Billy Lee
Lecturer
- Psychology
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 3342
- Email: b.lee@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room S40, Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
Background
I am British-born Chinese, the eldest son of a Hakka family. My parents emigrated to the UK from Hong Kong and helped establish Britain's Chinatowns. My hometown is Colchester in Essex and I also grew up in Lancashire and the North East of England. After a first degree and DPhil from the University of Oxford I lived and worked briefly in London and Reading, before moving to Edinburgh to lecture in Psychology.
Undergraduate teaching
- Psychology 4: Final Year Dissertation supervision on any aspect of marginal experience and identity.
- Psychology 4: Option course on Psychology of Counselling.
- Psychology 4: Final Year Tutorials
- Psychology 3: Mini-dissertation supervision e.g. British men's experiences of living alone in later life
Postgraduate teaching
- MSc in Psychological Research: Programme Director
- MSc Dissertation supervision in the method of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)
- MSc Psychology of Mental Health (Conversion): Course organiser for Social Psychology and Mental Health
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I offer supervision in phenomenological (experience-near) interviewing methods and analysis. I welcome enquiries on any aspect of the psychology of difference.
Current PhD students supervised
Research summary
Phenomenology of marginal and special life experience especially in relation to the talking therapies. I use qualitative, experience-near methods to facilitate people's lived experiences and personal meanings. My current research explores issues around culture and ethnocentricity in theory and practice of the talking cure. I have a special interest in Chinese psychology and psychotherapy. I am interested in collaborating in research offering a phenomenological approach to any aspect of different or marginal experience, including race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.
Current research interests
I am interested in how our personal histories, bodies, culture, and existential situation influence how we experience ourselves and other people, and how we interpret, avoid and express feeling and being. I use Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to conduct experience-near psychological research. My current interests include cultural psychology; phenomenological psychology and psychotherapy; phenomenology of alterity and minority experience.Project activity
Book Series Co-editor: Language, Discourse and Mental Health (University of Exeter Press)
Past project grants
Lee, B., Widdicombe, S., Bondi, L. & Prior, S. Development of Listening Skills. Development Trust Research Fund. 2007-2008. £3,400
Lee, B. Exploring the psychology of perception and impression formation in Japanese and British cultures. Daiwa Foundation Small Project Grant. 2002-2003. £1,500.
Lee, B. Imagery and visual memory. Nuffield Award to Newly Appointed Science Lecturers. 1997-1999. £3,500