Dr Rebecca Fish
Senior Research AssociateResearch Overview
I research experiences of health and social care, including institutions and their impact on understandings of gender and disability. My PhD study was an ethnography of a women's secure mental health and learning disability service. I have studied experiences of interpersonal violence, mental health, drug recovery, and service responses from multiple perspectives. Some of my research has been featured in NICE guidance and Parliamentary debates. I am interested in creative and inclusive research methods with marginalised groups, feminist and disabiity research.
I currently teach Special Study Modules in the Medical School covering bioethical aspects of mental health treatment, accessible and inclusive health information, and workbased learning.
In the past I have convened and taught Violence and Society (BA2) and Gender Sex and Bodies (MA) in the Sociology Department.
Other teaching includes Adult Social Care (BA2 and MA), Contemporary Social Problems (BA1), Society and Drugs (BA2).
Experiences of shame in people with learning disabilities
01/02/2018 → 31/07/2018
Research
Working with men who self-harm in a learning disability secure unit
01/01/2018 → 31/05/2018
Research
How accessible is prescription information?
01/10/2016 → 30/09/2017
Research
ESRC Studentship for Rebecca Fish ES/H037594/1
01/10/2010 → 16/04/2016
Research
PhD Disability Studies
Examination
Disability & Society (Journal)
Editorial activity
Keynote: Women's Experiences of Seclusion
Invited talk
Workshop: Women's Experiences of Seclusion
Oral presentation
Disability and Society (Journal)
Editorial activity
Inclusive Research methods
Invited talk
Social, ethical and phenomenological aspects of FASD
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Working with men who self-harm
Invited talk
Accessible information and prescriptions
Invited talk
An ethnography of secure wards for women
Invited talk