Dr Suryia Nayak

School of Health & Society

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Contact Details

School of Health & Society
Social Work and integrated practice
Allerton Building
Frederick Rd
Salford
M6 6PU
UK

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Current positions

Senior Lecturer

Biography

Dr. Suryia Nayak is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the School of Health and Society, University of Salford. She is a qualified social worker and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and group analyst. Suryia has over 40 years of anti-racist feminist activism in ending violence against women, services for Black and racially minoritized women and girls and forced migration, including the trauma of seeking asylum. Suryia applies models of liberation based on intersectionality to the psychological and political impact of oppression. Suryia has extensive experience as a clinical supervisor, with expertise in attachment, trauma, and loss.

Editorial Boards
2021 – Current; Editorial Board: 1968 Press
2020 - Current: Editorial Board Critical Radical Social Work
2020- Current: editorial Board Psychoanalysis and Culture
2018- Current: Editorial Board ‘Group Work’ Journal
2014 - Current: Editorial Board of ‘The Annual Review of Critical Psychology’
2013 – Current: ‘Critical Social Policy’ (coordinator of Living Activism and Solidarity Fund)
2013 – Current: External reviewer for ‘Critical Sociology’
2012 – Current: External reviewer for ‘Social Work Education’

Areas of Research

Intersectionality
Black feminism
Decolonization
Psychoanalysis
Critical psychology
Group Analysis

Areas of Supervision

Intersectionality
Black feminism
Decolonization
Psychoanalysis
Critical psychology
Group Analysis
Attachment, Trauma and Loss
Critical Theories of liberation
Research methods
Textual analysis

Teaching Qualifications and Recognitions

Teaching

Attachment, Trauma and Loss
Critical Theories of liberation
Psychoanalysis
Intersectionality
Qualitative research methods (including intersectionality as methodology)
Textual analysis
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications

  • Group Analyst with Institute of Group Analysis

    2018 - 2023

  • PhD

    2008 - 2013

  • Advanced Dip Counselling and Psychotherapy

    1994 - 1996

  • PG CQSW (Social Work)

    1989 - 1992

  • History

    1986 - 1989