Dr Ian Tucker joined the School of Psychology in September 2008, prior to which he lectured at University of Northampton. Ian leads the Psychology and Social Change Research Group, and his research interests focus on developing interdisciplinary social scientific approaches to the study of mental health, surveillance, embodiment, space and identity.

• MPhil/PhD Programme Leader
• Co-ordinator of Psychology and Social Change Research Group
• PhD supervision
• Professional Doctorate supervision
• Module Leader for PY2105: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology (BSc Psychology)
• Module Leader for PY3022: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology (Graduate Diploma in Psychology)
• Module Leader for PYM153: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology (MSc Psychology)
• Extended Degree Tutor
• Member of School Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee
• Member of School Research Degrees Sub-committee
• Member of School Board

• Community mental health
• Surveillance
• Social psychology and space
• Embodiment theories
• Subjectivity and affect
• Visual methodologies

• BSc Psychology
• MSc Psychology
• Graduate Diploma in Psychology
• Doctoral supervision
• Psychology Extended Degree

• PY0003: Becoming a Psychologist 1 (Extended Degree in Psychology)
• PY0006: Becoming a Psychologist 2 (Extended Degree in Psychology)
• PY2101: Research Methods (BSc Psychology Level 2)
• PY2105: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology (BSc Psychology Level 2)
• PY3022: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology (Graduate Diploma in Psychology)
• PYM153: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology (MSc Psychology)
• Undergraduate/Graduate Diploma/MSc dissertation supervision

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Tucker, I. M. ‘Organising the present in anticipation of a better future: Bergson, Whitehead and the life of a mental health service user’, Theory and Psychology. In press
2. Tucker, I.M. (in press). Bio-somatic-power. Outlines: Critical Practice Studies, 13 (1), 82-93
3. Tucker, I.M. (2011). Psychology as space: embodied relationality. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(5), 231–238. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00347.x
4. Tucker, I.M. (2011). Sense and the limits of knowledge: bodily connections in the work of Serres. Theory, Culture, and Society, 28, 149–160. doi:10.1177/0263276410372240
5. Tucker, I.M. (2011). Somatic concerns of mental health service users: a specific tale of affect. Distinktion: European Journal of Social Theory, 12(1), 23–35. doi:10.1080/1600910X.2011.549335
6. Tucker, I.M. (2010). Everyday spaces of mental distress: the spatial habituation of home. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28, 526–538. doi:10.1068/d14808
7. Tucker, I.M. (2010). Mental health service user territories: enacting ‘safe spaces’ in the community. Health: An International Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 14(4), 434–448. doi:10.1177/1363459309357485
8. Tucker, I.M. (2010). The potentiality of bodies. Theory and Psychology, 20(4), 511–527. doi:10.1177/0959354309360947
9. Tucker, I.M. (2009). “This is for life”: a discursive analysis of the dilemmas of constructing diagnostic identities. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 10(3), Art. 24.
10. Tucker, I.M. (2009). Space, mental distress and process philosophy. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 4, 165–174.

Book Chapters

1. Brown, S.D., & Tucker, I.M. (2010). Eff the ineffable: affect, somatic management and mental health service users. In G. Seigworth & M. Gregg (Eds.), The affect reader: Duke University Press.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Tucker, I.M. (2007). Theorising management of everyday mental health difficulties. New Voices in Psychology, 3(1), 68–75.
2. Tucker, I.M. (2006). Towards the multiple body. Theory and Psychology, 16(3), 433–440. doi:10.1177/0959354306064289
3. Tucker, I.M. (2004). ‘Stories’ of chronic fatigue syndrome: an exploratory discursive psychological analysis. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1, 153–167.

Book Chapters

1. Tucker, I.M. (2006). Embodied practices and subjectivity in psychopathology. In P.L. Twohig & V. Kalitzkus (Eds.), Making sense of: health, illness and disease (Vol. 2). Amsterdam: Rodopi.

• Member British Psychological Society
• Committee Member British Psychological Society - History and Philosophy of Psychology Section
• Member Psychosocial Network
• Member Deleuze Reading Group