Current research projects

We have a lively programme of externally-funded research projects underway and recently completed, supported by the ESRC, the AHRC, the European Union, the Leverhulme Trust, the Exilarch Foundation, the Nuffield Foundation, the British Academy, the Independent Social Research Foundation, Research Council of Norway, and a number of government departments and non-governmental organisations.

Mirror, mirror on the wall: who's the most powerful of all? Professors Lynne Segal and Stephen Frosh are project partners on a new 1.2 million Euro funded project led by Professor Agnes Bolso, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Read more

Imagine: connecting communities through research Imagine is organised into four ‘work packages’ on the social, historical, cultural and democratic context of civic engagement. Each package involves a network of academics and community partners exploring our research questions. Read more

Transnational Network for Sexuality, Race and Religion Researchers and Civil Society Actors. 'This transnational initiative brings together scholars, activists and civil society practitioners working on the diverse ways in which sexuality can converge with religious and racial identities to produce multiple exclusions, socio-economic disadvantage, and political marginalisation.' Read more

Tejas Verdes ‘I was not there’: An Aesthetic Intervention and a Meditation on Absence Dr Margarita Palacios, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial Studies has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to fund her study "Tejas Verdes”: “An aesthetic intervention and a meditation on absence".

Psychosocial components of ethical monotheism This four-year research project explores the social, political and cultural realities of the major monotheistic faiths in the UK, related to social and ethical values.

Mediated humanitarian knowledge, audiences' responses and moral actions This project on public responses to humanitarian communications was launched by Dr Bruna Seu and colleagues, Dr Shani Orgad and Professor Stan Cohen (LSE) in 2010. They have recently been joined by their new research assistant , Dr Rachel Cohen (based at Birkbeck).

Synchronic Entanglements and New Social Imaginaries: Anti-War Activism in Brazil and the United Kingdom in the Twenty-First Century Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship, held by Dr Raluca Soreanu, under the mentorship of Professor Stephen Frosh (January 2013 – December 2015, Marie Curie Actions, FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IOF, project number 301787).

New ways of involving student mothers in higher education The study aims to inform broader policy debates about part-time HE provision targeted at parents.

Time Without Qualities Lisa Baraitser, Reader in Psychosocial Studies was awarded an Independent Social Research Foundation Fellowship (2014-15) for a project looking at philosophical, aesthetic and social accounts of the relationship between time and care.

Waiting Times Lisa Baraitser (Professor of Psychosocial Theory, Birkbeck, University of London), and Laura Salisbury (Professor in Medicine and English Literature, University of Exeter) are holders of a Collaborative Award from the Wellcome Trust (£1.2 million) for a 5-year research project that investigates contemporary experiences of time in relation to health care contexts including mental health treatment, the GP encounter, and end of life care.

“Balint Groups” and the Patient-Doctor Relationship: The Social History of a Psychoanalytic Contribution to the Medical Sciences Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Medical Humanities, held by Dr Raluca Soreanu (February 2016 – March 2019).