Lecturing staff
- Dr Nicola Diamond:
Joined the university in 2006. She studied for a degree in Sociology and then a Phd in ‘Psychoanalytic Studies’. She is an experienced psychotherapist and continues to work as a psychotherapist at the Women’s Therapy Centre. She is currently working on a book called Between Skins: The body and psychoanalysis and contemporary perspectives. To be published by Wiley and Sons in 2007.
- Dr Darren Ellis
Studied at UEL completing a BA (Hons) in Psychosocial Studies. Darren’s research draws on influences from a broad range of disciplines including social constructionist psychology (narrative and discursive approaches), the emotional disclosure paradigm, issues concerned with embodiment, affect theory, psychoanalytic theory and practice, and process philosophy. Darren’s PhD project involved looking at the dynamic relationship between self-disclosure, identity construction and associated somatic processes. He has been conducting research looking at media productions of particular cultural events. Within this project he is experimenting and engaging with Ernst Bloch’s ‘Principle of Hope’ in conjunction with other process philosophers’ understandings of affective activities.
- Dr David W Jones
Has research interests in mental health issues particularly in relation to families, people's experience of contemporary family life and psychosocial perspectives on crime.
- Lurraine Jones
Studies at UEL completing a BA (Hons) in Psychosocial Studies, then went on to gain an MA in Racial Equality Studies at Middlesex. Lurraine's research interests are in Black British identities and culture. Her dissertations have researched Mixed Heritage identity and Black British women and their consumption practices. Lurraine has four children, and in her spare time(!) likes aerobics, cooking, eating out and the cinema.
- Dr. Heather Price
Has worked as a primary school teacher and Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator in a large primary school in Tower Hamlets. Current research interests include psychoanalysis and current debates about the social construction of childhood within developmental psychology.
- Professor Michael Rustin
Michael Rustin is internationally known for his work on the integration of psychoanalytic ideas with sociological perspectives. His books include The Good Society and the Inner World (1991); Reason and Unreason: Psychoanalysis and Politics (2001)and Mirror to Nature: Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society. (2002) with Maragaret Rustin.
- Professor Corinne Squire
As well as teaching psychology, women's studies and media studies, Corinne has worked in a video company and as an HIV antibody test counsellor. Her current research interests are in HIV, identity and community in the UK and South Africa , the place of feelings in public life, and television talk shows.
- Dr Angie Voela
Graduated in Literature and Linguistics and has a PhD in Psychoanalytic Theory. She has written on issues of identity and gender in film and literature. Her current research interests include psychoanalysis, feminism, cultural theory and their application to a range of phenomena in high, popular and everyday culture.
- Dr. Candida Yates
Her research interests are in the areas of psychoanalysis, masculinity, affect and cultural change and she has published in that field. She is currently researching masculine jealousy and its representation in popular cinema.
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