Dr Stephen Handsley

Dr Handsley is the Programme Leader for our BA Sociology Degree. His expertise lie in all aspects of social and cultural identity, performativity, medical sociology and death and dying.  He also teaches epidemiology, health promotion, public health and public mental health.

• Health Policy Research Unit
• Reproduction Research Group

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Handsley S, Faull C, Phelps K, Noguera A, Wale J, & Minns,T (Forthcoming) The power of purposeful pedagogy: reflective experiences of learners from a Foundation Degree in Palliative Care, Education and Research.

Douglas J, Earle S, Handsley S, Jones L C, Lloyd C E & Spurr S (eds) (2010) A Reader in promoting public health: challenge and controversy. 2nd Ed London. Sage.

Handsley S & Komaromy C (2010) ‘Death & Contagion’: contaminating bodies, in Douglas J, Earle S,Handsley S, Lloyd C & Spurr S. (Eds.). A Reader in promoting public health: challenge and controversy. 2nd ed Sage Publications in association with The Open University.

Handsley S (2009) ‘Double clutchin, bucket tipping, juggernaut driving, trucking time: a trucker’s tale’, in G Letherby & G Reynolds (eds). Gendered Journeys, Mobile Emotions. London. Ashgate Publishing.

Handsley S & Stocks S (2009). ‘Sociology and Nursing: role performance in a psychiatric setting’, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 18(1): 26-34.

• Role performance in health and social care
• Social & cultural identity
• Care & compassion
• Problems associated with researching hard-to-reach groups and communities
• Methodological matters surrounding grief and mourning
• Qualitative research methodologies in health
• Community development, health promotion & public health
• Pedagogy and performativity
• Interdisciplinary teaching & learning
• Widening participation.

BA Sociology

• Module Leader – Developing a sociological Imagination
• Module Leader – Identity and culture in a social world
• Module Leader – Applied social research
• Module Leader – Dissertation
• Module Leader - Feminisms and masculinities

BA Health Studies

• Module Leader - Health & disease in communities
• Module Leader – Social aspects of health
• Module Leader – Applied social research
• Module Leader – Health promotion & public health

• BA Sociology, University of Derby, 2000
• PhD - Cultural Constructions of Mourning & Funerary Culture in the Irish Catholic Community in Derby, University of Warwick, 2007
• PGCertHE (Distinction), De Montfort University, 2009.

• BA Sociology
• BA Health Studies
• BA Social Work
• MA Social Work

2007 - Present  East Midlands Teaching Public Health Steering Group.

2006 – Present PG Certificate in Palliative CareSteering Group, LOROS - Leicestershire and Rutland Hospice.

2007 - Present United Kingdom Public Health Association (UKPHA).

2000 – Present British Sociological Association (BSA).

• BSA Medical Sociology Group 44th Annual Conference, University of Leicester, September, 2012
• Public Health: An Update and Way Forward, London, October 2012.

Care & Compassion Initiative, 10 May, 2012, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, Dignity & Compassion in Mental Health: Time for a rethink! Handsley S. & Stocks S. (Poster Presentation).

Influencing HealthCare through Education, 23 March 2010.Leicestershire, UK, Handsley S, Faull C, Noguera A, Phelps K, Wale J, Minns T & Ahmad F (2010) An evaluation of the impact of a foundation degree in palliative and supportive care: key findings, Conference Paper.

Evaluation in Health Promotion and Public Health, Coventry City Council, UK.