journal of psychology, 6 (2). pp. 1-6. ISSN 1841-0413

Gillespie, Alex and Cornish, Flora (2010) What can be said? identity as a constraint on knowledge production.. Papers on social representations, 19 pp. 1-5. ISSN 1021-5573

Martin, Jack and Gillespie, Alex (2010) A Neo-Meadian approach to human agency: relating the social and the psychological in the ontogenesis of perspective-coordinating persons. Integrative psychological and behavioral science, 44 (3). pp. 252-272. ISSN 1932-4502

O'Neill, Brian and Moran, Kate and Gillespie, Alex (2010) Scaffolding rehabilitation behaviour using a voice-mediated assistive technology for cognition. Neuropsychological rehabilitation, 20 (4). pp. 509-527. ISSN 0960-2011

2009

Gillespie, Alex (2009) The intersubjective nature of symbols. In: Wagoner, Brady, (ed.) Symbolic transformation: the mind in movement through culture and society. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415488488

Zittoun, Tania and Gillespie, Alex and Cornish, Flora (2009) Fragmentation or differentiation: questioning the crisis in psychology. Integrative psychological and behavioral science, 43 (2). pp. 104-115. ISSN 1932-4502

Gillespie, Alex and O’Neill, Brady (2009) Theory and efficacy of a voice mediated assistive technology to support performance of complex sequences: a series of eight single-n studies. Brain impairment, 10 (2). pp. 212-213. ISSN 1443-9646

Cornish, Flora and Gillespie, Alex (2009) A pragmatist approach to the problem of knowledge in health psychology. Journal of health psychology, 14 (6). pp. 800-809. ISSN 1359-1053

Gillespie, Alex (2009) Returning To James: a methodological challenge: commentary on “reflexive and nonreflexive identity perceptions: finding a balance” (Katharina Hametner & Amrei C. Joerchel). Psychology & society, 2 (1). pp. 33-35. ISSN 2041-5893

Gillespie, Alex and O’Neill, Brady (2009) Framework for conceptualisation of assistive technology for cognition. Brain impairment, 10 (2). ISSN 1443-9646

2008

Gillespie, Alex (2008) Social representations, alternative representations and semantic barriers. Journal for the theory of social behaviour, 38 (4). pp. 375-391. ISSN 0021-8308

O'Neill, Brian and Gillespie, Alex (2008) Simulating naturalistic instruction: the case for a voice mediated interface for assistive technology for cognition. Journal of assistive technologies, 2 (2). pp. 22-31. ISSN 1754-9450

Zittoun, T. and Cornish, Flora and Gillespie, Alex and Aveling, Emma-Louise (2008) Using social knowledge: a case study of a diarist’s meaning-making during World War II. In: Sugiman, Toshio and Gergen, Kenneth J. and Wagner, Wolfgang and Yamada, Yoko, (eds.) Meaning in action: constructions, narratives and representations. Springer, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 163-182. ISBN 9784431746799

Aveling, Emma-Louise and Gillespie, Alex (2008) Negotiating multiplicity: adaptive asymmetries within second-generation turks’ “society of mind”. Journal of constructivist psychology, 21 (3). pp. 200-222. ISSN 1072-0537

Zittoun, Tania and Cornish, Flora and Gillespie, Alex and Aveling, E.-L. (2008) Using culture: a case study of a diarist’s meaning-making during World War II. In: Sugiman, T. and Gergen, K. and Wagner, W. and Yamada, Y., (eds.) Meaning in action: constructions, narratives, and representations. Springer, London, UK, pp. 163-182. ISBN 9784431746799

2007

Cornish, Flora and Zittoun, Tania and Gillespie, Alex (2007) A cultural psychological reflection on collaborative research. Forum qualitative sozialforschung / forum: qualitative social research, 8 (3). ISSN 1438-5627

Gillespie, Alex (2007) The social basis of self-reflection. In: Valsiner, Jaan and Rosa, Alberto, (eds.) The Cambridge handbook of sociocultural psychology. Cambridge University Press, pp. 678-691. ISBN 9780521854108

Gillespie, Alex and Cornish, Flora and Aveling, Emma-Louise and Zittoun, Tania (2007) Conflicting community commitments: a dialogical analysis of a British woman's World War II diaries. Journal of community psychology, 36 (1). pp. 35-52. ISSN 0090-4392

Wagoner, Brady and Gillespie, Alex and Duveen, Gerard (2007) Bartlett in the digital age. The psychologist, 20 (11). pp. 680-681. ISSN 0952-8229

Zittoun, Tania and Gillespie, Alex and Cornish, Flora and Psaltis, Charis (2007) The metaphor of the triangle in theories of human development. Human development, 50 (4). pp. 208-229. ISSN 0018-716X

Gillespie, Alex (2007) Collapsing self/other positions: identification through differentiation. British journal of social psychology, 46 (3). pp. 579-595. ISSN 0144-6665

Marková, Ivana and Linell, Per and Gillespie, Alex (2007) Trust and distrust in society. In: Marková, Ivana and Gillespie, Alex, (eds.) Trust and distrust: sociocultural perspectives. Information Age, Charlotte, NC, USA. ISBN 9781593118426

Gillespie, Alex and O’Neill, Brady (2007) A novel assistive technology for cognition to aid performance of complex behavioural sequences. Brain impairment, 8 (2). pp. 187-188. ISSN 1443-9646

Gillespie, Alex (2007) In the other we trust: buying souvenirs in Ladakh, North India. In: Marková, Ivana and Gillespie, Alex, (eds.) Trust and distrust: sociocultural perspectives. Information Age, Charlotte, NC, USA. ISBN 9781593118426

Zittoun, Tania and Baucal, Aleksandar and Cornish, Flora and Gillespie, Alex (2007) Collaborative research, knowledge and emergence. Integrative psychological and behavioral science, 41 (2). pp. 208-217. ISSN 1932-4502

Marková, Ivana and Gillespie, Alex, (eds.) (2007) Trust and distrust: sociocultural perspectives. Information Age, Charlotte, NC, USA. ISBN 9781593118426

Gillespie, Alex (2007) Trust in everyday interaction. In: Marková, Ivana and Gillespie, Alex, (eds.) Trust and distrust: sociocultural perspectives. Information Age, Charlotte, NC, USA. ISBN 9781593118426

Gillespie, Alex (2007) The intersubjective dynamics of trust, distrust, and manipulation. In: Marková, Ivana and Gillespie, Alex, (eds.) Trust and distrust: sociocultural perspectives. Information Age, Charlotte, NC, USA. ISBN 9781593118426

Cornish, Flora and Gillespie, Alex and Zittoun, Tania and Baucal, Aleksandar (2007) Editorial introduction: special issue: collaborative research and the culture of science. Integrative psychological and behavioral science, 41 (2). pp. 121-123. ISSN 1932-4502

Gillespie, Alex (2007) Time, self and the other: the striving tourist. In: Mathias Simao, Livia and Valsiner, Jaan, (eds.) Otherness in question: development of the self. Information Age Publishing, Greenwich, CT, USA. ISBN 9781593112332

2006

Gillespie, Alex (2006) Tourist photography and the reverse gaze. Ethos, 34 (3). pp. 343-366. ISSN 0091-2131

Gillespie, Alex, (ed.) (2006) Becoming other: from social interaction to self-reflection. IAP - Information Age Publishing. ISBN 9781593112318

Gillespie, Alex (2006) Descartes' demon: a dialogical analysis of meditations on first philosophy. Theory & psychology, 16 (6). pp. 761-781. ISSN 0959-3543

Gillespie, Alex (2006) Games and the development of perspective taking. Human development, 49 (2). pp. 87-92. ISSN 0018-716X

2005

Gillespie, Alex (2005) G.H. Mead: theorist of the social act. Journal for the theory of social behaviour, 35 (1). pp. 19-39. ISSN 0021-8308

Gillespie, Alex (2005) Malcolm X and his autobiography: identity development and self-narration. Culture & psychology, 11 (1). pp. 77-88. ISSN 1354-067X

Gillespie, Alex (2005) Giving the future form: non-reflective and reflective uses of symbolic resources. In: Gulerce, Aydan and Hofmeister, Arnd and Staeuble, Irmingard, (eds.) Contemporary yheorizing in psychology: global perspectives. Captus University Publications, Toronto, Canada. ISBN 9781553221098

2004

Gillespie, Alex (2004) Book review: the mystery of GH Mead’s first book. Theory & psychology, 14 (3). pp. 422-424. ISSN 0959-3543

2003

Gillespie, Alex (2003) Supplementarity and surplus: moving between the dimensions of otherness. Culture & psychology, 9 (3). pp. 209-220. ISSN 1354-067X

Zittoun, Tania and Duveen, Gerard and Gillespie, Alex and Ivinson, Gabrielle and Psaltis, Charis (2003) The use of symbolic resources in developmental transitions. Culture & psychology, 9 (4). pp. 415-448. ISSN 1354-067X

2000

Gillespie, Alex and Peltzer, Karl and MaClachlan, Malcolm (2000) Returning refugees: psychosocial problems and mediators of mental health among Malawian returnees. Journal of mental health, 9 (2). pp. 165-178. ISSN 0963-8237

Cornish, Flora and Gillespie, Alex and Zittoun, Tania Collaborative analysis of qualitative data. In: Flick, Uwe, (ed.) The SAGE handbook of qualitative data analysis. Sage.

LSE Research Online is the primary resource for references to publications. For queries or updates please email the LSE Research Online team at lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk|.

Expert Image

Trust, distrust and conflict are core problematics in life. This volume uses the concepts of culture, representation and dialogue to explore the dynamics of distrust and conflict in various contexts.

Highlight Image

Awards

NVivo 9 Teaching Award for Europe, the Middle East and Africa;
British Stroke Research Group Prize for 'highest scoring oral abstract submitted to the 2010 UK Stroke Forum Conference';
Advancing Department of Health Healthcare Award, in the 'Enhancing Self-Care and Independent Living' category

 

Browse the Experts Directory:

LSE Research Online|

Collection of LSE research outputs

LSE Consulting|

Service providing unique access
to LSE's expertise

Create or update your
online profile
|

[access restricted to staff]

Research highlights|

Short articles about LSE research