Professor Rebecca Lawthom
BA (Hons) Psychology, MSc Occupational Psychology, PhD, Senior Fellow SFHEA, MBPS
School of Education
Head of School
Professor of Community Psychology
r.lawthom@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 8172
+44 114 222 8172
The Wave
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Professor Rebecca Lawthom
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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I joined Sheffield in 2020 as the incoming Head of School of Education. I am a Professor of Community Psychology, a psychology that recognises inequality and takes context seriously. I am used to working with people, collaboratively and recognising that people have answers, skills and expertise. I have engaged in research which includes and collaborates with people who may often be considered as marginalised. Working with disabled people, migrants or those who are ageing, community psychology allows me to embrace creative approaches which position people as experts. I am currently working with colleagues in Brazil and India (ESRC), to explore how older adults age well in place in different city neighbourhoods. Before joining Sheffield, I worked at Manchester Metropolitan University in a range of roles. Latterly, I was co-leading a research centre of interdisciplinarity around health, psychology and communities. I was also leading on International strategy across the faculty. In addition to funded research collaboration, I am committed to developing research capacity. I enjoy working with doctoral students and I have successfully worked with 35 students supervising them to doctoral completion.
- Research interests
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I am delighted to be joining the school and looking forward to learning and collaborating with others. I have extensive experiences of galvanising research across a range of education, health, social care and social science disciplines and combine this with my own interests in community-led approaches to co-production and participatory research. This research encompasses the contexts of community, education, health and social care; necessitating an interdisciplinary approach to research.
Some examples of externally funded research2007: Manchester PCT, Refugee and Asylum Seekers Health Experiences and Access to Health Care, with Judith Sixsmith (MMU), £30,000
2007: BPS Research Seminars Competition, Arts for Health Seminar Series, with Carolyn Kagan and Judith Sixsmith (MMU), £3,000
2008: British Council PMI2, Promoting UK-Malaysian Collaboration: Critical Disability Studies, with Dan Goodley (MMU), £40,000
2009, JRF, Forced Labour and Chinese migrant experiences, with Carolyn Kagan £97,000
2010: BPS Psychology of Women section, Seminar series Feminism and Impact, £1000
2011: AHRC Connected Communities Development Grant, £15,000
2012: JISC Embedding Impact Analysis, The Impact of Schools Stand up to Racism: Analysis and Articulation, with Sue Baines, Geraldine Lee Treweek, £15,000
2012: Locality (Government funded) Community Organizer, with Jenny Fisher and Carolyn Kagan, £90,000
2013: Economic and Social Research Council, Big Society? Disabled People with Learning Disabilities and Civil Society. PI: Dan Goodley (University of Sheffield), Co-Is: Katherine Runswick Cole (Manchester Metropolitan University), Toby Brandon (Northumbria University), Kelley Johnson (Bristol University), £425,000
2018: Economic and Social Research Council, Place-Making with Older People: Towards Age Friendly Communities', with Ryan Woolrych and Jenny Fisher, £798,593.
2019: Age UK Cheshire, Evaluation of Men in Sheds for Age UK Cheshire, with Jenny Fisher, £40,000.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Books
- Qualitative methods in psychology. A research guide. London: McGraw Hill.
- The Routledge International Handbook of Community Psychology. Routledge.
- Critical Community Psychology. Routledge.
Edited books
- Disability and social theory: New developments and directions. Palgrave Macmillan UK.
- Researching Life Stories. Routledge.
Journal articles
- The hegemonic psychological discourse and its implications for career counselling and psychological intervention. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 50(4), 515-532.
- Affect, dis/ability and the pandemic. Sociology of Health and Illness. View this article in WRRO
- Cross-National Perspectives on Aging and Place: Implications for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities. The Gerontologist, 62(1), 119-129.
- Neoliberal economic policies’ effects on perceptions of social justice and sociopolitical participation in Portugal. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. View this article in WRRO
- Factorial validity and measurement invariance of the Psychosocial Uncertainty Scale. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica / Psychology: Research and Review, 34(1). View this article in WRRO
- Using a situative perspective to gain a deeper understanding of how children’s strengths are related to social context. Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 21(3), 280-289.
- Constructing and negotiating social participation in old age: experiences of older adults living in urban environments in the United Kingdom. Ageing and Society, 41(6), 1398-1420.
- Community Psychology in higher education in Europe: Results of a survey and discussion of the basic competency approach. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 30(5), 494-507.
- Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods: Exploring Place Insideness Amongst Older Adults in India, Brazil and the United Kingdom. Psychology and Developing Societies, 32(2), 201-223.
- The desire for new humanisms. Journal of Disability Studies in Education. View this article in WRRO
- Plans that work: improving employment outcomes for young people with learning disabilities. British Journal of Special Education, 47(2), 134-151. View this article in WRRO
- Community, work, and family in times of COVID-19. Community, Work & Family, 23(3), 247-252.
- Place (in)securities: older adults’ perceptions across urban environments in the United Kingdom ((In)seguridades de lugar. Percepciones de las personas mayores en distintos entornos urbanos del Reino Unido). PsyEcology, 11(2), 214-231.
- The role of men's sheds in promoting the physical and mental well-being of older men. Physiotherapy, 107, e200-e201.
- Factorial validity and measurement invariance of the uncertainty response scale. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 32(1).
- Implications of vertical policy integration for sustainable development implementation in higher education institutions. Journal of Cleaner Production, 235, 733-740.
- Precarious living: The social origins of uncertainty. Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 18(3), 319-340.
- Critical Disability Studies, Brexit and Trump: A Time of Neoliberal-Ableism. Rethinking History, 23(2), 233-251. View this article in WRRO
- Provocations for Critical Disability Studies. Disability & Society, 34(6), 972-997. View this article in WRRO
- Community-based arts research for people with learning disabilities: challenging misconceptions about learning disabilities. Disability & Society, 34(2), 204-227. View this article in WRRO
- Book Reviews. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 13(1), 117-120.
- Sustainable development stakeholder networks for organisational change in higher education institutions: A case study from the UK. Journal of Cleaner Production, 208, 470-478.
- ‘Neither a professional nor a friend’: the liminal spaces of parents and volunteers in family support. Families, Relationships and Societies, 8(2), 249-266.
- OLDER ADULT’S SENSE OF PLACE IN CITIES: MAPS AND CAFES AS RESEARCH METHODS. Innovation in Aging, 2(suppl_1), 242-242.
- MAKING METHODS AGE FRIENDLY: METHODS, MOVEMENT, AND MAPPING. Innovation in Aging, 2(suppl_1), 242-242.
- EXPERIENCES OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AND PLACE AMONG OLDER ADULTS LIVING IN URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS IN THE UK AND BRAZIL. Innovation in Aging, 2(suppl_1), 242-242.
- Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism. Feminism & Psychology, 28(1), 3-10.
- Exploring the context of strengths – a new approach to strength-based assessment. Educational Psychology in Practice, 34(1), 26-40.
- Layering violence: Mapping the material & theoretical dislocation of women under neoliberalism. Clinical Psychology Forum(293), 12-17.
- Partnership working as liberation psychology: Forced labor among UK Chinese migrant workers. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 45(1), 7-18.
- Trace.space: a psychogeographical community project with members of an arts and health organisation. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 14(1), 42-61.
- ‘I’m not a therapist you know... I’m an artist’: Facilitating well-being and basic psychological needs satisfaction through community arts participation. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 7(3), 347-367.
- Delivering on the Big Society? Tensions in hosting community organisers. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 31(4), 502-517.
- The trouble with ‘hard working families’. Community, Work & Family, 19(2), 257-260.
- Feminist composite narratives of Chinese women: the interrelation of work, family and community in forced labour situations. Community, Work & Family, 19(2), 181-192.
- Participation in community arts: lessons from the inner-city. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 20(3), 331-346.
- Paid work, life-work and leisure: a study of wellbeing in the context of academic lives in higher education. Leisure Studies, 35(1), 36-45.
- Experiencing ‘pathologized presence and normalized absence’; understanding health related experiences and access to health care among Iraqi and Somali asylum seekers, refugees and persons without legal status. BMC Public Health, 15(1).
- Dialogical Demand: Discursive Position Repertoires for a Local and Global UK Sex Industry. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 45(2), 261-286.
- Posthuman disability studies. Subjectivity, 7(4), 342-361. View this article in WRRO
- Dis/ability and austerity: beyond work and slow death. Disability & Society, 29(6), 980-984. View this article in WRRO
- The good, the bad and the ugly: searching for critical research in psychology. Qualitative Research Journal, 13(2), 145-153.
- Hardt and Negri and the geo-Political Imagination: Empire, Multitude and Critical Disability Studies. Critical Sociology, 39(3), 369-384. View this article in WRRO
- Involving people with communication disability in research in Uganda: A response to the World Report on Disability. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 15(1), 75-78.
- Eudaimonic well-being and community arts participation. Perspectives in Public Health, 133(1), 60-65.
- Experiences of forced labour amongst Chinese migrant workers: exploring the context of vulnerability and protection. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 5(3), 261-261.
- Disability, community and empire: indigenous psychologies and social psychoanalytic possibilities. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 15(1), 101-115.
- Developing learning communities: using communities of practice within community psychology. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 15(1), 153-164.
- Transdisciplinary Learning: Exploring Pedagogical Links between Feminisms and Community Psychology. Feminism & Psychology, 19(3), 414-418.
- Transition to postgraduate study. Active Learning in Higher Education, 10(1), 26-40.
- In defence of disability studies: a response to Forshaw (2007) ‘In defence of psychology: a reply to Goodley and Lawthom (2005)’. Disability & Society, 23(2), 191-192.
- Interrogating power: the case of arts and mental health in community projects. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 17(4), 268-279.
- Epistemological journeys in participatory action research: alliances between community psychology and disability studies. Disability & Society, 20(2), 135-151.
- Constructions of Disability: Researching the Interface Between Disabled and Nondisabled People. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 33(3), 152-153.
- Community psychology Towards an empowering vision of disability. Psychologist, 18(7), 423-425.
- Validating the organizational climate measure: links to managerial practices, productivity and innovation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(4), 379-408.
- Dispensing with labels: Enabling children and professionals to share a community of practice. Educational and Child Psychology, 22(3), 89-97.
- The social psychology of stigma. DISABILITY & SOCIETY, 17(2), 225-227.
- Making connections: the relevance of the social model of disability for people with learning difficulties. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 29(2), 45-50.
- Tensions and possibilities of feminist authority in post-compulsory education. Educational and Child Psychology, 16(2), 35-48.
- Research excellence and departmental climate in British universities. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 71(3), 261-281.
- What Can I do? A Feminist Researcher in Non-Feminist Research. Feminism & Psychology, 7(4), 533-538.
- Women managers’ views of manufacturing: nice work?. Women in Management Review, 11(6), 3-10.
- ‘You really do become invisible’: examining older adults’ right to the city in the United Kingdom. Ageing and Society, 1-20.
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (Netflix, 2020).. The Sociological Review Magazine.
- Key Concerns for Critical Disability Studies in Covid-19 Times. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.
Chapters
- Linking Space, Place, and Relational Well-being in Co-productive Ways, The Palgrave Handbook of Innovative Community and Clinical Psychologies (pp. 545-557). Springer International Publishing
- Disability, technology, and health, Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness (pp. 209-220). Routledge
- Community as social ties, Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Society (pp. 45-108). Routledge
- On utilising a visual methodology: Shared reflections and tensions, A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research: Second Edition (pp. 572-587).
- On utilising a visual methodology, A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology (pp. 572-587). Routledge
- Participation in community arts: lessons from the inner-city, Creating Inclusive Knowledges (pp. 117-132). Routledge
- Towards a DisHuman Civil Society, The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South (pp. 211-222). Springer International Publishing
- The Psychogeographical Turn in
Applied Social Psychology, The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Psychology (pp. 515-529). SAGE Publications Ltd
- Resilience in the Lives of Disabled Children: A Many Splendoured Thing, The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies (pp. 425-442). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Critical Disability Studies, The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology (pp. 491-505). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Sustainable Communities: University-Community Partnership Research on Social Dimensions of Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Research at Universities in the United Kingdom (pp. 245-262). Springer International Publishing
- Positioning the critical in community psychology., APA handbook of community psychology: Theoretical foundations, core concepts, and emerging challenges. (pp. 107-127). American Psychological Association
- THE ETHICS OF RESEARCHING AND REPRESENTING DIS/ABILITY, ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK ON NARRATIVE AND LIFE HISTORY (pp. 481-492).
- Experiences of Forced Labour among UK-Based Chinese Migrant Workers: Exploring Vulnerability and Protection in Times of Empire, Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants (pp. 174-186). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- The Disavowal of Uncanny Disabled Children: Why Non-Disabled People Are So Messed Up Around Childhood Disability, Disabled Children's Childhood Studies (pp. 164-179). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Disabled Children's Childhood Studies Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Understanding communities In Azzopardi A & Grech S (Ed.), Inclusive Communities: A Critical Reader (pp. 11-22). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.
- Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability Studies, Disability and Social Theory (pp. 233-251). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Being Creative around Health: Participative Methodologies in Critical Community Psychology, Advances in Health Psychology (pp. 204-219). Macmillan Education UK
- Children and the Capability Approach Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Chapter 4 Disability, Deleuze and Sex, Deleuze and Sex (pp. 89-105). Edinburgh University Press
- Sen’s Capability Approach: Children and Well-being Explored through the Use of Photography, Children and the Capability Approach (pp. 137-161). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Disability, Deleuze and Sex, Deleuze and Sex (pp. 89-104). Edinburgh University Press
- Doing Community Psychology with Disabled People, Disability and Psychology (pp. 170-186). Macmillan Education UK
- Disability Studies and Psychology: New Allies?, Disability and Psychology (pp. 1-16). Macmillan Education UK
- Conclusions: Making Enabling Alliances between Disability Studies and Psychology, Disability and Psychology (pp. 187-204). Macmillan Education UK
- Preface In Clough P, Goodley D, Lawthom R & Moore M (Ed.), Researching Life Stories: Method, Theory and Analyses in a Biographical Age (pp. ix-x). Taylor & Francis
- 'I'd never met a vegetarian, never mind a lesbian': Colleen's life story, Researching Life Stories: Method, Theory and Analyses in a Biographical Age (pp. 15-25).
- Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies Routledge
- The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History Routledge
- Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability Studies, Disability and Social Theory Palgrave Macmillan
- Play-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders Routledge
- Senâs Capability Approach, Children and the Capability Approach Palgrave Macmillan
- The Disavowal of Uncanny Disabled Children, Disabled Children's Childhood Studies Palgrave Macmillan
Conference proceedings papers
- Exploring the potential of smart cities in the design of age-friendly urban environments. Gerontechnology, Vol. 17(s) (pp 67-67)
All publications
Books
- Qualitative methods in psychology. A research guide. London: McGraw Hill.
- The Routledge International Handbook of Community Psychology. Routledge.
- Critical Community Psychology. Routledge.
Edited books
- Disability and social theory: New developments and directions. Palgrave Macmillan UK.
- Researching Life Stories. Routledge.
Journal articles
- The hegemonic psychological discourse and its implications for career counselling and psychological intervention. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 50(4), 515-532.
- Affect, dis/ability and the pandemic. Sociology of Health and Illness. View this article in WRRO
- Cross-National Perspectives on Aging and Place: Implications for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities. The Gerontologist, 62(1), 119-129.
- Neoliberal economic policies’ effects on perceptions of social justice and sociopolitical participation in Portugal. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. View this article in WRRO
- Factorial validity and measurement invariance of the Psychosocial Uncertainty Scale. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica / Psychology: Research and Review, 34(1). View this article in WRRO
- Using a situative perspective to gain a deeper understanding of how children’s strengths are related to social context. Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 21(3), 280-289.
- Constructing and negotiating social participation in old age: experiences of older adults living in urban environments in the United Kingdom. Ageing and Society, 41(6), 1398-1420.
- Community Psychology in higher education in Europe: Results of a survey and discussion of the basic competency approach. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 30(5), 494-507.
- Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods: Exploring Place Insideness Amongst Older Adults in India, Brazil and the United Kingdom. Psychology and Developing Societies, 32(2), 201-223.
- The desire for new humanisms. Journal of Disability Studies in Education. View this article in WRRO
- Plans that work: improving employment outcomes for young people with learning disabilities. British Journal of Special Education, 47(2), 134-151. View this article in WRRO
- Community, work, and family in times of COVID-19. Community, Work & Family, 23(3), 247-252.
- Place (in)securities: older adults’ perceptions across urban environments in the United Kingdom ((In)seguridades de lugar. Percepciones de las personas mayores en distintos entornos urbanos del Reino Unido). PsyEcology, 11(2), 214-231.
- The role of men's sheds in promoting the physical and mental well-being of older men. Physiotherapy, 107, e200-e201.
- Factorial validity and measurement invariance of the uncertainty response scale. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 32(1).
- Implications of vertical policy integration for sustainable development implementation in higher education institutions. Journal of Cleaner Production, 235, 733-740.
- Precarious living: The social origins of uncertainty. Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 18(3), 319-340.
- Critical Disability Studies, Brexit and Trump: A Time of Neoliberal-Ableism. Rethinking History, 23(2), 233-251. View this article in WRRO
- Provocations for Critical Disability Studies. Disability & Society, 34(6), 972-997. View this article in WRRO
- Community-based arts research for people with learning disabilities: challenging misconceptions about learning disabilities. Disability & Society, 34(2), 204-227. View this article in WRRO
- Book Reviews. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 13(1), 117-120.
- Sustainable development stakeholder networks for organisational change in higher education institutions: A case study from the UK. Journal of Cleaner Production, 208, 470-478.
- ‘Neither a professional nor a friend’: the liminal spaces of parents and volunteers in family support. Families, Relationships and Societies, 8(2), 249-266.
- OLDER ADULT’S SENSE OF PLACE IN CITIES: MAPS AND CAFES AS RESEARCH METHODS. Innovation in Aging, 2(suppl_1), 242-242.
- MAKING METHODS AGE FRIENDLY: METHODS, MOVEMENT, AND MAPPING. Innovation in Aging, 2(suppl_1), 242-242.
- EXPERIENCES OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AND PLACE AMONG OLDER ADULTS LIVING IN URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS IN THE UK AND BRAZIL. Innovation in Aging, 2(suppl_1), 242-242.
- Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism. Feminism & Psychology, 28(1), 3-10.
- Exploring the context of strengths – a new approach to strength-based assessment. Educational Psychology in Practice, 34(1), 26-40.
- Layering violence: Mapping the material & theoretical dislocation of women under neoliberalism. Clinical Psychology Forum(293), 12-17.
- Partnership working as liberation psychology: Forced labor among UK Chinese migrant workers. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 45(1), 7-18.
- Trace.space: a psychogeographical community project with members of an arts and health organisation. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 14(1), 42-61.
- ‘I’m not a therapist you know... I’m an artist’: Facilitating well-being and basic psychological needs satisfaction through community arts participation. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 7(3), 347-367.
- Delivering on the Big Society? Tensions in hosting community organisers. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 31(4), 502-517.
- The trouble with ‘hard working families’. Community, Work & Family, 19(2), 257-260.
- Feminist composite narratives of Chinese women: the interrelation of work, family and community in forced labour situations. Community, Work & Family, 19(2), 181-192.
- Participation in community arts: lessons from the inner-city. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 20(3), 331-346.
- Paid work, life-work and leisure: a study of wellbeing in the context of academic lives in higher education. Leisure Studies, 35(1), 36-45.
- Experiencing ‘pathologized presence and normalized absence’; understanding health related experiences and access to health care among Iraqi and Somali asylum seekers, refugees and persons without legal status. BMC Public Health, 15(1).
- Dialogical Demand: Discursive Position Repertoires for a Local and Global UK Sex Industry. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 45(2), 261-286.
- Posthuman disability studies. Subjectivity, 7(4), 342-361. View this article in WRRO
- Dis/ability and austerity: beyond work and slow death. Disability & Society, 29(6), 980-984. View this article in WRRO
- The good, the bad and the ugly: searching for critical research in psychology. Qualitative Research Journal, 13(2), 145-153.
- Hardt and Negri and the geo-Political Imagination: Empire, Multitude and Critical Disability Studies. Critical Sociology, 39(3), 369-384. View this article in WRRO
- Involving people with communication disability in research in Uganda: A response to the World Report on Disability. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 15(1), 75-78.
- Eudaimonic well-being and community arts participation. Perspectives in Public Health, 133(1), 60-65.
- Experiences of forced labour amongst Chinese migrant workers: exploring the context of vulnerability and protection. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 5(3), 261-261.
- Disability, community and empire: indigenous psychologies and social psychoanalytic possibilities. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 15(1), 101-115.
- Developing learning communities: using communities of practice within community psychology. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 15(1), 153-164.
- Transdisciplinary Learning: Exploring Pedagogical Links between Feminisms and Community Psychology. Feminism & Psychology, 19(3), 414-418.
- Transition to postgraduate study. Active Learning in Higher Education, 10(1), 26-40.
- In defence of disability studies: a response to Forshaw (2007) ‘In defence of psychology: a reply to Goodley and Lawthom (2005)’. Disability & Society, 23(2), 191-192.
- Interrogating power: the case of arts and mental health in community projects. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 17(4), 268-279.
- Epistemological journeys in participatory action research: alliances between community psychology and disability studies. Disability & Society, 20(2), 135-151.
- Constructions of Disability: Researching the Interface Between Disabled and Nondisabled People. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 33(3), 152-153.
- Community psychology Towards an empowering vision of disability. Psychologist, 18(7), 423-425.
- Validating the organizational climate measure: links to managerial practices, productivity and innovation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(4), 379-408.
- Dispensing with labels: Enabling children and professionals to share a community of practice. Educational and Child Psychology, 22(3), 89-97.
- The social psychology of stigma. DISABILITY & SOCIETY, 17(2), 225-227.
- Making connections: the relevance of the social model of disability for people with learning difficulties. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 29(2), 45-50.
- Tensions and possibilities of feminist authority in post-compulsory education. Educational and Child Psychology, 16(2), 35-48.
- Research excellence and departmental climate in British universities. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 71(3), 261-281.
- What Can I do? A Feminist Researcher in Non-Feminist Research. Feminism & Psychology, 7(4), 533-538.
- Women managers’ views of manufacturing: nice work?. Women in Management Review, 11(6), 3-10.
- ‘You really do become invisible’: examining older adults’ right to the city in the United Kingdom. Ageing and Society, 1-20.
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (Netflix, 2020).. The Sociological Review Magazine.
- Key Concerns for Critical Disability Studies in Covid-19 Times. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.
Chapters
- Linking Space, Place, and Relational Well-being in Co-productive Ways, The Palgrave Handbook of Innovative Community and Clinical Psychologies (pp. 545-557). Springer International Publishing
- Disability, technology, and health, Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness (pp. 209-220). Routledge
- Community as social ties, Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Society (pp. 45-108). Routledge
- On utilising a visual methodology: Shared reflections and tensions, A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research: Second Edition (pp. 572-587).
- On utilising a visual methodology, A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology (pp. 572-587). Routledge
- Participation in community arts: lessons from the inner-city, Creating Inclusive Knowledges (pp. 117-132). Routledge
- Towards a DisHuman Civil Society, The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South (pp. 211-222). Springer International Publishing
- The Psychogeographical Turn in
Applied Social Psychology, The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Psychology (pp. 515-529). SAGE Publications Ltd
- Resilience in the Lives of Disabled Children: A Many Splendoured Thing, The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies (pp. 425-442). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Critical Disability Studies, The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology (pp. 491-505). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Sustainable Communities: University-Community Partnership Research on Social Dimensions of Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Research at Universities in the United Kingdom (pp. 245-262). Springer International Publishing
- Positioning the critical in community psychology., APA handbook of community psychology: Theoretical foundations, core concepts, and emerging challenges. (pp. 107-127). American Psychological Association
- THE ETHICS OF RESEARCHING AND REPRESENTING DIS/ABILITY, ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK ON NARRATIVE AND LIFE HISTORY (pp. 481-492).
- Experiences of Forced Labour among UK-Based Chinese Migrant Workers: Exploring Vulnerability and Protection in Times of Empire, Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants (pp. 174-186). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- The Disavowal of Uncanny Disabled Children: Why Non-Disabled People Are So Messed Up Around Childhood Disability, Disabled Children's Childhood Studies (pp. 164-179). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Disabled Children's Childhood Studies Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Understanding communities In Azzopardi A & Grech S (Ed.), Inclusive Communities: A Critical Reader (pp. 11-22). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.
- Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability Studies, Disability and Social Theory (pp. 233-251). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Being Creative around Health: Participative Methodologies in Critical Community Psychology, Advances in Health Psychology (pp. 204-219). Macmillan Education UK
- Children and the Capability Approach Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Chapter 4 Disability, Deleuze and Sex, Deleuze and Sex (pp. 89-105). Edinburgh University Press
- Sen’s Capability Approach: Children and Well-being Explored through the Use of Photography, Children and the Capability Approach (pp. 137-161). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Disability, Deleuze and Sex, Deleuze and Sex (pp. 89-104). Edinburgh University Press
- Doing Community Psychology with Disabled People, Disability and Psychology (pp. 170-186). Macmillan Education UK
- Disability Studies and Psychology: New Allies?, Disability and Psychology (pp. 1-16). Macmillan Education UK
- Conclusions: Making Enabling Alliances between Disability Studies and Psychology, Disability and Psychology (pp. 187-204). Macmillan Education UK
- Preface In Clough P, Goodley D, Lawthom R & Moore M (Ed.), Researching Life Stories: Method, Theory and Analyses in a Biographical Age (pp. ix-x). Taylor & Francis
- 'I'd never met a vegetarian, never mind a lesbian': Colleen's life story, Researching Life Stories: Method, Theory and Analyses in a Biographical Age (pp. 15-25).
- Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies Routledge
- The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History Routledge
- Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability Studies, Disability and Social Theory Palgrave Macmillan
- Play-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders Routledge
- Senâs Capability Approach, Children and the Capability Approach Palgrave Macmillan
- The Disavowal of Uncanny Disabled Children, Disabled Children's Childhood Studies Palgrave Macmillan
Conference proceedings papers
- Exploring the potential of smart cities in the design of age-friendly urban environments. Gerontechnology, Vol. 17(s) (pp 67-67)
- Qualitative methods in psychology. A research guide. London: McGraw Hill.
- Research group
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I am a member of the iHuman Executive (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman) and the School of Education's Critical Psychology and Education Cluster.
- Teaching interests
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Rebecca has taught for over 20 years across undergraduate and postgraduate courses in psychology and the social sciences. She has supervised students in community, health and educational psychology.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Executive Editor, Community, Work and Families
Editorial Board Member, Qualitative Research in Psychology
Editorial Board member, Community, Work and Family
Editorial Board Member, Disability and the Global SouthMember, Expert Reference Group from Poverty to Flourishing, British Psychological Society, 2020-Member, Community Psychology Section Committee, British Psychological Society, 2015 -Chair, Psychology of Women Section of British Psychological Society (2012-2015)