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Ms Sue Westwood

Job: Senior Lecturer

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Applied Social Sciences

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH.

T: +44 (0) 116 207 8704

E: swestwood@dmu.ac.uk

W: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/hls

 

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Publications and outputs

  • Older LGBT+ Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom: Setting a Research Agenda
    dc.title: Older LGBT+ Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom: Setting a Research Agenda dc.contributor.author: Westwood, Sue; Willis, Paul; Fish, Julie; Hafford-Letchfield, Trish; Semlyen, Joanna; King, Andrew; Beach, Brian; Almack, Kathryn; Kneale, Dylan; Toze, Michael; Becares, Lara dc.description.abstract: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans+a (LGBT+) people report poorer health than the general population and worse experiences of healthcare particularly cancer, palliative/end-of-life, dementia and mental health provision. This is attributable to: a) social inequalities, including ‘minority stress’; b) associated health-risk behaviours (e.g. smoking, excessive drug/alcohol use, obesity); c) loneliness and isolation, affecting physical/mental health and mortality; d) anticipated/experienced discrimination and e) inadequate understandings of needs among healthcare providers. Older LGBT+ people are particularly affected, due to the effects of both cumulative disadvantage and ageing. There is a need for greater and more robust research data to support growing international and national government initiatives aimed at addressing these health inequalities. We identify seven key research strategies: 1) Production of large datasets; 2) Comparative data collection; 3) Addressing diversity and intersectionality among LGBT+ older people; 4) Investigation of healthcare services’ capacity to deliver LGBT+ affirmative healthcare and associated education and training needs; 5) Identification of effective health promotion and/or treatment interventions for older LGBT+ people, and sub-groups within this umbrella category; 6) Development an (older) LGBT+ health equity model; 7) Utilisation of social justice concepts to ensure meaningful, change-orientated data production which will inform and support government policy, health promotion and healthcare interventions. dc.description: The file author's final peer reviewed version can be found by following the URI link. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
  • Serious Offending by Mobile European Criminals: Comparative field work report.
    dc.title: Serious Offending by Mobile European Criminals: Comparative field work report. dc.contributor.author: Kemshall, Hazel, 1958-; Hilder, Sarah; Kelly, Gill; Wilkinson, Bernadette; Westwood, Sue dc.description.abstract: A number of tragic examples have exposed weaknesses within the European Union (EU) where a serious violent or sexual offender has travelled to one Member State from another without any public safety organisation within the receiving Member State being made aware of the harm they may pose.1 Often only once a further criminal act has occurred have checks been made, revealing antecedents and an indication of the previously known concerns. Serious violent or sexual offenders are therefore able to integrate into communities across the EU free from any management, supervision or surveillance, which may lead to an increase in the risk to public safety. Whilst significant strides have been made in EU community law enforcement cooperation to address issues of organised crime, human trafficking, child exploitation, terrorism and football hooliganism, the “common interest” of protecting EU citizens from the single transient serious violent or sexual offender has not been so apparent. dc.description: SOMEC is a two-year project running from January 2013 to January 2015 investigating current processes for information exchange and procedures to manage the harm posed by serious violent or sexual offenders travelling across the European Union. SOMEC is co-funded by the European Commission Directorate-General for Home Affairs - HOME/2011/AG/4000002521 30-CE-0519712/00-87. SOMEC Partners, Beneficiary Partners: National Offender Management Service (UK), The Home Office (UK) Association of Chief Police Officers (UK), ACPO Criminal Records Office (UK), National Crime Agency (UK), London Probation Trust (UK), De Montfort University (UK), CEP- Confederation of European Probation (EU), Department of Justice (Prison and Probation) Catalonia (ES), Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice (NL), Latvian State Probation Service (LV), Latvian State Police (LV). Associate Partners: The Ministry of Interior, Macedonia (MA), Probation Chiefs Association (UK), The Scottish Government (UK), The Police Service Northern Ireland (UK), Probation Board for Northern Ireland (UK), Europol (EU), Eurojust (EU).
  • Youth work: preparation for practice.
    dc.title: Youth work: preparation for practice. dc.contributor.author: Wood, Jason, 1978-; Westwood, Sue; Thomspon, Gill
  • Circles of Support and accountability (CoSA): A case file review of two pilots
    dc.title: Circles of Support and accountability (CoSA): A case file review of two pilots dc.contributor.author: Kemshall, Hazel, 1958-; McCartan, K.; Westwood, Sue; McKenzie, G.; Solle, J.; Pollard, A. dc.description.abstract: This research summary provides a description of Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA), a community-based initiative that aims to prevent further offending and sexual abuse by sexual offenders.
  • Good practice in eliciting disclosures from sex offenders.
    dc.title: Good practice in eliciting disclosures from sex offenders. dc.contributor.author: Westwood, Sue; Wood, Jason, 1978-; Kemshall, Hazel, 1958-
  • Child Sex Offender Review (CSOR) public disclosure pilots: a process evaluation.
    dc.title: Child Sex Offender Review (CSOR) public disclosure pilots: a process evaluation. dc.contributor.author: Kemshall, Hazel, 1958-; Wood, Jason, 1978-; Westwood, Sue; Stout, Brian; Wilkinson, Bernadette; Kelly, Gill; Mackenzie, Gill
  • Investigating disclosures made by sexual offenders: preliminary study for the evaluation of mandatory polygraph testing.
    dc.title: Investigating disclosures made by sexual offenders: preliminary study for the evaluation of mandatory polygraph testing. dc.contributor.author: Wood, Jason, 1978-; Kemshall, Hazel, 1958-; Westwood, Sue; Fenton, A.; Logue, C.

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Qualifications

  • Distinguished teaching award 2007
  • Nominated for distinguished teaching award 2010.

Membership of professional associations and societies

Membership of British Psychological Society: Chartered Psychologist since 1995.

Current research students

Demelza Hall