Dr Nini Fang (DPsych(Edin), MBACP(Accred), FHEA)
Lecturer

Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0) 131 651 1390
- Email: nfang@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Medical School
Teviot Place
Edinburgh - City
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
Nini spent her doctoral years looking into the intrapsychic phenomenon of melancholia (depression) in relation to identity and loss with a particular focus on Ronald Fairbairn's theory. She gained her Doctorate in Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh in 2016 (awarded without correction).
Her current work foregrounds lived experiences, examining how the socio-political bears upon the personal-subjective. She has authored several papers foregrounding psychosocial investigations in leading journals. She works with creative, qualitative methodology in composing evocative accounts of the other and their lived domains. As a psychoanalytic practitioner (accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP), she has authored and published several research articles drawing on clinical practice and theoretical reflections in international, specialist journals within the field. As a COSCA-accredited trainer for the Postgraduate programmes (Masters /Diploma in Counselling) at Edinburgh, her teaching pushes for a more politically sensitive curriculum that addresses social inequality in the consulting room.
Nini is a Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). She sits on the Executive Board for the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS), the Editorial Board for New Associations (British Psychoanalytic Council). She is also one of the Associate Directors for the Centre of Creative-Relational Inquiry (UoE). She is also involved in research networks such as Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS), the Higher Education Research Group (HERG, UoE) and the research network Race.Ed (UoE).
She is a regular reviewer for the Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and Psychodynamic Practice.
Professional memberships / Research Networks
- Registered member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) since September 2015; professional accreditation awarded since May 2018.
- Accredited trainer of COSCA for the Postgraduate counselling programmes (Masters /Diploma in Counselling)
- Board Member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)
- Member of the Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS)
- Member of the UoE Higher Education Research Group (HERG)
- Member of the UoE Race.Ed Research Network
Editorial and Academic Services
- Reviewer for the Journal of Psychosocial Studies; Psychodynamic Practice; Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
- Guest Editor on the special issue: “Psychosocial perspectives on race, racism and anti-racist action” (2021), The Journal of Psychosocial Studies.
- Guest Editor on the special issue: “Qualitative inquiry as activism" (2021), International Review of Qualitative Research.
- External Moderator for the programme: ‘Professional doctorate in advanced practice and research: social work and social care (D55)’, the Tavistock and Portman NHS / University of Essex
- Editorial Board, New Associations, British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)
- Scholar, British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)
- Executive Board, Association for Psychosocial Studies
Undergraduate teaching
MA Health in Social Science: https://www.ed.ac.uk/health/subject-areas/counselling/ma-health-science-society
- Identity and Experience in Health and Society
- Nature, Greenspace and Health
Postgraduate teaching
MSc Counselling Studies: https://www.ed.ac.uk/health/subject-areas/counselling/postgraduate-taught/taught/msc-counselling
- Counselling across Language and Culture
Master of Counselling / PG Dip in Counselling (Interpersonal Dialogue): https://www.ed.ac.uk/health/subject-areas/counselling/postgraduate-taught/placement-based-programmes/master-counselling-id
- Beginnings in Counselling Practice
- The Counselling Relationship: Theory, Practice and Process
- Developing Narratives of Self
- Difference, Diversity and Power
- From Two Person to Three Person to the Group: A Psychodynamic Perspective
- Psychological Vulnerabilities and Distress in Counselling Practice
- Transitions, Endings and Beginnings
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
- Psychoanalytic inquiry: Ronald D Fairbairn, object-relations theory, depression, anti-psychiatry critique
- Psychosocial studies: culture and identity, 'race' and ethnicity studies, critical theory and postcolonial criticism, psychoanalytically-informed cultural analysis, post-human critical theory
- Critical University Studies: education and democracy, neoliberalism and late / advanced capitalism, social justice through education, reflexivity in counselling education
- Narrative inquiry / Auto-ethnographic studies
Affiliated research centres
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[Review of] Dancing in the dark: A survivor’s guide to the university , edited By Anne Pirrie, Nini Fang and Elizabeth O’Brien, Tilosophy Press, 2021, 64pp., GBP7.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-3999-0091-1
In:
Educational Philosophy and Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2022.2072291
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (E-pub ahead of print) -
‘Bothy Culture’: Towards a new ethics for the university
(11 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5277-6_15
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
The quiet professional: On being alone/together in higher education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350162181.0026
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
The Yellow Abject
(1 page)
In:
New Associations, pp. 8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
‘Already Given Over’: Activism in inquiry and in the world
(8 pages)
In:
International Review of Qualitative Research, vol. 14, pp. 375-382
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447211049522
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The aggressive potential and yellow anger
(18 pages)
In:
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-021-00234-4
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Culture as the Bad Object
Research output: › Paper (Published) -
Nini Fang's Story
Teaching Matters Podcast › Other contribution (Published) -
The Lothian Diary Project: Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Edinburgh and Lothian residents
(5 pages)
In:
Journal of Open Humanities Data, vol. 7, pp. 1-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.25
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Special issue (Published) -
Critical conversations: Being Yellow women in the time of COVID-19
(9 pages)
In:
International Feminist Journal of Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2021.1894969
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (E-pub ahead of print) -
Dancing in the Dark - A Survivor's Guide to the University
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Venturing from home: Writing (and teaching) as creative-relational inquiry for alternative educational futures
(13 pages)
In:
International Review of Qualitative Research, vol. N/A, pp. 1-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1940844720968213
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
‘Gone too far’: What happened when I taught colonialism in a University classroom’
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper (Published) -
On (Not) Settling: Psychosocial Studies, Psychoanalysis and The Search
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper (Published) -
Feeling/being ‘out of place’: Psychic defence against the hostile environment
(14 pages)
In:
Journal of Psychosocial Studies, vol. 13, pp. 151-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/147867320X15869669324256
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Imaginal dialogue as a method of narrative inquiry
In:
Narrative Inquiry, vol. 30, pp. 41-58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.18045.fan
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Depression reconsidered in Fairbairn’s object relations theory
(14 pages)
In:
Psychodynamic Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2020.1713202
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Narratively (bang) out of order: On hostile environment
(9 pages)
In:
International Review of Qualitative Research, vol. 12, pp. 385-393
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2019.12.4.385
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Care, contingency and capability: Ecological perspectives on higher education
(16 pages)
In:
Ars Educandi , pp. 123-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26881/ae.2019.16.10
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Jonathan Wyatt (2018). Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing: Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry
In:
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, vol. 20
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published)