Dr Peter Redman

Research interests

I studied at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, a background that continues to inform my thinking.  However,  I now work in the fields of psychoanalytic sociology and psychosocial studies and am broadly interested in the unconscious dimensions of social life, particularly those that can be said to have a collective or properly social character.

I previously edited (with Stephen Frosh and Wendy Hollway) the Palgrave book series, Studies in the Psychosocial and am a former editor of the journal, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.  I am on the advisory board of the book series Psychoanalytic Horizons and  a member of the British Sociological Association, the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society.

With Wendy Maples, I  co-authored Good Essay Writing: A Social Sciences Guide (Sage, 2017) now in its fifth edition.

A repository of research publications and other research outputs can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.

Teaching interests

I have taught on a range of OU sociology and interdisicplinary social science modules, most recently as chair of D113 Global challenges: social science in action.