Psychosocial Studies & Sociology
Pathway Leader:
Margarita Aaron m.aragon@bbk.ac.uk
Team members:
Ben Gidley b.gidley@bbk.ac.uk
Scott Rodgers s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk
Silvia Posocco s.posocco@bbk.ac.uk
Rebecca Whiting r.whiting@bbk.ac.uk
Prospective candidates can contact the pathway leader or team members for further information.
Training Routes
See table below for training routes and institutions available for this pathway.
ESRC studentships at the UBEL DTP are structured around the following routes: 1+3, +3, 2+3 and +4 funding. Please note that not all routes are available in all institutions or pathways. Click here for further information on funding routes.
Pathway | Institution | Training Route | (1+3) | (2+3) | (+3) |
Psychosocial Studies & Sociology | Birkbeck | Psychosocial Studies | x |
| x |
Psychosocial Studies & Sociology | Birkbeck | Social Research | x |
| x |
Psychosocial Studies & Sociology | Birkbeck | Sociological approaches to people, work and organisations | x |
| x |
Psychosocial Studies & Sociology | UEL | Refugee Studies | x |
| x |
Psychosocial Studies & Sociology | UEL | Film, Media and Cultual Studies | x |
| x |
The pathway covers two institutions, including one pocket of excellence at UEL. Birkbeck staff are from six disciplines and UEL staff are from the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging.
It is highly interdisciplinary, covering psychology, race and ethnicity, sociology, anthropology, gender and sexuality, and ethnography, linking with many UBEL groups and pathways, contributing to the ESRC priority in Improving health, wellbeing and social care.
Research foci are psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the impact of racialised inequality and cultures of care. Strong links to training institutions in London (eg the Freud Museum, British Psychotherapy Foundation, Institute of Group Analysis, British Psychoanalytic Society/Institute of Psychoanalysis,) provide clinical and historical resources.
