Our academic staff

Dr Ann Addison

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: Psychoanalysis and law; Psychoanalysis and its application in the arts; The relationship of body and mind in psychoanalysis; Comparative studies relating to C.G. Jung and W.R. Bion; Implicit theories in psychoanalysis; Historical, philosophical, social and cultural contexts of the work of C.G. Jung

Dr Jessica Battersby

Acting Head of Department - Lecturer (R), Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Dr Ebenezer Cudjoe

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: Child protection; Children whose parents have mental illness; Research methodologies; Children's rights

Joanne Emmens

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Professor Matt Ffytche

Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: The history of psychoanalysis (particularly mid-twentieth century); The psychoanalytic imaginary and its integration with social and psychosocial theory; Nineteenth-century theories of the unconscious; Psychoanalysis and critical theory; The relation between psychoanalysis and modernist literature

Dr Norman Gabriel

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

Dr Emilia Halton-Hernandez

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

Professor Susan Kegerreis

Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy; Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Adolescents; Applications of Psychodynamic Thinking in non -clinical work; Organisational Dynamics; Eating Disorders; Training issues with Counsellors and Psychotherapists; Ethical approval for qualitative and clinical research

Dr Carolyn Laubender

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Dr Zibiah Loakthar

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: social justice, equalty, diversity, inclusion, refugee communities, migration, oral history, life stories, memory

Dr Monica Luci

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: Psychodynamic understanding of the refugee experience; Refugees, trauma and body; Refugees, violence and human rights; Complex trauma; Complex and combined therapies for refugees; Psychodynamic understanding of collective violence at the crossroads between intrapsychic, interpersonal and social levels; Torture survivors' experience; Gender based violence among refugees; Accompanied and unaccompanied minor refugees; Interdisciplinary studies between psychoanalysis and law

Dr Orsolya Lukacs

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: Analytical Psychology and Physics; Creativity and Intuition; Artificial Intelligence; Conceptions of Time; Intellectual History of Analytical Psychology; Climate Change; The Interplay between Mind and Matter; Virtual Realities and the Concept of the Self

Professor Roderick Main

Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: Historical, philosophical, religious and cultural contexts of the work of C G Jung; Depth psychology (especially Jungian psychology), religion and modernity; Analytical psychology and society; Synchronicity; Myth

Dr Christian McMillan

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: The history of Analytical Psychology; German Romantic philosophy; Kant and Post-Kantian thought; Deleuze and Deleuze Studies

Claudia Mohor Valentino

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Dr Chris Nicholson

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

Dr Jordan Osserman

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Professor Renos Papadopoulos

Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: Involuntary dislocation (forced migration), trauma and refugees; Working with survivors of violence (torture) and disasters; Psychosocial humanitarian interventions; Psychosocial perspectives on Human Rights; The interface between Analytical Psychology and systems, family therapy, and culture; Epistemology of therapeutic endeavours; Academic and professional interface with Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Arianna Pulsoni

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

Dr Katharina Rowold

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

Dr Magda Schmukalla

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Professor Raluca Soreanu

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

Chris Tanner

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: Creating effective learning environments; Psychoanalytic perspectives on organisational dynamics; Executive coaching and consultancy practice in organisations; Leadership development-psychodynamic perspectives; Compassionate care in health and social care

Dr Marita Vyrgioti

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Dr Julie Walsh

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Dr Chenyang Wang

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Dr Madeleine Wood

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Dr Deborah Wright

Faculty Dean Undergraduate - 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

Dr Gustavo Machado

Senior Research Officer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Dr Alexander Miller

Senior Research Officer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Dr Ana Minozzo

Senior Research Officer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Ewan O'Neill

Research Officer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Dr Ana Tomcic

Senior Research Officer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Dr Lizaveta Van Munsteren

Senior Research Officer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies