Prof. Dr. Gavin Sullivan

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsSocial Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology,Empirical Social Research
KeywordsCollective/group-based emotions, Collective pride/national identity/nationalism, Interdisciplinary disaster research, Interdisciplinary social and political psychology, Wittgensteinian philosophy/theoretical psychology
Honours and awards

2019: Lead UK investigator on GCRF research network grant no. GCRFNGR4\1372 “South East Asia Resilience Hub (SEARCH): Socio-Economic Resilience of Coastal Communities” £25,000

2017: Lead Investigator British Academy Knowledge Frontiers application for £49,200 to extend Seismic Cities intervention to Bandung, Indonesia

2016: Co-Investigator on NERC/ESRC/AHRC Seismic Cities grant NE/P015964/1 £199,952

2015: Awarded £31,400 British Council Researcher Links Workshop grant on the topic of disaster preparedness in Indonesia

2014: Awarded $1000 USD by Open Science Foundation for a replication of a cross cultural recognition of pride study Funded

2010: Guest Professor Languages of Emotion Cluster Free University Berlin winter semester (September 2009 - March 2010)

2009: Endeavour Research Fellow in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (November 2008 – February 2009)

2009: Gerda Henkel Foundation Research Fellow (March 2009 – August 2009, April 2010 – June 2010)

2008: Chief Investigator C on Thyssen Foundation Grant Approximate value €165,000 on

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBerlin
InstitutionInternational Psychoanalytic University
InstituteSozialpsychologie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Manfred ZaumseilFachbereich Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2007

Programme(s)

2006Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2018Gavin Brent Sullivan Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in Psychology: Interpretations and Applications in Historical Context. Palgrave Macmillan 2018
2013Manfred Zaumseil, Silke Schwarz, Mechthild von Vacano, Gavin Brent Sullivan, & Johanna Prawitasari-Hadiyono: Cultural psychology of coping with disasters. The case of an earthquake in Java/Indonesia. . Springer, 2013
2011Gavin Brent Sullivan: Emotional foundationalism? Critical remarks on a phenomenological-psychoanalytic account of ethno-national identity.. In: Ethnicities, 2011, 123-130
2010Gavin Brent Sullivan: Expressions of pride and proud feelings. In: Armindo Freitas-Magalhães, Emotional expression: The brain and the face (Vol. 2).. University Fernando Pessoa Press., 2010. 173-201
2009Gavin Brent Sullivan: Germany during the 2006 World Cup: The role of television in creating a national narrative of pride and “party patriotism”.. In: E., Castelló, E., A., Dhoest, & H., O'Donnell, The Nation on Screen, Discourses of the National in Global Television.. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 235-252
2009Anna Thomas, Gavin Brent Sullivan & Felicity Allen: Theoretical Model of EGM problem gambling: More than a cognitive escape.. In: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2009, 97-107
2009Gavin Brent Sullivan: Wittgenstein, reflexivity and the social construction of reality.. In: V. A., Munz, K., Puhl, J, Wang, Language and world. Papers of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium Vol. XVII.. Department for Culture and Science of the Province of Lower Austria, 2009. 395-397
2007Gavin Brent Sullivan: A critical psychology of pride.. In: International Journal of Critical Psychology, 2007, 166-189
2007Gavin Brent Sullivan: Review of Bem & Looren de Jong's Theoretical issues in psychololgy: An introduction.. In: Philosophical Psychology, 2007, 815-833
2007Gavin Brent Sullivan: Wittgenstein and the grammar of pride: The relevance of philosophy to studies of selfconscious emotions. . In: New Ideas in Psychology, 2007, 233-252
1Gavin Brent Sullivan: What is the status of theoretical psychology in Australia and New Zealand? A qualitative investigation of contemporary teaching and research issues.. In: Autralian Psychologist, 1, 61-73