Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I have no funded positions available currently, but am always willing to discuss potential projects especially around areas of social and cultural psychology with a focus on religion and spirituality, religious change, irreligion, mindfulness, meditation, the transpersonal, Buddhism and meditation, etc.
Research activity per year
Michael Montgomery; Psychology
The Shifting Sound of Silence: A Grounded Theory Study.
Chetak Nangare; Psychology
Parapsychology and Buddhism -- to afford a comparison between descriptions of psychic experiences in Buddhist works and in parapsychological research.
Jacqueline Ridge; Nursing
Nursing Development - The (de) construction of aspiration in nursing: the social, cultural, economic and philosophical ramifications to personal and professional agency.
Alex Wilson; Psychology
The Transformative Nature of Altered States of Consciousness in Youth Subculture.
Alasdair’s interests are in social and cultural psychology, the psychology of religion and spirituality, as well as the intersection of these two areas (e.g. doctoral dissertation on “Becoming Buddhist” in a Western cultural context). Alasdair’s methodological interests are mainly qualitative, and specifically grounded theory.
Alasdair completed his BA in Drama & Psychology and his BA(Hons) in Psychology at Rhodes University in South Africa, graduating in 1994, before spending some years travelling and working in the private sector.
He later completed an MSc in Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University in 2003, and went on to do a PhD at the same institution, completing this in 2011 with a thesis examining how Westerners become Buddhist in the UK.
Since 2011, Alasdair has worked at UON, initially as one of the team on the now-defunct MSc Transpersonal Psychology & Consciousness Studies programme, and is currently Programme Leader for psychology's Joint Honours programmes and the new BSc in Forensic Psychology.
Alasdair is also an ordained Soto Zen Priest in the White Plum tradition, and runs the StoneWater Zen Northampton meditation group, and volunteers as a chaplaincy visitor at St Andrews hospital.
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Poster
Alasdair Gordon-Finlayson (Author), Jacquie Ridge (Author), Fiona Barchard (Author) & Lee Yarwood-Ross (Author)
Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Symposium › Research
Alasdair Gordon-Finlayson (Author)
Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Oral presentation › Research