Kyoko Murakami

Kyoko Murakami is a lecturer in psychology at the School of Social Sciences, the University of Westminster, London and an honorary research fellow at the University of Bath. UK. Previously, she held an associate professorship in psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She received her PhD in psychology at Loughborough University in 2002.

Kyoko's research topics include social remembering, reconciliation, learning in collaboration, dialogism and ageing. Her research is influenced by dialectical materialism. She applies critical psychological approaches such as Cultural Psychology, Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and discursive psychological approaches to exploring transformation of practices and persons' futures.

Currently, she is working on developing research on refugees and diasporic populations and exploring to help develop their transformative agency in displacement and migratory journeys.

Kyoko PhD thesis, titled Revisiting the past: Social organisation of remembering and reconciliation was funded by the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (1998-2002). Kyoko's PhD was supervisor by Dr David Middleton and examined by Prof Rom Harré and Prof Steve Brown. She was a member of Discourse and Rhetoric Group, also known as DARG based in Social Sciences, Loughborough University.

She was an executive committee member of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology and a member of the editorial board of Culture & Psychology.

Her published books include Discursive Psychology of Remembering and Reconciliation (Nova, 2012) and Dialogic Pedagogy (Multilingual Matters, 2016) and Activity Theory: An Introduction (Ibidem, Columbia, 2024).