Mads Bank

Mads Bank serves as an Associate Professor at the Danish School of Education (DPU), Aarhus University, specializing in Educational Psychology at the Emdrup campus in Copenhagen. His institutional affiliation places him within Denmark's prominent educational research environment, with connections to both psychological and philosophical traditions in education.

Bank's research interests span critical psychology, affective studies, and existential approaches to understanding human experience. His work demonstrates significant interdisciplinary reach, connecting educational psychology with philosophy (particularly Kierkegaard and Socratic traditions), business studies, and queer theory. He employs qualitative methodologies to explore how individuals navigate existential challenges, particularly during disruptive events like the COVID-19 pandemic and within therapeutic contexts such as drug treatment programs.

His publication record shows consistent scholarly output from 2014 through 2023, with particular concentration in recent years. The research trajectory reveals a thematic focus on how environments shape psychological experiences, with publications examining therapeutic spaces in drug treatment, existential dimensions of youth experience during lockdowns, and the philosophical underpinnings of critical psychology.

Bank actively collaborates with researchers across disciplines, most notably with M. Nissen on the ongoing 'Intricacy' project focused on critical psychology. His work appears in journals spanning psychology, education, public health, and philosophy, demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of his scholarly contributions.