Our staff
Staff categories
These are our Birkbeck staff categories within the Department of Psychosocial Studies.
Head of department
Academic staff
- Professor Lisa Baraitser, Professor in Psychosocial Studies
- Professor Claire Callender, Professor of Higher Education Policy
- Professor Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychology
- Dr Ben Gidley, Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies
- Viviane Green, Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies
- Dr Amber Jacobs, Reader in Psychosocial Studies
- Dr Sian Macfie, Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies and Psychodynamic Counselling
- Dr Brendan McGeever, Lecturer in the Sociology of Racialization and Antisemitism
- Dr Yasmeen Narayan, Lecturer in Postcolonial and Psychosocial Studies
- Dr Margarita Palacios, Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies
- Dr Silvia Posocco, Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies
- Professor Irene Bruna Seu, Professor in Psychosocial Studies
- Dr Annette-Carina van der Zaag, Lecturer in Sexuality and Social Theory
- Dr Kerry Harman, Programme Director for Education, Power and Social Change and Co-ordinator for SSHP Foundation Year
- Clea McEnery-West, Interim Director of Counselling
Teaching and Scholarship staff
- Alex Duffield
- Ana Minozzo
- Anna Fitzgerald
- Anne Attwood
- Ann Heyno
- Asuncion Lopez
- Dr Beverley Hayward
- Bridget Townsend
- Chantal de Rop-Rushton
- Clive Carswell
- Coralie Lasvergnas-Garcia
- Professor Derek Hook
- Dr Dominic Reilly
- Elizabeth Martindale
- Dr Francisco Calafate-Faria
- Gareth Drake
- Gina Campbell-Harris
- Dr Jan Etienne
- Jan McKenzie
- Jane Dudley
- Joyline Gozho
- Kate Jeffs
- Dr Keith Kahn-Harris
- Kim Spicer
- Lemonia Gianniri
- Lizaveta Zeldzina
- Dr Magda-Agata Schmukalla
- Dr Marita Vyrgioti
- Dr Michael Stack
- Nadine Chambers
- Natasha DeMeric
- Nicholas Oliver
- Nomazwe Hyde
- Rachel Gould
- Samia Premjee
- Sara von Sommaruga
- Sasha Bergstrom-Katz
- Sheelagh Lippell
- Siobain Degregorio
- Stephen Callus
- Dr Sue Dunn
Research Fellows
Emeritus staff
- Miriam Zukas, Professor Emerita of Adult Education
- Miriam Zukas was the first Executive Dean of SSHP from 2009 to 2016, and Birkbeck's Public Engagement Champion between 2016 and 2018. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2008 and a Fellowship of Birkbeck in November, 2016. Miriam's research interests include academics and academic work and learning, professional workplace pedagogies, doctors' learning in transition, professional learning in transitions, and adult higher education.
- Email Miriam Zukas
- Visit Miriam Zukas' website
- Dr Gail Lewis, Reader Emerita of Psychosocial Studies
- Gail Lewis joined the Department in 2013 and was Assistant Dean between 2015 and 2017. She is a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Gender Department at LSE and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Essex/Tavistock and Portman Clinic. Her research interests focus on three areas: the history and character of black feminism in Britain; how modes of colonial thought are entangled in contemporary practices of citizenship and social welfare in ways that mark the latter as postcolonial; and the ways in which processes of racialisation and gender formation shape or impact the dynamics of social interaction in everyday practice.
- Lynne Segal
- Avtar Brah
Visiting and affiliated academics
- Professor Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley, USA.
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Nicola Dahrendorf
- Marcela Lopez Levy
- Belinda Mandelbaum
- Sharon Sliwinski, Western University, Canada.
- Efrat Even-Tzur
Professional and support staff: Administrative
- Kevin Smith, Assistant School Manager, 26 Russell Square
- Siân Green, Senior Team Leader, 26 Russell Square
- Paula Fortune, Team Leader, Room G06, 30 Russell Square, tel: 020 3926 1728
- Denise Alcantara, Administrator, Room G04, 30 Russell Square, tel: 020 3926 1810, responsible for:
- MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (October start)
- MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (January start)
- MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
- Counselling Short Courses
- Erin Cunningham, Administrator, tel: 020 3926 1803, responsible for:
- Foundation Year, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy
- Fatima Hanif, Administrator and Senior Administrator, G04, 30 Russell Square, tel: 020 3926 1850, responsible for:
- Cert HE Psychodynamic Counselling
- Cert HE Psychodynamic Counselling and Skills in a Psychosocial Framework
- Counselling Short Courses
- Teaching & Scholarship staff non-teaching expenses
- Chan Muu, Administrator, 201a, 30 Russell Square, tel: 020 3926 1814, responsible for:
- BA Psychosocial Studies (full-time)
- BA Psychosocial Studies (part-time)
- BA Psychosocial Studies and Principles of Psychodynamic Counselling (full-time)
- BA Psychosocial Studies and Principles of Psychodynamic Counselling (part-time)
- Graduate Certificate in Psychosocial Studies
- BA Psychosocial Studies with Foundation Year
- Helen Rumble, Administrator, 201a, 30 Russell Square, tel: 020 3926 1822, responsible for:
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate Admissions
- Graduate Certificate in Psychodynamic Practice
- BA Psychosocial Studies with Foundation Year
- MPhil/PhD Psychosocial Studies
- Ethics Committee
- Emma Yick, Administrator, 201a, 30 Russell Square, tel: 020 3926 1708, responsible for:
- MA Psychosocial Studies
- MA Psychoanalytic Studies
- MA Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity
- Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (PG Certificate)
- Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (PG Diploma)
- MSc Education, Power and Social Change
- Education, Power and Social Change (PG Certificate)
- Education, Power and Social Change (PG Diploma)
- MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development
- Psychodynamics of Human Development (PG Diploma)
- MPhil/PhD Psychosocial Studies
- For general enquiries, please email our shared inbox or call us on 020 3073 8045.