College of Humanities and Social Sciences staff
Contact details +6469518056
Jeronimo Menezes BPsych, Psy.M.
Senior Tutor
School of PsychologyMy work examines how care, power, and subjectivity are organised within institutions and technologies. Grounded in post-structural and institutional-analytic traditions, I trace the ethical and affective dynamics that shape professional and collective life — how people relate, act, and improvise within constraint. My research has addressed psychotherapy and institutional forms of care, and now extends to gender-based violence, rainbow communities, and the ethical and relational questions raised by artificial intelligence. Across these areas, I’m interested in how people navigate and make meaning within the shifting demands of contemporary institutions.
Professional
Contact details
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Ph: +64 6 951 8056
Location: P1.20, Psychology Building (PLB)
Campus: Manawatu
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Psychology - Universidade Federal Fluminense (2010)
- Master of Psychology - Universidade Federal Fluminense (2013)
Research Expertise
Research Interests
I study how institutions and technologies shape care, subjectivity, and everyday practice. My work draws on post-structural and institutional-analytic traditions, using qualitative, relational, and affect-focused approaches to examine how people navigate power, ethics, identity, and collective life.
Current directions include:
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Institutional analysis (Lourau/Guattari tradition): studying institutions as dynamic social and political processes, examining forces, contradictions, and practices that shape subjectivity and collective life
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Practices of care and psychotherapy: relational work, ethics, affect, and therapeutic encounters
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Gender-based violence: intersectionality, masculinities, and the institutional and relational dynamics that shape GBV work
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Rainbow communities: how gendered and sexual differences are produced, negotiated, and lived within institutions and relations
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Affect and collective processes: tensions, forces, and the lived dynamics of groups and settings
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Artificial intelligence: relational, ethical, and conceptual questions about AI in practice
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Post-structural and qualitative inquiry: discourse, power, relational analysis, and situated methods
What kinds of projects fit with me:
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How social and political forces shape the ways people work, care, and make decisions in practice
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How the relational, ethical, and affective dimensions of care and therapeutic work take shape in lived encounters
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How men and gender-diverse people experience and make sense of gender-based violence within institutional and relational contexts
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How gendered and sexual differences are negotiated and lived in health, education, or community settings
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How subjectivities are shaped, constrained, and reworked within dominant discourses and everyday practices
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How emerging technologies — especially AI — reshape relations, expertise, and everyday forms of sense-making
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Theorisation and conceptual analysis of how discourses and relations organise meaning, action, and subjectivity
Thematics
21st Century Citizenship, Health and Well-being
Area of Expertise
Field of research codes
Epistemology (220304):
Gender Psychology (170105):
Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology (170106):
Philosophy (220300):
Philosophy And Religious Studies (220000):
Poststructuralism (220317):
Psychology (170100):
Psychology And Cognitive Sciences (170000):
Social and Community Psychology (170113)
Keywords
Poststructuralism; Institutional Analysis; Schizoanalysis; Modes of Subjectivity; Affect; Ethics of Care; Relationality; Gender and Sexuality; AI and Human–Machine Relations; Foucault; Deleuze; Guattari
Consultancy and Languages
Languages
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Portuguese
Last used: Daily user
Spoken ability: Excellent
Written ability: Excellent
Teaching and Supervision
Teaching Statement
175.313 - Gender and Violence
175.738 - Psychological Research: Principles of Design