Our staff
Staff categories
These are our Birkbeck staff categories within the Department of Psychosocial Studies.
Head of department
Academic staff
- Dr Margarita Aragon, Lecturer in Sociology
- Professor Lisa Baraitser, Professor in Psychosocial Studies
- Professor Claire Callender, Professor of Higher Education Policy
- Professor Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychology
- Dr Ben Gidley, Reader in Psychosocial Studies
- Dr Amber Jacobs, Reader in Psychosocial Studies
- Dr Sian Macfie, Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies and Psychodynamic Counselling
- Dr Brendan McGeever, Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Racialization and Antisemitism
- Dr Yasmeen Narayan, Lecturer in Postcolonial and Psychosocial Studies
- Dr Margarita Palacios, Reader in Social Theory and Psychosocial Studies
- Dr Silvia Posocco, Reader in Social Anthropology
- Dr Ian Sanjay Patel, Assistant Professor
- Professor Irene Bruna Seu, Professor in Psychosocial Studies
- Dr Kerry Harman, Programme Director for Education, Power and Social Change and Co-ordinator for SSHP Foundation Year
- Dr Clea McEnery-West, Director of Counselling
Academic Teaching and Scholarship staff
- Ana Minozzo
- Dr Beverley Hayward
- Professor Derek Hook
- Dr Francisco Calafate-Faria
- Dr Jan Etienne
- Dr Keith Kahn-Harris
- Lemonia Gianniri
- Lizaveta van Munsteren
- Dr Magda-Agata Schmukalla
- Dr Marita Vyrgioti
- Dr Michael Stack
- Sasha Bergstrom-Katz
- Dr Sue Dunn
Counselling Lecturers
Counselling Teaching and Scholarship Staff
- Adi Berson
- Ana Wellbrook
- Anna Fitzgerald
- Anne Attwood
- Ann Heyno
- Asuncion Lopez
- Beatriz Curtis
- Chantal de Rop-Rushton
- Clive Carswell
- Elizabeth Martindale
- Esther Ramsay-Jones
- Jane Dudley
- Joyline Gozho
- Kate Jeffs
- Kim Spicer
- Lizaveta van Munsteren
- Nev Pecotic
- Nicky Wasserman
- Rachel Gould
- Sara von Sommaruga
- Siobain Degregorio
- Stephen Callus
- Valeria Fleury
- Vinesh Bhimjiyani
- Yianna Kefala
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.
- Visit Miriam Zukas' website
- Email Miriam Zukas
- 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
- Lynne Segal was appointed Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, in 1999. She worked there for the next 21 years, ending up in the Department of Psychosocial Studies. While there she taught mainly in the area of gender, sexuality and ageing, although her work encompasses the broad sweep of cultural, political and social issues embraced by her commitments to feminism and left politics, arguing for a more peaceful, compassionate and egalitarian world. She helped establish and remains attached to the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BIGS), as well as being an Honorary Professor at City, University of London, and active member of The Gender and Sexualities Research Centre there. She has published widely, including Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men; Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure; Why Feminism? Gender; Psychology & Politics; Making Trouble: Life & Politics; Out of Time: The Pleasures & Perils of Ageing; Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy. She recently co-wrote The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (2020) and is currently writing Lean on Me: Disavowals of Dependency. She speaks regularly at conferences in the UK, Europe and beyond, as well as appearing in podcasts and media outlets globally, especially addressing issues of feminism, ageing, care, and an end to conflict in Israel/Palestine.
- Email Lynne Segal
- Professor Avtar Brah: Professor Avtar Brah's Birkbeck Fellows page
Fellow of Birkbeck
- Professor Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley, USA.
Visiting and affiliated academics
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Nicola Dahrendorf
- Marcela Lopez Levy
- Belinda Mandelbaum
- Sharon Sliwinski, Western University, Canada
- Efrat Even-Tzur
- Abeer Otman
- Dr Gianmaria Colpani, Assitant Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University
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 G31, 26 Russell Square, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1728
- Denise Alcantara, Administrator, Room G31, 26 Russell Square, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1900, responsible for:
- Erin Cunningham, Administrator, Room G31, 26 Russell Square, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1500, responsible for:
- Foundation Year, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy
- Hurmine Dormer-Dobson, Administrator, Room G31, 26 Russell Square, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1900, responsible for:
- Graduate Certificate in Psychodynamic Practice
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate Admissions for counselling programmes
- MSc Education, Power and Social Change
- Education, Power and Social Change (PG Certificate)
- Education, Power and Social Change (PG Diploma)
- MPhil/PhD Psychosocial Studies
- MPhil/PhD Sociology
- MPhil/PhD Gender and Sexuality
- MPhil/PhD Education/Lifelong Learning
- Fatima Hanif, Administrator and Senior Administrator, G31, 26 Russell Square, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1900, responsible for:
- Cert HE Psychodynamic Counselling
- Counselling Short Courses
- MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development
- Psychodynamics of Human Development (PG Diploma)
- Teaching & Scholarship staff non-teaching expenses
- Chan Muu, Administrator, G31, 26 Russell Square, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1500, 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
- MA Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity
- Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (PG Certificate)
- Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (PG Diploma)
- Helen Rumble, Administrator, G31, 26 Russell Square, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1500, responsible for:
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate Admissions for academic programmes
- BSc Social Sciences (full-time)
- BSc Social Sciences (part-time)
- BSc Social Sciences with Foundation Year (full-time)
- BSc Social Sciences with Foundation Year (part-time)
- MA Psychosocial Studies
- MA Psychoanalytic Studies
- Ethics Committee
- For general enquiries about our academic courses, please email our shared inbox or call us on +44 (0)20 3926 1500. For queries relating to Counselling and Psychotherapy programmes, email the Birkbeck Counselling Centre Team or call +44 (0)20 3926 1900.