Profile summary
I am a Chartered Psychologist, Doctor of Clinical Science and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have become more convinced in the value of using psychoanalytic ideas and language to explore educational settings. I have been working in Higher Education since 2001 having previously taught in secondary schools for 18 years. Within my present role I am responsible for modules on ‘Human Learning Across the Lifespan’, ‘Factors Affecting Learners and Learning’, Fads and Fashion in Teaching and Learning’, ‘Contemporary Issues’ and ‘Ethical Research Methods’.
Research and knowledge exchange
My interests are in the contested space between psychoanalytic thought and practices to education in its widest sense. My recent research has focused on early intervention mental health programmes and the career pathways of early education professionals. I have written chapters on children’s learning and development and contributed to general psychology texts. Together with Linden West, I have edited and contributed to Cliopsy 6 (2011), an electronic journal published by University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense on Psychoanalysis and Education. I am a UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist and have a small private practice in Whitstable, Kent. Alan and Linden West have organized two conferences on Psychoanalysis and Education at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2009 and 2012.
In 2009 was the Academic Supervisor for a £120,000 Knowledge Transfer Partnership on the evaluation of Kent Safe Schools early intervention mental health Programme. This was completed 2011 and recieved an 'Outstanding' grade.
Teaching and subject expertise
British Psychological Society:
Division of Educational and Child Psychology
Psychotherapy section
Psychology and Education section
Association for the Teachers of Psychology
European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (Network on Life History and Narrative Research)
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
Canterbury Consortium of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapists
External activities
Bainbridge A. and Stirrup V. (2015) ‘Narratives beyond the backyard: A case study on support for a community pro-environmental and sustainability project’. Paper presented at the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults - Life History and Biography Network conference, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy.
Consorte-McCrea, A., Bainbridge, A., Fernandez, A., Nigbur, D. and McDonnell, S. (2015) The role of zoos in attitudes towards biodiversity and the reintroduction of native wild carnivores to the UK: results from a pilot study. In: ICCB: 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology 4th European Congress for Conservation Biology, 2nd-6th August, Montpellier, France.
Bainbridge, A. (2015). Building a World Unfit to Live in: the deception and seduction of the commodity fetish. Paper presented at the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults – Network on Between Local and Global: Adult Learning and Development Conference, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. 18-20 July.,
Bainbridge, A. (2014) Recognising the universal: why semantics matter. Paper presented for British Psychological Society: Psychology of Education Section Annual Conference. Milton Keynes, 7-8th November.
Bainbridge, A. (2012). To Learn or Not to Learn: a semantic view. British Psychological Society, Psychology of Education Section Annual Conference 2012;Raising Attainment in Education: the Role of Psychology. Open University, November 2012
Bainbridge, A. (2010). Prequels and Sequels: The Life Story and Professional Narratives of New Educational Professionals: at the European Society for the Research into the Education of Adults (ESREA) Conference. Life History and Biography - Representing Lives. Vaxjo University, Sweden. March 2010
Bainbridge, A. (2007). it really feels like I have finished my studies now.’ An Online exploration of learning biographies at the ESCalate conference on: Enhancing the student experience in lifelong learning. Nottingham University. May 2007.
Publications and research outputs
Books
Bainbridge, A. (2015) Becoming an Education Professional: A Psychosocial Exploration of Developing an Education Professional Practice. Palgrave: London
Bainbridge, A. and West, L. (Ed.) (2012). Psychoanalysis and Education: minding a gap. London: Karnac Books.
Book Chapters
Consorte-McCrea, A., Bainbridge, A., Fernandez, A., Nigbur, D., McDonnell, S., Morin, A. and Grente, O. (2016) Understanding attitudes towards native wildlife and biodiversity in the UK: the role of zoos. In: Leal Filho, W., ed. Sustainable Development Research at Universities in the United Kingdom. Springer. ISBN 9783319478821
Bainbridge, A. (2012). Prequels and Sequels: a psychoanalytic understanding of developing a professional practice in an education setting. In, Bainbridge, A. and West, L. (Ed.). Psychoanalysis and Education: minding a gap. p146-167 London: Karnac.
Bainbridge, A. and West, L. (Ed.) (2012). Introduction: minding the gap. In, Bainbridge, A. and West, L. (Ed.). Psychoanalysis and Education: minding a gap. p11-38 London: Karnac.
Journal Articles
Bainbridge, A., Gaitanidis, A & Hoult, EC. (2017): When learning becomes a fetish: the pledge, turn and prestige of magic tricks, Pedagogy, Culture & Society, DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2017.1403950
Bainbridge, A. (2016) Developing an education professional identity: the role of agency at an unconscious, individual and social level. Culture, Biography & Lifelong Learning, 2(2)
Bainbridge, A. (2016) Building a world unfit to live in: the deception, distraction and disavowal of the fetish. Pedagogia Oggi, 1/2016, 62-72.
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Bainbridge, A. (2015) Pedagogy of Recognition: Winnicott, Honneth and Learning in Psychosocial Spaces, Journal of Pedagogic Development. Volume 5 Issue 3 – Autumn 2015
Bainbridge, A. (2014). Digital technology, human world making and the avoidance of learning. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education. (Special Edition: Digital technologies in Learning Development) ISSN: 1759-667X
Bainbridge, A. (2013). The nature and experience of academic understanding: a response. The Psychology of Education Review, 37 (1) 23-26