Frederick T. Attenborough

Frederick Thomas Attenborough is Senior Lecturer and Head of Sociology at Bishop Grosseteste University from Lincoln.^[1] Frederick also sits on the Editorial Boards of Gender and Language,^[2] the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, and the Journal of Gender Studies. He is also a property developer and property manager. In his capacity as Head of Sociology at BGU, Frederick is a regular contributor to Nicola Gilroy's lunchtime show on BBC Radio Lincolnshire.

Bishop Grosseteste University has supported Frederick in developing an entirely new sociology undergraduate degree in which sociological and business and entrepreneurial insights are brought together in ways that enable students to better understand the workings of modern—and increasingly global, interdependent and diverse—societies.

Career

Academia

Frederick Attenborough began his career as a lecturer in the Geography Department at Loughborough University in 2009 where he researched the practices and interventions that medical microbiologists used to open up the microbial world to medical perception.^[3] In 2009 he was appointed Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University.

In 2015 he was appointed Senior Lecturer and Head of Sociology at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln where he designed and ran BGU's new BA Sociology course. The first intake of students took place in September, 2015. Frederick's major research interests are primarily in language and discourse, and how language and discourse are used to do persuasive things in and across various settings. Across nearly 30 publications he studied how issues of incidents like sexism, gender, sex, pornography, sexual violence, feminism and rape are represented within texts like newspapers, novels, blogs, vlogs, videos and websites. His approach to the study of language and discourse is set out in a textbook, Discursive Psychology and the Media, which is to be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2016/2017. Frederick is also currently on the Editorial Boards of the journals Gender and Language and Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (JLaC).

Property Development and Management

Since 2013 Frederick has been increasingly focused on property development and management in and around the East Midlands. His portfolio consists largely of 1 and 2 bedroom houses that have been renovated for rental purposes.

Media Appearances

Since May 2015, Frederick has been a regular contributor to Nicola Gilroy's lunchtime show on BBC Radio Lincolnshire.

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Forthcoming books

• Attenborough, Frederick T. (2016). Discursive psychology and the media. Media Topics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ^[4]

Chapters in books

• Attenborough, Frederick T.; Stokoe, Elizabeth (2014), "Gender and categorial systematics", in Ehrlich, Susan; Meyerhoff, Miriam; Holmes, Janet, The handbook of language, gender, and sexuality (2nd ed.), Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 161–179, ISBN 9780470656426.  Pdf of draft.
• Attenborough, Frederick T.; Stokoe, Elizabeth (2014), "Ethnomethodological methods for identity and cultural matters: Conversation analysis and membership categorization", in Dervin, Fred; Risager, Karen, Researching identity and interculturality, New York London: Routledge, pp. 89–108, ISBN 9780415739122. 
• Attenborough, Frederick T.; Stokoe, Elizabeth (2015), "Prospective and retrospective categorization: Category proffers and inferences in domestic, institutional and news media interaction", in Fitzgerald, Richard; Housley, William, Advances in membership categorisation analysis, London, England Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, pp. 51–70, ISBN 9781446270738. 
• Attenborough, Frederick T. (2015), "Part 3: Social categories, identity and memory: A forgotten legacy? Towards a discursive psychology of the media", in Tileagă, Cristian; Stokoe, Elizabeth, Discursive psychology: classic and contemporary issues, Oxford New York: Routledge, ISBN 9780415721608.  Pdf.

Journal articles

• Attenborough, Frederick T. (2010). The singular case of SARS medical microbiology and the vanishing of multifactorality (Ph.D.). Loughborough University. OCLC 768070762. 
• Attenborough, Frederick (2010). "'Promoted by Hong Tao, the chlamydia hypothesis had become well established...': Understanding the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epedemic - but which one?". Advances in Medical Sociology, special issue: Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches, edited by Ananya Mukherjea (Emerald Group Publishing Limited) 11: 183–201. doi:10.1108/S1057-6290(2010)0000011014.  ISBN 9781848550803
• Attenborough, Frederick (August 2010). "'A novel coronavirus was isolated from patients': recovering the intricacies of microbiological practice from textual accounts of the 2003 SARS outbreak". Medical Sociology Online (British Sociological Association) 5 (1): 2–15.  Online.
• Attenborough, Frederick (January 2011). "The monad and the nomad: medical microbiology and the politics and possibilities of the mobile microbe". Cultural Geographies (Sage) 18 (1): 91–114. doi:10.1177/1474474010379304. 
• Attenborough, Frederick T. (May 2011). "‘I don’t f***ing care!’ Marginalia and the (textual) negotiation of an academic identity by university students". Discourse & Communication (Sage) 5 (2): 99–121. doi:10.1177/1750481310395447.  Pdf.
• Attenborough, Frederick T. (November 2011). "Complicating the sexualization thesis: The media, gender and 'sci-candy'". Discourse & Society (Sage) 22 (6): 659–675. doi:10.1177/0957926511411693.  Pdf.
• Attenborough, Frederick T. (February 2012). "Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the rhetorical construction of "bad" scientific work". Public Understanding of Science (Sage) 21 (2): 211–225. doi:10.1177/0963662510371436.  Pdf.
• Attenborough, Frederick T. (March 2012). ""To rid oneself of the uninvited guest": Robert Koch, Sergei Winogradsky and competing styles of practice in medical microbiology". Journal of Historical Sociology (Wiley) 25 (1): 50–82. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6443.2011.01407.x.  Pdf.
• Attenborough, Frederick; Stokoe, Elizabeth (March 2012). "Student life; student identity; student experience: ethnomethodological methods for pedagogical matters". Psychology Learning & Teaching (Sage) 11 (1): 6–21. doi:10.2304/plat.2012.11.1.6. 
• Attenborough, Frederick T. (2013). "Sexism re-loaded ... or sexism re-presented? Irrelevant precision and the British press". Feminist Media Studies (Taylor and Francis) 13 (4): 693–709. doi:10.1080/14680777.2012.700524.  Pdf.
• Attenborough, Frederick T. (2013). "Discourse analysis and sexualisation: a study of scientists in the media". Critical Discourse Studies (Taylor and Francis) 10 (2): 223–236. doi:10.1080/17405904.2012.736704.  Pdf.
• Attenborough, Frederick; Stokoe, Elizabeth; Benwell, Bethan (June 2013). "University students managing engagement, preparation, knowledge and achievement: Interactional evidence from institutional, domestic and virtual settings". Learning, Culture and Social Interaction (ScienceDirect) 2 (2): 75–90. doi:10.1016/j.lcsi.2013.01.001.  Pdf.
• Attenborough, Frederick T. (2014). "Jokes, pranks, blondes and banter: recontextualising sexism in the British print press". Journal of Gender Studies (Taylor and Francis) 23 (2): 137–154. doi:10.1080/09589236.2013.774269.  Pdf.
• Attenborough, Frederick (2014). "Rape is rape (except when it's not): the media, recontextualisation and violence against women". Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (John Benjamins e–Platform) 2 (2): 183–203. doi:10.1075/jlac.2.2.01att.  Pdf.
• Attenborough, Frederick (2014). "Categorial feminism: New media and the rhetorical work of assessing a sexist, humorous, misogynistic, realistic advertisement". Gender and Language (Equinox) 8 (2): 147–168. doi:10.1558/genl.v8i2.147.  Pdf.
• Attenborough, Frederick (2014). "Words, contexts, politics". Gender and Language, special issue: Gender, language and the media (Equinox) 8 (2): 137–146. doi:10.1558/genl.v8i2.137.  Pdf.

Book reviews

• Attenborough, Freddie (July 2009). "Mediating health information: the go-betweens in a changing socio-technical landscape". Sociology of Health and Illness (Sage) 31 (5): 783–784. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01180_4.x.  Pdf.

Review of: Wathen, C. Nadine; Wyatt, Sally; Harris, Roma (2008). Mediating health information: the go-between in a changing socio-technical landscape. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230201200. 

• Attenborough, Freddie (January 2010). "Bernard Lightman, Victorian popularizers of science: designing nature for new audiences". Public Understanding of Science (Sage) 19 (1): 126–127. doi:10.1177/0963662509348137.  Pdf.

Review of: Lightman, Bernard (2007). Victorian popularizers of science: designing nature for new audiences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226481180. 

• Attenborough, Freddie (March 2011). "Gerald Kutcher, Contested medicine cancer research and the military". Public Understanding of Science (Sage) 20 (2): 287. doi:10.1177/0963662510381199.  Pdf.

Review of: Kutcher, Gerald (2009). Contested medicine cancer research and the military. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226465319. 

References

External links

• Profile: Frederick T. Attenborough, Bishop Grosseteste University ("our academic staff" tab)
• Publications for Fred Attenborough, Loughborough University