Prof Paul Stenner
Lecturer
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Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643867
Email: P.Stenner@brighton.ac.uk
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Research
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- Emotionality
- Psychosocial aspects of health, relationships and sexuality
- Psychosocial Studies as critical and 'second order' psychology
- Ethical and aspirational identities
- Psychosocial methodology
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Teaching
- Psychosocial theory
- Qualitative methods and Q methodology
Biography
Paul has been Professor of Psychosocial Studies in the School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton since September 2005. He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Society, an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Psychology, University College London and a Visiting Research Fellow of the Science Studies Centre, University of Bath.
He has been a Visiting Professor at the Unitat de Psicologia Social Facultat de Psicologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a Gastwissenschaftler at the Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft of the Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main. He has held lectureships in Psychology at the University of East London, The University of Bath and University College London. His first degree and doctoral degree were from the University of Reading in the Departments of Psychology and Sociology. He has authored and co-authored over 50 scholarly articles and 4 books. He leads the Psychosocial Studies Group.
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Inaugural lecture
Delivered Friday 18 May 2007 6.30pm
The Adventure of Psychosocial Studies: revisioning the space between the psychic and the social
To what extent are intimate and personal issues such as experiences of jealousy 'constructed' within social networks of communication? What do our 'emotional stories' express about the social structures that frame our daily lives, and vice versa? How does the 'expert knowledge' of scientific psychology influence the ways in which ordinary people think about their psychological existence, and what has this got to do with the exercise of power?
In recent years a number of research and teaching centres specialising in Psychosocial Studies have appeared in the UK both within and outside of departments of psychology. These centres are inventing and developing new ways of addressing the complex relationships between 'ourselves' and the forms of social organisation that frame our existence. Since psychosocial studies exists at the interface between the social and the psychological sciences, it raises difficult questions about how to 'move between' existing disciplines and between 'pure' and 'applied' domains. In his inaugural lecture, Paul Stenner discussed some of his own research and ideas in the light of this emerging vision of psychosocial studies.
Download the inaugural lecture text (60kb pdf)
Download slides (755kb pdf)
Publications from the institutional repository
Bowling, Ann and Stenner, Paul (2010) Which measure of quality of life performs best in older age? A comparison of the OPQOL, CASP-19 and WHOQOL-OLD Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 65 (3). pp. 273-280. ISSN 0143-005X
Claremont, Amanda, Church, Andrew, Bhatti, Mark and Stenner, Paul (2010) Going public: landscaping everyday life Cultural Geographies, 17 (2). pp. 277-282. ISSN 1474-4740
Brown, Stephen D. and Stenner, Paul (2009) Psychology without foundations: history, philosophy and psychosocical theory Sage Publications Ltd, London. ISBN 978-0-7619-7226-6; 978-0-7619-7227-3
Stenner, Paul (2009) Between method and ology: introduction to special issue Operant Subjectivity: the international journal of Q methodology, 32 (1-3). pp. 1-4. ISSN 0193-2713
Stenner, Paul (2009) On the actualities and possibilities of constructionism: towards deep empiricism Human Affairs, 19 (2). pp. 194-210. ISSN 1210-3055
Stenner, Paul (2009) Psychology, religion, and world loyalty Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 29 (2). pp. 102-107. ISSN 1068-8471
Stenner, Paul (2009) Q methodology as a constructivist methodology Operant Subjectivity: The International Journal of Q Methodology, 32 (1-3). pp. 46-69. ISSN 0193-2713
Teo, Thomas, Stenner, Paul, Rutherford, Alexandra and Baerveldt, C (2009) Varieties of theoretical psychology: international philosophical and practical concerns Captus University Publications, Ontario, Canada. ISBN 978-1-55322-206-4; 1553222067
Teo, T., Stenner, P., Rutherford, A., Park, E. and Baerveldt, C., eds. (2009) Varieties of theoretical psychology: international philosophical and practical concerns Captus University Press, Toronto. (In Press)
Greco, M and Stenner, Paul (2008) Emotions: a social science reader Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0-415-42563-6
Greco, M. and Stenner, P., eds. (2008) Emotions: a social science reader Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415425643
Stenner, Paul, Watts, S and Worrell, M (2008) Q Methodology In: Willig, C and Stainton Rogers, W, eds. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. Sage Research Methods, London, pp. 215-239. ISBN 9781412907811; 9781848607927
Barnes, Marian, Smith, Naomi and Stenner, Paul (2008) So what do human rights mean to you? A study of how older people think and talk about human rights SSPARC, University of Brighton, Brighton.
Stenner, Paul (2007) Non-foundational criticality? On the need for a process ontology of the psychosocial Outlines, Critical Social Studies (2). pp. 44-55. ISSN 1359-5510
Stenner, Paul, Bianchi, Gabriel, Popper, Miroslav, Supekova, Marianna, Luksik, Ivan and Pujol, Joan (2006) Constructions of sexual relationships: a study of the views of young people in Catalunia, England and Slovakia and their health implications Journal of Health Psychology, 11 (5). pp. 669-684. ISSN 1461-7277
Watts, Simon and Stenner, Paul (2005) The subjective experience of partnership love: a Q methodological study British Journal of Social Psychology, 44 (1). pp. 85-107. ISSN 0144-6665
Martin, Anthea and Stenner, Paul (2004) Talking about drug use: what are we (and our participants) doing in qualitative research? International Journal of Drug Policy, 15 (5-6). pp. 395-405. ISSN 0955-3959
Stenner, Paul (2004) Is autopoietic systems theory alexithymic? Luhman and the socio-psychology of emotions Soziale Systeme, 10 (1). pp. 159-185. ISSN 0948-423X
Stenner, Paul (2004) Is autopoietic systems theory alexithymic? Luhmann and the socio-psychology of emotions Soziale Systeme, 10 (1). pp. 159-185. ISSN 0948-423X
Stenner, Paul (2004) Psychology and the political: on the psychology of natural right and the political origins of modern Psychology International Journal of Critical Psychology, 12 . pp. 14-37. ISSN 1464-0538
Stenner, Paul and Stainton Rogers, R. (2004) Q methodology and qualiquantology: the example of discriminating between emotions In: Todd, Z., Nerlich, B., McKeown, S. and Clarke, D. D., eds. Mixing Methods in Psychology: The Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Theory and Practice. Psychology Press, Hove, UK, pp. 101-120. ISBN 0415186501
Stenner, Paul, Cooper, D. and Skevington, S. (2003) Putting the Q into quality of life; the identification of subjective constructions of health-related quality of life using Q methodology Social Science & Medicine, 57 (11). pp. 2161-2172. ISSN 0277-9536
Stenner, Paul (2003) In the name of the father: Dostoevsky and the spirit of critical psychology In: Walkerdine, Valerie and Blackman, Lisa, eds. Critical Psychology 8. Lawrence & Wishart, London, pp. 96-128. ISBN 0853159785
Stenner, Paul and Watts, Simon (2003) On normativity, meaninglessness and the centrality of the self Operant subjectivity: The International Journal of Q Methodology, 26 (4). pp. 182-189. ISSN 0193-2713
Stenner, Paul and Watts, Simon (2003) Q methodology, quantum theory and subjectivity Operant subjectivity, 26 (4). pp. 155-173. ISSN 0193-2713
Stenner, Paul (2002) Social psychology and babel History and Philosophy of Psychology, 4 (1). pp. 45-57.
Stenner, Paul (2002) Unsettling social psychology: general introduction to three papers from the Glasgow centenary conference History and philosophy of psychology, 4 (1). pp. 43-44.
Brown, Steven D. and Stenner, Paul (2001) Being affected: spinoza and the psychology of emotion International Journal of Group Tensions, 30 (1). pp. 81-105. ISSN 0047-0732
