Jonathan Potter is Professor of discourse analysis at the Loughborough University. He is one of the inventors of discursive psychology. He is co-author of the influential book Discourse and Social Psychology which is one of the foundational texts of discursive psychology. This has been cited more than a thousand times in more than a hundred different journals. More recently his Representing Reality provided an overview and critique of constructionist work in social sciences. In discursive psychology he built a specific style of work that is now commonplace in journals across the social sciences as well as indirectly fostering a swathe of non-experimental approaches to social psychology.

Bibliography

• Potter, J. and Wetherell, M. (1987). Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour. London: Sage. ISBN 0-8039-8411-1

• Potter, J. (1996). Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction. London; Sage. ISBN 0-8039-8056-6

Jonathan Potter is a software developer who was well known as the creator of Directory Opus, a file manager for the Amiga range of computers.