Our members

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

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 and Criminology

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; Interoception and Exercise in Adolescent Girls; Mind Body Exercise and Community Non-Communicable Disease Prevention; Arthritis and Interoception; Interoception and Anxiety; Trauma Research; Meta-Anaysis of fMRI in Psychiatric Disorders; Interoception and Sexual Functioning

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 Psychology

Research interests: body representations; interoception; hunger and satiety; multisensory development

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Hyperscanning; Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience; Attachment; Bio-Behavioural and Interpersonal Neural Synchrony; Caregiving; Epigenetics; (Functional) Magnetic Resonance Imaging - (f)MRI

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

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

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

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

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

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

Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

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

Tutor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: Perinatal psychology;; forensic psychotherapy with victims and perpetrators;; institutional dynamics;; psycho-social aspects of child abuse;; the application of therapeutic models in professional work with children and adolescents.

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)

Reader, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Additional or second language (L2) learning across the lifespan; Explicit and implicit knowledge and processes in L2 learning; Cognitive individual differences in L2 learning: language learning aptitude, working memory, cognitive style

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: The role of interaction in the processes of second language learning; Second language (L2) learning from a Sociocultural theory perspective; Feedback and scaffolding; Collaborative activity and second language learning; Instructed SLA; CALL in particular the impact of the computer in the L2 classroom and the potential of Virtual World Environments for L2 learning; Applications of Cognitive Linguistics to L2 learning and teaching

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Conversation Analysis with particular interests in; Grammar & Interaction; Territories of Knowledge; Reported Speech; Laughter in interaction; Embodiment in interaction; Indirect language

Professor, School of Health and Social Care

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

Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care

Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care

Research interests: Mental health; Qualitative research methods; Education; Phenomenology; Enactivist approaches

Professor, School of Health and Social Care

Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care

Research interests: Psychobiological pathways from childhood adversity to severe mental illnesses; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care

Research interests: Community Psychology; Mad Studies; Trauma based approaches to mental health care; Evaluation of Social Care interventions; Parent Infant Mental Health; Impact of child abuse on adult functioning and engagement with public services

Deputy Director of IPHW and Professor (R), School of Health and Social Care

Research interests: Therapy outcomes and effectiveness; Social care, fostering and adoption; Chronic depression: long term psychotherapy, management in primary care, informal caring; Psychiatric labelling; Social history and history of health and care; Mental health inequalities

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)

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Postgraduate Research Student, Institute for Social and Economic Research

Senior Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics

Research interests: Life-cycle consumption, saving and labour supply; Earnings/Income dynamics; Inequality: Supply and demand of workplace skills; Inequality: Belief heterogeneity and information acquisition; Household formation over the lifecycle; Inequality: The role of housing

Policy & Partnerships Manager, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Constitutional & Administrative Law; Comparative Public Law; Psychoanalysis and Law; Human Rights, esp Freedom of Expression, Hate Speech and Religion; LGTB+ rights, in particular legal recognition of same-sex relationships and marriage equality; Comparative Judicial Branch Studies; Media, Communications and Top Courts; Law and Politics; European Law, esp judicial branch issues

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice; Gender and Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice History

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Public Health Law; Consumer Protection; Food, Nutrition and Alcohol Labelling; Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention; Health Inequalities; Human Rights; Food, Tobacco, Alcohol, Physical Activity, Air Pollution

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Appearance Discrimination; Child Influencer Labour

Lecturer, Essex Law School

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)

Senior Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences

Research interests: Interoception and Exercise in Adolescent Girls; Mind Body Exercise and Community Non-Communicable Disease Prevention

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

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Social Justice; Working Time Regulation; Free Time; Gendered Division of Labour; Inequality

Reader (R), EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management