Sherryl Wilson’s research area is in television and she has explored both contemporary and historical programming. Her published work includes material that explores the presentation of selfhood on TV talks shows, the representation of older women in television drama, images of mental illness as social critique. Recent research includes work on a project entitled ‘No Such Thing as Society?’ (http://www.nosuch-research.co.uk/) that examines shifting notions of the public across a range of broadcast material during the 1980s under the Thatcher governments, and she is an active participant in the Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) research group. (http://insight.glos.ac.uk/researchmainpage/centres/wam/Pages/default.aspx) Future research will be into audiences’ social use of second screens while watching television and with particular being attention on the ways in which (if) older audiences engage with multi-platform viewing. Area of expertiseTV talk shows; television drama; television history; ageing and the media; mental illness and media represnetation.
- Wilson, S. (2014) She’s been away: Ageing, madness and memory.Aging Studies Series entitled “Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity.”, 5. [In Press]
- Holland, P., Chgnell, H. and Wilson, S. (2013) Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service. UK: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-0-230-28237-7
- Wilson, S. (2012) Beyond patriarchy: Six Feet Under and the older woman. In: Dolan, J. and Tincknell, E., eds. (2012) Ageing Femininities: Troubling Representations. Cambridge Scholars Press. ISBN 9781443838832
- Wilson, S. (2012) Dramatising madness: In two minds and 1960s counter-cultural politics.Transgressive Culture, 2 (1). pp. 147-165. ISSN 2043-7102
- Wilson, S. (2012) Representations of health care in the age of Thatcher.Critical Studies in Television, 7 (1). pp. 13-28. ISSN 1749-6020
- Holland, P., Chignell, H., Eglezou, G. and Wilson, S. (2010) There’s no such thing as society?: A study of broadcasting and the public services under the three Thatcher governments, 1979-1992. No Such Research [AHRC Funded Project].
- Wilson, S. (2009) Book review: Janice Peck, The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era. Paradigm Publishers, 2008.Critical Studies in Television, 4 (2). pp. 137-140.
- Wilson, S. (2009) Angels.Videoactive [online].
- Wilson, S. (2009) Television talk shows.Videoactive [online].
- Dolan, J., Jenning, R., Garde Hansen, J., Gorton, K., Wilson, S. and Tincknell, E. (2008) Women, ageing and media workshops. In: AHRC funded Research Networks and Workshops: Women, Ageing and Media, http://insight.glos.ac.uk/researchmainpage/centres/wam/Pages/AHRCfundedResearchNetworksandWorkshopsProject.aspx, 2008.
- Wilson, S. (2007) It was a "mascara runnin’ kinda day": Oprah Winfrey, confession, celebrity and the formation of trust. In: Bakir, V. and Barlow, D., eds. (2007) Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 167-176. ISBN 978-0230002548
- Wilson, S. (2006) White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love. In: McCabe, J. and Akass, K., eds. (2006) Reading Desperate Housewives. I.B. Tauris, pp. 144-155. ISBN 978-1845112202
- Wilson, S. (2005) Real people with real problems?: Public service broadcasting, commercialism and Trisha. In: Johnson, C. and Turnock, R., eds. (2005) ITV Cultures: Independent Television Over Fifty Years. Basingstoke: Open University Press, pp. 159-176. ISBN 9780335217298
- Wilson, S. (2004) ‘No need for fear or secrets’: Ruth Fisher and grotesque realism in Six Feet Under.The Scholar and Feminist Online, 3 (1). ISSN 1558-9404
- Wilson, S. (2003) Oprah, celebrity and formations of self. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1403916815