Department of Psychosocial Studies
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About the BA Psychosocial Studies
Recent research has concluded that the anti-colonial psychiatrist and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon, was more influenced by the work of Jacques Lacan than had often been previously imagined. Building on this research, the current paper aims not only to consider further how Lacan’s work may have influenced Fanon (in sometimes less than obvious ways), but to propose that Fanon’s work anticipated a series of trends in the latter Lacan’s work
Information event for current and prospective applicants.
Three-year doctoral studentship fully-funded by a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Research Award
Birkbeck academics speaking at conference in Bournemouth
New studentship opportunity to take part in joint research between UCL and Birkbeck
Postdoctoral researchers from Commonwealth countries invited to visit under fellowship scheme
ESRC Scholarships in Psychosocial Studies, Sociology and Gender Studies
A new book by Birkbeck's Dr Bruna Seu provided material for a fascinating conversation between leading members of humanitarian and international development organisations about how the sector can more effectively gain support for their work and promote public engagement.
Prospective students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are now "far more likely" to be discouraged from applying to university because of a fear of debt than those with the same grades from wealthier backgrounds.
Department recruiting for lecturer and postdoctoral researcher
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Psychoanalysis at Birkbeck
Psychoanalysis is central to the interests of many members of the Department of Psychosocial Studies. See them and others discuss psychoanalysis at Birkbeck in Spaces of Psychoanalysis, directed by Bartek Dziadosz and produced by Lily Ford. Derek Jarman Lab, 2016.
