Dr Alison Mackiewicz

PhD (Bath), BSc Research Methods in Psychology (Southampton), BA (Hons) (Winchester), Dip.TA Practice

Dr Alison Mackiewicz

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Department of Psychology

Contact Details

Profile

Dr Alison Mackiewicz has a PhD from Bath University, and joined the Psychology department at Aberystwyth in 2013. Alison is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow with the British Psychological Society; she is also a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and a member of the UK  Association for Transactional Analysis (UKATA). During her time at Aberystwyth, Alison gained a Post-Graduate Teaching qualification (PGCTHE) and is a fellow of the HEA. Alison has teaching experience in a range of areas, including qualitative research methods, applications of psychology, psychology in practice, and more recently, in counselling and psychotherapy. Her research interests primarily lie in alcohol consumption, gender, mental health and wellbeing.

Additional Information

Graduate member of BPS (MBPsS)

BPS Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol)

BPS Associate Fellow (AFBPsS)

Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (FEA)

PGCTHE

Member of UKATA

Registered member of BACP, including the counselling directory

Counsellor & Psychotherapist specialising in Transactional Analysis

Alcohol Brief Intervention (ABI) trainer

Teaching

Module Coordinator
Coordinator
Moderator
Tutor
Lecturer
Course Viewer

Research

Alison's research interests are in the areas of identity, such as gender and embodiment; alcohol and drug use; vulnerability and stigmatization; mental health and wellbeing, using different therapeutic approaches; qualitative research methods, including discourse analysis and visual methods.

As part of her PhD research she explored how femininities are taken-up, reworked and resisted within the dominant discourses of agency and consumer-oriented subjectivity; intersecting with issues of sexuality, gender, power and class, her research documents the lived-experience of women's negotiations of sexiness and alcohol consumption in the twenty-first century.

Research project involvement:

investigating older women's (50+) experience of sexual relationships and sexual health care services in rural Wales.

interviewing men and their partners about the influence of male uro-genital cancer on their lives and relationships, and the ways in which they have coped with these challenges.

investigating the needs and requirements of people living in Ceredigion regarding their wellbeing and mental health.

investigating sustainable upland management in a rapidly changing physical and socio-economic environment.  

Responsibilities

C843 Psychology with Counselling Degree Scheme Coordinator  

 

Office Hours (Student Contact Times)

  • Wednesday 12.00-13.00
  • Thursday 10.00-12.00

Publications

Murdeshwar, S, Riley, S & Mackiewicz, A 2019, 'I like to go out and have a good time: An ethnography of a group of young middle class urban Indian women participating in a new drinking culture', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 66, pp. 1-8. 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.01.003
Mackiewicz, A 2019, 'Longhurst, R, Skype: Bodies, Screens, Space. Routledge: London, 2017; 150 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3454-8 (hbk)' Feminism and Psychology. 10.1177/0959353518796867
Mackiewicz, A 2017, 'Event Review: The British Psychological Society Psychology of Women Section 30th Annual Conference: Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, United Kingdom (12th-14th July 2017)' British Mensa's: ANDROGYNY, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 21-23.
Mackiewicz, A 2017, 'Review of Drinking Dilemmas: Space, Culture, Identity by Thomas Thurnell-Read (ED.) (2016)', Hospital & Society, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 288. 10.1386/hosp.7.3.281_5
Ensslin, A, Skains, L, Riley, S, Mackiewicz, A, Haran, J & Halliwell, E 2016, 'Exploring digital fiction as a tool for teenage body image bibliotherapy', Digital Creativity, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 177-195. 10.1080/14626268.2016.1210646
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