Dr Ian Tucker joined the School of Psychology in 2008, and leads the Psychology and Social Change Research Group. His research interests focus on developing interdisciplinary social scientific approaches to the study of mental health, social media, surveillance, embodiment, space and identity.

Further details available here: http://uel.academia.edu/IanTucker

• 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
• Social Media
• 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. Goodings, L., & Tucker, I. M. 'Social media and the co-production of bodies online: Bergson, Serres and Facebook Timeline', Media Culture & Society, in press.
2. Tucker, I. M. (2013) 'Bodies and surveillance: Simondon, information and affect', Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 14 (1), 31-40
3. Tucker, I. M. (2013) 'The spatial anticipation of the future in the homes of mental health service users', Outlines: Critical Practice Studies, 14 (1), 26-40.
4. Tucker, I. M. (2012) ‘Deleuze, sense, and life: Marking the parameters of a psychology of individuation’, Theory and Psychology, 22 (6), 771-785. doi:10.1177/0959354312442787
5. Tucker, I. M., Ellis, D. & Harper, D. (2012) ‘Transformative processes of agency: Information technologies and the production of digitally mediated selves’, Culture and Society: Journal of Social Research. 3 (1), 9-24.
6. Tucker, I. M. (2012). Organising the present in anticipation of a better future: Bergson, Whitehead and the life of a mental health service user, Theory and Psychology, 22 (4), 499-512. doi:10.1177/0959354311424077
7. Tucker, I.M. (2011). Bio-somatic-power. Outlines: Critical Practice Studies, 13 (1), 82-93.
8. Ellis, D., & Tucker, I. M. (2011) ‘Virtuality and Ernst Bloch: Hope and subjectivity’, Subjectivity, 4 (4), 434-450. doi:10.1057/sub.2011.15
9. 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
10. 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
11. Tucker, I.M. (2011). Somatic concerns of mental health service users: a specific tale of affect. Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 12(1), 23–35. doi:10.1080/1600910X.2011.549335
12. 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
13. 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
14. Tucker, I.M. (2010). The potentiality of bodies. Theory and Psychology, 20(4), 511–527. doi:10.1177/0959354309360947
15. 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.
16. 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. doi:10.1191/1478088704qp008oa

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
• EPSRC Communities and Culture Network+ Core Member
• Member Psychosocial Network
• Member Deleuze Reading Group