Dr Deanne Bell

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 

Associate Fellow of The British Psychological Society 

Chartered member of The British Psychological Society 

Series Editor, Studies in the Psychosocial

Editor, Journal of Community Psychology 

Editor, Community Psychology in Global Perspective 

Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology and Ecopsychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2011 

M.A. in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology and Ecopsychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2009     

M.A. in Counsellor Education, University of Montana, 2005 

B.B.A. in Finance and International Business, Florida International University,1987

Deanne joined the University of Birmingham as Associate Professor in Race, Education and Social Justice in 2024. Prior to joining UoB she was an Associate Professor of Critical Psychology and Decolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University where she served as the university’s Curriculum Decolonisation Lead.

She was the founding director of the Nottingham Trent University Decolonial Research Collaborative. She completed her PhD in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology and Ecopsychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2011 where she interrogated colonial indifference and denial of racism and classism in ‘post’ colonial Jamaica.

Deanne’s work draws from the fields of critical psychology, decolonial theory and praxis, psychosocial theory, and critical education to interrogate problems with race, coloniality and epistemic injustice. Her commitment to social transformation is animated in her scholarship and practice of critical pedagogy and participatory research with historically marginalised communities. She seeks to contribute to epistemic justice in higher education and society. Her work is influenced by the Black-Archipelago, anticolonial tradition and the writings of Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant and Paulo Freire

Module leader MA Education and Social Justice

MA Education and Social Justice programme

BA Education and Social Justice programme

Coloniality

Decoloniality

Epistemic injustice

Epistemic justice

Critical pedagogy

Critical education

Philosophies of race

Phenomenologies of race

Curricula decolonisation

Critical consciousness

Participatory research methodologies