Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Our research students
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
Rachel Bown
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Maria Connolly
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Karla Elizondo De La Garza
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Anna Hartigan
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Tanya Hend
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about:
My reaserch thesis
Mona (Zahra) Jamshidi Nasab
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Objects Relations Theory, Immigration, Cultural Objects, Group Dynamic and Analysis Research interests:
Development of psychoanlytic perspective in different social context
Yuchen Li
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Lacanian psychoanalysis; Post-Lacanian psychoanalysis; Poststructuralist feminism; Schizoanalysis; Feminist-new materialism; Capitalism
Clara Moreton
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Harriet Mossop
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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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
Julianna Pusztai
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Intersubjectivity, Mutuality, Objects Relations Theory, Cultural Objects, Activism and Psychoanalysis Research interests:
Radical Psychoanalytic Praxis
Nicolae Radulescu
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Denise Tilson
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about:
Counselling offenders in the community using the mobile phone
Reshma Vinayan Subha
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Literature, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Hauntology, Derrida, Subalternity, Spivak Research interests:
Literature and Psychoanalysis- Interdisciplinarity
Research students
Suzanne Adebari
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Reginald Ajuonuma
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests:
Analytical Psychology; Phenomenology; Narrative Theory
Anne-Marie Allen
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Nina Alleyne-Stewart
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
Mihoko Arayama
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about:
Psychodynamic psychotherapy/counselling with children and adolescent. School counselling. Triangular Space.
Apostolos Georgios Fournaris, Associate Lecturer
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,
Antje Barber
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Danielle Berry
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Rachel Bown
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Angela Bridge
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
Michelle Brown
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ron Bushyager
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests:
Wilfred Bion; Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Hannah Segal, Andre Green, Christopher Bollas, Thomas Ogden, Annie Reiner, Michael Eigen, Hanni Biran
Barbara Cerminara
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Tsitsi Chijioke
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Siobhain Clancy
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Irish Cultural Identity
Maria Connolly
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Fiona Corrigan
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Shyronie Davis
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
Yunlan Fang
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Cassie Fielding
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests:
Alchemical Practice; Jungian Psychology; Arts-Based Research; Phenomenology ; Synchronicity; Surrealism (particularly surrealist poetry)
Susie Fowler-Watt
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Psychodynamic Counselling Research interests:
Psychodynamic Counselling with school staff
Yao Ge
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Diana Gerson
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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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
Paul Gledhill
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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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
William Gomes
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Exploration of Culture, Race, and Racism Research interests:
Psychoanalysis and critical theory; Philosophy of Culture, Race, and Racism
Mana Goodarzi
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Jo-Anne Graham
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Menopause; The psychological impact and treatment
Jinghui Guo
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Fiona Hannah
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Freud and his dogs, working psychodynamically with children/ adolescents and using dogs as part of the therapeutic process.,
Ann Hardy
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Neurodiversity in couples
Faith 'Fey' Harkey
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Writers & Writing; Gifted & Talented; Normative Multiplicity; Imaginal Ethics Research interests:
Normative Multiplicity; Gifted and Talented Adults -- Authorship; Writers’ Notebooks
Tanya Hend
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about:
My reaserch thesis
Vasili Hillhouse
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Andrew Howe
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Sulagna Sengupta https://jung-india.org
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
Facundo Illobre
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Mona (Zahra) Jamshidi Nasab
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Objects Relations Theory, Immigration, Cultural Objects, Group Dynamic and Analysis Research interests:
Development of psychoanlytic perspective in different social context
Christina Johnson
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about:
Psychoanalytic formulations of internalised misogyny
Krisztian Kalasz
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
Yianna Kefala
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Psychoanalysis; Bion field theory, post Bionian thinking; Platonic and Neoplatonic thinking Research interests:
Psychoanalysis,Analytic Third, Aesthetics
Serena Kelly
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Sofia Korachai
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
Nurdan Kozan Caki
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about:
Object relations theory, narcissism, relating
Krishika Krishnathasan
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Jo Levy
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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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
Yuchen Li
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about:
Lacanian psychoanalysis; Post-Lacanian psychoanalysis; Poststructuralist feminism; Schizoanalysis; Feminist-new materialism; Capitalism
Rachel Mallen
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Dusanka Dee Marsenic
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Voice and the Therapeutic Space: A study of how voice intonation, melody and prosody are experienced in the therapeutic dyad
Dawn Mathew
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Fiona Melvin
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Elisha Mirza
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Matthew Morgan-Jones
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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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
Harriet Mossop
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
Rohan Naidoo
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Naoko Nakamura
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Alessia Newman
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Object Relations Theory; Physical Disability; Oncology and End of Life Care; Suicidal Ideation
Shireen Noor-Stothart
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Chinelo Nwosu
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Psychotherapist, Multidisciplinary researcher and practitioner advancing psychosocial rehabilitation, human rights, and digital protection for vulnerable populations.
Hawah Omideyi
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ayse Ozalkus Sahin
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Wilmer Peres Neto
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Carrie Pollard
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Julianna Pusztai
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Intersubjectivity, Mutuality, Objects Relations Theory, Cultural Objects, Activism and Psychoanalysis Research interests:
Radical Psychoanalytic Praxis
Kathrine Quiller
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about:
Analytical Psychology, Jungian Analysis and Dramatherapy
Lesley Redfearn
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Lyuzhou Ren
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Christine Rogers
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Stephen Rudder
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Donna Rumsey
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Childhood sexual abuse ; Object relations - early developmental functioning; Gender; Severe and enduring mental health challenges; PTSD and related trauma
Rodrigo Sanchez Sanchez Escandon
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Marzia Santori
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Julian Schuller
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Psychoanalytic informed research of management and oganisations Research interests:
Psychoanalytic perspectives on organisational dynamics; Leadership development-psychodynamic perspectives; Psychodynamic role and (professional) identity theory
Kathleen Scott
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Sulagna Sengupta
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
Rinat Shemesh
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Yoona Sorn
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Gabriela Spulirova
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Creativity and Individuation Research interests:
Distributed creativity; Individuation; C. G. Jung and G. Simondon; Social Psychology and post-Jungian studies
Smiti Srivastava
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Styliani Stathi
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Beau Steele
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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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
Dara Stoianovici
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Lucy Taylor
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ana Tchigvaria
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Denise Tilson
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Counselling offenders in the community using the mobile phone
Oyku Turker
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Siyat Ulon
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Reshma Vinayan Subha
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Literature, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Hauntology, Derrida, Subalternity, Spivak Research interests:
Literature and Psychoanalysis- Interdisciplinarity
Miriam Vince
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Psychosis; Delusion; Paranoia; Psychodynamic intervention with Psychotic patients; Mental illness Research interests:
Psychodynamic intervention with Psychotic patients
Konstantinos Vlachakis
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Cheryl Walters
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Research interests:
Procrastination
Maria Watson-Clark
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Jonathan Wilkes
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Catriona Wrottesley
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
Ye Xu
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Chi-Yan Yeung
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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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
Jingchao Zeng
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
Sheida Zokaeieh
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Contact us
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Telephone:
01206 873640
Email:
pps@essex.ac.uk
