Dr Rod Dubrow-Marshall
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Lecturer
Biography
Rod is psychologist who co-created and is co-Programme Leader for the MSc Psychology of Coercive Control, at the University of Salford, UK. Rod has been researching the psychology of coercive and undue influence including in cults and extremist groups and in relationships and families for nearly thirty years and developed the evidence based Totalistic Identity Theory to explain and tackle the psychological effects of coercion and ideological extremism. Rod has been a member of the Board of Directors of the International Cultic Studies Association since 2015 and is Chair of the ICSA Research Committee and Network and is a co-Editor of the International Journal of Coercion, Abuse and Manipulation (IJCAM). In 2006, he was awarded The Herbert L. Rosedale Award, jointly with Dr. Paul Martin, for their psychological research on undue influence. He received a personal chair (professorial title) from the University of South Wales in 2008.