Oliver Keenan profile

Ollie Keenan

Research Assistant (STAR)

Social Justice

Research, Innovation and Enterprise , School Of Education And Communities

Oliver is co-designing the MRes in Social Justice programmes with Dr Darren Sharpe at the Institute of Connected Communities (ICC). He is teaching and providing supervision to students on the MRes in Social Research and Social Justice programme. He is currently a research assistant and quantitative research lead at ICC’s Evaluation Unit.

Qualifications

  • MSc
  • BSc

Areas Of Interest

  • Social Justice
  • Political Psychology
Oliver Keenan profile

OVERVIEW

He is also involved in positive psychology approaches – specifically evaluating the impact of a mindfulness intervention in promoting eudaimonic wellbeing, and its potential application for prejudice reduction.

He is passionate about using research to further social aims of justice and wellbeing as well as promoting participatory approaches which emphasise working in collaboration with the participants in research.

Oliver is a quantitative researcher and is keen to make statistical programming more accessible to upcoming researchers.

Oliver has a BSc, MSc and will shortly be awarded a PhD in Psychology.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Oliver’s research focuses on political psychology from perspectives of collective narcissism and social identity theory on social problems such as White nationalism, right-wing populism and reactionary social change. He investigates why members of structurally advantaged groups seek to further inequality in society and disproportionately influence national politics.

He is interested in the intersection of structural inequality and social identity, and in integrative approaches to promote intergroup harmony and progressive social change.

TEACHING

MRes Social Research and Social Justice

Learn how to change the world through research and use your skills to speak with authority to global decision makers, to influence organisations and communities and to challenge racism and injustice.

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PUBLICATIONS

  • Golec de Zavala, A., Keenan, O., Ziegler, M., Ciesielski, P., Wahl, J. E., & Mazurkiewicz, M. (2023). App‐based mindfulness training supported eudaimonic wellbeing during the COVID19 pandemic. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being, 16(1), 42-59
  • Golec de Zavala, A., & Keenan, O. (2022). Collective narcissism and the clash of advantaged and disadvantaged groups. In The Psychology of Politically Unstable Societies (pp. 119-135). Routledge.
  • Keenan, O., & de Zavala, A. G. (2021). Collective narcissism and weakening of American democracy. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 21(1), 237-258.
  • Golec de Zavala, A., & Keenan, O. (2021). Collective narcissism as a framework for understanding populism. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 5(2), 54-64.
  • Golec de Zavala, A., Lantos, D., & Keenan, O. (2021). Collective narcissism and the motivational underpinnings of the populist backlash. In The Psychology of Populism (pp. 105-122). Routledge.
  • Golec de Zavala, A., Bierwiaczonek, K., Baran, T., Keenan, O., & Hase, A. (2021). The COVID-19 pandemic, authoritarianism, and rejection of sexual dissenters in Poland. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 8(2), 250.
  • Upcoming Publications
  • Golec de Zavala & Keenan (2023). National and gender collective narcissism and pursuit of gender equality. To appear in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research.
  • Golec de Zavala, A., Keenan, O., Ziegler, M., Ciesielski, P., Wahl, J. E., & Mazurkiewicz, M. (2023). Mindfulness Reduces Prejudice at High Levels of Collective Narcissism. To appear in Psychological Science.

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