Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)
9-10 June 2025
St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK
Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 19th Apr 2025, 03:52:11pm BST
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Session Overview |
| Date: Monday, 09/June/2025 | ||||
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Art Installation: Open throughout the conference Location: D121 Individual Paper Developing a Decolonial Eye: Paying Attention to the Silence(d) |
Registration and coffee Location: D121 |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Opening plenary Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: Jacob Johanssen Working session Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break 1 Location: D121 |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Cultural Objects as Transitional: Navigating Hope and Despair Location: G2 Chair: Thi Gammon Chair: Kartika Ladwal Working session Cultural Objects as Transitional: Navigating Hope and Despair |
Oppression and Gender Location: F5 Chair: Candida Yates Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Individual Paper Crisis and Opportunity: The role of Theatre of the Oppressed in reimagining Gender Individual Paper Trapped Voices of Iranian Women and the Ongoing Struggle to Unleash Them Individual Paper The Melancholic Female Body: The Inner Struggle of Objectification in Women Individual Paper Age Against The Machine: Abject Revelation of the Feminine Midlife Crises in The Substance and Babygirl |
Reflective Space 1 Location: F4 Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the... |
Symbolization and Meaning-Making Location: Senior Common Room Chair: Rhea Gandhi Chair: Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu Individual Paper Intimate Revolutions: The Relationship Between Spatial Form and Personal Change in the COVID-19 Pandemic Individual Paper Crisis and Opportunity: The Death Drive Reformulated Through Aulagnier’s Primal Layer of Experience Individual Paper The Unknown Individual Paper “not really now not anymore”: Holding a Broken World Together, a Psychosocial Reading of Alan Garner at 90 |
| The Divination Palace Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Working session The Divination Palace: The role of chance in daily life and ritual |
Trauma Location: F6 Chair: David Jones Chair: Melanie Gomes Individual Paper Fostering Resilience After Trauma: Interventions for Survivors of Child Labour Trafficking In India Individual Paper The Global Opioid Crisis - Psychosomalgia, Addiction & Relief in Ordinary life Individual Paper Decolonized Trauma, Grief, Hope: Reflections OF A Frontline Practitioner Individual Paper Mental Health as a Human Right: The Role of Practitioners in Times of Crisis |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: DV Lounge |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Immigration / Emigration Location: G1 Chair: Jim Parris Chair: Nahiyan Rashid Individual Paper It is Téhéran NOT Tehran! Individual Paper Confronting Colonial Wounds: Exploring Intergenerational and Familial Crisis During the 2024 Anti-Immigrant Protests Individual Paper Borders and Refugees Individual Paper The Architecture of Illusions: The Shadow Play of Power Mechanics and the Legacy of Control in descendants of the National Socialist Party of the Third Reich. |
Pathways of Despair and Hope: Pathways of Despair and Hope: Religious Belief, Identity And Crisis Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: Peter Harris Chair: Melanie Gomes Symposium Religious Belief, Identity And Crisis: Pathways Between Despair and Hope Presentations of the Symposium Home Alone: Neglect, Guilt And Religious Transformation Religious Fundamentalism, Identity And Violence: A Case Study Conceptualising The Lived Experience of Spirituality In Twelve Step Programmes |
Queer Studies Location: G2 Chair: Rhea Gandhi Chair: Ruth Toba Llewellyn Individual Paper “We’re Just Friends”: An Autoethnographic Inquiry Of Queer Love, Kinship And Communities Individual Paper Slave Play In The Psychoanalytic Clinic: A Self-theorisation Of Overwhelming Experiences Of Queer, Racialised Erotic Transference Individual Paper Rethinking Queer Identity Development Through Social Interaction Individual Paper Why is it so Hard to Talk About Same-sex Experience? -– Exploring Veiled Silence in a Research Relationship Through Reflexive and Autoethnographic Lens |
Reflective Space 2 Location: F4 Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the... |
| The Dream Society Location: G3 Chair: Yingjie Ouyang Working session The Dream Society: Collaboratively writing as a space for possibilities. |
The Relational Chatbot Location: Senior Common Room Chair: Lynn Patricia Froggett Chair: Javeria Anwar Working session The Relational Chatbot: Advisor, Companion Or Therapist? |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Coffee break 2 Location: D121 |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Collectives and Objects Location: G1 Chair: Lita Crociani-Windland Chair: Melanie Gomes Individual Paper Culture as the Bad Object: A Clinical Illustration Individual Paper Acting on Emotion(s)? Motivating the Public to Respond to Policy Calls for Change Amidst the UK’s Health and Social Care Crisis Individual Paper Bullying and Dynamics of Exclusion in Adolescent Groups: a Symptom of the Social Crisis Individual Paper The Crisis as a Springboard for Subjectivation: Example of Couples and Families in post-Revolutionary Tunisia |
Methodologies Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: Anthony Faramelli Chair: Niyamat Narang Individual Paper Claustrophobic Field Notes as a Psychosocial Method for Researching Affect and the Unconscious Individual Paper Framing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Through Photography: A Psychosocial Exploration of Young Adults' Perspectives in Indonesia Individual Paper Beyond Words: An Autohistoria-Teoría Of A Colombian Dialogue Practitioner On The Spiritual, Affective, And Embodied Dimensions Of Dialogue Individual Paper Psychosocial Methodologies in the Archive: Understanding Historical Crises: a 1930s Case-study. |
Pakaan: For Hope Amidst Chaos Location: F4 Chair: Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu Working session Pakaan: For Hope Amidst Chaos |
Racism and Dynamics of Exclusion Location: G2 Chair: Jim Parris Chair: Yaxin Hu Individual Paper When Coping Becomes Survival: Navigating Everyday Islamophobia in Indian Universities Individual Paper Why Thou Why Thou shall not love Thy neighbour? Underpinnings of Hatred and Aggression in Urban Slum among children Individual Paper Forging Solidarities in Silence: Navigating Racism, Resistance, and Repair in Academia Individual Paper An Inquiry Into The Polarisation In India: What Are Its Links With Mental Health? |
| Reflective Space 3 Location: F6 Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the... |
Responding to Crisis: Resources for Healing and Transformation Location: G3 Chair: Neena Samota Chair: Javeria Anwar Symposium Responding to Crisis and Implementing Structures of Opportunity – Resources for Healing and Transformation Presentations of the Symposium Survivor Support: how a Values-based Service can Enhance Access to Psychological Capital Reflective Practice: Addressing Vicarious Trauma and Practitioner Burnout UNISafe. Higher Education Institutions and Sexual Violence: in Crisis there is Opportunity Positive Criminology: Moving from crisis to opportunity |
Severed Selves: Romance in the Gothic and Digital Ages Location: F5 Chair: Marilyn Charles Chair: Ruth Toba Llewellyn Symposium Severed Selves: Romance in the Gothic and Digital Ages Presentations of the Symposium Tales from the Dark Continent: Resurgence of the Romance in the Era of AI Booktok Made Me Read It: Is There Such a Thing as a Sexual Relationship in New Romance? Severance: A Capitalistic Tale of Technology Promoting Traumatic Splits and the Healing Power of Office Romance and Unions |
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| 5:15pm - 6:45pm |
Adolescence Location: F5 Chair: Heidi Sear Chair: Yingjie Ouyang Individual Paper The Talisman Effect: A Puzzle for the ‘Snowflake Generation’ in Finding a Sense of Self and a Space to Belong. Individual Paper The Significance of Digital Worlds in the Context of Adolescence and Migration Individual Paper Youths In A Black Hole - The Curious Case Of A Lost Generation Individual Paper Towards A Socio-politics Of Self-harm: Reading Rage And Resistance |
Digital Media, Authoritarian Subjectivity and the Drive to Destruction Location: F6 Chair: Anthony Faramelli Chair: Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu Symposium Digital Media, Authoritarian Subjectivity and the Drive to Destruction Presentations of the Symposium Grey Guattari: Algorithmic Fascism and the Crisis of Subjectivity Pink-Red Realism Body Horror Fascism Laughers and Fighters: Fascist Groupuscules and Mediated Fratriarchy |
Reflective Space 4 Location: F4 Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the... |
Reviewing for Publication Location: G2 Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Working session Reviewing For Publication |
| Transformative Methodologies Location: G1 Chair: Lita Crociani-Windland Chair: Yaxin Hu Individual Paper The 4 Years Individual Paper Enacting Sustainable Transitions: Using Fictional Scenarios to Explore Change, Grief and Hope |
Women in Leadership: Oxymoron or Redemption? Location: G3 Chair: Marilyn Charles Chair: Nahiyan Rashid Roundtable Women in Leadership: Oxymoron or Redemption? |
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| 7:30pm - 8:00pm |
Wine reception Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room |
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| 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
Dinner Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room |
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| Date: Tuesday, 10/June/2025 | |||
| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Registration and coffee 2 Location: D121 |
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| 8:30am - 9:45am |
Academia and Pedagogy Location: F6 Chair: Neena Samota Chair: Nahiyan Rashid Individual Paper Navigating the Void: Academic Acceleration, Emptiness, and the Journey Toward Transformation Individual Paper The Exhaustion of the Argument Culture and a Reclaimed Reading Ethics: A Modest Pedagogical Proposal Individual Paper Hope in the Neoliberal University of Despair? Individual Paper "Eco-anxiety In University Students: Knowledge Is Power" |
Affect and Emotion: Between Desire and Despair Location: F5 Chair: Thi Gammon Chair: Niyamat Narang Individual Paper Eroticism in the Intersectionality of Gender and Race: Nascent East Asian Female Counsellors’ Erotic Feelings of Working with White Male Clients Individual Paper There is (a) Nothing to be Anxious About (or Finding Love in a Hopeless Place) Individual Paper Melancholia: Lost and/Or Found Individual Paper In Searching for the Truth: a Comparison of Negative and Spiritually Sensitive Psychoanalysis |
Media and Technology Location: G3 Chair: Jim Parris Chair: Melanie Gomes Individual Paper Saying “No” to Tech Bros Individual Paper Digital Self-Work and Solipsistic Authoritarianism Individual Paper Fragile Hope: Unraveling the Online Relations Sought by Schizoid Personalities in the Social Media Context." |
| Reflective Space 5 Location: F4 Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the reflective space, there will also be some flipcharts on which attendees can write down ideas, share information about research, calls for papers, or other opportunities. |
Social Dreaming Location: Senior Common Room Working session Social Dreaming |
Violence Location: G1 Chair: Elizabeth Frost Chair: Javeria Anwar Individual Paper The Irish Catholic Maternal: Articulating Embodied Research Practice with Luce Irigaray in Response to the Permanent Polycrisis Individual Paper Crisis and Acts of Interpersonal violence - Reflection in the Criminal Justice System as an Opportunity for Change. Individual Paper Psychotherapy in Times of Violence: Confronting the Crisis of Relationality Individual Paper #JewGoal and the Online Normalization of Antisemitism: A Lacanian Perspective |
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| 10:00am - 11:30am |
Crisis, Solidarity and a Psychoanalysis-to-Come Location: G2 Chair: Raluca Soreanu Chair: Yingjie Ouyang Symposium Crisis, Solidarity and a Psychoanalysis-to-Come: Freepsy Symposium Presentations of the Symposium Opportunities in Crisis: The Free Clinics Movement and the Reimagining of Psychoanalytic Practice Crises between Critique and Creativity: A Post-human Feminist Intervention Psychoanalytic Ecologies: A Network Exercise for a Psychoanalysis-to-Come Solidarity: A Psychoanalytic Stretch War and the Bonds that Hold: Nelly Wolffheim and Edith Gyömrői |
Environments and Boundaries Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: Rhea Gandhi Chair: Kartika Ladwal Individual Paper The Despair And Hope Of ‘Home’: The Enablement Of A Safe Enough ‘Home’ Space Now And In The Future: Self-sufficiency, Off-grid Green Living, Climate Change and Mars Individual Paper The UK and Europe: Crisis as Conversion Disorder Individual Paper Community Life In A Wounded Neoliberal Chile: Embodied Communitarian Gestures As Healing Tools Individual Paper 'The Dogs of Hell': How Communities Fight Terrorist Narratives |
Healthcare Challenges Location: G3 Chair: Heidi Sear Chair: Ruth Toba Llewellyn Individual Paper Such A Shame- Always Too Much, Never Enough Stories Of Shame, Resilience and Performance in Health and Social Care professionals Individual Paper A Character : The Humanitarian Health Worker Individual Paper The Secret Self: Collaborative-Autoethnography As Meaning Making Of Embodied MAO Inhibition, And Familial Child Sexual Abuse Trauma. An Exploration Of Female MAO Inhibition, Its Sequalae In Women And What It Can Tell Us About Meaning Making And The ‘Hard Question Of Consciousness’. Individual Paper Dreams and reflections of a cyborg: Telepresence teaching in Higher Education |
| Is There a Canary in the Room, or is it an Elephant? Location: G1 Chair: Elizabeth Frost Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Working session Is There a Canary in the Room, or is it an Elephant? |
Opposing Fascism Location: F4 Chair: David Jones Chair: Niyamat Narang Individual Paper Ironic Trolling and Far-Right Phallocentrism: From Small Hands to Little Hans Individual Paper Falun Gong: A Transnational History of Metamorphosis through Crises Individual Paper Control Fascism: Finance, Precarity, and the Drive to Fascism Individual Paper On Being and Not Being Psychosocial - Secret Sadness Versus the Communist Big Other |
Unheard Voices / Unthought Known Location: F5 Chair: Marilyn Charles Chair: Yaxin Hu Individual Paper Trust, Truth and Authenticity: Bizarre Objects and the Failure to Think Individual Paper Voices of the Dying: The Internet and End of Life Why online support communities matter in times of crisis Individual Paper Voices and Dreams from a Tide Isle: Creating a Psychosocial Soundscape from Portland Bay Individual Paper Navigating Coloniality: Unspoken Struggles in Counselling Psychology Training in Hong Kong |
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| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Coffee break 2.1 Location: D121 |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Plenary - Farhad Dalal Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: Lynn Patricia Froggett Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Roundtable A Meditation on Hope in a Time of Despair |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Day 2 Location: DV Lounge |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Capacity, Incapacity and Subjectivity Location: G1 Chair: Anthony Faramelli Chair: Kartika Ladwal Individual Paper Speaking Back to the False Certainty of our Times: Cultivating a Revolutionary Unconscious Individual Paper Beyond the Pressure Principle: Disorientation, Trained Incapacity, and Psycho-Rhetorical Approaches to Crisis Individual Paper The Crisis Of Losing Sight In Mexico: The Social Unconscious Towards People With Blindness Individual Paper The Trauma-Crisis Caregiving Model: Understanding Special Needs Parenting as a Chronic Trauma Experience |
Hope Against Grief and Despair Location: G2 Chair: Heidi Sear Chair: Javeria Anwar Individual Paper Breaking Up With My Mother: An Autoethnographic Account of Transference and Estrangement. Individual Paper 'It's a Shame I Was Born in These Times': Hope-Against-Hope as the Floor Collapses Individual Paper Navigating Loss: Supporting Grieving Children In School Settings |
Reflective large group Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: John Adlam Working session Learning or not learning from experience? – “What’s Going On?” |
| Writing For Publication Location: F6 Chair: Nahiyan Rashid Working session Writing For Publication |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee break 2.2 Location: D121 |
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| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Closing plenary and open space Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room |
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