Our staff

Staff categories

These are our Birkbeck staff categories within the Department of Psychosocial Studies.

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

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.
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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.

Professor Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley, USA.
Nicola Dahrendorf
Marcela Lopez Levy
Belinda Mandelbaum
Sharon Sliwinski, Western University, Canada.
Efrat Even-Tzur