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Aims and scope of the programme

The CDSB programme is based at the Centre for Psychological Research (CDSB) at Leeds Beckett University. Researchers in this programme are primarily interested in understanding and exploring how peoples' psychological processes, language and behaviour are shaped by culture and society. We are a broad group of researchers with interests and specialisms in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies. Our research is conducted at individual, organisational, national and global levels. We contribute academic outputs as well as working with and making links with various stakeholders and public, private organisations as well as doing key public engagement and impact work. Our programme is currently focused on five main research categories, aiming to address important social, political, and cultural issues and processes across a range of different scenarios:

Main themes of research activity:

Power and incivility, political behaviour, inequality, and social class
Stigma, culture, and society
Racism, prejudice, and discrimination
Diversity and inclusion
Spatiality and psychology

Our programme primarily contributes to REF Unit 4: Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience, but members also contribute to REF units such as Unit 17: Business and Management Studies, Unit 20: Social Work & Social Policy and Unit 23: Education.

The CDSB programme is collaboratively working with other programmes within the Centre for Psychological Research (PsyCen). We run regular internal seminars and contribute to the main PsyCen seminars.

For further information regarding the Culture, Diversity and Social Behaviour programme, please contact our research programme leads: Dr Lisa Harkry and Dr Alex Bridger.

Programme leads

Dr Lisa Harkry

Senior Lecturer / School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Alex Bridger

Senior Lecturer / School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Representative publications and projects

Milnes K; Turner-Moore R; Gough B (2021) Towards a culturally situated understanding of bullying: viewing young people’s talk about peer relationships through the lens of consent. Journal of Youth Studies, 25 (10), pp. 1367-1385. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.1965106
Carless D; Douglas K; Milnes K; Turner-Moore R (2019) ‘Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid’: Being Bisexual, Genderfluid and Fifteen. Qualitative Inquiry, 26 (7), pp. 707-940. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800419846525
Jones S; Milnes K; Turner-Moore R (2022) ‘Doing things you don’t wanna do’: Young people’s understandings of power inequalities and the implications for sexual consent. Journal of Youth Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2152317

Sandle, R., Day, K., & Muskett, T. (2018). Working to feel better or feeling better to work? Discourses of wellbeing in austerity reality TV. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 14(2), 1-19
Singleton, P. (2020). Remodelling Barbie, making justice: an autoethnography of craftivist encounters. Feminism and Psychology, 1-19
Woolhouse, M., Day, K., & Rickett, B. (2019). “Growing your own herbs” and “cooking from scratch”: Contemporary discourses around good mothering, food and class-related identities. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 29, 285-296

Dockery, L., Jeffery, D., Schauman, O., Williams, P., Farrelly, S., Bonnington, O., Gabbidon, J., Lassman, F., Szmukler, G., Thornicroft, G., Clement, S., & MIRIAD study group (2015). Stigma- and non-stigma-related treatment barriers to mental healthcare reported by service users and caregivers. Psychiatry Research, 228, 612-619
Farrelly, S., Clement, S., Gabbidon, J., Jeffrey, D., Dockery, L., Lassman, F., Brohan, E., Henderson, C., Williams, P., Howard, L. M., & Thornicroft, G. (2014). Anticipated and experienced discrimination amongst people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder: a cross-sectional study. BMC Psychiatry, 14, 157
Gabbidon, J., Farrelly, S., Hatch, S., Henderson, C., Williams, P., Bhugra, D., Dockery, L., Lassman, F., Thornicroft, G., & Clement, S. (2014). Discrimination attributed to mental illness or race-ethnicity by users of community psychiatric services. Psychiatric Services, 65(11), 1360-1366
Willard, E. F. (2016). Using Q methodology to investigate perspectives of secondary school children presenting with number processing difficulties. Debate British Psychological Society Publication, 160. ISSN 1471-5775

Research grants
2018-21: Improving Employability of Autistic Graduates in Europe (IMAGE); Fabri, M. (PI), Harkry, L. (Co-Investigator), & Wyatt-Millington, R. (Co-Investigator) Erasmus+ £360,000.00

Hunt A; Demasi M (2024) “Which would be more democratic? allowing them the opportunity to change their mind or pressing on regardless”: A Discursive Psychological Study of Arguments for and Against Calls for a Second Brexit Referendum. Discourse & Society
Burke S; Demasi M (2023) Communicating COVID-19: Accountability and ‘British Common Sense’. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, 15 (1), pp. 45-60
Demasi M (2022) Accountability in the Russo-Ukrainian War: Vladimir Putin vs NATO. Peace and Conflict: journal of peace psychology

The Living in Batley and Heckmondwike: Research Report was published in March 2024. It focused on understanding community members experiences of place, cohesion, togetherness, belonging, and loneliness in the regions of Batley and Heckmondwike
Burr, V., Bridger, A.J., Eastburn, S., Brown, P., Somerville, P. and Morris, G. (2024) 'The use of turning points in understanding homelessness transitions: A critical social psychological perspective'. Housing, Theory and Society
Bridger, A.J. (2022) Psychogeography and Psychology: In and Beyond the Discipline. London: Routledge

Recent externally funded research:

2021-22: Evidence for Supported Employment and Mental Health of Autistic Adults (ESTEEM). Harkry, L., Wang, S., Holch, T., & Clark, S. The Welcome Trust. £45,000.00

Recent internally funded research: