Dr Suryia Nayak
| Biography | Dr. Suryia Nayak is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the School of Health and Society, University of Salford. She is a qualified social worker and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and group analyst. Suryia has over 40 years of anti-racist feminist activism in ending violence against women, services for Black and racially minoritized women and girls and forced migration, including the trauma of seeking asylum. Suryia applies models of liberation based on intersectionality to the psychological and political impact of oppression. Suryia has extensive experience as a clinical supervisor, with expertise in attachment, trauma, and loss. Editorial Boards 2021 – Current; Editorial Board: 1968 Press 2020 - Current: Editorial Board Critical Radical Social Work 2020- Current: editorial Board Psychoanalysis and Culture 2018- Current: Editorial Board ‘Group Work’ Journal 2014 - Current: Editorial Board of ‘The Annual Review of Critical Psychology’ 2013 – Current: ‘Critical Social Policy’ (coordinator of Living Activism and Solidarity Fund) 2013 – Current: External reviewer for ‘Critical Sociology’ 2012 – Current: External reviewer for ‘Social Work Education’ |
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| Research Interests | Intersectionality Black feminism Decolonization Psychoanalysis Critical psychology Group Analysis |
| Teaching and Learning | Attachment, Trauma and Loss Critical Theories of liberation Psychoanalysis Intersectionality Qualitative research methods (including intersectionality as methodology) Textual analysis Equity, Diversity and Inclusion |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Intersectionality Black feminism Decolonization Psychoanalysis Critical psychology Group Analysis Attachment, Trauma and Loss Critical Theories of liberation Research methods Textual analysis |