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Research interests
I research relational experience in the context of mental health, particularly psychosis and suicidality. I take a hermeneutic phenomenological approach and use qualitative methodologies especially creative and visual methods.
I am particularly interested in developing interdisciplinary research. I have a background in the performing arts and also have a masters in Gestalt psychotherapy. I wish to collaborate with researchers and artists from a wide range of backgrounds in order to humanise and enrich our understanding of mental health challenges.
Recent and current projects:
- 2020-21: Pathways between LGBTQ migration, social isolation & mental distress: The temporal-relational-spatial experiences of LGBTQ mental health service-users (funded by UKRI via the 'Loneliness, social isolation & mental health' network; PI Zoë Boden-Stuart)
- 2019-20: Intimacy, medication and mental health (pilot funded by University of Brighton; PI Zoë Boden)
- 2018-19: Feeling sexual inside and out: Bodies and boundaries in forensic mental health (funded by Wellcome; PI Paula Reavey)
- 2017-18: Relationships and relationality in mental health (funded by ISRF; PI Zoë Boden)
- 2017-18: Psychosis, connectedness and emerging adulthood (funded by Richard Benjamin Trust; PI Zoë Boden)
Supervisory Interests
I am interested in supervising projects that explore what-it-is-like to live and love at times when there is a challenge to mental health or wellbeing. I am also interested in understanding what it is like to care for, live with, and love someone at these times. Exploring relationality in the context of mental health incorporates themes of social exclusion, belonging, marginalisation and community, as well as intimacy, sexuality and connectedness. Projects exploring the impact of services and interventions (e.g. medication, psychotherapy) on relational networks are also of interest.
I supervise projects that use qualitative research methods and that take an experiential approach, typically phenomenological. I have specialist expertise in creative, visual and embodied approaches and also welcome coproduced or codesigned projects. I have also examined over 20 doctoral theses (PhD, DClinPsy, DCouns etc.)
Current PhD projects:
- Social in/exclusion and suicidal distress in LGBTQ+ communities in Brighton and Hove: A case study with reference to suicide prevention and loneliness policies (Rowan Davis, Brighton, ESRC)
- Intimacy, sexuality and desire in early 'psychosis' (Annie Whilby, Brighton, University studentship)
- Suicide prevention and social networks (Helen Mulholland, Liverpool)
- Intimacy and sexuality in early parenthood (Amy Middleton, Brighton, ESRC)
- The psychosocial impact of antipsychotic use in early 'psychosis' (Sarah Bögle, LSBU, University studentship)
- Experiences of space in secure forensic mental health settings (Katharine Harding, LSBU)
- Taking part in mental health interventions on TV (Hannah Selby, Brighton)
Completed PhDs and Professional Doctorates
- Deep Flow: A tentacular worlding of dance, biosensor technology, lived experience and embodied materials of the human and non-humankind (Jeanette Ginslov, PhD 2021)
- Navigating intimacy with ecstasy: The emotional, spatial and boundaried dynamics of couples’ MDMA experiences (Katie Anderson, PhD 2019)
- Mothers' Decision-Making About Medication for Mental Health Difficulties: A Grounded Theory Study (Sara Holloway, DClinPsy, 2019)
Keywords
- BF Psychology
- mental health
- emotion
- relationality
- phenomenology
- Qualitative Methods
- visual methods
- hermeneutics
- interpretative phenomenological analysis
- psychosis
- suicide and suicide prevention
- social networks
- LGBTQ+ health
- intimacy
- sexuality
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Pathways between LGBTQ migration, social isolation and mental distress: The temporal-relational-spatial experiences of LGBTQ mental health service-users.
Boden-Stuart, Z., McGlynn, N. & Jones, H.
1/09/20 → 31/08/21
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
Research output
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Young Adults’ Dynamic Relationships with their Families in Early Psychosis: Identifying Relational Strengths and Supporting Relational Agency
Boden-Stuart, Z., Larkin, M. & Harrop, C., 25 Feb 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Conducting sexualities research: An outline of emergent issues and case studies from ten Wellcome-funded projects
Kneale, D., French, R., Spandler, H., Young, I., Purcell, C., Boden, Z., Brown, S., Callwood, D., Carr, S., Dymock, A., Eastham, R., Gabb, J., Henley, J., Jones, C., McDermott, E., Mkhwanazi, N., Ravenhill, J., Reavey, P., Scott, R., Smith, C. & 3 others, , 19 Sep 2019, In: Wellcome Open Research. 4, p. 1-9 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Love and Incomprehensibility: The hermeneutic labour of caring for and understanding a loved one with psychosis
Luderowski, A. & Boden, Z., 2 Apr 2019, In: Health. 24, 6, p. 737-754Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Parallel returns: Feelings, temporality and narrative in the experience of guilt
Boden, Z. & Eatough, V., 14 Feb 2019, In: Qualitative Research in Psychology. 17, 1, p. 36-52 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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'Sometimes labels need to exist': exploring how young adults with Asperger’s syndrome perceive its removal from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth edition
Chambers, B., Murray, C., Boden, Z. & Kelly, M., 14 Aug 2019, In: Disability & society.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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