Dr Ron Roberts

Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
Department of Psychology
School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
Penrhyn Road

Honorary Lecturer

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About

I am Honorary Lecturer in Psychology at Kingston University, a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

I studied at the universities of Sheffield, London and Leicester, and held previous posts at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of Westminster, King's College Medical School, University College London, St Bartholomew's Medical School, Queen Mary College and the Tavistock Institute.

I am the author of over 60 refereed articles as well as writing and editing 14 books, including Just War: Psychology & Terrorism (2007), Reel to Real: Psychiatry at the Cinema (2011), The New Politics of Experience and The Bitter Herbs (2014) (all with PCCS) and Psychology and Capitalism (2015), The Off-Modern: Psychology estranged (2017), Capitalism on Campus (2018) (with Zero Books), Francis Huxley and the Human Condition: Anthropology, ancestry and knowledge (2020) (Routledge), Svetlana Boym (2022) The Origins of Nostalgia: memories and reflections (Bloomsbury), Huxley in Haiti (2022) (CIDIHCA).

I am currently a member of the Psychologists for Social Change group. During the 1980s and 1990s, I wrote for and edited Science for People magazine in the UK. I have been a frequent media commentator on both national and international media on student sex work (BBC1, Channel 4, BBC World Service, BBC local radio, FDZ (Germany), Rai Uno (Italy). As well as pioneering work on student mental health and student participation in the sex industry, I contributed to Antarctic Resolutions which won the 2021 DAM Architectural Book Award and the 2022 Grand Prize of the European Commission honouring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons)
MSc (dist)
PhD
Cert Tesol.

Domains

My research interests lie in social memory, student mental health, student sex work, political psychology and the politics of psychology. In addition I have written on parapsychology, social anthropology and nostalgia. Together with Theodor Itten I co-authored a biography of Francis Huxley, a member of the illustrious Huxley family.

My published books include;

Roberts, R., Towell, A. and Golding, J. (2001) Foundations of Health Psychology. Palgrave (Macmillan).

Roberts, R. and Groome, D. (Eds.) (2001) Parapsychology: The science of unusual experience. London. Arnold & Oxford University Press.

Roberts, R. and Groome, D. (Eds.) (2003) Parapsychology. Moscow. Olma Press. (Russian Edition)

Roberts, R. (Ed.) (2007) Just war: Psychology and terrorism. Ross On-Wye. PCCS Books

Roberts, R. (2011) Real to Reel. Psychiatry at the cinema. Ross-On-Wye. PCCS Books.

Itten, T. & Roberts, R. (2014) The new politics of experience & The bitter herbs. Monmouth. PCCS Books.

Roberts, R. (2015) Psychology & Capitalism. Winchester. Zero Books.

Roberts, T & Itten, T. (2015) Nova Politika Doživ Ljaja. Publikacija Neke Organizajica Sarajevo.

Itten, T. & Roberts, R. (2016) Politik der Erhfarung. Gießen. Psychosozial-Verlag.

Groome, D. & Roberts, R. (Eds.) (2016) Parapsychology: The science of unusual experience. London (2nd Edition). London. Routledge.

Roberts, R. (2017) The Off-Modern. Psychology Estranged. Winchester. Zero Books.

Roberts, R. (2018) Capitalism on Campus: Sex Work, Academic Freedom and the Market. Winchester. Zero Books.

Vos, J., Roberts, R. & Davies, J. (2019) Mental health in crisis. London. Sage Swift.

Roberts, R. & Itten. T. (2020) Francis Huxley and the human condition: Anthropology, ancestry and knowledge. London Routledge.

Roberts, R. (Ed.) Svetlana Boym (2022) The Origins of Nostalgia: Memories and Reflections. London. Bloomsbury.

Itten, T., Roberts, R. & Davis, P. (2022) Huxley in Haiti: An Album. Montreal. CIDIHCA.

Itten, T. & Roberts, R. (2023) Francis Huxley: Ein Leben für die Sozialanthropologie. Springer VS.

Articles

Richardson. T, Yeebo, M, Jansen, M., Elliot, P. & Roberts, R. (2022) The Relationship between Mental and Physical Health: A Longitudinal Analysis with British Students. Journal of Public Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMH-11-2021-0147

Book Chapter

Roberts, R. (2022). Student Sex Work: Economics, Education, and Ethics. In: D. Jones, & T. Sanders, (Eds) Student Sex Work. Palgrave Advances in Sex Work Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07777-7_3

Publications

Psychology in the Covid-19 dreamland. Book Review of: 'The psychology of COVID-19' by Joel Vos Sage

Roberts, Ron, 2022, Journal of Constructivist Psychology (35), 3 pp 1121-1123, Published

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