Psychosocial Studies
Innovative, Interdisciplinary, Critical
We offer courses at all levels
Whatever your reasons for studying - professional or personal - you're sure to find a course to suit you
Our students value the Birkbeck experience
Marcia: 'Evening study was really important for me as I've got two children. I could go out to study once my husband came home from work.'
Our staff are experts at supporting students
Our department comprises 13 full-time academic staff and 19 sessional lecturers, as well as a number of visiting staff.

New book edited by Sasha Roseneil and Stephen Frosh: "Social Research after the Cultural Turn"
"Social Research after the Cultural Turn" brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields - including gender and feminist studies, psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis, religious studies, history, development studies, law, critical race and post-colonial studies, and sociology.
Slavoj Zizek among other top academics teaching on MA programmes
New modules have been introduced for the academic year 2011-12 (subject to formal college approval).
Viviane Green speaking on BBC Radio 4
Viviane will be on Bringing Up Britain is BBC Radio 4's series, which debates how we're raising the next generation and it's presented by Mariella Frostrup.

Department of Psychosocial Studies

Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck is an exciting interdisciplinary venture that builds on the College's vibrant tradition of critical social science.

Our academic staff conduct research at the forefront of a number of distinctive research areas.

We are delighted that Professor Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley), is visiting professor on our MA Psychosocial Studies.

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Image: Lucy Orta, Nexus Architecture x 50 Intervention Koln, 2001 (Photo: JJ Crance)