Dr Parisa Dashtipour

Professional biography

I joined The Open University in September 2022. Prior to joining, I worked as Senior Lecturer in Organizational Psychology at Middlesex University.

I have a long-standing interest in psychosocial studies and its application in various fields. My work is situated at the intersection of critical psychology, psychosocial studies, and organizational psychology. 

Research interests

The overarching question that connects the different aspects of my work is how subjectivity is formed,  injured, or expressed within social relations of power (such as racism, patriarchy, capitalism, or within organizational and work contexts). I also have a general interest in critical and psychoanalytic approaches to mental health and illness. 

Selected publications

Dashtipour, P. Frost, N., and Traynor, M. (2021) The idealization of ‘compassion’ in trainee nurses’ talk: A psychosocial focus group study. Human Relations, 74(12): 2102-2125.

Dashtipour, P. and Vidaillet, B. (2020) Introducing the French psychodynamic approach to critical management education: Why do the work task and the organization of work matter? Academy of Management Learning and Education, 19(2): 131-146.

Dashtipour, P. and Rumens, N. (2018) Entrepreneurship, incongruence and affect: Drawing insights from a Swedish anti-racist organization. Organization. 25(2): 223-241.

Dashtipour, P and Vidaillet, B. (2017) Work as affective experience: The contribution of Christophe Dejours’ ‘psychodynamics of work’. Organization, 24(1), 18-35.

Andreouli, E. and Dashtipour, P. (2014). British citizenship and the ‘other’: an analysis of the earned citizenship discourse. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 24(2): 100-110.

Dashtipour, P. (2009) Contested identities: Using Lacanian psychoanalysis to explore and develop social identity theory. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 7, 320-337.

Dashtipour, P. (2012) Social identity in question: construction, subjectivity and critique. London: Routledge.

Chapters in edited books

Dashtipour, P. (in press) Psychoanalysis. In Bal., M. (ed) Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology. Edward Elgar.

Dashtipour, P. Fotaki, M. and Vidaillet, B. (2020) The dark side of work in organizations: The lived experience of suffering at work. In M. Fotaki, G. Islam & A. Antoni (eds.) Business Ethics and Care in Organizations. London: Routledge.

Dashtipour, P. (2015) Social psychology: a commentary on organizational research. In Parker, I. (ed) Handbook of Critical Psychology. London: Routledge.

Dashtipour, P. (2014) Freedom through work: The psychosocial, affect and work. In Kenny, K. and Fotaki, M. (eds) The psychosocial in organization studies: Affect at work. London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Hook, D., Dashtipour, P. and Hewitson, O. (2013) Resistance in the psychotherapeutic. In Bauer, M.W., Harré, R. and Jensen, C. (eds.) Beyond rationality: Resistance and the practice of rationality. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.