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Dr. Candida Yates

Candy

Position: Programme Leader Psychosocial Studies, Senior Lecturer Psychosocial Studies

Location: EB.1.52

Telephone: 0208 223 2785

Contact address:

School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of East London
Docklands Campus
University Way
London E16 2RD

Brief biography:

Academic Qualifications 

  • 2004, University of East London, PhD. in Psychosocial Studies: Masculine Jealousies and Contemporary Cinema
  • 1993, University of East London, M.A. in Cultural Studies; History and Theory.
  • 1990, North East London Polytechnic: BA (1st Class Hons.) in Cultural Studies.

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Activities/responsible for:

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Areas of interest/Summary of Expertise:

  • Psychoanalytic studies
  • The development of psycho-cultural theory and methods
  • The application of cultural, social and psychoanalytic theory to issues of gender, emotion and popular culture
  • Understanding the media and the inner world
  • Psychosocial understandings of jealousy, flirtation and gender
  • Gender, emotion and political communication
  • Understandings of therapy culture
  • Gender and mainstream cinema                                        

 

Research Interests: Key words

Masculinity, jealousy, flirtation, psychoanalysis, popular culture and media, cinema,  political communication,  therapy culture

Teaching:

Modules:

 

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Undergraduate Teaching

  • PS 2207 Consumption and Consumer behaviour
  • PS 3203 Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
  • PS 3219 Psychoanalysis and Film Cultures
  • PS 3000/1 Dissertation Supervision

MA Teaching and Supervision

  • Tavistock Clinic M.A. in Psychoanalytic Studies:
  • Psychoanalysis and Cinema
  • Dissertation supervision.
PhD Supervision
  • G. Ferguson: 'Watching Families: Parenting, Reality Television and Popular Culture' (Submitted and awaiting Viva)
  • E. Chasan: ‘A Psychosocial Approach to “The Failure of Love” in Contemporary Culture’ (from 02/10).
  • M. Lembo: ‘The Living Dead and Dead Societies: The Subversive Massacre in Contemporary Horror’ (from 02/10).

I am available to supervise M.Phil. and PhD students in the following areas:

  • Psychoanalytic studies
  • Culture and the unconscious
  • Psychosocial and psycho-cultural approaches to the study of popular culture, cinema and the media
  • Emotion, affect and ‘therapy’ culture
  • Gender and sexual difference

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Research / Publications:

Current research:

  • The development of a psycho-cultural approach to the study of the media and the inner world
  • The psycho-cultural politics of flirtation
  • Gender, emotion, fantasy and politics
  • I am Co-Director of AHRC funded Media and the Inner World Network (MiW) www.miwnet.org
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Research archive:

UK Publications

Single Authored Monograph

Yates, C. (2007) Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan).

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Edited Book Collections

Day Sclater, S., Jones, D., Price, H. and Yates, C. (Eds.) (2009) Emotion: Psychosocial Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bainbridge, C., Radstone, S., Rustin, M. and Yates, C. (Eds.) (2007) Culture and The Unconscious, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Jones, D., Price, H., Day Sclater, S., Yates, C. (Eds.) Emotions: Psychosocial Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming 2009).

Refereed Articles

Yates, C. (2006) ‘Masculine Jealousy and the Struggle for Possession in The End Of The Affair (N. Jordan, US/Ger.1999)’, Journal For Cultural Research, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 219-235.

Bainbridge, C. and Yates, C. (2005) ‘Cinematic Symptoms of Masculinity in Transition: Memory, History and Mythology in Contemporary Film’, in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 10:3, pp. 299-318.

Yates, C. (2001) 'Teaching Psychoanalytic Studies: Towards a New Culture of Learning in Higher Education', in Psychoanalytic Studies, Vol.3, Nos. 3/4, pp.333-347.

Yates, C. (2000) 'Masculinity and Good-Enough Jealousy', in Journal of Psychoanalytic Studies, Vol. 2, No.1, pp. 77-88.

Yates, C. (1996) 'The Othello Syndrome and the Revenge of Desdemona', in Studies in History and Contemporary Culture, University of Wisconsin, USA,  pp.49-54.

Book Chapters

Yates, C. (2009, forthcoming) ‘Masculinity, Flirtation and Political Communication in the UK’, in Day Sclater, Jones, D., Price, H., and Yates, C. (Eds.) (2009) Emotions: Psychosocial Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bainbridge, C. and Yates, C. (2007) ‘Introduction to Part 2: Culture and Trauma as Working Through’, in Bainbridge, C., Radstone, S., Rustin, M. and Yates, C. (eds.) (2007) Culture and The Unconscious, London: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp103-105.

Bainbridge, C. and Yates, C. (2007) ‘Everything to Play for: Masculinities, Trauma and the Pleasures of DVD Consumption’, in Bainbridge, C., Radstone, S., Rustin, M. and Yates, C. (eds.) (2007) Culture and The Unconscious, London: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 107-123.

Yates, C. and Day Sclater, S. (2000) 'Culture, Psychology and Transitional Space', in Squire, C. (Ed.) Culture in Psychology, London: Routledge, pp.135-147.

Day Sclater, S. and Yates, C. (1999) 'The Psycho-politics of Post Divorce Parenting', in Bainham, A. Etal. (Eds.) What is A Parent? A Socio Legal Analysis, Oxford: Hart publishing, Oxford, pp.271-295.

Book Reviews

Yates, C. (2007) ‘“I am a feminist but..” The Paradoxes of Postfeminism in Rosalind Gill’s Gender and the Media’, The European Journal of Women’s Studies (2007).

Yates, C. (2003) ‘Exploring  Jealousy’, Soundings, 23 (Spring), pp. 122-125.

Yates, C. (1996) ‘Stranger and Stranger: Anthony Elliott, Subject To Ourselves’, Radical Philosophy, 84 (July/August), p. 53.

Editorial Roles

2009 Consulting Editor for Film and other Media: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

2000-2 Associate Editor Psychoanalytic Studies

Broadcasts

2002 Psychosocial Studies presenter/expert on male jealousy, What do Men Want? Uden Associates, LivingTV.

1998 Psychosocial Studies representative on consumer issues Channel 5 News.

Consultancy

2004-8 Talisman Fine Art Events Co-ordinator.

2003, Consultant for jealousy images for back-line visuals for Real World Design and Recording Studios, Bath.

2003, Expert on jealousy, for Deception. (06/03, Anglia/LWT/Meridian).

Conference & Seminar Papers 2003-2009

02/09 Media and the Inner World Network Opening Symposium, Roehampton University, ‘Opening address: Mapping the Psycho-cultural; context and debates’.

01/09 MeCCSA Annual Conference, University of Bradford, ‘Emotional Masculinity and the Flirtatious Strategies of Political Communication’.

05/08, 6th International Cultural Studies Association conference, New York, ‘On Spooning Spinning and Being David Cameron’.

10/07 Dept. of Psychology, University of Bath: ‘Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema’.

09/06: CRESC ‘Media and Social Change’ Conference, Oxford, (Media and Culture Strand), joint-paper with Dr. Caroline Bainbridge: ‘Masculine Identity, Pleasure and Consumption in the age of DVD and the Internet’.

09/05: Celebrity Conference, University of Paisley, Ayr, Scotland: ‘I’m Not Spartacus: Michael Douglas; An Icon of Cuckolded, White Masculinity’.

03/06: Society For Cinema And Media Studies annual conference, Vancouver, British Columbia; joint paper with Dr. Caroline Bainbridge: ‘Everything To Play for: Masculinity, Trauma And The Pleasures Of DVD Technologies’.

04/05 UEL Symposium on Psychosocial Studies in Dialogue: ‘Michael Douglas and Envious Desire in A Perfect Murder’.

02/05: Public seminar for the Association of Independent Psychotherapists, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute, London, ‘Masculinities, affect and cinema’.

05/05: Roehampton University, Cultural studies Research seminar: ‘Masculine Jealousies and The Green-Eyed Gaze In Narrative Cinema’.

11/04: UEL Symposium on Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory: ‘Transitional Masculinities, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Culture’.

11/03: National Communication Association, 2003, Florida, USA. ‘Masculine Jealousies in The End Of The Affair.

07/03: The 20th International Literature and Psychology Conference; Greenwich, London, UK; Joint Panel (with Dr. Caroline Bainbridge): ‘Cinematic Symptoms of Masculinity: Trauma, Hysteria and Difference’; ‘Masculine Jealousies in The End of The Affair’.

02/03, Public lecture for the Association of Independent Psychotherapists, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute London: ‘Jealous Masculinities in Popular Cinema; The Case of Taxi Driver, How Jealousy Drives The Narrative Along’.

Symposium and International Conference Organisation

02/09 Media and the Inner World Network Opening Symposium, AHRC, UEL and Roehampton University, at Roehampton University, Surrey.

09/08 Screening Emotions, UEL and Roehampton University at Waterstones Bookshop, Piccadilly, London.

07/04 Culture and the Unconscious; Psychoanalysts, Artists and Academics in Dialogue, Tavistock Clinic and UEL, at SOAS, London.

07/03 Culture and The Unconscious; Psychoanalysts, Artists and Academics in Dialogue. British Psychoanalytic Society, Tavistock Clinic and UEL, at SOAS, London.

06/01 Emotional Learning, Tavistock Clinic and UEL, at The Tavistock Clinic, London.

 

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Other scholarly activities:

 

Other scholarly activities:

Professional Membership and Affiliations:

Institute of Group Analaysis

Association of Independent Psychotherapists (www.aip.org.uk)

Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society

Cultural Studies Association

Media and The Inner World Network (www.miwnet.org)

UK Psychosocial Studies Network

Sesame Institute of Arts, Drama and Movement Therapy.

 

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Last updated: November 2009


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