Dr Gerald Jordan BA, MA, PhD

Dr Gerald Jordan

School of Psychology
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email
g.jordan@bham.ac.uk
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Dr. Gerald Jordan’s programme of research examines how young people  transform their lives and communities following a serious mental health challenge; and how such transformations are shaped by personal, social and community-level determinants of health and resilience that are, due to issues of intergenerational injustice, increasingly becoming difficult to access . He conducts his research in partnership with people with lived experience of mental health challenges using mixed methods, and is increasingly working in collaboration with researchers in other disciplines (e.g., literature, geography, history, philosophy).

Qualifications

BA, MA, PhD

Biography

Dr. Gerald Jordan was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He received a BA (Honours) in Psychology from Concordia University. After working as a psychoeducator for several years, he undertook an MA in Educational Psychology (Human Development Stream) at McGill University, where he completed a dissertation examining activism among people with physical and psychiatric disabilities. He then went on to complete his PhD in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and was based at the Prevention and Early Intervention Program for Psychoses. His doctoral work examined positive change and posttraumatic growth that youth experience following a first episode of psychosis. After obtaining his PhD, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health at Yale University. Here, his research focused on peer support, recovery, and the ways that people with mental health challenges give back to other people and communities. In 2020, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at both Yale University and McGill University, where he examined how intersecting forms of marginalization and oppression exclude youth with mental health challenges from their communities. He joined the School of Psychology at the University 麻豆精选 as an Assistant Professor in August 2022.

Postgraduate supervision

I am interested in supervising students at all levels (undergraduate, Master’s and PhD), international fellows and visiting researchers, as well as volunteers on work that aligns with my programme of research described above. I am especially interested in supervising/co-supervising students who have lived experience of mental health challenges or are from other underrepresented groups in academia. Please note,  you do not need to disclose your lived experience if you reach out to me.

Research

Youth mental health; early intervention; community; recovery; peer support; lived experience; humanistic psychology; ethics; video games

Other activities

  • Associate Editor, BMC Psychiatry
  • Associate Editor, American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
  • Member, International Recovery Citizenship Collaborative
  • Member, Ludic Mind Studio

Publications

Highlight publications

Jordan, G, Burke, L, Bailey, J, Kreidstein , S, Iftikhar , M, Plamondon, L, Young, C, Davidson, L, Rowe, M, Bellamy, C, Abdel-Baki, A & Iyer, SN 2022, '', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 13, 852947.

Jordan, G, Ng, F, Malla, A & Iyer, SN 2022, '', Psychosis.

Jordan, G, Davidson, L & Bellamy, C 2022, '', American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, vol. 92, no. 3, pp. 280鈥�290.

Jordan, G, Malla, A & Iyer, SN 2020, '', International Journal of Mental Health, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 271-279.

Jordan, G, Mutchler, C, Kidd, SA, Rowe, M & Iyer, SN 2023, '', Journal of Public Mental Health.

Recent publications

Article

Street-Mattox, C, Broome, MR, Ng, F, Griffiths, L & Jordan, G 2025, '', Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-7.

Madiha, M, Todowede, O, A, R, Jordan, G & Rennick Egglestone, S 2025, '', British Journal of Psychiatry .

Ben-David, S, Campos, M, Nahal, P, Kuber, S, Jordan, G & DeLuca, J 2024, '', International Journal of Qualitative Methods, vol. 23.

Jordan, G, Ng, F & Thomas, R 2023, '', The Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-6.

Jordan, G, Grazioplene, R, Florence, A, Hammer, P, Funaro, MC, Davidson, L & Bellamy, CD 2021, '', Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 123-135.

Pruessner, M, King, S, Veru, F, Schalinski, I, Vracotas, N, Abadi, S, Jordan, G, Lepage, M, Iyer, S, Malla, AK, Shah, J & Joober, R 2021, '', Schizophrenia Research, vol. 231, pp. 82-89.

Florence, AC, Jordan, G, Yasui, S, Cabrini, DR & Davidson, L 2021, '', Psychiatric Quarterly, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 1771-1783.

Florence, AC, Jordan, G, Yasui, S & Davidson, L 2020, '', Psychiatric Quarterly, vol. 91, no. 3, pp. 681-693.

Jordan, G, Malla, A & Iyer, SN 2020, '', BMC Psychiatry, vol. 20, no. 1, 289.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Jordan, G & Davidson, L 2021, . in FP Bannink & F Peeters (eds), Practicing Positive Psychology. Hogrefe, pp. 69-76. <>

Comment/debate

Bartels, KPR, Von Heimburg, D, Jordan, G & Ness, O 2024, '', Public Money & Management.

Other report

Pykett, J, Sykes, B, Jordan, G, O'Sullivan, T, Parker, E, Williams, B & Singh, K 2023, . University 麻豆精选. <>

Review article

Jordan, G, Bassetto, S, DeLuca, J, Dobbs, MF, Florence, A, Allemang, B, O'Keeffe, D, Basile, M, Funaro, MC, Davidson, L, Ben-David, S & Shah, J 2024, '', Psychiatric services.

Florence, AC, Bocalini, M, Cabrini, D, Tanzi, R, Funaro, M, Jordan, G, Davidson, L, Drake, R, Montenegro, C & Yasui, S 2023, '', Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, vol. 10, e21.

Ng, F, Ibrahim, N, Franklin, D, Jordan, G, Lewandowsk, F, Fang, F, Roe, D, Rennick鈥慐gglestone, S, Newby, C, Hare鈥慏uke, L, Llewellyn鈥態eardsley, J, Yeo, C & Slade, M 2021, '', BMC Psychiatry, vol. 21, no. 1, 607 .