Centre for Childhood Studies

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Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Trouble and Taboo - Comparative Research on Childhood; Crossing the narrow bridge: the socio-emotional development of young children.; Group Processes in Children's Relationships
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Issues facing looked after children, particularly trauma, transitions and leaving care; Assessment of children and adolescents; Therapeutic Communities
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Infant Mental Health; Intergenerational trauma and family difficulties; Autism and early trauma; Organizational Dynamics and group Dynamics; Wellbeing in Schools: how to improve approaches to wellbeing in schools, providing early interventions,short interventions,parents work and group work for staff.; The integration of Psychoanalysis with Philosophy; The applicaton of Psychoanalytic theories to non clinical disciplines; History of Psychoanalysis; Trauma and Refugees: setting up a methodology in working with refugees and their staff.; Child Psychotherapy
Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: • Psychoanalytic theory and metapsychology; • The history and epistemology of psychoanalysis; • The Budapest School on Psychoanalysis; the work of Sándor Ferenczi and Michael Balint; • Trauma theories and the study of collective trauma; • Fragmentation and psychic splitting; • Theories of recognition; • Psychosocial studies of collective creativity; • Time studies; • Contemporary social theories; post-humanist theories; feminist theories; • Sociology of emotions; sociology of creativity; sociology of knowledge; • Epistemologies and methodologies of the social sciences and of psychosocial studies
Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Object relations theory; The infant mind and infant mental health; Theories of creativity; Historical understandings of childhood and infancy; History of psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis, art and literature
Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Child protection; Children whose parents have mental illness; Research methodologies; Children's rights
Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: History of infancy, childhood, and motherhood; history of psychoanalysis and child psychology; women's and gender history; medical humantities
Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Freud, Klein, Bion, Winnicott and Object Relations; Human relations with the non-human world; Psychosocial and psychoanalytic perspective on humans’ relationships with their environment; Childrens’ and residential care clients’ relationship with their (bed)rooms; Patients’ relationship with the consulting room; Spatialisation, environmental usage and political connotations;  Houses, homes, safe and un-safe dwelling places and room spaces
Tutor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Perinatal psychology;; forensic psychotherapy with victims and perpetrators;; institutional dynamics;; psycho-social aspects of child abuse;; the application of therapeutic models in professional work with children and adolescents.

Department of Language and Linguistics

Reader (R), Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: Psychology of foreign language learning and teaching; Language teacher emotions, emotional labour and emotional capital; Language teacher agency and identity; Affective and meta-affective strategies for language learning; Language teacher education; Social and emotional learning; Language learner and teacher wellbeing
Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: Sociolinguistics; Sociophonetics; Regional accents/dialects; Variation in language acquisition
Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: Language variability: accents (children), bilingualism (children); Semantic processing (children); Speech perception (infants, children, adults)
Reader, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: Additional or second language (L2) learning across the lifespan; Explicit and implicit knowledge and processes in L2 learning; Cognitive individual differences in L2 learning: language learning aptitude, working memory, cognitive style
Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: The role of interaction in the processes of second language learning; Second language (L2) learning from a Sociocultural theory perspective; Feedback and scaffolding; Collaborative activity and second language learning; Instructed SLA; CALL in particular the impact of the computer in the L2 classroom and the potential of Virtual World Environments for L2 learning; Applications of Cognitive Linguistics to L2 learning and teaching
Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: Conversation Analysis with particular interests in; Grammar & Interaction; Territories of Knowledge; Reported Speech; Laughter in interaction; Embodiment in interaction; Indirect language