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.

My work is situated at the intersection of critical psychology, psychosocial studies, and critical work and organizational psychology. 

Research interests

The overarching question that interests me is how subjectivity is formed, injured, or expressed within social relations of power.

I am interested in three areas of inquiry, which I see as interconnected

• The relation between subjectivity, labour and its organization. I am currently focusing on care labour.
• Violence in its various manifestations and effects, but particularly those that are subtle and not immediately visible or comprehensible
• Critical and psychoanalytic approaches to mental health

Selected publications

Journal articles

Dashtipour, P., Gerard, N., Rolo, D. (2024) Toward an ethics of ambiguity in critical work and organisational psychology: From ‘blank’ to ‘troubled’ subjectivity. Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05760-6.

Dashtipour, P. Frost, N., and Traynor, M. (2021) The idealisation 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 organisation 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 organisation. 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.

Book and edited book

Hornung, S., Islam, G., Bal, M., Dashtipour, P. D’Cruz, P., Degen, J.L., Dóci, E. Gerard, N., McDonald, M., Sanderson, Z., Tommasi, F., Weber., F.W. (eds.) (2026) Handbook of critical work and organisational psychology. Edward Elgar. 

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

Book chapters

Hornung, S., Islam, G., Bal, M., Dashtipour, P. D’Cruz, P., Degen, J.L., Dóci, E. Gerard, N., McDonald, M., Sanderson, Z., Tommasi, F., Weber., F.W. (2026) Critical work and organisational psychology: Organising an emergent field. In Hornung, S., Islam, G., Bal, M., Dashtipour, P. D’Cruz, P., Degen, J.L., Dóci, E. Gerard, N., McDonald, M., Sanderson, Z., Tommasi, F., Weber., F.W. (eds.) (2026) Handbook of critical work and organisational psychology. Edward Elgar.

Dashtipour, P., McDonald, M. and Nguyen, L. (2026) Critical perspectives on social identity, work and organisation. In Hornung, S., Islam, G., Bal, M., Dashtipour, P. D’Cruz, P., Degen, J.L., Dóci, E. Gerard, N., McDonald, M., Sanderson, Z., Tommasi, F., Weber., F.W. (eds.) (2026) Handbook of critical work and organisational psychology. Edward Elgar.

Dashtipour, P. (2024) Psychoanalysis. In Bal, M. Encyclopaedia of organisational psychology. Edward Elgar.

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

Dashtipour, P. (2015) Social psychology: a commentary on organisational 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 organisation studies: Affect at work. London: Palgrave MacMillan.