My research is inspired by theoretically-driven and interdisciplinary approaches that typically challenge mainstream psychology research, inspire new perspectives on problems and developing creative solutions working in partnership with the individuals, organisations and communities who experience issues or problems in complex contexts. My research and work with collaborators in the UK, Europe and internationally seeks to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions, develop new innovative theories and generate change through both top-down and bottom-up social and communal processes. In most of my research, affect or emotion and discursive practices are central to understanding complex psychological, social and collective phenomena in a wide range of contexts.

Journal Articles (In preparation and under review):

• Sullivan, G. B., & Sagala, S. (under review). The impact of multiple eruptions of on the communities surrounding Mount Sinabung, Indonesia. Comparison of wellbeing and mental health of remaining,displaced and relocated communities.
• Sullivan, G. B., Jones, S., & Kerrigan, N. (in preparation). English non-voters on the 2015 British General Election and EU Referendum.
• Sullivan, G. B. (in preparation). The contrasting emotional bases of political populism: Comparing Brazil’s 2013 protests and the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit vote. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
• Sullivan, G. B. (in preparation). What is it like to be a Ukipper? A three wave qualitative study of supporters of a right-wing populist party. Political Psychology.
• Sullivan, G. B. (in preparation). Improving psychological and social health after disasters in developing countries: A qualitative study in rural Bantul three years after the Yogyakarta earthquake.
• Sullivan, G. B. (In preparation). Forensic patients experiences of risk.
• Sullivan, G. B., Drury, J., & Repetto, P. (in preparation). Earthquake preparedness of communities living on or near the San Ramon Fault, Santiago.

Books (Edited and sole author):

• Sullivan, G. B. (2017). Wittgenstein’s philosophy in psychology. Interpretations and applications in historical context. London: Palgrave.
• Sullivan, G. B., Cresswell, J., Ellis, B., Morgan, M., & Schraube, E. (Eds.) (2017). Resistance and Renewal in Theoretical Psychology. Concord, Ontario: Captus Press.
• Cresswell, J., Hayes, A., Larrain, A., Morgan, M., & Sullivan, G. B. (Eds.). Dialogue and Debate in the Making of Theoretical Psychology. Proceedings of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP) 2013 Conference. Concord, Ontario: Captus Press.
• Sullivan, G. B. (Ed.). (2014). Understanding collective pride and group identity: New directions in emotion theory, research and practice. London: Routledge.
• Zaumseil, M., Schwarz, S., von Vacano, M., Sullivan, G. B., & Prawitasari-Hadiyono, J. (Eds.) (2013). Cultural psychology of coping with disasters. The case of an earthquake in Java/Indonesia. New York: Springer.
• Markovsis, A., Korir Cheptoo, R., Motzkau, J., Painter, D., Sullivan, G. B., Trivila, S., & Wieser, M. (Eds.) (2013). Psychology under new conditions: Proceedings of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP) 2011 Conference. Concord, Ontario: Captus Press.

Journal Articles (Peer reviewed):

• Moshontz, H., Campbell, L., Ebersole, C. R., IJzerman, H., Urry, H. L., Forscher, P. S., … Chartier, C. R. (2018). The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(4), 501–515.
• Bernales, M., Repetto, P., McIntyre, A., Vasquez, A., Drury, J., Sullivan, G. B., & Castañeda, J. (2019). Experiences and perceptions of natural hazards among international migrants living in Valparaiso, Chile, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.11.010
• Busher, J., Giurlando, P., & Sullivan, G. B. (2018). Introduction: The Emotional Dynamics of Backlash Politics beyond Anger, Hate, Fear, Pride, and Loss, Humanity & Society. Advance online publication.doi.org/10.1177/0160597618802503
• Sullivan, G. B. (2018). Collective emotions: South African pride, euphoria and unity in the context of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1252. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01252
• Sullivan, G. B. (2017). Comment: Including pride and its group-based, relational, and contextual features in theories of contempt. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
• Salmela, M., & Sullivan, G. B. (2016) Commentary: Pride, Shame, and Group Identification. Frontiers inPsychology, 7:1946. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01946
• Anderson, C. J. and 38 other authors including Sullivan, G. B. (2016). Response to Comment on “Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science. Science, 351 (6277), pp. 1037.
• Open Science Foundation (2015). Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science. Science. 349, 6251 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4716
• Sullivan, G. B. (2015). Collective emotions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9(8), 383–393. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12183
• Sullivan, G. B. (2015). Wittgenstein’s later philosophy and "pictures" of mixed-method research in psychology: a critical investigation of theories and accounts of methodological plurality. Theory & Psychology, 25, 473-493.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2014). Collective emotions and the World Cup 2014: The relevance of theories and research on collective pride and shame. Psicologia e Saber Social, 3, 112-117.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2012). Qualitative investigations of mega-sport events: Exploring individual, group-based and collective emotions in response to elite athletic success. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 14, 31-39.
• Damianova, M. K., Lucas, M., & Sullivan, G. B. (2012). Verbal Mediation of Problem Solving in Pre-primary and Junior Primary School Children. South African Journal of Psychology, 42, 445-455.
• Damianova, M., & Sullivan, G. B. (2011). Rereading Vygotsky’s Theses on Types of Internalization and Verbal Mediation. Review of General Psychology, 15, 344-350.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2011). Emotional foundationalism? Critical remarks on a phenomenological-psychoanalytic account of ethno-national identity. Ethnicities, 11, 123-130.
• Hassed, C., De Lisle, S., Sullivan, G. B., & Pier, C. (2009). Enhancing the health of medical students:an outcome study on the Monash undergraduate mindfulness and ESSENCE lifestyle program.Advances in Health Sciences Education, 14, 387-398.
• Thomas, A., Sullivan, G. B., & Allen, F. A. (2009). Theoretical Model of EGM problem gambling: More than a cognitive escape. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 7, 97–107.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2008). What is the status of theoretical psychology in Australia and New Zealand? An investigation of contemporary teaching and research issues. Australian Psychologist, 43(1), 61-73.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2007). Wittgenstein and the grammar of pride: The relevance of philosophy to studies of self-evaluative emotions. New Ideas in Psychology, 25, 233-252.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2007). A critical psychology of pride. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 21, 166-189.
• Fedszyn, I., & Sullivan, G. B. (2007). An ethical re-evaluation of contemporary treatments for anorexia nervosa: Is an aspirational stance possible in practice? Australian Psychologist, 42, 3, 198-211.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2005). Forensic patients’ accounts of risk: The case for qualitative research within a sociocultural framework. Australian Psychologist, 40, 1, 31-44.
• Sullivan, G.B. (2005). Fright Club?! A critique of contemporary anxiety treatment programs. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 14, 8-30.
• Sullivan, G. B., & Strongman, K. T. (2003). Vacillating and mixed emotions: Exploration of a conceptual-discursive perspective through examples of pride. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 33, 2,201-224.
• Sullivan, G.B. (2002). Reflexivity and subjectivity in qualitative research: The utility of a Wittgensteinian framework. Forum: Qualitative Social Research [On-line Journal], 3(3). Available at: http//www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm [Date of access: Month, Day, Year].
• Sullivan, G.B. (2000). Millennial musings: A personal commentary on the diverse pathways, contrasting voices and future directions of critical psychology. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 1, 165-168.
• Marshall, S., Adams, M., Cameron, A. & Sullivan, G. (2000). Academics’ perceptions of their professional development needs related to leadership and management: What can we learn? The International Journal for Academic Development, 5, 1, 42-53.

Chapters and conference proceedings (peer reviewed):

• Sullivan, G. B. (2018). Resilience, culture and disasters: Implications and applications in Indonesia. In D. Paton and S. Sagala (Eds.), Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia: Environmental, social and cultural aspects.
• Sullivan, G. B., & Kühn, T. (2017). When mega-sport events go wrong: The “intangible” emotional and identity impact of the Brazilian 2014 World Cup semi-final loss. In L. Mataruna Dos-Santos & B. Gama Pena (Eds.), Mega events footprints: Past, present and future (pp. 529-541). Rio de Janeiro, Engenho.
• Nuryanti, L., Sullivan, G. B., Branney, P., & Wang, S. (2017). Resilience as boundary object in disaster policy, research and interventions: Border thinking from the Indonesian “supermarket of disaster”. In G. B. Sullivan, J. Cresswell, B. Ellis, M. Morgan, & E. Schraube (Eds.) (2017). Resistance and Renewal in Theoretical Psychology (pp. 165-174). Concord, Ontario: Captus Press.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2017). The future of psychology, theoretical psychology and global society: Beyond prediction in imagining humanity’s challenges. In G. B. Sullivan, J. Cresswell, B. Ellis, M. Morgan, & E. Schraube (Eds.) (2017). Resistance and Renewal in Theoretical Psychology (pp. 265-276). Concord, Ontario: Captus Press.
• Giuntoli, G, Mitchell, B., Sullivan, G., Devins, D., & South, J. (2014). Well-being and poverty. In Reducing poverty in the UK: a collection of evidence reviews (pp. 41-45). York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
• Sullivan, G. B., & Hollway, J. (2014). Collective pride and collective hubris in organizations. In G. B. Sullivan (Ed.), Understanding collective pride and group identity. New directions in emotion theory, research and practice (pp. 80-92). London: Routledge.
• Sullivan, G. B., & Dumont, K. B. (2014). Collective emotion and prejudice: A naturalistic study of positive emotion following a national team victory. In G. B. Sullivan (Ed.), Understanding collective pride and group identity. New directions in emotion theory, research and practice. London: Routledge.
• Sullivan, G. B., & Ruto-Korir, R. (2014). Is collective pride possible after intergroup violence? A case study of Kenya following the 2007 and 2008 Post-Election Violence. In G. B. Sullivan (Ed.), Understanding collective pride and group identity. New directions in emotion theory, research and practice. London: Routledge.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2014). The development of understandings of collective pride and the ability to share group feeling. In G. B. Sullivan (Ed.), Understanding collective pride and group identity. New directions in emotion theory, research and practice. London: Routledge.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2014). Collective emotions, German national pride and the 2006 World Cup. In G. B. Sullivan (Ed.), Understanding collective pride and group identity. New directions in emotion theory, research and practice. London: Routledge.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2014). Collective pride, happiness and celebratory emotions: Aggregative, network and cultural models. In C. von Scheve & M. Salmela (Eds.), Collective Emotions (pp. 266-280). Oxford University Press.
• Zaumseil, M., von Vacano, M., Schwarz, S., Sullivan, G. B., & Prawitasari-Hadiyono, J. E. (2013). A Cultural Psychological Framework for Coping with Disasters. In M. Zaumseil, M., S. Schwarz, M. von Vacano, G. B. Sullivan & J. E. Prawitasari-Hadiyono (Eds.), Cultural psychology of coping with disasters. The case of an earthquake in Java/Indonesia (pp. 85-102). New York: Springer.

Book Reviews:

• Sullivan, G. B. (2017). Combining philosophy and psychology in an attempt to make sense of the emotions generated when organizations change. Psyccritiques, 62, Article 19.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2016). The case for a thoroughly cultural and discursive moral analysis of prejudice, discrimination and racism. Psyccritiques.61
• Sullivan, G. B. (2014). Negative feelings about interpersonal transgressions. A comprehensive overview for secular and religious psychologists. Psyccritiques, 59(23)
• Sullivan, G. B. (2013). The dialogical self and selves in dialogue: A guide to possibilities and limits.Psyccritiques, 58(24), doi:10.1037/a0032483
• Sullivan, G. B. (2013). Review: Daniel Whiting (ed.): The Later Wittgenstein on Language. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 26, 247-252.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2008). Review: Dennis Howitt & Duncan Cramer (2008). Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology [13 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9(1), Art. 6, http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqstexte/1-08/08-1-6-e.htm.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2007). Review of 'Theoretical issues in psychology: An introduction'. Philosophical Psychology, 20(6), 822-826.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2006). Dual and Multiple Relationships: The Devil in the Detail. Psyccritiques, 51(44), doi:10.1037/a0004191
• Sullivan, G. B. (2003). Review of “Qualitative psychology: A practical guide to research methods”. Qualitative Research Journal, 3, 142-146.

Other Publications:

• Written evidence submitted from >Dr. Gavin B. Sullivan and Dr. Carlo Tramontano (CRPBA) Coventry University (EUM0017) The Foreign Policy Implications of the EU Referendum: A social psychological perspective https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmfaff/545/54515.htm
• Sullivan, G. B. (2001). Self-help or self-limitation? Some concerns about the future of anxiety “dis-order” treatment programs. Anxiety Disorder Coalition Newsletter. Sydney: OCD /TOP Support and Self HelpGroups.
• Sullivan, G. B., & Meares, R. A. (2000). A conversational model and manual of psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder. Unpublished manuscript.
• Sullivan, G. B. (2012). Writing your third year psychology dissertation: A practical guide. Unpublished manuscript. Downloaded 66,307 times from https://coventry.academia.edu/GavinSullivan