Dr Angie Voela
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Research Degrees Leader for Social Sciences. Co-editor of the international journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
Department of Social Work Counselling & Social Care , School of Childhood and Social Care
Angie Voela is senior lecturer in Psychosocial Theory and Practice. She is the Research Degrees Leader for Social Sciences and co-editor of the international journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.
Qualifications
- BA, MA, MSC, PhD
Areas Of Interest
- Psychoanalysis and feminism
- Psychoanalytic and philosophical approaches to identity and gender
- Psychoanalytic and psycho-social approaches to culture, families, space and contemporary politics
- Myth in contemporary culture
OVERVIEW
Angie Voela (BA, MA, MSC, PhD) is a senior lecturer in Psychosocial Theory and Practice. She is the Research Degrees Leader for Social Sciences and the co-convenor of the Feminist Research Group (UEL). She is also the co-editor of the international journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Her research interests include psychoanalysis and feminism; psychoanalytic and philosophical approaches to identity and gender; psychoanalytic and psycho-social approaches to culture, families, space and contemporary politics; and myth in contemporary culture.
Angie has published several book chapters and articles, in journals like Psychotherapy and Politics International, The European Journal of Women's Studies; Subjectivity; Somatechnics; The Journal for Cultural Research; Gender and Education and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Studies in the Maternal, etc.
Her monograph Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Myth in Contemporary Culture: After Oedipus, was published by Palgrave in 2017.
CURRENT RESEARCH
- Lacanian psychoanalysis.
- Feminism and psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalytic and philosophical approaches to identity and gender with emphasis on the works of Jacques Lacan, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault and Bernard Stiegler.
- Psychoanalytic and psycho-social approaches to culture, education, families, spaces and contemporary politics.
- Psychoanalysis, philosophy and myth in contemporary culture.
FUNDING
Academic Grant Holder for Leverhulme Artist in Residence Barbara Loftus. Project title: Visualisation from Memory.
TEACHING
BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies
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Study Psychosocial StudiesMODULES
- SC 3010 Who are you? Reading the Body Psychosocially
- PS 4004 Constructions of Identity
- PS 5002 Self, Culture and Society
- PS 6010 Psychoanalysis, Culture and Religion
Publications
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Full publications list
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- SWAN: Self-healing and Wellbeing interventions through Existential Advocacy and Narrative inquiry. A pilot case study to promote maternal mental health in East London Women's Reproductive Health. p. In press. https://doi.org/10.1080/23293691.2025.2508983
- Psychoanalysis and academic freedom in the modern university: Thoughts on the inside and the outside Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 30, pp. 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00512-x
- Adam’s House on Earth: Architectural and Libidinal Tensions in Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built in: Hendrix, J. S. and Proto, F. (ed.) Lacan + Architecture . Palgrave Macmillan, pp.23-58
- Killing Eve: Inflections of Rebirth and Pathogenesis in: Datema, J. and Voela, A. (ed.) Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s). Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp.19-57
- Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s) Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
- Running with Thieves: Baby Driver and The Beat My Heart Skipped in: Datema, J. and Voela, A. (ed.) Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s). Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp.98-120
- Lockdown, Conspiracy Theories: Inaction, Transmission, Stupidity in: Ellis, D. and Voela, A. (ed.) After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.271-291
- Conceptualising the Lockdown from the Point of View of Chronic Illness in: Ellis, D. and Voela, A. (ed.) After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.91-110
- Introduction: For a Psychosocial Approach to the Lockdown in: Ellis, D. and Voela, A. (ed.) After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.3-27
- Addressing the Safety and Criminal Exploitation of Vulnerable Young People: Before, During and After COVID-19 and Lockdown in: Ellis, D. and Voela, A. (ed.) After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.151-171
- Seduction, Sharing Stories, and Borderlinking in Co-Constructed Narratives Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations & Interventions. 10, pp. 39-49
