Margaret Wetherell (born 24 November 1954[1]) is a prominent academic in the area of discourse analysis.
Wetherell worked for 23 years at the Open University, UK from which she retired as Emeritus Professor in 2011.
She then took up a part-time post of Professor in Psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Her 1987 book, Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour, cowritten with Jonathan Potter, was very influential, particularly in social psychology, though also in other fields (e.g. Wood & Kroger, 2000).
[3] In 2010/11 she led a collaboration on identity funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).