Dr Paul Hanna BA(Hons), MSc, PhD, CPsychol
Lecturer
contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH
Email: ph67@brighton.ac.uk
Roles
- Lecturer
- Early Career Research Ambassador
Teaching
- Introduction to Psychology
- Applied Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Critical Psychology
- Critical Analysis (Social Science and the Environment)
- Social Psychology
- Sociological analysis
- Research methods (quantitative and qualitative)
- Open access to Knowledge
- Dissertation supervisor
Research interests
- Self and Identity
- Inequality (particularly in relation to race and class)
- Qualitative methodologies
- Consumption (including ethical consumption)
- Ecopsychology and human nature / non-human nature relationship
- Conservation psychology
- Mental Health
Profile
In 2011 Paul successfully completed his doctoral thesis entitled Consuming Sustainable Tourism: ethics, identity, practice. This thesis established an in-depth qualitative social psychological understanding into the marketing and consumption of sustainable tourism products. Throughout this research Paul developed theoretical and empirical insights into the experiences of consuming explicitly ethical and sustainable products facilitating a novel understanding of sustainable behaviors and the relationship between humans and the environment. In addition to his doctoral thesis he has experience in a range of other research contexts. For example, he recently worked as a Research Fellow in the School of Environment and Technology at the University of Brighton. Within this role Paul was able to collaborate with a range of academics to develop projects such as: the Green and Blue Futures project (EU Regional Development Fund £22,000). Paul is also currently working on a solo authored research project entitled 'Riding the Wave of Sustainability – Exploring sustainable lifestyles through UK surfing'.
Paul is currently working on a research project with Dr Carl Walker (SASS) and Liz Cunningham (SASS) investigating the complexities of debt and mental health. Paul is also working as a co-author with Dr Carl Walker (SASS) and Prof Angie Hart (SNM) a book entitled 'Democratising Distress – Reforming approaches to suffering through the accounts of everyday mental health work being undertaken in our communities' (under contract with Palgrave). Paul has an outstanding publication record with articles in high impact journals such as Qualitative Research, Theory and Psychology, and The Journal of Consumer Culture and has delivered conference papers both in the UK and abroad. Paul is a member of the Senior Researchers Group in CUPP and has worked on two research projects with them. He has provided methodological consultancy advice to Sussex University with regards to research evaluating the health and wellbeing outcomes of a music therapy programme in Surrey. Recently he worked as a research consultant for MindOut, providing an independent evaluation into the efficiency of their LGBT mental health services. Paul has also worked on a range of additional research projects including: an examination of the psychological dynamics of blood donation; establishing the effectiveness of training for practitioners working with substance misusers; mental health and sexually abused men; and the state of psychosocial studies in the UK.
Academic publications
Hanna, P. (forthcoming) A history of UK tourism through a Bourdieurian lens: the emergence of sustainable tourism, Tourism and Cultural Change
Hanna, P. (forthcoming) Reconceptualising Subjectivity in Critical Social Psychology: turning to Foucault, Theory and Psychology
Hanna, P. (in press) A break from 'reality': an investigation into the 'experiments with subjectivity' on offer within the promotion of sustainable tourism in the UK. The Journal of Consumer Culture
Hanna, P. (2012) Engaging with the Environmental Crisis. The Psychologist, 25: 558
Hanna, P. (2012) Using internet technologies as a research medium, Qualitative Research, 12: 239
Adams, M., and Hanna, P. (2012). Your past is not another's present: time, the other and ethnocentrism in cross-cultural personality psychology. Theory and Psychology. 22: 436
Hanna, P. (2009). Conceptualising sustainable tourism – ethics, inequalities and colonialism. ENQUIRE, 2: 1
Publications under review
Hanna, P (under review) Foucauldian Discourse Analysis in Psychology: reflecting on a hybrid reading of Foucault when researching 'ethical subjects', Qualitative Research in Psychology
Walker, C and Hanna, P (under review) Resisting the Neoliberal worker-citizen: An Unemployed Family Centre Project as a means through which to challenge problematic workfare discourse in the UK, Journal of Community and Applied Psychology
Walker, C and Hanna, P (under review) Psychology without Psychologists: Exploring models of surviving mental distress that move beyond Psychology technologies, Social Science and Medicine
Books
Walker, C., Hanna, P., Hart, A (2014) Democratising distress: Reforming approaches to suffering through the accounts of the everyday mental health work being undertaken in our communities. Under contract with Palgrave
Conference presentations
Hanna, P (2012) 'Public Places, Private Spaces: Using Skype as a Research Medium'. Presented at the British Psychological Societies Qualitative Methods In Psychology Seminar Series at the University of West England, 25 October 2012
Adams, M., Hanna, P (2011) Our present is not your past: time, the other and ethnocentricism in cross-cultural personality psychology. The International Society for Theoretical Psychology Conference, Thessaloniki, 27 June - 1 July 2011
Hanna, P. (2011) 'Consuming sustainable tourism – cultivating the self as an ethical subject' Presented at The Fourth Conference of the Psychosocial Network, Brighton, 10-11 June 2011
Hanna, P. (2010) 'Foucault and the Ethical Tourist'. Presented at the British Psychological Society Annual Social Psychology Conference, Winchester, 7-9 September 2010
Hanna, P. (2009) '”Take only photos, leave only footprints": The ethical consumption of global tourism'. Presented at School of Psychology Research Seminar Series, Murdoch University, Western Australia, 4 August 2009
Hanna, P. (2009) '”Take only photos, leave only footprints": The ethical consumption of global tourism'. Presented at Social Justice Research Centre Seminar Series, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, 23 July 2009
Hanna, P. (2008) 'Sustainable Tourism Research – A Psychosocial Approach'. Presented at Sustainable Development Research Forum, University of Brighton, 17-18 July 2008
Hanna, P. (2008) 'Sustainable Tourism – A humanistic approach? Tourism practices and inequality'. Presented at ENQUIRE Conference, University of Nottingham,17-18 June 2008
Research reports
Walker, C., Hanna, P (2012) An evaluation of The Brighton Unemployed Families Centre: 2012, TBUFC Report
Hanna, P. (2011) The mental health project for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender people in Brighton and Hove and beyond. 12 years on...:an independent evaluation of Mindout Mindout Report
Meitlis, R., Wheeler, H., Hanna, P.(2011) Singing for Life, Arts Partnership Surrey Report
Hanna, P., Stenner, P., Greco, M., Erikson, M. (2008). Interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and psychosocial studies: the report of a small scale survey of psychosocial activity on the internet. HSPRC Report
Book reviews and other publications
Hanna, P. (2012). Theory and Psychology. Review: Answering the call? a multidisciplinary approach to selves and persons – HALLAM, RICHARD (2009) Virtual Selves, Real Persons: A dialogue across disciplines. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vol 22, No 1.
Hanna, P. (2011). Discourse and Society. Review - GALANES, GLORIA AND LEEDS-HURWITZ WENDY (eds) (2009) Socially Constructing Communication. Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press Inc, Vol 22, 816-817
Hanna, P. (2011) 'Doing ethics' in a disenchanted modern world – sustainable tourism and the 'other'. Critical Social Science Exchange (online)
Hanna, P. (2010) I chose not to choose life, I chose something else... : the balance. Graduate Junction. Vol 2.
