Dr Roxana Baiasu PhD

Dr Roxana Baiasu

School of Psychology
Assistant Professor

Dr Roxana Baiasu is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Her current interests include: philosophy of mental health and psychiatry and more specifically, the phenomenology and ethics of vulnerability,  mental health, resilience, well-being, and justice.

Biography

Dr Roxana Baiasu is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, the University of Birmingham. Prior to this she taught at the University of Oxford, Stanford University Centre in Oxford, the University of Vienna, the University of Leeds, and was a Leverhulme Fellow at Sussex University. She has twenty-year experience in Higher Education in the U.K. and nine-year experience of online teaching at the University of Oxford. Her current academic interests include philosophy of mental health and psychiatry and more specifically, phenomenological and ethical approaches to mental health, resilience, well-being, vulnerability and justice. She has written articles on these topics in prestigious journals and in edited volumes published by Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan and Springer. She is writing a textbook which was recently commissioned by Wiley.

Teaching

Dr Baiasu is involved in teaching activities  for the MSc Mental Health for on-campus and distance-learning students.

She supervises Masters Dissertations.

She convenes a reading group meeting fortnightly.

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Baiasu supervises in the following areas:

  • philosophy of mental health and psychiatry
  • phenomenological and ethical approaches to mental health and well-being
  • mental health inequalities and justice

Publications

  • “Vulnerability, Well Being and Mental Health” in Vulnerability of the Human World, Susi Ferrarello and Elodie Boublil (eds.), Springer, 2022.
  • “Lived Experiences, Illness and Epistemic Injustices in Lockdown” in Time For Debate: Perspectives on Lockdowns from the Humanities and Social Science, Peter Sutoris, Sinead Murphy, Aleida Mendes Borges and Yossi Nehushtan (eds.), Routledge, 2022.
  • “Phenomenology of Illness, Resilience and Wellbeing” in Phenomenology of Bioethics, ed. S. Ferrarello, Springer, 2021.
  • “Vulnerability and Resilience in Illness”, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 25.1-2 February–April 2020, and in Love and Vulnerability, ed. Pelagia Goulimari. London: Routledge, 2021.

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