I graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in Psychology in 1990. I then stayed on at Sheffield University, having gained an ESRC Postgraduate Studentship, to complete a PhD in social psychology on attributional reasoning about sexual violence, under the supervision of Geoffrey Beattie and Christopher Spencer. In 1995, I joined the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham as a lecturer before moving to the School of Psychology at the University of East London as Senior lecturer and then Principal Lecturer. I am a member of the British Psychological Society, and, within that, the Social Psychology Section and the Psychology of Women Section. My main research interests are in violence and aggression, perpetrated against both women and men, child abuse, attributions and blame, attitudes, and language and discourse.

• Supervisor of undergraduate research projects

• BSc Psychology
• BSc Psychology for Personal and Professional Development
• MSc Advanced Qualitative Research Methods

• PY 3004 - Critical Social Psychology (Module leader)
• PY2005/3022: Social Psychology and CHiPS
• PY3017: Psychology and Difference
• PY3001: CHiPS
• PYM502: Masters in Research Methods
• PY1504: Assessing the Individual

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Anderson, I., & Bissell, H. (in press). Blame and fault attributions in sexual violence: are these distinct? Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research.
2. Davies, M., Rogers, P., Anderson, I., & Potton, A. (in press). Can norm theory explain the effects of victim age and level of physical maturity on perceptions of child sexual abuse? Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
3. Anderson, I., & Quinn, A. (2009). Gender differences in medical students’ attitudes toward male and female rape victims. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 14(1), 105–110. doi:10.1080/13548500802241928

Book Chapters

1. Anderson, I., Rogers, P., & Davies, M. (2009). Gender’s role in attributions about child sexual abuse. In J.H. Urlich & B.T. Cossel (Eds.), Handbook on gender roles: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Anderson, I. (2007). What is a typical rape? Effects of victim and participant gender in female and male rape perception. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46(1), 225–245. doi:10.1348/014466606X101780
2. Anderson, I., & Lyons, A. (2005). The effects of perceived support, victim–perpetrator relationship and participant and victim gender on attributions of blame in female and male rape. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 1–19. doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2005.tb02176.x
3. Dell, P., & Anderson, I. (2005). Practising critical psychology: politics, power and psychology departments. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 13, 14–31.
4. Anderson, I. (2004). Explaining negative rape victim perception: homophobia and the male rape victim. Current Research in Social Psychology, 10(4), 44–57.
5. Doherty, K., & Anderson, I. (2004). Making sense of male rape: constructions of gender, sexuality and experience of rape victims. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 14(2), 85–103. doi:10.1002/casp.765
6. Anderson, I. (2002). Gender, psychology and law: studies in feminism epistemology and science. Feminism and Psychology, 12(3), 379–388. doi:10.1177/0959353502012003009
7. Anderson, I., & Beattie, G. (2001). Depicted rapes: how similar are vignette and newspaper accounts of rape? Semiotica, 132, 1–21. doi:10.1515/semi.2001.105
8. Anderson, I., & Swainson, V. (2001). Perceived motivation for rape: gender differences in beliefs about female and male rape. Current Research in Social Psychology, 6(8), 107–123.
9. Anderson, I., Beattie, G., & Spencer, C. (2001). Can blaming victims of rape be logical? Attribution theory and discourse analytic perspectives. Human Relations, 54(4), 445–467. doi:10.1177/0018726701544003
10. Anderson, I. (1999). Characterological versus behavioural blame in rape: does gender of victim matter? Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
11. Doherty, K., & Anderson, I. (1998). Talking about rape: perpetuating rape supportive culture. The Psychologist, 11(12), 583–587.
12. Anderson, I., & Doherty, K. (1997). Psychology, sexuality and power: constructing sex and violence. Feminism & Psychology, 7, 549–554. doi:10.1177/0959353597074009
13. Anderson, I., & Beattie, G. (1996). How important is Kelley’s model of the attribution process when men and women discuss rape in conversation? Semiotica, 110, 1–21. doi:10.1515/semi.1996.110.1-2.1

Non-peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Anderson, I. (1999). Editorial. Psychology of Women Section Review, 1(1), 38–39.

Books

1. Anderson, I., & Doherty, K. (2007). Accounting for rape: psychology, feminism and discourse analysis. London: Routledge.

Book Chapters

1. Anderson, I., & Ahmed, B. (2003). Sexism in psychology and how to end it: feminist and critical debates in applied contexts. In R. Bayne (Ed.), Applied psychology: current issues and new directions.