About
Séamus Power is a transdisciplinary scholar with specific expertise in cultural, social, and political psychology and mixed qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. His empirical research centres on economic inequality and social change and on migration and cultural collisions.
Theoretically, Séamus is interested in the world-making possibilities of psychological science. He uses field social psychological methods in his own empirical research. He is currently finalising a book for Cambridge University Press, titled Inequality – the view from manywheres. The book is about how people comprehend, and experience, two global stories of economic growth, and what this means for the future of capitalism and for humanity in the era of global warming. We are consistently bombarded with news and even hard evidence that the super-rich are getting richer, leaving the rest of us behind. At the same time, the lives that many of us now live are richer than was possible for most other people in human history. We’ve never had it so good, but it can often feel like we simply don’t have enough. How do we reconcile these two opposing narratives? And what are the consequences of such a reconciliation for humanity into the future? Answering these questions is the central theme of this book.
Séamus Power is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen. In Fall 2023, he was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University and he spent Winter, 2024, at the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. His Postdoctoral Fellowship, PhD, and MA are in Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago. His MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology is from the University of Cambridge and his BSc was in Applied Psychology from University College Cork.
Expertise
Culture, Field social psychology, Migration, Social movements, World-making
Current appointment: May 2024 - April 2027