Dr Lita Crociani-Windland
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Role:
Department staff:
Collaborations:
- NIODA
- British Psychoanalytic Council
- Association For Psychosocial Studies
- Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society
- Centre for Social Dreaming
Research staff:
- psycho-social studies
- sociology of affect
- social pedagogy
- visual methods
- social dreaming
- Psychosocial approaches to architecture and buildings
- Psychoanalysis
- Organisational and social dynamics
- psycho-social research methodology
- Continental philosophy
Teaching staff:
- Qualifications:
- MSc, PhD
- Position:
- Senior Lecturer : Sociology and Psycho-Social Studies
- Department:
- HAS - Health and Social Sciences
- Telephone:
- +441173282954
- Email:
- Lita.Crociani-Windland@uwe.ac.uk
- Social media:
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About me
Following an early career teaching early years and then leading a specialist residential college for young people with moderate to severe learning difficulties and disabilities, Lita first came to UWE to join an innovative Masters of Science degree in Group Relations and Society, just as Psycho-Social Studies was establishing itself as its own distinctive field and the then Centre for Psycho-Social Studies was launched at UWE. Graduating with a First and a Women in Research prize, she obtained a bursary for Doctoral Studies and began teaching in Sociology in 2001. Her Doctorate was awarded with no revisions and her research was published as a book, shortlisted for the Philip Abrams prize. She led the Psychosocial Studies theme for 7 years and is now part of the Philosophical Approaches to Cultures and Environment theme within UWE’s Social and Public Policy Research Group.
Teaching
Lita has nurtured thousands of Sociology undergraduate students, while also leading Master level programmes in Psychosocial Studies. She has supervised fourteen doctoral students to successful completion and is currently supervising a further 3. She is external examiner for Tavistock/Essex University Professional Doctorate in Consulting and Leading in Organisations (D10D) and has been external examiner for Goldsmiths, University of London, BA Psychosocial Studies. She is also a faculty member of NIODA (National Institute for Organisational Dynamics Australia)and been examiner for many PhD vivas.
Esteem
Lita was a founding member of the Association for Psycho-Social Studies, which she now co-chairs. She was also Co-Chair of the US based Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society between 2016 and 2025. Both Associations run international conferences and are linked to two international journals: the Journal of Psycho-Social Studies and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. She is a regular peer reviewer for these and for a range of other academic journals as well as reviewer for ESRC and other funding bodies. She is a British Psychoanalytic Council Scholar and a director of the Centre for Social Dreaming.
Area of expertise
Psycho-Social Studies and methodologies, particularly interested in theories of affect and continental philosophy; festivals and ritual studies; Group Relations and organisational dynamics; Sociology of Disability and Social Pedagogy.
Publications
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