Prof Gillian Bendelow

Biography

Before entering higher education as a mature student, Gillian Bendelow worked in London's East End as a ward sister and community psychiatric nurse. Between 1990-1995, she was a founder member of the Social Science Research Unit, University of London, where she completed her doctoral research in 1992 on the sociology of pain, under the supervision of Professor Ann Oakley with the help of an ESRC studentship award. From 1995 to 2003, she worked at the University of Warwick as a Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work and as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology. She was appointed as Reader to the Department of Sociology at the University of Sussex in 2003 and became Professor in 2006.

Role

Professor of Medical Sociology

Director of Internationalisation ( LPS)

Member of School Executive Board (LPS)

Community and Business

Gillian was a Committee member of the British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group since 2001 including its Convenor between 2005-8, and a member the BSA Executive Council (2006-2011) https://britsoc.org.uk

From August 2010, Gillian has been elected for a three year term as a Public Governor (Brighton and Hove) for the NHS Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust

From September 2010, Gillian has been appointed for a three year term as a Trustee for the Foundation for Sociology of Health and Illness https:// shif.org.uk

Member of Advisory Board, Chronic Pain Australia ( 2010- present)

Gillian Bendelow is an established medical sociologist who has made significant research contributions to the fields of chronic pain and ‘contested’ illness conditions; mental health and emotional wellbeing; health promotion and lay concepts of health and illness. Core aspects of her substantive interests in emotion, embodiment, gender and childhood overlap with other areas of social science, medicine and humanities, and this dialogue is reflected in her current work which is concerned with understanding models of health and illness in contemporary healthcare, with a strong focus on explaining and transcending the often unhelpful divisions and polarisation between 'the natural' and 'the social', biological and cultural, arts and sciences.

Gillian is regularly invited as a keynote/plenary speaker to international academic and policy-oriented events and has received past external research funding from the ESRC, NHS, EU, the Wellcome Trust and cancer charities. She has existing research collaborations with Warwick University Medical School ( Values-Based-Practice) University of Luxembourg ( ESF interdisciplinary Pain and Suffering Forum), Monash University, Australia (international Healthy Living and Citizenship forum) and Waikato Medical School, New Zealand (mental and emotional healthcare strategies).

She currently holds a BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship and is working in collaboration with SussexPartnership NHS Foundation Trust and Sussex Police to understand the social patterning and decision-making processes of the high rates of police detentions under the Mental Health Act ( section 136) across Sussex.

Gillian convenes and teaches the final year specialised study courses Madness and Society Parts 1 and 2 across the Autumn, Spring and Summer term. She supervises MSc Social Research and MA Gender Studies dissertation students and contributes lectures to the first year core courses Themes and Perspectives in Sociology and Comparative Societies. She also teaches the option course Critical Perspectives in Global and Public Health on the MSc Global Health programme in the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and MA Gender Studies programme in the Spring Term.

DPhil Research Supervision:

Current DPhil co-supervisions at University of Sussex

Sarah Hamilton from October 2009 Psychiatry and stigma in the clinical relationship F/T funded by Rethink Mental Health Charity co-supervised with Dr Susie Scott.

Donna Dove-Wallington from October 2009 The medicalisation of Asperger's Syndrome: adults motivations for seeking a diagnosis. F/T ESRC quota award co-supervised with Dr Susie Scott.

Kirat Randhawa (registered in Migration Studies) ESRC CASE studentship full time from October 2008 with Brighton and Hove Council Health Needs of Migrants in Brighton and Hove co-supervised with Dr Mike Collyer

Kate Spiegelhalter LPS studentship full time from October 2011 The 'Nudge' agenda: impact for mental health policy co-supervised with Dr Catherine Will.

 Agnes Adama Campbell Commonwealth scholarship full time from September 2012 Violence against HIV Positive Women in the Gambia: strategies of resilience cosupervised with Dr Alison Phipps.

Completed DPhil supervisions

Maya Gislason awarded January 2012 A Critical Inquiry into the Construction and Contestation of Ecological Health: Public Health, Environment, Culture funded by Commonwealth Scholarship co-supervised with Prof Jackie Cassell (BSMS).

Sandra Gonzales Santos awarded January 2012 Sociocultural Aspects of the Artificial Reproductive Services in Mexico co-supervised with Prof Adam Hedgecoe (Uni of Cardiff)

Ana Porroche Escuardo (registered in Anthropology) awarded 2012 Listening to Women: Political Ethnographic Narratives of Breast Cancer in Spain funded by Fundación Caja Madrid co-supervised with Dr Maya Unnithan (SGS).

 Margaret Simmons  awarded January 2013 Girls/women in inverted commas: facing ‘reality’ as an XY female co-supervised with Dr Catherine Will

Carolyn Mahoney  passed viva with minor corrections January 2013 Creating, marketing and consuming food:class diet and health in the UK funded by ESRC 1+ 3 quota award co-supervised with Prof John Abraham 

University of Warwick

Sheila Hunt PhD Sociology awarded 2001 Listening to Women: Ethnographic Accounts of Child-bearing Women in Poverty

Catherine Dodds PhD Sociology awarded 2003 HIV/AIDS and Notions of Responsibility.

Anita Noguera PhD Sociology/Philosophy awarded 2004 Ethics of Care in Mental Illness

Helen Leibling PhD Gender Studies awarded 2004 Health Needs of Ugandan Women who Suffered Rape and Torture in Civil War (ESRC funded)

Geraldine Brady PhD Sociology awarded 2005 Children's Experiences of ADHD (ESRC funded)

Caroline Vautier PhD Sociology awarded 2005 Fit patient, fit parent? Health professionals views of attenders of fertility clinics (ESRC funded)

 Kim Clarke (Kings College, London) awarded 2009 Becoming a male bodybuilder: pathways, image and identity supervised with Prof  Myfanwy Morgan.

Student Consultation

I have a British Academy  Senior Research Fellowship for 2012/13, so am not available for office hours.

Please contact me by email (G.A.Bendelow@sussex.ac.uk) for an appointment.

Phipps, Alison and Bendelow, Gillian (2013) Sociology of the body. In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behaviour and Society. Wiley-Blackwell. (In Press)

Kokanovic, Renata, Bendelow, Gillian and Philip, Brigid (2012) Depression: the ambivalence of diagnosis. Sociology of Health and Illness, 35 (3). pp. 377-390. ISSN 0141-9889

MacKenzie, Heather, Quintner, John and Bendelow, Gillian, eds. (2012) At the edge of being: the aporia of pain. Making Sense of Illness Interdisciplinary Net . Inter-Disciplinary Press, Freeland, p. 2. ISBN 9781848881150

Scott, Susie, Jones, Debbie, Ballinger, Rachel, Bendelow, Gillian and Fulford, Bill (2011) The slide to pragmatism: a values-based understanding of 'dangerous' personality disorders. Health Sociology Review, 20 (2). pp. 157-171. ISSN 1446-1242

Bendelow, Gillian (2010) Emotional health: challenging biomedicine or increasing health surveillance? Critical Public Health, 20 (4). pp. 465-474. ISSN 0958-1596

Bendelow, Gillian (2010) Ethical aspects of personality disorders. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 23 (6). pp. 546-549. ISSN 0951-7367

Griffiths, Frances, Bendelow, Gillian, Green, Eileen and Palmer, Julie (2010) Screening for breast cancer: medicalisation, visualisation and the embodied experience. Health, 14 (6). pp. 653-668. ISSN 1363-4593

Bendelow, Gillian (2010) The mind/body problem in contemporary healthcare. In: Making Sense of Pain: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxford, pp. 21-31. ISBN 978184888368

Bendelow, Gillian (2009) Health, emotion and the body. Polity Press, London. ISBN 9780745636443

Griffith, F, Green , E and Bendelow, G (2006) Health professionals, their medical interventions and uncertainty: a study focusing on women at midlife. Social Science and Medicine , 62 (5). pp. 1078-1090. ISSN 0277-9536

Bendelow, Gillian (2006) Pain, suffering and risk. Health, Risk and Society, 8 (1). pp. 59-70. ISSN 13698575

Bendelow, Gillian (2004) CAM: what is it, which breast cancer patients use it, and why? European Journal of Cancer, 2 (3). p. 160. ISSN 13596349

Bendelow, Gillian (2004) Sociology and concepts of mental illness. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 11 (2). pp. 145-146. ISSN 10716076

Williams , Simon J, Birke, Lynda and Bendelow, Gillian A, eds. (2003) Debating biology: sociological reflections on health, medicine and society. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415279024

Colombo, A, Bendelow, G, Fulford, B and Williams, S (2003) Evaluating the influence of implicit models of mental disorder on processes of shared decision making within community-based multi-disciplinary teams. Social Science and Medicine, 56 (7). pp. 1557-1570. ISSN 0277-9536

Bendelow, Gillian and Mayall, Berry (2002) Children's emotional learning in primary schools. European Journal of Psychotherapy Counselling and Health, 5 (3). pp. 291-304. ISSN 1469-5901

Bendelow, Gill and et al.,, eds. (2002) Gender, health and healing: the public/private divide. Routledge. ISBN 9780415235730

Bendelow, Gillian (2000) Pain and Gender. New Sociologies . Prentice Hall, New York and Harlow. ISBN 9780582307773

Williams, Simon J and Bendelow, Gillian (2000) 'Recalcitrant Bodies'? Children, Cancer and the Transgression of Corporeal Boundaries. Health, 4 (1). pp. 51-71. ISSN 1363-4593

Williams, Simon J and Bendelow, Gillian (1998) The lived body: sociological themes, embodied issues. Routledge. ISBN 9780415194266 (hbk.) 9780415194259 (pbk.)

Bendelow, Gillian and Williams, Simon, eds. (1997) Emotions in social life: critical themes and contemporary issues. Routledge , UK. ISBN 9780415137997

Bendelow, Gillian and Williams, Simon (1997) Biomedicine, holistic health and the emotionally reflexive body in "late" modernity. In: Health and the Sociology of Emotions. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 25-53. ISBN 978-0-631-20351-3

Bendelow, Gillian A and Williams, Simon J (1996) 'The End of the Road'? Lay views on a pain relief clinic. Social Science and Medicine, 43 (7). pp. 1127-1136. ISSN 0277-9536

Mayall, Berry, Bendelow, Gillian, Barker, Sandy, Storey, Pamela and Veltman, Marijcke (1996) Children's Health In Primary Schools. Falmer Press/Tayor and Francis. ISBN 978-0-7507-0544-8

Bendelow, Gillian, Williams, Simon J and Oakley, Ann (1996) 'It makes you bald': children's knowledge and beliefs about health and cancer prevention. Health Education, 96 (3). pp. 8-15. ISSN 0965-4283

Pridmore, Pat and Bendelow, Gillian (1995) Health Images: the use of the write-and-draw technique with children. Health Education Journal, 54 (4). pp. 473-488. ISSN 0017-8969

Oakley, A, Bendelow, G, Barnes, J, Buchanan, M and Husain, O A (1995) Health and cancer prevention: knowledge and beliefs of children and young people. British Medical Journal, 310. pp. 1029-1033. ISSN 0959-8138

Bendelow, Gillian A and Williams, Simon J (1995) Transcending the dualisms: towards a sociology of pain. Sociology of Health and Illness, 17 (2). pp. 139-165. ISSN 0141-9889

Bendelow, Gillian (1993) Pain perceptions, emotions and gender. Sociology of Health and Illness, 15 (3). pp. 273-294. ISSN 01419889