Academic Work

My academic background is international and spans across 9 years. I received my BA in Psychotherapy from the University of Bucharest in Romania, and an MSc in Mental Health & a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. Following this, I taught for almost two years as a Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. In addition, I recently completed 6 months as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden, researching emotions in law. My first book is titled ‘Fatherhood & Love’ with Palgrave Macmillan (see below).

Below you can see samples of my academic publications

Celebrating my graduation in Edinburgh with my two amazing supervisors – Prof. Lynn Jamieson and Prof. Mary Holmes
Macht, A. (2019) Fatherhood and Love: The social construction of masculine emotions, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Available here: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030203573
Macht A. (2019) Travelling feelings: Narratives of sustaining love in two case studies with fathering during family separations, in Leslie Murray et al. (eds) Families in Motion: space, time, materials and emotion, Bingley : Emerald Group. Available here: https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Families-in-Motion/?k=9781787694163

Macht, Alexandra (2019). Performing the repentant lover in the courtroom: An analysis of Oscar Pistorius’ recreation of hegemonic masculinity, in Antonia Mackay and Susan Flynn (eds.) Surveillance, Architecture and Control: Discourses on Spatial Culture, Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-00371-5_11

Macht, A. (2019) Shifting perspectives: Becoming a feminist researcher while studying fatherhood and love, Vitae Scholasticae : The Journal of Educational Biography, issue 35, No. 2, ISSN: 0735-1909 eISSN: 0735-1909





Macht, A. (2019) Book Review : Depressive Love by Engdahl E., Routledge, 2018. Emotions and Society, Bristol University Press. Available here : https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bup/eas/2019/00000001/00000001/art00010#

March – May, 2018, I organised with Dr. Sally Holloway The Emotions Across Disciplines Seminar Series, a series of 7 sessions of interdisciplinary research on emotions, where national and international guest-speakers presented their research, Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, UK

Additional publications in academic and online journals:

  • Macht, A. (2018) Resisting the commodification of intimate life? Paternal love, emotional bordering and narratives of ambivalent family consumerism from Scottish and Romanian fathers, Families, Relationships and Societies, 8: (21). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1332/204674318X15384702551202
  • Macht, A. and Popescu, R. (2018) ‘Romania Country note’, in Blum, S., Koslowski, A., Macht, A. and Moss, P. (eds.) International Review of Leave Policies and Research 2018. Available at: http://www.leavenetwork.org/lp_and_r_reports/

Connect with me on LynkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-macht-1178754a/

Access the free pdf from Springer here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-75645-1_16