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Candida Yates

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Professor Emerita of Psychosocial and Cultural Studies, Bournemouth University. All views are my own.

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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Episode 2: Conspiracy audioboom.com/posts/893829...
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Episode 2: Conspiracy
Why do conspiracy theories take hold and what do they reveal about the world we're living in?
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Episode 1: Chatbots audioboom.com/posts/893828...
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Episode 1: Chatbots
Are chatbots a threat to meaningful human connection — or something more complex and interesting?
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I will also be discussing Traumatized - with my mis-spelled name - with Catherine Liu at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social on 29th Sept! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/traumatize...
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TRAUMATIZED: Catherine Liu in Conversation with William Davis
Acclaimed writer and academic Catherine Liu visits Foyles to discuss her new book 'Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering'.
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Welcome to the Psychocultural Podcast
The Psychocultural podcast trailer gives you an idea of what to expect in it's first series, exploring cultural objects and terms through a unique psychodynamic lens.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
MARTIN SCORSESE talks us through his hilarious 2004 American Express commercial.
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Why the AI industry is so fond of the prefix ‘co’ – by an expert in linguistics
Why AI companies are so fond of the prefix ‘co’.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 29/07/2026
Does higher education still offer social mobility? Lewis: "Millions have accessed social and economic worlds that would've been unavailable to them without HE". Jon: "For years, I’ve said your degree is your passport to the future. I wonder whether it still is"
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
So impressed by the climate scientist communicators fired by the Trump admin from NOAA who built this alternative resource to preserve the vital work of informing the public about climate impacts www.climate.us
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Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Association for Psychosocial Studies @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-psychoan... Join us for the next seminar in our APS Emerging Scholars series, with Xiaomeng Qiao on Chinese cultural subjectivity.
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A Psychoanalytic Reading of Chinese Cultural Subjectivity
Join us for the next seminar in our APS Emerging Scholars series, with Xiaomeng Qiao on Chinese cultural subjectivity
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Solidarity w Parastoo Ahmadi and colleagues. Women are prohibited from singing publicly in Iran; the barbarism of this violence, against music of such beauty and courage, should remind us that however funny the anti-Trump lego propaganda is, there are no "good guys" in the US/ Iran regime conflict
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Freud and Hamlet: Acoustic Encounters - Freud Museum London
A special theatre workshop, organised by The Freud Museum in partnership with Bournemouth University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right
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Association for Psychosocial Studies @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Programme and registration is now live! Trust, Mistrust and Community St Mary’s University 12th-13th June Keynote: Yasmin Gunaratnam Conference programme: www.conftool.net/aps-2026/ind... Registration and further information: www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education
These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 14/02/2026
Freud’s insights into trauma, repression and the unconscious are finding new relevance and millions of followers.
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Why Sigmund Freud is making a comeback in the age of authoritarianism and AI
Freud’s insights into trauma, repression and the unconscious are finding new relevance and millions of followers.
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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
A picture of bad bunny with the word love
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026
Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Jenrick’s incredible journey – from self-centred halfwit to self-centred halfwit | John Crace
Reform’s latest defector from the Tories is a politician whose eye has only ever been on his own ambition
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams
The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... John Crace on brilliant form here
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MPs and peers make awkward small talk during wait for box-office hit Macron
French president fills seats for stylish Royal Gallery speech, after snubbing Farage and meeting the king
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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South Korea election: Lee Jae-myung takes over a country split by gender politics
Gender conflict subtly but powerfully shaped South Korea’s election.
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Join us on Thursday 12 June at the beautiful garden of the Freud Museum in London for a very special theatrical workshop (rehearsal and live analysis + Q&A) on Shakespeare's Pericles: Prince of Tyre - a manual of reconciliation in a fractured world. www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...
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Uncanny Shakespeare: Distance and Reconciliation in 'Pericles' - Freud Museum London
A special theatre workshop, organised by The Freud Museum in partnership with Bournemouth University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and
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Tom Fielder @tjfielder.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Congratulations to the editors of this exciting new collection, which interrogates psychosocial studies as a scholarly praxis of “creative disruption”. Including a playful piece of my own about Brexit, drawing on @profcand.bsky.social work on political culture: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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What Farage's fashion choices tell us about his politics
The Reform leader's penchant for country cosplay is designed to reassure people that he isn’t a threat
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Mrs Dalloway open.substack.com/pub/jeanette...
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Mrs Dalloway
It’s 100 years this week since Virginia Woolf published her novel, Mrs Dalloway.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/05/2025
This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.
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Tom Fielder @tjfielder.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A reminder for the next @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social reading group - 6pm tonight! Please join us to discuss the allure of fascism in liberal societies, with Alasdair Cannon and @profcand.bsky.social
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
If you know, you know
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Delighted to be taking part in this international theatre workshop in the beautiful garden at The Freud Museum London, 12 June. Come and join us! www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...
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Uncanny Shakespeare: Distance and Reconciliation in 'Pericles' - Freud Museum London
A special theatre workshop, organised by The Freud Museum in partnership with Bournemouth University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and
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Association for Psychosocial Studies @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Please join us for our next reading group! Writer and podcaster Alasdair Cannon will be presenting a psychosocial perspective on fascism, based on his timely new book. Thursday 1 May, 6pm. @profcand.bsky.social @tjfielder.bsky.social @heidis-ann.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-allure...?
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The Allure of Fascism: Infinite Discontent with Alasdair Cannon
Join us for our next APS online reading group, with Alasdair Cannon on the allure of fascism in contemporary societies.
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Zombie politics: how Dead Man dominates British politics — The Economist
Britain’s parties are catering to a voter who is, often literally, dead
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
With reference to the film Adolescence, Debbie Ging’s excellent article on the gender scripts of patriarchal masculinity and the contradictions between the exp of male fragility and the performance of toughness- leading to violence www.thejournal.ie/readme/adole...
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How fragile we are: Why Netflix drama Adolescence is essential viewing for everyone
Debbie Ging says the new Netflix drama series is a call to liberate boys from toxic gender scripts.
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Jacob Johanssen @jacobjohanssen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Exciting things are happening for APS 2025 @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social More details coming soon!
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said at the time. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains … We want to put them in trauma.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
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Psychoanalysis and Politics @psapol-org.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Dreams under fascism, and paralysis:
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Tom Fielder @tjfielder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Do join us for the next @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social reading group on 19 Feb! Prof Fintan Walsh will be presenting his latest research on theatre, performance and post-pandemic grief @noreengiffney.bsky.social @profcand.bsky.social @jacobjohanssen.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...
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Performing (Post) Pandemic Grief: Prof Fintan Walsh
Join us for our next APS online reading group, with Prof Fintan Walsh on responses to death and loss in (post) pandemic theatre.
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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
My god, if you'd told me 15 years ago that the British press and establishment would be mesmerised by the antics of a needy overgrown man-child ... What foolishness. We were supposed to have had our great debate about sovereignty - tell him to piss off & get on with the real business of politics.
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Trolling the UK: the issues enraging Elon Musk, world’s richest ‘pub bore’.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 03/01/2025
On the history side it would be 19th/early 20th century politics/economic history On pol sci it would be comparative govt/sociology
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Another piece that highlights the contemporary relevance of Richard Hofstadter’s essay ‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’ -characterised by “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy”’
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Looking forward to continuing the research links between BU and UWE through our project ‘Voices from a Tide Isle’ using social dreaming and audio media to create an affective soundscape to explore the experience of women volunteers supporting refugees in Portland.
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Excited to be appointed a Visiting Prof at UWE in the School of Social Sciences! Check out my UWE colleague Lita Crocoani-Windland’s fascinating work on the psychosocial meanings of buildings - putting the Communist Headquarters building in France on the couch. tinyurl.com/yc65xjn8
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Architecture on the couch: A transdisciplinary exploration of buildings as psychological subjects | ARENA Journal of Architectural Research
AJAR is an online Open Access peer-reviewed journal for all kinds of design research and scholarly research within the architectural field, and has been set up by the Architectural Research European N...
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Candida Yates @profcand.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
‘In the decade since Donald Trump began to define American politics, critics have struggled to understand his massive appeal. They have perhaps sensed by now that Trump’s support comes from someplace underneath conscious and rational political analyses.’
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Jacob Johanssen @jacobjohanssen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Call for Editor and Associate Editors of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025 Suitable for PhD students / ECRs and more senior scholars respectively. Please pass on! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Noreen Giffney @noreengiffney.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Call for research proposals for a fully-funded PhD in #Psychoanalysis & Culture @ Ulster University, Belfast 3-year research projects with an emphasis on the object relations tradition of psychoanalysis. I will supervise the project. Further details: www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcoll...
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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Never timelier #BBCFreeThinking on How Do We Think About Evil. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @jacksymes.bsky.social @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social @oliverscottcurry.bsky.social & @zrinka.bsky.social on banality, best lines & the #Stanford buzz. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, How we think about evil
Matthew Sweet and guests pick up from this year's Reith lectures and look at ideas of evil
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