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My PhD (Keele University, Social Gerontology, 2015) examined the experiences of involuntarily childless older men. My previous careers include counsellor, deputy technical manager and scientific and technical photographer (31 years, The University of Manchester), kitchen assistant, and bar person. My training as a counsellor and own …
Suzanne Hodgson is a lecturer in children’s nursing and doctoral research in psychology. Her specialist areas of teaching combine public health, psychology, and sociology focusing on the health and wellbeing of children and their families. She is a module leader for the public health module undertaken …
Dr. Anna Machin is an evolutionary anthropologist based at the University of Oxford. Her research explores what happens to a man neurobiologically, physiologically, psychologically and behaviourally when he becomes a father and how he both forms an attachment to his child and contributes to their development. …
Alex is a research student in the Developmental Psychopathology Lab, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. Her current research examines the protective role of father behaviour for children in vulnerable circumstances, with a focus on how fathers can reduce the risk of children …
Dr. Mohammad Mazher Idriss LLB (Hons), LLM, Cert. Ed., PhD. is Senior Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University. His main research interests lie within domestic abuse, ‘honour’-based violence and forced marriages for both men and women. He completed his PhD thesis in 2018 on ‘Honour-Based …
Dr Jessica McCarrick is registered as a counselling psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council and a chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society. She has previously worked as a Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology at Teesside University, training others to become qualified psychologists. She …
Dr Craig Owen is a lecturer in Psychology at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham. His PhD research focused on the performance of masculine identities in capoeira and Latin and ballroom dance classes. Currently, he is collaborating on new research projects that explore the negotiation of gender identities in …