Dr Martin Willis
Lecturer
Psychology & Social Change, Psychology
As a social psychologist, Martin is particularly interested in ways in which subjectivity involves relationships between our bodies and social and material contexts.
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AE 1.16, Stratford Campus
School of Psychology
The University of East London
Stratford Campus
London
E15 4LZ - m.willis@uel.ac.uk +442082234492
Graduate Member of British Psychological Society (MBPsS)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Founder member of the Association for Process Thought (APT)
Member of the Critical Values Based Practice Network (C-VBP-N)
Affiliate of Qualitative Approaches to Affect, Feelings & Emotions (QuAFE)
Overview
Martin's current research explores how process philosophy (especially that of Alfred North Whitehead) can be applied in social psychology to theorise human subjectivity. It has a particular focus on relationships between bodies (particularly emotions and feelings), thinking and socio-material contexts.
He is also working (with the Critical Values Based Practice Network) on shared decision-making in inpatient mental health care.
Collaborators
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Research
Publications
Martin is also keenly interested in research methodologies and methods (particularly qualitative), including ontological, epistemological, and axiological issues. He has recently been working in the area of analytical pluralism in qualitative research. Martin is also interested in the history and philosophy of psychology, including a concern for the contexts, applications and consequences of psychological knowledge and techniques; process philosophy (particularly that of Alfred North Whitehead) and enactivist approaches to mind and cognition and how these ideas can be utilized and developed in (social and applied) psychological theory and methodology.
Interests
PY5201 Researching Psychological Worlds 2 (qualitative methods component)
PY5202 Applications of Psychobiology, Individual Differences & Social Psychology (social psychology component)
PY6301/6321/6322 Psychological Research Project (project supervisor)
PY6317 Psychology, Identity & Society
PY7153 Conceptual & Historical Issues in Psychology (CHiPs) & Social Psychology (seminar leader)
PY7155 Independent Research Thesis (project supervisor)
MSc Psychology
Peer reviewer for:
- Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise & Health
- New Media & Society Qualitative Research in Sport,Exercise & Health