Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Our research students

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Discover the research students in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Our research students investigate a broad range of exciting topics and are supervised by our academic staff.

To visit an individual research student's profile and find their contact details, please click on the links below:

Research students

Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Analytical Psychology; Phenomenology; Narrative Theory
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Freud, Anxiety and Academic Performance, Specialist Mentoring, Mentoring, Young adults, Adolescents, Psychoanalysis, History of Art, Italian Renaissance, Mannerism,
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Ecopsychology, ecotherapy (nature-based therapeutic practice); Jungian and post-Jungian thinking on the concept of the symbol; Methodological approaches to understanding psyche in relation the other-than-human; PPS Postgraduate research conference (organisation) Research interests: The environmentally located psyche and the idea of the 'ecological self'; Symbolic interpretations of the other-than-human world; Language, semantics and the symbol; Indigeneity and psychocultural landscapes
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Addiction, Recovery, Drug-Dreams research, Structural Dream Analysis, Dreams, Dreaming Research interests: Drug-Dreams
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: C. G. Jung’s Liber Novus; Jung and the idea of initiation; Initiatory rites; The study of esotericism; Clinical and forensic counselling; Clinical supervision
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Queer female sexuality in psychoanalysis
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Object relations and neurodevelopmental conditions; Adolescence; Gender; Parent-Infant mental health; Parent work and schizoid mechinisms
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychoanalytic informed research of management and oganisations Research interests: Psychoanalytic perspectives on organisational dynamics; Leadership development-psychodynamic perspectives; Psychodynamic role and (professional) identity theory
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Jung and India ; Culture, psyche, myths. Gender and society ; Indian philosophy & Indian literature; Anima and animus, individuation; Archival research ; Group Relations ; The Ramayana
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychoanalytic Research in Social Contexts; Relational Perspectives; Culture and Psyche; Qualitative Methodologies; Migration and Forced Displacement; Home Research interests: Critical Psychoanalysis, Cultural Psychology, Psychosocial Studies, Relational Perspectives
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Jungian psychology Research interests: Jungian Psychology and Divinatory Techniques; Jung and Synchronicity; Asian Culture and Jungian Psychology; Chinese Society and Psychoanalysis; The Development of C. G. Jung's Thoughts; Depth Psychological Interpretations of Ancient Narratives
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Contact us
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Telephone: 01206 873640