Augustus Nathaniel Reid
Thesis title: Letters & Reasonings: A Blac-Male-Ethnography (BME) & Blac-oetic Narrative resisting the pervasive colonial violence
Background
An aspiring Holistic therapist, Augustus is a 3rd year PhD research student in counselling studies. His research focuses on the Black male experience, and he is especially interested in challenging negative (his)torical epistemologies related to how Black men are perceived and received within society, including within the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
More especially, Augustus is keen on exploring new ways of thought for Black men’s ontological positionality, or how and why they negotiate embodiment within therapeutic spaces and the wider White societal colonial Euromodernity. He undertakes such research to actively contribute to the healing and liberation of Black male thought, consciousness, the embodiment of love for self, and to imbue the enactment of love for others.
Alongside with his doctoral studies, Augustus actively participates in several community building organisations and activities. He is a part of, and intermittently facilitates, men’s groups in Scotland.
Qualifications
Psychology and Counselling BSc (Hon) - 2021
Responsibilities & affiliations
Graduate member; British Psychological society
Postgraduate teaching
Autoethnographic Research Methods in the Social Sciences - Tutor
Research summary
Research focus:
- Black male experiencece
- Challenging the negative (his)torical Black male epistemologies and ontologies.
- Anti-Black misandric violence be that: Racial, bio-political, socio-political, cultural, physical, spiritual, mental, emotional and/ or psychological.
Research interests:
- Exploring new ways of thought for Black men’s ontological positionality, how and why they negotiate embodiment within therapeutic spaces and the wider White societal colonial Euromodernity.
- Contributing to the healing and liberation of Black male thought, consciousness, the embodiment of love for self, and to imbue the enactment of love for others.
- Exploring how Black men exist within a unwanted paradoxical world that violently splits their being, consciousness, and sense of self into dualities.
- Writing through and with Black and indigenous scholars.
Current research interests
Augustus is also a keen poet, drawing inspiration from by Black poets like Aime Ceasaire, Langston Hughes, Fred Moten, Jason Allen-Paisant, James Baldwin and Benjamin Zaphaniah to mention only a few. Interweaving this creative way of self and cultural expression with: - Advance methodologies, Afirming methodologies, liming methodology, Black Emancipatory Action Research (BEAR), Afro-emancipatory research. - Storytelling, autoethnography although, re-configured to Black(male)ethnography, Poetry/Blackoetry as an inquiry and Writing as an Inquiry all to reclaim an accurate Black male epistemology and ontology.Conference details
- 14th Biannual Collegium of African American Research (CAAR)
Title/Theme: Knowledges in Motion: Black Travels, Belonging, and Transformations
Date: March 2025,
Location: Berlin, Germany
- 12th International Conference for Autoethnography
Title/Theme: Breathing Spaces
Date: July 2025,
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
- UWI, The Harriet Tubmna Institute & York University, Toronto, Canada
Title/Theme: Reflections on Repair, Responsibility, Resistance and Reform: New Pathways,
Date: October 2025,
Location: Kingston, Jamaica
Organiser
- Collegium of African American Research (CAAR) & Humboldt University
- International Conference for Autoethnography
- University of West Indies, The Harriet Tubman institute & York University, Toronto, Canada
Papers delivered
- Resisting the resistance using Black existentialist thought: A poetic and narrative inquiry
- Black(male)ethnography - Black Wanders (in) and (out) of 'Wandering Black'
- Blac-male-ethnography; Resisting the resistance using Blac-existentialist philosophy with Rasta revolutionary consciuosness
- 'Wandering Blac' – A Blac(male)ethnographic Blac(k)oetry writing in-through a Wander