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Professor of Cultural and Gender Studies, recently took "voluntary" redundancy, now retraining as a psychodynamic psychotherapist.

I use insights from STS, psychoanalysis, and affect theory to understand how emotions shape relationships between science, technology, and society. I am particularly interested in emerging technologies such as neural interfaces, digital touch, and AI. My research seeks to understand the affective dimension of a range of technopolitical issues such...

I'm a Mres Visual Culture student in Goldsmiths, University of London. I study domestic space and production of familial subjectivity between Deleuzian philosophy, institutional psychotherapy and non-representational theory.

Ahammed Fazariya is a mental health professional and researcher with a Master’s in Applied Psychology (Clinical and Counselling Practice) from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and a Bachelor's in Psychology from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. His work is rooted in rights-based, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive practices that foreground...

A commitment to understanding human development and behaviour threads through my teaching and research. My professional journey began with training and volunteering at Youthline and working for the Intellectually Handicapped Children's Society (IHC). These experiences led me into counselling young adults, case-managing at-risk tertiary students, managing and mentoring professional staff,...

I am a PhD Scholar (GCAS College, Dublin) working on the themes of silence, to explore meanings beyond creative and destructive ways to engage within silence. I am a Practicing Psychotherapist and my academic journey extends to MA Psychoanalytic Studies (Birkbeck, University of London), MA Psycho-social Clinical Studies and BA...

I am a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Organisational Analyst by training.

I am a psychoanalytic candidate and poet.

Evan Sedgwick-Jell is a Marxist cultural theorist, sociologist and psychosocial scholar. Their work examines movements challenging capitalism, and their articulations of psyche, mental health, and the social oragnisation of mental healthcare a means of questioning its dominance.

My name is Arju Kumar; I am a PhD scholar at Jawaharlal University, New Delhi. My research is socio-psychological work using the ethnographic method; I am trying to understand the various forms of violence that manifest themselves in the Urban Poor neighbourhood, also known as Slums or JHUGGI, in Delhi....

BSc Psychology, MA Psychosocial Studies (both from Birkbeck, University of London), currently: PhD student in IDSR (Interdisciplinary Social Research), Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada.

Bita Riazati is a Lacanian psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and supervisor in private practice in Melbourne. She is a member of the Colorado Analytic Forum (Connected to the School of the Lacanian Field IF-EPFCL) and Lacan UK. Currently, she is working on the Tehran Lacan Psychoanalytic Project, a group dedicated to...

Currently studying PGdip counselling and psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh and have received and email about the conference. I have been feeling more and more concerned by the topics within the email and would love to join the conference. I am unsure if I can attend in person.

Tanya is an HCPC registered and BPS Chartered Counselling Psychologist. She is also an Associate Fellow of the BPS, an Executive Committee member of the Division of Counselling Psychology and a BPS Senior Practitioner Specialising in Psychotherapy. Tanya has had 13 years of clinical and managerial experience at the Priory...

I am a MA Cultural and Critical Theory student at the University of Leeds, and am particularly interested in psychoanalytically-informed approaches to social change.

I teach theory at the School of Humanities at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. I publish on psychoanalysis and coloniality as well as capitalism and modernization in Malaysia / the Malay world.

I am a social theorist working within the field of International Relations

I am a 3rd year mental health nursing student with an interest in the history of mental illness and its role in society, in particular the meaning of “hysteria” and the concept of personality disorder. I have also completed degrees in philosophy in which my focus was on the ontology...

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I am an experienced psychodynamic psychotherapist with a background in culture, arts and economics. I worked as an Associate Psychotherapist with young people and students at a university. I am currently a Professional Doctorate research candidate at the University of Essex. I hold a postgraduate degree in: - Psychodynamic Psychotherapy...

I started my PhD in October 2023 at the University of Essex, and my research project is "A psychoanalytic perspective on the role of cultural objects in Iranian immigrants’ integration." Understanding the process of immigration from a psychoanalytic perspective could anchor me in the unknown world of a new country....

Final year PhD student at the University of Essex.

Group Analyst and organisational consultant

I am Nikita Jain, and I work as an assistant professor of psychology at Christ University Delhi NCR Campus, India. I am trained in 'The Vygotskian Tradition', and I work in the area of Educational Psychology. I look at how the ontogenetic history of teachers' lived world lays materiality for...

I’m a psychotherapist that works mainly in private practice, but also works with the ex homeless, those afflicted with addiction and black men in forensic psychiatric hospital.

Iris Aleida Pinzón Arteaga is a psychologist, social researcher, and Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at University of Albany, New York. She’s a member of the interdisciplinary research group ‘Violence, Language, and Cultural Studies’ of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga (Colombia). Her research involves the deployment of psychoanalytic concepts and critical...

Dr Thi Gammon is a Research Associate with King’s College London’s Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries. She has a PhD in Media Studies from the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and a master’s degree in Global Media from the University of Westminster. Prior to her academic career,...

Callum Blades MA, BA (hons) is an interdisciplinary lecturer and PhD researcher at Bournemouth University with a background in psychosocial studies, psychodynamics and psychoanalysis, applying to political culture, conspiracy theories and contemporary society. He works with scholars, academics, counsellors and political theorists in order to contribute further knowledge of psychosocial...

I am currently a PhD candidate in Psychology interested in exploring how young children (ages 6 - 9 years old) construct their 'racial' identity within a specific educational context in South Africa. I am using a psychosocial framework and particularly interested in narrative/discursive methods alongside psychoanalytic understanding (contemporary attachment theory)...

I am Professor of Health Humanities and Psychosocial Studies at the University of Stavanger in Norway. I have a humanities background and hold a PhD in Cultural Studies (University of Leeds, 2006). In broad terms, my research is characterized by interdisciplinary engagement across the humanities, social sciences, health sciences and...

COSCA qualified relational psychodynamic psychotherapist and qualitative researcher at the University of Edinburgh.

Currently a retired social worker but busy involved in writing 2 manuscripts on race and racism issues with hope of publishing the books in the near future.