Dr Alex Bridger

Prior to working at Leeds Beckett University, Alex Bridger worked as a Senior Lecturer in Critical Social Psychology at the University of Huddersfield for over 15 years. He has also taught with the Open University and Manchester Metropolitan University as an Associate Lecturer and as a part-time tutor. His main teaching areas include Social, Cultural and Community Psychology as well as Qualitative Research Methods (mainly discourse, phenomenology, psychoanalytic and psychogeographical methods). Alex currently runs a new module at Leeds Beckett - Cultural Psychology. He also teaches on the Masters module - Social Psychology.

Alex recently published a book titled Psychogeography and Psychology: In and Beyond the Discipline for the Concepts for Critical Psychology book series. He has published a number of academic journal papers and book chapters on psychogeography as qualitative research method, feminist psychogeography as well as how psychogeography contributes to the field of applied Social Psychology.

Alex is a member of several academic associations including the Discourse Unit, the British Psychological Association and the 4th World Congress of Psychogeography. He has been involved in organising and presenting at a range of national and international seminars, workshops and conferences. He is now also a member of the Psychology Centre for Research (PsyCen) at Leeds Beckett University.

Alex is currently working on a number of research projects and papers with the main work currently being with the Jox Cox Foundation, Kirklees Council and colleagues at the University of Huddersfield on a project exploring social cohesion and identity amongst residents of the Batley and Heckmondwike areas.

Courses include:

• BSc (Hons) Psychology
• MSc Psychology

Modules include:

• Cultural Psychology
• Social Psychology