Our members

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Subjectivity, testimony and memory; History of psychonalysis in Britain; Trauma and inter-generational transmission; Families and inter-generational relationships; Interviews, personal sources and research methods; War, memory and commemoration

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: History of psychoanalysis; Twentieth-century 'psy' disciplines; Cultural history of the British welfare state; History and theory of childhood; Trauma studies; Feminism and psychoanalysis

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Face and emotion processing in infancy.; The development of body representation and tactile localisation.; The development of the neural basis of shared touch.; Perinatal mental health.

Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Interoception; Neurodevelopment; fNIRS; fMRI; Social Cognition; Adolescence; Interoceptive Development; Mental Health Development; Somatic Symptoms in Children

Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: The emergence of inhibitory control in children. Inhibitory control is the capacity to regulate our thoughts, behaviour and emotions, and so take charge of our own lives.

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

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)

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: neurolinguistics; laboratory phonology; morphological processing; cognitive science; history of linguistic theory; Signed languages (ASL, BSL); deaf language processing; language acquisition; cochlear implants

Reader, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Second language (L2) learning from a usage-based (emergentist, cognitive-functional) perspective; Explicit and implicit knowledge and learning; Individual learner differences in L2 learning, especially language learning aptitude, working memory and cognitive/learning style

Professor, School of Health and Social Care

Professor (R) and Director NIHR Research Design Service, School of Health and Social Care

Professor, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Director of Understanding Society, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Professor, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Philosophy of Psychiatry; Phenomenology (esp Hume, Husserl, Heidegger, Th Lipps, L&oslashgstrup); Kant and post-Kantian idealism (esp Fichte); The history and philosophy of logic; Philosophy and painting; Self-Consciousness; Autonomy and the Regulation of Care; Political Philosophy; Will, Agency and Contract

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Philosophy of mind; philosophy of language; epistemology; philosophy of psychology; Speech acts

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Art and science/medicine; Auguste Rodin's oeuvre; Nineteenth-century French sculpture; Architecture and urban planning in nineteenth-century Paris; Auguste Rodin and science; Jean-Martin Charcot and art; Objectivity and medical imagery; Medical portraiture; Nineteenth-century medical photography; Theories of degeneration and genius

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Developing Serious Games for Promoting Sustainable Behaviour; Enhancing Mental Health through Immersive Experiences; Overcoming Body Dysmorphia with Immersive Virtual Reality; Improving Quality of Life for Parkinson's Patients with Virtual Reality

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences

Professor (R) and Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Government

Research interests: Political Economy; Politics and Economics of Natural Disasters; Leader Survival; Econometrics;

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: contemporary theories of distributive justice; the just distribution of resources between age groups; the role of the concept of dignity in normative political theory

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: political philosophy; Lacanian and post-Marxist discourse theory; philosophy and methodology of social science; post-structural approaches to political and policy studies; theories of democracy and ideology; grammars of freedom and equality in contemporary political discourse; cultures and discourses of the economy