Carolyn Kagan is a British community psychologist and social activist.
Life and work
Carolyn Morag Kagan grew up in Meopham, Kent. After working as a residential social worker in Scotland she went to
North East London Polytechnic
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graduating with a degree in Psychology in 1974. She then obtained a DPhil in Social Psychology from
Wolfson College,
University of Oxford
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In 1976 she was appointed to the Department of Psychology at
Manchester Polytechnic
Manchester Metropolitan University is located in the centre of Manchester, England. The university has over 40,000 students and over 4,000 members of staff. It is home to four faculties (Arts and Humanities, Business and Law, Health and Educat ...
(subsequently
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is located in the centre of Manchester, England. The university has over 40,000 students and over 4,000 members of staff. It is home to four faculties (Arts and Humanities, Business and Law, Health and Educat ...
) proceeding through the ranks of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Principal Lecturer and Professor. She is a qualified social worker and counselling psychologist. For ten years she was Director of the Research Institute for Health and Social Change at
MMU which established a reputation for socially engaged research. She is currently Emerita Professor at
MMU and a visiting professor at
Edge Hill University
Edge Hill University is a campus-based public university in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, which opened in 1885 as Edge Hill College, the first non-denominational teacher training college for women in England, before admitting its first male st ...
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As a community psychologist she has worked closely with various community groups and been involved in various forms of social activism. She has until recently been a Director of Just Psychology CIC (www.justpsychology.co.uk), From Generation to Generation (https://web.archive.org/web/20180815165023/http://www.fromgenerationtogeneration.org/) and Friends of Hough End Hall (www.houghendhall.org). She is also a trustee of the Richard Benmjamin Trust (www.richardbenjamintrust.co.uk), a member of the Steady State Manchester collective (https://steadystatemanchester.net) and Chair of Chorlton Voice (Chorlton Civic Society) an
Chorlton Arts Festival
Publications
* Kagan C. et al. (Eds.) (2022)
The Routledge International Handbook of Community Psychology Routledge.
* Kagan, C., Burton, M. H., Duckett, P., Lawthom, R., & Siddiquee, A. (2019). Critical Community Psychology: Critical Action and Social Change. (2nd ed) ROUTLEDGE.
* Kagan, C. and Diamond, J. (2019)
University–Community Relations in the UK Palgrave-Macmillan
* Kagan, C., Burton, M., Duckett, P., Lawthom, R., & Siddiquee, A (2011). Critical Community Psychology. Wiley-Blackwell.
* Burton, M., Kagan, C., & Clements, P. (1995). Social Skills for People With Learning Disabilities. Nelson Thornes.
See also Carolyn Kagan's page on academia.edu https://mmu.academia.edu/CarolynKagan
Awards
* 1987 Liverpool University Penelope Hall Prize (for outstanding work in social work training )
* 2005 British Psychological Society Award for Promoting Equal Opportunity (for the development of academic and research alliances)
* 2006 Fellowship, Society Community Research and Action (SCRA) (for internationally renowned work in community psychology)
* 2017 Honorary Fellowship, British Psychological Society
References
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1950 births
British psychologists
Academics of Manchester Metropolitan University
Living people
Alumni of the University of East London
Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford