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Rowan Sandle

Lecturer

Rowan's research interests include critical mental health and psychology, gender and post-qualitative and new-materialist methodology.

Rowan completed her PhD titled "Re-constructing the Psychological Impact of Austerity: Intra-actions of Gender, Communities and Wellbeing" at Leeds Beckett in 2020.

Rowan has taught a number of different modules across all levels of the BSc (Hons) Psychology degree and the MSc Conversion distance learning and onsite course. She is currently the module leader for the MSc Research Methods and Analysis B distance learning module. Other current teaching includes qualitative research methods (MSc), Clinical and Counselling Psychology (BSc level 6) and supervision of postgraduate dissertation projects.

Alongside her role at Leeds Beckett, Rowan is a Senior Crisis Support Worker working within a Person Centred framework.

Research Interests

Rowan's current research is focused on the role of Karen Barad's theory of intra-action in the field of critical mental health.

0113 81 22405
R.Sandle@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Queen Square House, G31, City Campus

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Selected Outputs

Sandle RV (In press) The deconstruction of Gilles de la Tourette’s syndrome. Journal of European Psychology Students, 3 pp. 68-68.

https://doi.org/10.5334/jeps.as
Jankowski G; Sandle R; Brown M (2022) Challenging the lack of BAME Authors in a Psychology Curriculum. Psychology of Women Section Review, 5 (1), pp. 18-36.

https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.1.18
Gillborn S; Woolnough H; Jankowski G; Sandle R (2021) “Intensely white”: psychology curricula and the (re)production of racism. Educational Review, pp. 1-20.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1978402
Ciocoiu MM; Voirrey Sandle R (2021) You are not my type: A critical discourse analysis of UK media representations of immigration, before and post Brexit. Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review, 4 (1), pp. 5-12.

https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.1.5
Day K; Sandle R; Muskett T (2018) Working to feel better or feeling better to work? Discourse of wellbeing in austerity reality TV. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 14 (2),

http://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/821
Jankowski G; Sandle R; Gillborn S (2018) Why is our teaching still mostly white and Western?. Psychologist, 31 (5), pp. 6-6.
Jankowski G; Gillborn S; Sandle R (2017) Advancing BME psychology. Psychologist, 30 (10), pp. 2-2.