Dr Amina Adan
Senior Lecturer for Social Work and Tavistock Partnership
Senior Lecturer
Department of Social Work Counselling & Social Care , School of Childhood and Social Care
Dr Amina Adan is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for the MA Social Work. With over two decades of experience in practice and academia, her work bridges critical pedagogy, racial justice, and Psychoanalytic and psycho-social approaches. Amina is also a Senior Lecturer and Doctoral Supervisor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Qualifications
- DProf
- MA
- BSc
- PGDip
Areas Of Interest
- Psychoanalysis and (inter) subjectivity
- Critical social work
- Race, Racism and Decolonial praxis
- Epistemic justice
- Gendered Violence
OVERVIEW
With over 25 years of operational, management, and strategic planning experience within social and health care settings, Dr Adan brings a rich practice background into her academic and consultancy work. Her teaching and research are grounded in psycho-social ideas and their application to public and organizational life.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Dr Adan’s research is situated at the intersection of race, power, racialized emotional labour, and professional practice. Grounded in psycho-social and postcolonial frameworks, her work explores how marginalized voices are positioned, silenced, or amplified across institutional contexts. She draws on narrative and reflexive methodologies to examine themes such as gendered violence, the emotional life of organizations, and the psychodynamics dimensions of inequality. Her current research engages psychoanalytic theory to interrogate the formation of racialized subjectivities and to explore the ethical and political possibilities of decolonial knowledge production.
MODULES
- SK7108 – Fundamentals of Social Work
- SK7103 – Human Growth and Development
- SK7106 – Dissertation
PUBLICATIONS
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Publications
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Full publications list
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- Supporting qualitative practitioner research in child and adolescent mental health Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. p. In press. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2025.10092
- Seeking Epistemic Justice: Experiences of Agency, Power and Epistemic Disobedience Among Black African International Doctoral Students Australian Journal of Social Issues. p. In press. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.70010
- Unpacking the psycho-social tensions in cross-race doctoral supervision: a co-constructed autoethnographic exploration Journal of Psychosocial Studies. 18 (1), p. 43–61. https://doi.org/10.1332/14786737Y2025D000000043
- Formulating Interpersonal Conflict, Relationship Factors and Abuse in: Howard, V. and Alfred, L. (ed.) Formulation in Mental Health Nursing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp.97–118
- The end justifies the memes”: A feminist relational discourse analysis of the role of macro memes in facilitating supportive discussions for victim-survivors of narcissistic abuse Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace. 16 (4), p. Art. 10. https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2022-4-10
