Dr Lewis Goodings

Biography

Lewis gained his BSc in Psychology (Hons) at Loughborough University in 2005. He then continued at Loughborough as he studied for a PhD, which was focussed on the way people communicate in online spaces. He was awarded the PhD in 2010. While completing his PhD he worked for brief periods as a Research Assistant at Nottingham Trent University and as a Residential Tutor for the Open University. Lewis then joined Roehampton University as a Lecturer in Social Psychology. He worked there for five years until moving to UEL in October 2015.

Research Interest

Lewis is a social psychologist who is interested in digital technoloiges and the way that we live through new media. His interests stem from classic areas of social psychology (such as self, identity and community) and he is interested in how we can understand these things in relation to digital technologies. He am driven to understand the changing ways that people interact with new forms of technology, and the subjective or collective spaces that afford complex relations of thinking, feeling and acting. This primarily starts with asking; how did the technology become what it is? And, how do people manage their everyday lives with new forms of technology? Lewis also has an interest in mental distress and the relationship with digital media.