Overview

The core focus of the Psychology and Social Change Research Group is a commitment to research with an emphasis on social change. This is a broad overarching theme for the Group, and involves diverse and varied activity across theoretical and methodological arenas, and driven by a number of different topic areas. Central to research in the Group is to consider the psychological and the social as inseparable. To this end the Group supports a number of international and national collaborations, and members are involved in work across policy, applied and academic settings. Key objectives are:

• to take an applied focus in using theory, research and methodology to impact on social change and quality of life;
• to develop interdisciplinary approaches that draw on a number of theoretical resources (social theory, process philosophy, critical psychology, feminist theory, embodiment and affect theory); and
• to use and develop a range of methodological approaches including critical and discursive approaches, visual methodologies, spatial analytics.

The Group’s current research priorities include the following.

• Therapeutic and psychiatric practice
• Health and reproduction
• Domestic and sexual violence
• Critical pedagogy
• Sexuality and intimate relationships
• Emotion and affect
• Social embodiment
• Psychology as ‘process’.

We foster a supportive environment for both undergraduate and postgraduate research students.

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Group Member

• Dr Bipasha Ahmed
• Dr Irina Anderson
• Dr Sharon Cahill
• Dr Pippa Dell
• Dr Mark Finn
• Dr David Harper
• Dr Helen Murphy
• Dr Nimisha Patel
• Dr Miles Thomas
• Professor Rachel Tribe
• Dr Ian Tucker (Group Co-ordinator)
• Dr Aneta Tunariu