SoC Membership

Membership is inclusive, open to anyone across the University and to anyone from an outside organisation with an interest in social and community psychological research. Please email Debbie Allen if you are interested in joining us. Below is a list of our current Members:

Dr Debbie Allen

Dr. Roz Collings 

Nic Derrer-Rendall

Helen Hewson

Dr. Danny Hinton

Garrett Kennedy

Dr. Lamprini Mangirou

Dr. Laura Nicklin

Dave Ormerod

Dr. Satvinder Purewal

Dr. Chelsea Slater

Dr. Caroline Wesson

Current SoC PhD Students

Julie Jebsen

Nik Manktelow

Laura Rhoden

Affiliate Members

Dr. Tracey Platt – University of Sunderland

• Surguladze, S., Montgomery, A. J., Chkonia, E. D., & Sochos, A. (Eds.). (2023). Burnout in the health, social care and beyond: Integrating individuals and systems (Vol. 16648714). Frontiers Media SA. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1166060/full
• Surguladze, S., Sochos, A., Chkonia, E., Montgomery, A. (2023). Burnout in the Health, Social Care and Beyond: Integrating Individuals and Systems, Frontiers in Psychiatry, v.14. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1166060/full
• Sochos, A., Richards, A., Smith, S., Bennett, A. (2023). The attachment relationship between hostel-based homeless individuals and their keyworkers. Children and Youth Services Review, 149, 106924. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740923001196
• Sochos, A., & Smith, S. (2023). Housing Support Services and the Strengths-Based Approach: Service-User and Staff Perspectives. Journal of Social Service Research, 1-18. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01488376.2023.2284791
• Sochos, A., & Aleem, S. (2022, February). Parental attachment style and young persons’ adjustment to bereavement. In Child & Youth Care Forum (Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 161-179). New York: Springer US. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10566-021-09621-5
• Goggolidou, P., Hodges-Mameletzis, I., Purewal, S., Karakoula, A., & Warr, T. (2021). Self-testing as an invaluable tool in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 12, 21501327211047782. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/21501327211047782
• Nicklin, L. L., Wilsdon, L., Chadwick, D., Rhoden, L., Ormerod, D., Allen, D., ... & Lloyd, J. (2022). Accelerated HE digitalisation: Exploring staff and student experiences of the COVID-19 rapid online-learning transfer. Education and Information Technologies, 27(6), 7653-7678. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-022-10899-8
• Oliver, C., Ellis, K., Agar, G., Bissell, S., Chung, J.C.Y., Crawford, H., Pearson, E., Wade, K., Waite, J., Allen, D. and Deeprose, L. (2022). Distress and challenging behavior in people with profound or severe intellectual disability and complex needs: Assessment of causes and evaluation of intervention outcomes. In International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities (Vol. 62, pp. 109-189). Academic Press. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211609522000045
• Attrill-Smith, A., Wesson, C. J., Chater, M. L., & Weekes, L. (2021). Gender differences in videoed accounts of victim blaming for revenge porn for self-taken and stealth-taken sexually explicit images and videos. 
• Kelley, T., Collings, R., Kessel.S., Solomon, A., Rubenstein, B. (In press). The Efficacy of iHEART Mental Health Education for Drawing out Inner Resilience and Wellbeing of UK Secondary School Adolescents. Journal of Public Mental Health.  
• Croom, S., Chadwick, D., Nicholls, W., & McGarry, A. (2021). The experiences of adults with intellectual disabilities attending a mindfulness-based group intervention. British Journal of Learning Disabilities. [https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12359]
• Oliver, C., Adams, D., Allen, D., Crawford, H., Heald, M., Moss, J., ... & Woodcock, K. (2020). The behaviour and wellbeing of children and adults with severe intellectual disability and complex needs: the Be-Well checklist for carers and professionals. Paediatrics and Child Health.
• Meredith, J., Galpin, A., & Robinson, L. (2020). Examining the management of stake and interest in a participatory design Facebook group. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1-20.
• Coen, S., Meredith, J., Woods, R., & Fernandez, A. (2020). Talk like an expert: the construction of expertise in news comments concerning Climate Change. Public understanding of science, 0963662520981729.
• Chadwick, D. D., & Wesson, C. (2020). ‘Blocked at every level’: criminal justice system professionals’ experiences of including people with intellectual disabilities within a targeted magistrates’ court. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour.
• Brown, E. J., & Nicklin, L. L. (2019). Spitting rhymes and changing minds: Global youth work through hip-hop. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning.
• Meredith, J. & Richardson, E. (2019). The use of the categories Brexiter and Remainer in online comment threads. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 29, 43-55. 
• Wesson, C. J., & Chadwick, D. D. (2019). Police Officers’ Perceptions of Their Role in a Mental Health Magistrates’ Court Pathway. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 34(3), 285-291.Chadwick, D., Buell, S. & Goldbart, J. (2019). Approaches to communication assessment with children and adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 32(2), 336-358.
• Woods, S. A., Hinton, D. P., von Stumm, S., & Bellman-Jeffreys, J. (2019). Personality and intelligence: Examining the associations of investment-related personality traits with general and specific intelligence. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 35(2), 206.
• Chadwick, D. D., & Platt, T. (2018). Investigating humor in social interaction in people with intellectual disabilities: A systematic review of the literature. Frontiers in psychology, 9, Article 1745.
• Chadwick, D. D. & Fullwood, C. (2018). An online life like any other: identity, self-determination, and social networking among adults with intellectual disabilities. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 21(1), 56-64.
• Ball, K. S., & Wesson, C. J. (2017). Perceptions of unwanted sexual behaviour on public transport: exploring transport density and behaviour severity. Crime prevention and community safety, 19(3), 199-210.
• Buell, S., & Chadwick, D. (2017). Meeting the communication support needs of children and young people with intellectual disabilities in the Bolivian Andes. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 21(3), 220-234.
• Nicklin, L. L. (2017). ‘Make Not Your Prisons Your Prisons’: Participant-perceived Potential Outcomes of a Shakespeare Focussed Alternative to Juvenile Incarceration in the USA. Emotional and behavioural difficulties, 22(1), 2-17.
• Hinton, D. P., & Higson, H. (2017). A large-scale examination of the effectiveness of anonymous marking in reducing group performance differences in higher education assessment. PloS one, 12(8), e0182711.
• Coen, S, Meredith, J., & Condie, J.M. (2017). I dig therefore we are: community archaeology, place-based social identity, and intergroup relations within local communities. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 27 (3), pp. 212-225.

Coordinated by Dr. Liz Tilly, Dr. Stephanie Brewster & Lynne Westwood WIDeN aims to enhance the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities through research, education and community work. You can find out more about the work of WIDeN here.

• Political discourse
• Political engagement amongst people with intellectual disabilities
• Social inclusion within the criminal justice system
• Attitudes to offenders and disenfranchised groups
• Impression management
• Boardgaming communities
• Women’s career progression in stem
• Enhancing pedagogy in psychology