I was born at a football stadium in Budapest (MTK), and the variety of people there prompted my interested in human affairs. I first pursued that via a degree in literary criticism, but then shifted to psychology. In my dissertation, I looked at how Adolf Eichmann’s memory was constructed by those involved in his Jerusalem trial of 1961.

I did my PhD at Loughborough University under the guidance of Mick Billig, ending with a thesis that investigated how two friends (Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem) can agree on something (i.e., the inalienability of Jewishness) that may actually tear their friendship apart.

My taxable academic life started in 2008 at UEL, where I taught at the Counselling Professional Doctorate course. Since then, I have had  nice and not-so-nice times at a variety of British universities. From September 2011, I have been back at UEL. Still looking for football.

• Module leader of Research Methods modules for the Counselling Psychology Professional Doctorate
• Research Director of the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology

My interest mainly lies with the various of aspects of freedom. Within this, I am interested in particular in how identities are created, contested and maintained.

Apart from this, I am interested in the Milgram experiments, and, contrary to received opinion, I do not see how those complying with the experimenter could have been expected to do otherwise. By the same token, I also think those who defied the experimenter may have been (in one sense or another) little short of heroes.

• BSc in Psychology
• Counselling Psychology Professional Doctorate

• PY1101: Research Methods 1
• PY1102: Research Methods 2
• PYM304: Professional, Clinical and Ethical Issues
• PYD305: Research Methods and Enquiry 2
• PYD306: Advanced Research Methods and Data Analysis in Counselling Psychology
• PYD307: Professional and Theoretical Practice Models

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Kaposi, D., & Dell, P. (in press). Discourses of plagiarism: moralist, proceduralist, developmental and inter-textual approaches. British Journal of the Sociology of Education.
2. Kaposi, D. (2011). Truth and rhetoric: the promise of John Dean’s memory to the discipline of psychology. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5914.2011.00473.x
3. Kaposi, D. (2011). The crooked timber of identity: integrating discursive, critical, and psychosocial analysis. British Journal of Social Psychology. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8309.2011.02074.x
4. Kaposi, D. (2010). Between orient and occident: politics, tradition and the limits of criticism in the Scholem–Arendt exchange. Journal of Language and Politics, 9(3), 409–432. doi:10.1075/jlp.9.3.04kap
5. Kaposi, D. (2009). The unbearable lightness of identity: membership, tradition and the Jewish anti-semite in Gershom Scholem’s letter to Hannah Arendt. Critical Discourse Studies, 6(4), 269–281. doi:10.1080/17405900903181010
6. Kaposi, D. (2008). To judge or not to judge: the clash of perspectives in the Scholem–Arendt exchange. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, 14(1), 95–119.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Kaposi, D. (2004). Tetten ért emlékek — egy diszkurzív kutatás esélyei. [How to do things with memories? — ideas for a discursive research of remembering.]. Hungarian Psychological Review, 58(4), 301–320.
2. Kaposi, D. (2003). Narrativlosigkeit. Kulturelle Schemen und der Roman eines Schicksallosen. Hungarian Studies, 17(2), 183–213. doi:10.1556/HStud.17.2003.2.1
3. Kaposi, D. (2002). Narrativeless — cultural concepts and the fateless. Spiel: Siegener Periodicum für Empirische Literaturforschung, 21(1), 89–105.

For an extended CV and full publication list see http://uel.academia.edu/DKaposi/.