The Centre for Psycho-Social StudiesCentre Staff
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DirectorsPaul Hoggett is Professor of Politics and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who was trained at the Lincoln Clinic and Centre for Psychotherapy. He is a member of the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy and the British Psychoanalytic Council and is also an experienced group relations consultant and member of the Group Relations Network West of England. Paul formerly worked at the Department for Advanced Urban Studies at Bristol University and has a longstanding interest in the changing nature of the welfare state and the relationship between government and local communities. This research has been summarised in four books and innumerable other publications and has been supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, Home Office and European Foundation among other funders. Paul teaches and writes in the area of political psychology and applies psychoanalytic and other theories of the emotions to understanding the organisation of civil society and the dynamics of democracy and conflict. He has sole-authored two books on these issues – Partisans in an Uncertain World (Free Association Books, 1992) and Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare (Macmillan, 2000) and, with Simon Clarke and Simon Thompson, has edited the collection Emotion, Politics and Society (Palgrave, 2006). He has just completed an ESRC funded project ‘Negotiating Ethical Dilemmas in Contested Communities’ and, with Simon Thompson, is currently organising an ESRC-funded seminar series on ‘Politics and the Emotions’. He is a board member of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and has editorial roles on Organisational & Social Dynamics, Psychodynamic Practice and Psychoanalysis Culture and Society. Simon Clarke is Professor of Psycho-Social Studies. His research interests include the interface between sociological and psychoanalytic theory; emotions; Kleinian and post Kleinian thinking, and the social application of psychoanalytic theory and practice. He has published numerous articles, essays and reviews on the psychoanalytic understanding of racism, ethnic hatred and social conflict. Simon is the author of several books including: Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism (Palgrave, 2003); From Enlightenment to Risk: Social Theory and Contemporary Society (Palgrave, 2005); Emotion, Politics and Society (with Hoggett and Thompson, Palgrave, 2006); Object Relations and Social Relations (with Hahn & Hoggett, Karnac, 2008); Researching Beneath the Surface: Psycho-Social Research Methods in Practice (With Hoggett, P., Karnac, 2009) and White Identities: A Critical Sociological Approach (With Garner, S. Pluto Press, 2009). Simon is a member of the board of directors of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society and Consulting Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (Palgrave). He has just completed a major ESRC funded project which looks at notions of home and identity in contemporary Britain which forms part of the larger £4 Million ESRC 'social identities' programme . Centre StaffNigel Williams is Senior Lecturer in Psycho-Social Studies. He is a leader for the MSc. programme in Psycho-Social Studies and has responsibility for developing programmes for clinicians and others engaged in psycho-social work regionally and nationally. Nigel is a psychotherapist and supervisor, whose professional life has been in the Charitable sector and the NHS, developing and delivering mental health services to the general public. He is also an organisational consultant and has worked widely in organisations delivering social and psychological care. He was a founder member of Somerset Counselling Centre, an Affiliate member of the Westminster Pastoral Foundation national network of counselling centres. He has been committed to developing organisations that can provide high quality psychodynamic therapy at low cost to the community, and that provide leading edge, nationally recognised training to counsellors and other professionals in psychodynamic approaches to mental health, social care and intervention. He is a registered psychotherapist and supervisor with UKCP, is a member of Group Relations Network West of England, and holds a BSc in Sociology and an MSc. in Group Relations from the University of the West of England. CPSS FellowsJohn Bird is Reader in Psycho-Social Studies and also a member of the Department of Sociology and Criminology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at UWE. His research interests are in the following areas: the psychodynamics of exclusion in educational setting; psycho-social perspective on computer-mediated forms of communication; aspects of embodiment in sport. His teaching is in the areas of the sociology of embodiment; beliefs and society; and sociological approaches to cyberspace. He has editorial roles on Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and Race, Ethnicity and Education. His most recent publications are; On the Poverty of Theory, in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 2006, 11:3, and Elizabeth Young-Bruehl and the Psycho-Social, History of the Human Sciences, 2008, 21:2. Anne-Marie Cummins is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and a Fellow of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies. As a Fellow of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies, Anne-Marie set up and helps run the Centre’s Learning Community, a continuous professional development venture, and Anne-Marie has worked as a consultant to a variety of organisations in the public and private sectors. Her principal research interests are the emotional factors which enter into teaching and learning and in particular resistances, both emotional and political, to current educational regimes in HE. This has been informed by a practice-based background including training in counselling, group relations and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Anne-Marie’s research profile includes process-evaluation into the dynamics of Assertive Outreach programmes for the mentally ill, the role of hatred and anxiety in undergraduate learning and the psychic costs of quality regimes in higher education. At the moment Anne-Marie is involved in a bid for EU funding on a project researching the relationship between family business and knowledge creation. Last year Anne-Marie set up a Leaning and Teaching Study Group for colleagues interested in exploring the dynamics of lived learning and teaching encounters and they are currently in negotiation with Karnac books to produce an edited volume of papers. Anne-Marie is UK editor of the OPUS/CPSS Journal Organisational and Social Dynamics having previously been on its International Advisory Board and have regularly contributed article reviews and entries to other journals (including Human Relations, Dictionary of Management Research). Dr Lita Crociani-Windland received her Masters degree from the University of the West of England in 2001. Her thesis earned a research award and focused on a study of inter-group dynamics in Siena, a central Italian city, whose civic structure has evolved around a medieval horse race known as ‘Palio’. The research highlighted issues of identity and social cohesion as well as the role of symbols and tradition. Her Doctoral research has extended previous research, including other central Italian communities and the revival of medieval festivals. The theoretical focus links continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory in relation to affective processes in social groups. Other interests concern the interface between the social and biological sciences, Group Relations tradition and experiential learning. Lita is a founding director of Group Relations Network West of England (GReNWE) and has worked as a consultant in Group Relations events. Her previous professional experience includes Italian translation and Specialist Further Education, the latter also an ongoing area of consultancy. Dr Liz Frost is Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. Liz has developed a psychosocial teaching curriculum for social work undergraduates, and publication in the area of psychosocial theory for social work. (Frost, L (2008) Why teach social work students psychosocial studies? Social Work Education, The International Journal, 27 (3): 243-261). European social work is another specialism. Longstanding involvement with social work departments across Europe has lead to EU education and joint publication projects, e.g. Frost, E and Freitas, M. J. eds (2007) Changing Social Work Education in Europe, Rome: Carroci; Campanini, A. Frost, E. (2005) Inclusivity, Process and Product in Writing for European Social Work Education, European Journal of Social Work 8 (3): 317-322.. A further interest is young people and in consumer capitalist societies. This has produced work on young women and appearance issues - Frost, L (2005) Theorising the Young Woman In The Body, The Body and Society, 11 (1): 63-85. - with some funded research projects also relating to mental health, then in 2004-05 researching children in transition from primary to secondary school, and in 2006, work on young people, wellbeing and community arts. Liz is currently working on a book for Palgrave/Macmillan ‘Childhoods in Consumer Society: Psychosocial Approaches’. Dr Stella Maile - Since gaining her PhD from Bristol University in the mid l990s, Stella has published in a range of journals on managerial discourses, organisational masculinity, welfare state restructuring and professional identities. She has co-authored a book 'Stakeholding in the New International Order' (Ashgate 2003) and is currently writing a book about the unconscious cultural and discursive dimensions of honour and recognition, The Meaning of Honour in Everyday Life' (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2009). She has taught post-graduate courses on group relations, identity and the welfare state and currently teaches courses on sexuality, working' and 'action learning'. Stella has consulted with a range of organisations and is developing workshops focused on exploring masculinity and femininity in the workplace to facilitate reflexive engagement with work/life balance issues and the reduction of workplace stress. Other interests include the social imaginary in intra-European movement, and the psycho-social dynamics and cultural representations associated with learning and teaching. As a qualified hypnotherapist Stella has consulted on stress management, and motivation. Jem Thomas is Pro Vice-Chancellor & Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Fellow of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies. His interests and main areas of teaching include: Philosophy and Social Theory; German Social Thought; Psychosocial Perspectives on Groups. His current research interests are:The legacy of Herbert Marcuse; the relationship between psychoanalysis and critical theory. Publications: Chapters in books:Thomas, Jeremy. 'Marcuse'. Key Contemporary Social Theorists'. Ed. Anthony Elliott and L Ray. Cap. 33. Blackwell, 2002. ISBN 0-6312-1971-4.; Thomas, Jeremy. 'A Culture of Democracy? Karl Mannheim and Modern Higher Education'. Trialogue. Ed. Tamsin Wilton. Bristol: UWE Publications. 1-24. ISBN 1-8604-3350-2. Other activities include: Member of the BSA, member of the ILTHE, member Demos. Reviews Editor for 'History of the Human Sciences', Associate Editor for 'Journal of Psycho-Social Studies'. Simon Thompson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and International Relations and Fellow of the Centre. His research interests include the politics of recognition, and the relationship between politics and the emotions. He is author of the Political Theory of Recognition (2006), co-editor – along with Simon Clarke and Paul Hoggett – of Emotions, Politics and Society (2006), and co-editor of Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues (2001). He has also published in a wide range of journals including Constellations, Contemporary Political Theory, Policy and Politics and Critical Social Policy. With Paul, he is currently running a series of seminars under the general title ‘Politics and Emotions’, which is funded by the Economics and Social Research Council, as well as the School of Humanities and Department of Politics, Philosophy and International Relations at UWE. Visiting Fellows:Christopher Scanlon is Consultant Psychotherapist, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM), Visiting Lecturer in Forensic Psychotherapy, St George’s University of London, Faculty member at the Institute of Group Analysis (London) and the Turvey Institute for Group Psychotherapy and Trustee of the Zito Trust – a major mental health Charity campaigning for improved services for mentally disordered offenders and their victims. Murray Stewart is Emeritus Professor attached to CPSS and to the Cities Research Centre. He is also the Chair of Trustees of the Bridge Foundation for Psychotherapy and the Arts. Adrian Tait studied Business and Sociology and worked for ten years as a fund raising consultant for charities. He subsequently trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the Guild of Psychotherapists and has been practising, both in the NHS and privately, for the past 23 years. His NHS experience has included teaching and supervising on the psychodynamic segment of the MRCPsych training in Exeter, and The University of Exeter's MSc in Psychological Therapies. Adrian was for many years a Trustee of Somerset Counselling Centre in Taunton and a Council member of Taunton Association for Psychodynamics where he played a leading role in organising numerous conferences. He has recently collaborated with The Centre for Psycho-Social Studies in staging the conference "the Psychological and Political Challenge of Facing Climate Change" and this has led to a proposal for a Visiting Fellowship, to develop CPSS's work on this subject Hen Wilkinson is an experienced mediator and director of Community Resolve. She set up Community Resolve, an innovative Bristol-based conflict transformation organisation that works with community tensions and youth conflict in Bristol and beyond. The organisation has a particular interest in how cultural values affect group and community conflict. Hen has been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies since 2006. In that role, she has run a series of free community development seminars drawing together practitioners and academics, and currently lectures in understanding community tensions on the MSc in Psycho-Social Studies. She has also been a guest lecturer at University of Bristol, Birkbeck College, London and University of Bath. Centre SecretaryGlynis Morrish was sent to the Centre by UWE’s Temporary Staff Unit in October 2006 and liked it so much she decided to stay. Glynis is the main point of contact for the Centre’s activities, events and publications. Call her for further information on any of these. Tel: +44 (0)117 32 81 311 E-mail: glynis.morrish@uwe.ac.uk |
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