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Narrative, Discursive and Psychosocial Research

Course details

University Name
The Open University
Department
Department of Psychology
Course Title
Narrative, Discursive and Psychosocial Research
Qualification, duration, mode
PhD 36FT 72PT variableDL*MPhil 15FT 24PT variableDL
Months of entry
October
Entry requirements
PhD: The normal minimum entrance requirement is an upper second class honours degree or master's degree, relevant to the proposed area of study, from a recognised higher education institution in the UK. You should also have experience of academic research in the previous four years, normally in the form of either a master's degree in research methods, an undergraduate degree with a research element in the final year, or work-related experience with evidence through research reports. If you're not sure if you meet the entry requirements, please contact us (research-degrees-team@open.ac.uk).
MPhil: see http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/ for more information.
Funding
Please see The Open University website http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/ for more information.
Course description
The Department of Psychology's work in this area has a distinguished history and the department has a world-class reputation for its contribution to the development of these psychological approaches. This research ranges from normative sexualities, health and illness, masculinities, femininities, and the discursive construction of identities; to alternative structures of intimate life in diverse situated contexts. A principal interest concerns theoretical and methodological innovation in psychosocial approaches and the psychodynamics of organisation and group processes. Other significant areas of work in this area address questions of ethnicity, racism and nationalism and migration and citizenship. There is a strong track record of externally funded research and active links with colleagues across the Faculty of Social Sciences and the flagship Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) and the Psychosocial Research Programme within CCIG offers an institutional context for collaborative research activity and support.

Potential research projects

- Discursive construction of selves, subjectivities, experience, mothering, nation.
- Narratives of relationships, normative and/or non-normative sexualities.
- Embodied and/or lived experience.
- History and memory.
- Femininities, masculinities, gendered experiences of racialised subjectivity.
- Discourses of health and illness.
- Identity work in the creative industries.
- Media representations of children and parenting.
- Theoretical and/or methodological developments in social psychology.
- Discursive, phenomenological or psychoanalytic approaches to self, experience and embodiment.
- Dialogical Self, Dialogical analysis; dialogues of mobility in public sphere.
- Life course transitions and intimacy; alternative structures for intimacy.
- Psychodynamics of organisational and group process.
- Social psychology, history and memory.
Contact name
Mrs Lynda Hammond
Telephone
+44 (0)1908 654515
Email
psych-res-apps@open.ac.uk
Web
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/

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