Ian Parker (psychologist)

Ian Parker
Born	Ian Andrew Parker 1956 United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Fields	Critical psychology Theoretical psychology Discourse analysis Deconstruction Psychoanalytic social theory Marxist psychology Qualitative psychology
Institutions	University of Leicester
Influences	Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Žižek

Ian Parker (born 1956) is a British psychologist who has been a principal exponent of three quite diverse critical traditions inside the discipline. His writing has provided compass points for researchers searching for alternatives to 'mainstream' psychology in the English-speaking world (that is, mainstream psychology that is based on laboratory-experimental studies that reduce behaviour to individual mental processes). He is author or co-author of 20 books, and editor or co-editor of 15 books. His books and articles have been published in 14 languages.

Parker went to Ravens Wood School in Keston, Kent, UK, studied psychology at Plymouth Polytechnic and the University of Southampton, lectured at Manchester Polytechnic from 1985, was appointed Professor of Psychology at Bolton Institute in 1996, and returned to Manchester as Professor of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000. In 2012 he was suspended for questioning, in his capacity as departmental union representative for the University and College Union, work-load and appointment procedures. There was an international campaign for his reinstatement, and an online petition which claimed 'victory' with 3772 signatures. In 2013 he resigned his post, and moved to the University of Leicester, and also took up visiting professorial positions at Universiteit Gent, Belgium, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, Birkbeck University of London, UK, University of Roehampton, UK and University of Manchester, UK.

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