Dr Nicola Diamond joined the university in September 2006. She did her first degree in 'Sociology' and then a Phd in 'Psychoanalytic Studies'. She has an inderdisciplinary focus on psychoanalysis and critical perspectives, relating the field to social and philosophical concerns/debates. As her specialised area of writing and research is embodiment she also addresses the biological sciences to the field of psychoanalysis and sociological thought. She is a trained and experienced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with the British Association of Psychotherapists (BPC registered ) and also works as a clinician at the Women's Therapy Centre as well as in private practice. She has published widely on the body and the psychosocial field,as well as on attachment theory. She is currently working on her book called Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Perspectives, to be published by Wiley and Sons 2008.

• Leader in Tavistock Clinic for MA in Psychoanalytic Studies ( run in conjunction with UEL)

• Currently Module Leader for Counselling 1 PS2205 and Counselling 11 PS3205, Seminar
• 2006-7 Module Leader for Key Concepts and Debates in Psychosocial Studies PS1205.

• 2007 Between Touches in Papers on Touch in the Psychoanalytic Space Ed G,Galton, Karnac Publications
• 2005 Thin is the Feminist Issue in The Body : A Sociological Reader eds M, Greco and M, Fraser Routledge Publications
• 2005 When Thought is not Enough in How Does Therapy Work ed J,Ryan Karnac Publications
• 2003 Attachment and Intersubjectivity Co-Authored Book with Mario Marrone Whurr Publishers
• 2001 Towards an Understanding of Interpersonal Bodily Experience in Journal for Psychodynamic Counselling , Taylor and Francis Routeledge Publishers