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:

Assistant Lecturers

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: My reaserch thesis
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Objects Relations Theory, Immigration, Cultural Objects, Group Dynamic and Analysis Research interests: Development of psychoanlytic perspective in different social context
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Lacanian psychoanalysis; Post-Lacanian psychoanalysis; Poststructuralist feminism; Schizoanalysis; Feminist-new materialism; Capitalism
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Queer theory; Erotic transference; Patients' perspectives in psychoanalysis; Zine making as a research methodology; Queering the history of psychoanalysis; Harm in psychotherapy Research interests: Queer female sexuality in psychoanalysis
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Intersubjectivity, Mutuality, Objects Relations Theory, Cultural Objects, Activism and Psychoanalysis Research interests: Radical Psychoanalytic Praxis
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Counselling offenders in the community using the mobile phone
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Hauntology, Derrida, Subalternity, Spivak Research interests: Literature and Psychoanalysis- Interdisciplinarity

Research students

Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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: Youth engagement/mentoring, Youth offending, Serious violence, Adolescents, Psychosocial, Social Justice, Diversity and Inclusion, Life stories, Violence prevention Research interests: Youth justice
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychodynamic psychotherapy/counselling with children and adolescent. School counselling. Triangular Space.
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
Ask me about: Race related transference dyad; Black focus therapy; Internalised racism; Colonalism and imperialism affects on Black beauty aesthetics
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: Irish Cultural Identity
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Racial identity and the unconscious; Countertransference in cross-cultural work; Working therapeutically with young people in the criminal justice system; Trauma and emotional dysregulation Research interests: Racial identity, trauma, and the unconscious in therapeutic work
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Alchemical Practice; Jungian Psychology; Arts-Based Research; Phenomenology ; Synchronicity; Surrealism (particularly surrealist poetry)
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychodynamic Counselling Research interests: Psychodynamic Counselling with school staff
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Children’s rights and child-led definitions of family; Faith-based responses to gender-based violence and spiritual abuse; Interfaith and multifaith partnerships in humanitarian action; Displacement, migration, and psychosocial support; Human trafficking, online sexual exploitation of children, and child sexual abuse Research interests: Displacement, migration, and family disruption; Legal and psychosocial frameworks of kinship and caregiving
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychodynamic Counselling; Military Service; Policing; International Terrorism; Intelligence; Behavioural Detection; Border Security; Evaluating Truthfulness; Coastal Search and Rescue Research interests: Hypervigilance relating to military experiences
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Exploration of Culture, Race, and Racism Research interests: Psychoanalysis and critical theory; Philosophy of Culture, Race, and Racism
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Menopause; The psychological impact and treatment
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Freud and his dogs, working psychodynamically with children/ adolescents and using dogs as part of the therapeutic process.,
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Neurodiversity in couples
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Writers & Writing; Gifted & Talented; Normative Multiplicity; Imaginal Ethics Research interests: Normative Multiplicity; Gifted and Talented Adults -- Authorship; Writers’ Notebooks
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: My reaserch thesis
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Jung and India ; Culture, psyche, myths; Indian philosophy & literature; Anima and animus, individuation; Archival research ; Group Relations ; The Ramayana; Psyche and Ecology; Jung, Yoga philosophy and India Research interests: Psyche and Culture
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Objects Relations Theory, Immigration, Cultural Objects, Group Dynamic and Analysis Research interests: Development of psychoanlytic perspective in different social context
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychoanalytic formulations of internalised misogyny
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
Ask me about: Psychoanalysis; Bion field theory, post Bionian thinking; Platonic and Neoplatonic thinking Research interests: Psychoanalysis,Analytic Third, Aesthetics
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Melanie Klein, Object Relations Theory, Contemporary Psychodynamic Approaches, Relational Psychodynamic Theory, Female Subjectivity, Greek Mythology and Psychoanalysis, Creative approaches
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Object relations theory, narcissism, relating
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Intersectionality in student mental health ; LGBTQ+ mental health; psychodynamic therapy; mental health training; supervision Research interests: Intersectionality in student mental health ; Yoga and mental health; Cold water swimming and mental health
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Lacanian psychoanalysis; Post-Lacanian psychoanalysis; Poststructuralist feminism; Schizoanalysis; Feminist-new materialism; Capitalism
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Voice and the Therapeutic Space: A study of how voice intonation, melody and prosody are experienced in the therapeutic dyad
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: LGBTQI+ mental health; Impact of internalised homophobia in transference/countertransference ; Male survivors of sexual abuse; Queer therapeutic dyads; Psychosexual Therapy Research interests: The Role of Internalised Homophobia in the Healing Journeys of Gay Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse within a gay male therapeutic dyad
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Queer theory; Erotic transference; Patients' perspectives in psychoanalysis; Zine making as a research methodology; Queering the history of psychoanalysis; Harm in psychotherapy 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 Theory; Physical Disability; Oncology and End of Life Care; Suicidal Ideation
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: I am a Psychotherapist and Data Protection Professional
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: Intersubjectivity, Mutuality, Objects Relations Theory, Cultural Objects, Activism and Psychoanalysis Research interests: Radical Psychoanalytic Praxis
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Analytical Psychology, Jungian Analysis and Dramatherapy
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: Childhood sexual abuse ; Object relations - early developmental functioning; Gender; Severe and enduring mental health challenges; PTSD and related trauma
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
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Jung and India ; Culture, psyche, myths; Indian philosophy & literature; Anima and animus, individuation; Archival research ; Group Relations ; The Ramayana; Psyche and Ecology; Jung, Yoga philosophy and India Research interests: Psyche and Culture
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Creativity and Individuation Research interests: Distributed creativity; Individuation; C. G. Jung and G. Simondon; Social Psychology and post-Jungian 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: Psychodynamic approaches to grief, loss, and bereavement; Working therapeutically with parents following baby or child loss; Transference–countertransference processes in grief work; Unconscious and relational dynamics that shape the mourning process
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: Counselling offenders in the community using the mobile phone
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Hauntology, Derrida, Subalternity, Spivak Research interests: Literature and Psychoanalysis- Interdisciplinarity
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychosis; Delusion; Paranoia; Psychodynamic intervention with Psychotic patients; Mental illness Research interests: Psychodynamic intervention with Psychotic patients
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Research interests: Procrastination
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: analytical psychology, couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy Research interests: Transgenerational affect transmission; Couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy - Narcissistic power relations
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Jungian Performing Art and Music Studies Research interests: Jungian Psychology and Music Therapy ; Jungian Psychology and Music Studies ; C. G. Jung’s Perspectives on Sound, Alchemy, and Individuation; Music, Dreams and Synchronicity; Jungian Music Studies in Asian Music; C. G. Jung's Psychology and Medical Ethnomusicology
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Jungian psychology; Eastern and Western Esotericism; Divination Research interests: Jungian Psychology and Divinatory Techniques; C. G. Jung and His Synchronicity Concept; The Interactions Between Asian Thoughts, Religons, and Psychoanalysis; Chinese Society and Psychoanalysis; The Development of C. G. Jung's Thoughts; Depth Psychological Interpretations of Ancient Narratives; The History of Psychoanalysis
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