Dr Andrew Stevenson
Senior Lecturer
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
BSc. (Hons.) Psychology (University of Manchester)
PGCE Education (University of Leicester)
MA Social Anthropology (University of Manchester)
PhD Psychology (Manchester Metropolitan University); ’Arrival Stories: how international students develop meaningful attachments to and knowledge of their new city’
Consultancy and advisory roles
Future Spaces Foundation: forum of architects, policy advisors, arts council, community groups for discussing policy and space (I am an invited panel member)
Teaching
Subject areas
Psychology
Research outputs
My areas of interest are as follows:
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- Cultural and cross-cultural Issues in psychology, incorporating ethnographic research methods and more quantitative cross-cultural research
- Historical issues and controversies relating to the study of cultural issues in psychology
- Cultural geography; place, space, urban landscapes, alternate psycho-geographical research methods for studying representations of places, spaces and so-called non-places
- Ethnography and sensory ethnography as a research method
- Ethnographic film and other visual methods (eg Participatory photography)
- In 2013 I attended the Filmmaking for Fieldwork short course at the Granada Centre for Visual
Anthropology, University of Manchester
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Exhibitions
Stevenson, A. (2018) Los Niños de La Terminal (documentary screening). [Exhibition] Viscult Anthropological film Festival, Finland, 26/10/2018 -
Stevenson, A.D. (2018) Los Niños de La Terminal (documentary screening). [Exhibition] Sjon International Anthropological Film Festival, Copenhagen, 9/3/2018 -
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Stevenson, A. (2023) The Psychology of Travel. Routledge.
Stevenson, A. (2020) Cultural issues in psychology: An introduction to a global discipline.
Stevenson, A. (2009) Cultural issues in psychology: A student's handbook.
Stevenson, A. (2007) Studying Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Chapters in books
Fisher, J., Lawthom, R., Rimmer, L., Stevenson, A. (2022) 'Linking Space, Place, and Relational Well-being in Co-productive Ways.' The Palgrave Handbook of Innovative Community and Clinical Psychologies. pp. 545-557.
Stevenson, A. (2016) 'Abdication and Arrival: Using an open-ended, collaborator-led ethnography to explore constructions of newly encountered cities.' Engaged Urbanism. I.B. Taurus,
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Media
Stevenson, A.D. How We Know Each Other (documentary film festival screening).
Stevenson, A. Los Niños de la Terminal.
Stevenson, A. (2021) Esperando un Autobus.
Stevenson, A. (2018) Los Niños de la Terminal.
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Journal articles
Oldfield, J., Stevenson, A. (2024) 'After the fire: an ecological, phenomenological exploration of resilience‐building following the Fuego volcanic eruption in Guatemala.' American Journal of Community Psychology,
Stevenson, A., de Castañeda, T., Oldfield, J., Klie, M. (2023) 'Zones of comfort and imaginability: using Participatory Video Interviewing to explore ecologies of resilience in Guatemala City.' Children's Geographies,
Oldfield, J., Stevenson, A., Ortiz, E. (2019) 'Promoting resilience in street connected young people in Guatemala: the role of psychological and educational protective factors.' Journal of Community Psychology, 48(2) pp. 590-604.
Stevenson, A., Oldfield, J., Ortiz, E. (2019) 'Streets of resilience: exploring the role of educational outreach projects with street connected young people in Guatemala City.' Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 29(3) pp. 238-253.
Stevenson, A., Oldfield, J., Ortiz, E. (2019) 'Image and word on the street: a reflexive, phased approach to combining participatory visual methods and qualitative interviews to explore resilience with street connected young people in Guatemala City.' Qualitative Research in Psychology, 19(1) pp. 176-203.
Oldfield, J., Stevenson, A., Ortiz, E., Haley, B. (2018) 'Promoting or suppressing resilience to mental health outcomes in at risk young people: The role of parental and peer attachment and school connectedness..' Journal of Adolescence, 64pp. 13-22.
Stevenson, A., Lawthom, R. (2017) 'How We Know Each Other: exploring the bonds of friendship using friendship ethnography and visual ethnography.' Anthrovision, 5(1)
Stevenson, A.D., Holloway, J.J. (2016) '"Getting Participants' Voices Heard: using mobile, participant led, sound-based methods to explore place making".' Area, 49(1) pp. 85-93.
Stevenson, A.D. (2015) 'Arrival Stories: using participatory, embodied, sensory ethnography to explore the making of an English city for newly arrived international students.' Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research, 46(5) pp. 544-572.
Stevenson, A.D. (2014) 'We came here to remember’: Using participatory sensory ethnography to explore memory as emplaced, embodied practice.' Qualitative Research in Psychology, 11
Stevenson, A. (2013) 'Manchester through the ears: Soundscape compositions by a newcomer from Bandung.' Senses and Society, 8(2) pp. 209-221.
Stevenson, A.D. (2013) 'Dog Team Walking: Intercorporeal Identities, Blindness and Reciprocal.' DISABILITY & SOCIETY, 28(8) pp. 1162-1167.
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Conference papers
Stevenson, A. (2023) 'Los Ninos de La Terminal (documentary film presentation).' In Cinemistica Film Festival. Granada, 15/11/2023 - 30/11/2023. Stevenson, A. (ed.)
Stevenson, A.D. (2013) 'Stevenson, A. (2013) "16 Cities: participatory potentials for sensory ethnographies in exploring place making in newcomers to a city",.' In Art and Geography; Aesthetics and Practices of Spatial Knowledge,. University of Lyon, 2013 -
Press and media
Media appearances or involvement
Podcasts
Stevenson, A. (2010), Interview, Cultural Issues in Psychology, Psychology Press, Routledge, November 9th http://psypress-podcast.podomatic.com
Documentary Films
‘How We Know Each Other: a film about four friendships’, screened as part of ESRC Festival of Social Science, November 2015, Brooks Building, Manchester Metropolitan University
Soundscapes
‘A Walk in Whitworth Park’, presented at Knokophone Night, Lincoln Center, New York City, U.S., September 2014
‘The Disappearing Sound of Rollerboard on Cobblestones, presented at Kinokophone Night, The British Library, UK, May 2015
‘Amolador’ (with Dr. Ines Ponte), presented as part of Kinokophone Night, Whtiworth Gallery, Manchester, October 2015
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