Dr Tom Goodwin

Dr Tom Goodwin is a Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and a Course Leader for the BA (Hons) in Social Psychology.

Tom joined our University in 2007. He taught across a range of social science subjects before becoming a permanent member of the social psychology team in 2011. Tom leads modules in interdisciplinary psychology, psychoanalysis, social psychology, radical psychology and a new course on madness.

Tom has a diverse academic background that reflects the interdisciplinary ethos of the psychology provision in the school. This includes an undergraduate degree in Psychology, an MA in Psychoanalysis, a PhD in English Literature, and a long-standing interest in and practise of fine art.

His teaching and research draws on a range of radical philosophical approaches to situate psychology within a broader social and theoretical environment. Adopting a critical psychological framework that is underpinned specifically by psychoanalysis and theories of deconstruction, his work primarily explores the interface between psychology and other subject areas such as literature, art, linguistics and social theory.

Much of Tom's teaching is research led, incorporating elements from films and novels as much as it does from Freud and other innovators in psychology.

• Level 4 (first year):
  • Interdisciplinary Psychology
  • Doing Psychology
• Level 5 (second year):
  • Psychoanalytic Contributions
  • Societal Psychology
• Level 6 (third year):
  • Radical Psychology
  • Framing Madness