PhD Psychosocial Studies

University of Essex

We offer research supervision in the following fields: trauma, memory and the unconscious fantasies of the social, myths of the nation race and racism geopsychoanalysis and postcolonial theory agency, affect, emotion generationality, age, and childhood sexuality, normativity, and queer theory group and institutional dynamics art, aesthetics, image, and creativity collectivity, protest, and political ideology subjectivity, intimacy, and personal life history of psychoanalysis and Jungian analysis critical psychosocial theory mental health and well-being death, mourning, melancholia psychosocial methodology psychosocial theories and conceptual analysis refugee studies See our research page for more details of our dynamic and active research culture, including our current research theme of image, fantasy and memory Our graduates go on to a number of different destinations, including further study and training, or further academic research work. Many of our students are already professionals so return to their existing fields with deeper understanding of their work, increasing their potential for promotion and leadership in their existing or new roles.