Position: Professor and Deputy Head of School

Email: l.huskinson@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1248 382768

Location: T24, Main Arts

PHD SUPERVISION

I am currently sole supervisor for the following PhD research projects.

1. The Biography of the Tower: Architecture and C.G. Jung  (Martin Gledhill).
2. Nietzsche, Christianity, and the Will to Power as a Spiritual Approach to Life (Mark Z. Wright)

I supervise postdoctoral research and I am an external supervisor to doctoral student in the Faculty of Philosophy at Pontificia Universidad Católica De Chile.  

I have supervised (as sole supervisor) the following successful doctoral PhD theses. The majority have since been published by the student as monographs.

1. A Philosophical Investigation of Religious Language: A Study of The Identity, Meaning, And Semantic of Religious Utterances.(Dave Ellis) (co-supervised)
2. Believing in Russia: Religious Policy after Communism (Geraldine Fagan)
3. Ressentiment: Towards a Christology without enemies: The case of Friedrich Nietzsche versus René Girard (Nikolai Blaskow)
4. The Natural Science and Nietzsche's Will to Power. (Capt. Paul Curtis) (co-supervised)
5. Self, Infinity, Rebirth: A Jungian Critique of The Walking Dead (College of Arts and Humanities Scholarship) (Emma Buchanan)
6. The Archetypal Shadow: The instinct of selfishness in the work of Robert Moore and Jacob Boehme (Eric Scott Krasny)
7. The Death of God Motif in the Philosophical Anthropologies of Nietzsche and St. Paul (Joshua Duff)
8. C.G. Jung's Reception of Picasso and Abstract Art (Lucie Hill)
9. The Unitive Self in Mental Health, Society, and Politics (Russell Razzaque)
10. An Analysis of the Potential Relationships Between Buddist Thought and Kierkegaardian Philosophy (Joshua Andrews)
11. A Kindred Spirit in the Shadows: C.G. Jung’s unfounded rejection of Søren Kierkegaard (Amy Cook)
12. Transcendent Experience, Process, and Praxis within the ‘Transcendence Movement’ (Keith Beasley)
13. The Christian Platonism of George Grant: following Simone Weil from the cave to the cross(Brad Jersak)
14. A revised epistemology for an understanding of spirit release therapy, according to the conceptual framework of F.W.H. Myers (Terence Palmer)
15. The Trinity and the Vindication of Christian Paradox (Brant Bosserman) (co-supervised)
16. Grace Beyond the Grave: A biblical, theological, and practical evaluation of post-mortem evangelisation (Jonathan Stephen) (co-supervised).

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING

I teach the following undergraduate taught modules.

• Psychology of Religion (VPR2209/VPR3309)
• Existentialism (HPS-1005)
• Death of God (HPS-1004)
• Paradoxes of Self (HPS-2011/ HPS-3011)
• Serial Killers (HPS-2015 / HPS-3015)
• Independent Study (VPR2207)
• Dissertation (HPS-3006)

I am an elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and Visiting Professor of Instituto de Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. My research interests are principally in theories philosophy and psychoanalysis and their application to cultural phenomena, especially to the built environment and architecture, and to the psychological motivations for religious belief and experience.

I have recently published a monograph Architecture and the Mimetic Self: a psychoanalytic study of how buildings make and break our lives (Routledge: London and NY) - which was shortlisted for an international award and has been translated into Portuguese (Editoria Perspectiva: São Paulo, Brazil).  I'm currently undertaking research for a monograph on Nietzsche and architecture.

My monograph Nietzsche and Jung: The whole self in the Union of Opposites (Routedge: London and NY) has been translated into three languages. 

I am a member of the International and Home/EU Peer Review Colleges of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).  

Between 2010-2019 I was Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies. I am a qualified counsellor (psychodynamic; BACP and WPF accredited).

Research Expertise

• Nietzsche
• Analytical psychology / psychoanalysis
• C.G. Jung
• Freud
• Aesthetics 
• Philosophy of Architecture
• Philosophy of Place
• Mental health and its relationship to existentialism and religion

I am happy to consider research proposals for PhD study in the following areas:  Nietzsche; Aesthetics; C.G. Jung; Freud; Psychoanalytic Studies; Philosophy and Architecture; Philosophy and Place; Psychoanalysis and Film; Psychoanalysis and Religious Experience.   

2022

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2021

• External examiner, PhD. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

  'Freedom in the self's constitution before God' (Santiago Gallinal), Facultad de Filosofia.

  14 Gorff 2021

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• International Assessor for The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) joint German-UK research projects (in the fields of arts, humanities, linguistics and law).

  21 Meh 2021

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd)
• Medical Research Council (MRC) Peer Review/Assessor

  14 Meh 2021

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• External Assessor. Validation Panel. MA programme. Technological University of the Shannon/ Limerick Institute of Technology

  Validation of MA in Art, Psyche & the Creative Imagination

  8 Meh 2021

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• Architecture of the Self: Towers of Nietzsche and Jung

  Keynote Guest Lecture: 'Architecture of the Self: Towers of Nietzsche and Jung'

  22 Mai 2021

  Cysylltau:

  • https://www.guildofpastoralpsychology.org.uk/event/architecture-of-the-self-towers-of-nietzsche-and-jung/
  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Prif siaradwr/siaradwr mewn sesiwn lawn)
• Analytical Psychology and the Human Sciences

  International Conference. Keynote/ Plenary paper: Walking the Royal Road: Nietzsche and Freud and the Philosophy of Walking.

  18 Maw 2021 – 21 Maw 2021

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Prif siaradwr/siaradwr mewn sesiwn lawn)
• AHRC Peer Review College, International and Academic College

  Serving as peer reviewer of grant applications (both home/EU and International) to the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Agreed 2-year extension to formal term.

  1 Ion 2021 – 31 Rhag 2022

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Aelod)

2020

• Keynote/Plenary presentation to 'Thiasos', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  International Guest Speaker. Keynote/ Plenary paper: Unconscious Relationships with the Built Environment

  9 Hyd 2020

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Ymchwilio a Dysgu mewn Sefydliad Allanol (Siaradwr)
• Jungian Psychology and the Human Sciences

  Keynote/Plenary speaker, Jungian Psychology and the Human Sciences, Dept. Psychology Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and the International Association for Jungian Studies.

  4 Ebr 2020

  Cysylltau:

  • https://www.duq.edu/academics/schools/liberal-arts/academics/departments-and-centers/psychology/events/tri-annual-conference-of-the-international-association-for-jungian-studies
  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Prif siaradwr/siaradwr mewn sesiwn lawn)
• AHRC Peer Review College, International and Academic Colleges

  Serving as peer reviewer of grant applications (both home/EU and International) to the Arts and Humanities Research Council

  1 Ion 2020 – 31 Rhag 2020

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Ymchwilio a Dysgu mewn Sefydliad Allanol (Adolygydd)

2019

• External Examiner. PhD.

  ‘Psychogeography, Psychotherapy and Psychogeotherapy: A critique of containing space in therapeutic work’ (Martyna Chrzescijanska).

  8 Tach 2019

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• DFG-AHRC Panel Member to assess applications to DFG Joint Funding Call: UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities

  3-day assessment of international grant applications in Bonn, Germany.

  10 Medi 2019 – 12 Medi 2019

  Gweithgaredd: Ymgynghoriad (Ymgynghorydd)
• External Examiner. PhD

  ‘Winnicott’s Space in Modernist Architecture’ (Jennifer Jane Scott)

  17 Meh 2019

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• External examiner for PhD, University of Western Australia

  Examiner for PhD 'Winnicott's Space in Modernist Architecture'

  17 Meh 2019

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr)
• External Examiner for University of Essex degree programmes

  External Examiner for Dept. of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

  1 Mai 2019 – 30 Tach 2022

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• External Examiner for Leeds Trinity University for degree programmes

  External Examiner for degree programmes in Philosophy, Ethics, and Theology

  1 Ion 2019 – 1 Ion 2023

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• Invitation to give international online seminar on the arguments in my new monograph on architecture (to International Association of Jungian Studies)

  2019

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Ymchwilio a Dysgu mewn Sefydliad Allanol (Cyfrannwr)

2018

• External Assessor for Validation of module 'Aesthetics' for BA, Philosophy, Politics, Economics, University of Buckingham

  External Assessor for validation of module 'aesthetics' for the undergraduate degree programme, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Buckingham

  4 Mai 2018

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr)
• External Panel Member for Validation of Degree Programme: BSc Critical Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy, Edge Hill University.

  External panel member for validation of BSc Critical Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy, Edge Hill University

  26 Maw 2018 – 12 Ebr 2018

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Cyfrannwr)
• External Examiner. Programmes. School of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies.

  External Examiner. Programmes. School of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies.

  1 Ion 2018 – 31 Rhag 2022

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)

2017

• External Examiner. PhD

  ‘Painting as Process: A Jungian Approach to Image and Imagination as Experiential Practice in Contemporary Culture’. (David Parker)

  Ebr 2017

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• External Examiner. PhD

  ‘Pregnant Pause: Delayed Motherhood and its Connection to Individual and Collective Complexes’ (Maryanne Baronne-Chapman)

  Chwef 2017

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• Lecture for the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath.

  Lecture for BSc (hons) Architecture four year programme (K100). Lecture to fourth year students, for their final year project.

  17 Ion 2017

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Ymchwilio a Dysgu mewn Sefydliad Allanol (Siaradwr)
• AHRC Peer Review College, International and Academic Colleges

  Serving as peer reviewer of grant applications (both home/EU and International) to the Arts and Humanities Research Council

  1 Ion 2017 – 31 Rhag 2020

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Adolygydd)

2016

• External Examiner. PhD

  ‘AfterNOTES: Non-Ordinary Transcendent Experiences and their Aftereffects Through Jungian Typology’ (Nicole Gruel)

  Chwef 2016

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)

2015

• External Examiner. PhD

  ‘Hillman-Matters: An Insider’s Socio-Historical Revision of Re-Visioning Psychology' (Gustavo Beck Urriolagoitia)

  Tach 2015

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)

2014

• External Examiner. PhD

  ‘“The Image of Thought” in Jung’s “Whole-Self”: A Critical Study’. (Karl Hans Christian McMillan)

  Hyd 2014

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• Behavioral Science (Cyfnodolyn)

  1 Ion 2014 – 31 Rhag 2019

  Cysylltau:

  • http://www.mdpi.com/journal/behavsci
  Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol)

2013

• External Examiner. PhD

  ‘The Feminine in Body, Language, and Spirituality’ (Kaye Gersch)

  14 Maw 2013

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• External Examiner. PhD

  School of Law. ‘Subjectivity Beyond Speaking: Women, Psyche, Sociality and the Search for Justice’. (Mita Parmar)

  Chwef 2013

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)

2012

• External Examiner. The Archbishop's Examination in Theology, Lambeth Palace.

  'God’s Involvement with Evil: a dialogue between psychology and theology constructed from the works of C.G. Jung and Hans Urs von Balthasar’. (The Revd Canon Les Oglesby), The Archbishop’s Examination in Theology, Lambeth Palace

  12 Maw 2012

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)

2011

• Spring: Journal of Archetype and Culture (Cyfnodolyn)

  Editorial Board

  1 Tach 2011 →

  Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol)

2010

• International Journal of Jungian Studies (Cyfnodolyn)

  Editor-In-Chief

  1 Rhag 2010 →

  Cysylltau:

  • http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rijj20
  Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Golygydd)
• External Examiner. PhD

  ‘Jungian Psychology and the Deepening of Spirituality’. (Beth Brough)

  Meh 2010

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Arholwr)
• Routledge (Cyhoeddwr)

  Regular peer-reviewer for manuscripts submitted to Routledge: London and New York for their lists on behavioural science, Jungian psychology, and psychoanalysis.

  1 Ion 2010 – 1 Ion 2020

  Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Adolygydd cymheiriaid)
• Taylor & Francis (Cyhoeddwr)

  I am Editor-In-Chief

  1 Ion 2010 – 31 Rhag 2019

  Cysylltau:

  • http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rijj20
  Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Golygydd)

• RE – Connect: establishing a network for the study of RE in North Wales and North West England

  01/09/2018 – 09/02/2022 (Wedi gorffen)

• Phenomenology of Architectural Design

  26/03/2013 – 31/07/2015 (Wedi gorffen)

• REPLACED BY R11Y01

  01/02/2012 – 30/09/2012 (Wedi gorffen)

• Role of psychoanalysis and analysts in media

  01/02/2012 – 30/09/2012 (Wedi gorffen)

Grant Awards and Recognition

• 2022:  Elected Fellow, Learned Society of Wales.
• 2022:  Bangor University Student Led Teaching Award: Thesis/Supervisor of the Year.
• 2021:  Bangor University Student Led Teaching Award: Thesis/Supervisor of the Year.
• 2021:  Elected Visiting Professor, Instituto de Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. 
• 2019:  Bangor University Student Led Teaching Award: Teacher of the Year.
• 2018:  £75,000 Corporate Grant, All Saints Educational Trust. PI.
• 2018:  Bangor University Student Led Teaching Award: Thesis/Supervisor of the Year.
• 2017:  Bangor University Student Led Teaching Award: Outstanding Pastoral Support
• 2016:  Bangor University Student Led Teaching Award: Wildcard Award
• 2014:  Bangor University Teaching Fellowship Award/ £1000 
• 2013:  $4500  Mythos Grant/ Visiting Scholarship, Opus Archives and Research Center USA.
• 2013:  Bangor University Student Led Teaching Award: Teacher of the Year
• 2012:  £2000 Artellus Small Grant. PI
• 2013-2022: Shortlisted for various other Bangor University Student Led Teaching Awards, in various categrories.

Current Projects

I am currently working on three projects.

1. 'RE-Connect':  A research and outreach programme (funded by All Saints Educational Trust) to establish a pedagogical network for the teaching of Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Ethics in Schools across North Wales and the West of England.  

2. Nietzsche and Architecture : Research into the influence of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche on architectural design and practice.

3. Architectural history of the former asylum/hospital at Denbigh 

Administrative Roles

• Deputy Head of School of History, Philosophy, and Social Science
• Academic Integrity Officer, School of History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences
• University Sexual Violence and Harassment Support Disclosure Response Team
• (Former University Senate Committee, 2010-2021)
• (Former Senate Nominations Committee)
• (Former Senate Board of Discipline, 2010-2021)
• (Former University Ethics Board)
• (Former University Widening Access Strategy Group)
• (Former University Student Mental Health Strategy Group)
• (Former Chair and panel member of University Academic Integrity Committees)
• (Former Head of School of Philosophy and Religion)
• (Former Honorary Counsellor working in the University student counselling services)

Editorial Positions

• 2010-2019 Editor-In-Chief, International Journal of Jungian Studies (ISSN 1940-9052/1940-9060; peer-reviewed). (2007-2010, I was Associate Editor of the journal)
• Since 2014, Editorial Board, Behavioral Science (ISSN 2076-328X); peer reviewed, open access.
• Guest Editor of Behavioral Sciences special issue: Theory and Practice of Analytical Psychology, 2013-2014; open access: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/behavsci/special_issues/analytical-psychology.
• Since 2013, Editorial Board, Quandrant (ISSN 0033-‐5010).
• Since 2012, Editorial Board, Spring, Journal of Archetype and Culture, (ISSN 1934-2039/1934-2047

When I’m not working I’m usually watching NFL football (I’m a life-long fan and obsessive of the Cincinnati Bengals, and support Bangor University’s own team, the MudDogs). I'm also an avid follower of Aussie Rules Football (AFL) and F1 motor racing.

I read philosophy for my first degree, shortly followed by an MA in psychoanalytic studies, and doctoral research on Nietzschean philosophy and its influence on the analytical psychology of C.G. Jung. After completing my PhD I became a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK; and later, a research fellow at the Universities of Monash and La Trobe, Victoria, Australia. I was appointed to the Bangor faculty in 2007.