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Erica Burman is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the social sciences, focusing on fields such as sociology and political science, education, cultural studies, and psychology. Their scholarly work spans 29 publications in social sciences, with particular emphasis on subfields including sociology and political science (19 publications), education (4), cultural studies (3), social psychology (2), and general psychology (2).

The main topics in Burman's research incorporate various themes related to childhood, ethics, and social dynamics. These include Children's Rights and Participation (16 publications), Early Childhood Education and Development (8), Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (6), Participatory Visual Research Methods (4), Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (4), Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (4), and Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (4).

Burman has contributed to multiple academic journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Group Analysis (4 papers)
  • Children & Society (2 papers)
  • Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia (2 papers)
  • Psychology the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society (1 paper)
  • The International Journal of Children's Rights (1 paper)

Recent papers by Burman include:

  • "Child as method and/as childism: Conceptual-political intersections and tensions," published in 2022 in Children & Society
  • "Post-socialist geopolitical uncertainties: Researching memories of childhood with 'child as method'," 2022, Children & Society
  • "Un/thinking children in development: A contribution from northern antidevelopmental psychology," 2020, Psychology the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society
  • "Frantz Fanon and revolutionary group praxis," 2021, Group Analysis
  • "Child as Method as an Intersectional Frame for Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Child Rights," 2023, The International Journal of Children's Rights

Frequent collaborators in Burman's research include Artemis Christinaki, with whom they have co-authored multiple works, as well as Zsuzsa Millei, Luan Carpes Barros Cassal, Sophina Choudry, and Julian Williams.

Best Publications

  • Deconstructing Developmental Psychology

    Erica Burman

  • Qualitative Methods in Psychology : A Research Guide

    Peter Banister;Erica Burman;Ian Parker;Maye Taylor

  • Discourse Analytic Research : Repertoires and Readings of Texts in Action

    Erica Burman;Ian Parker

  • Developments: Child, Image, Nation

    Erica Burman

  • Innocents abroad: Western fantasies of childhood and the iconography of emergencies.

    Erica Burman

  • Deconstructing developmental psychology, 2nd ed.

    Erica Burman

  • 'Culture' as a barrier to service provision and delivery: domestic violence services for minoritized women

    Erica Burman;Sophie L. Smailes;Khatidja Chantler

  • Against discursive imperialism, empiricism and constructionism: thirty-two problems with discourse analysis

    Erica Burman;Ian Parker

  • Local, Global or Globalized?: Child Development and International Child Rights Legislation

    Erica Burman

  • Domestic violence and minoritisation: legal and policy barriers facing minoritized women leaving violent relationships.

    Erica Burman;Khatidja Chantler

  • Deconstructing Feminist Psychology

    Erica Burman

  • From difference to intersectionality: challenges and resources

    Erica Burman

  • Psychology discourse practice : from regulation to resistance

    Gill Aitken;Debs Mark;Sam Warner;Pam Alldred

  • South Asian women, psychological distress and self-harm: lessons for primary care trusts

    Carolyn Chew-Graham;Col Bashir;Khatidja Chantler;Erica Burman

  • Feminists and psychological practice

    Erica Burman

  • Analysing children's accounts using discourse analysis

    Pam Alldred;Erica Burman

  • What discourse is not

    Erica Burman

  • Minding the Gap: Positivism, Psychology, and the Politics of Qualitative Methods

    Erica Burman

  • The child and childhood in feminist theory

    Erica Burman;Jackie Stacey

  • Gender and Migration: Feminist Interventions

    Ingrid Palmary;Erica Burman;Khatidja Chantler;Peace Kiguwa

  • Motherhood: Meanings, Practices and Ideologies

    Erica Burman

  • Domestic Violence and Minoritisation: legal and policy barriers facing minoritised women leaving violent relationships

    E. Burman;K. Chantler

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Frosh
Stephen Frosh Birkbeck, University of London
Dan Goodley
Dan Goodley University of Sheffield
Sara Delamont
Sara Delamont Cardiff University
Marianne Hester
Marianne Hester University of Bristol
Liz Bondi
Liz Bondi University of Edinburgh

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