Sheila Quaid

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Name:

Sheila Quaid

Email address:

sheila.quaid@sunderland.ac.uk

Department:

Faculty of Education & Society (2SHS)

Organisation:

University of Sunderland

Address:

University of Sunderland Wearside View St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 ODD

Country:

United Kingdom

Biography

Expertise:

Inequalities, Sociology of Families, Critical Pedagogies, Feminist Theory, Intersectionality, Emotions in Research

Job title:

Senior Lecturer Social Sciences

Biography:

Sheila Quaid is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Gender at the University of Sunderland. She was awarded Senior Fellowship and a National Teaching Fellowship by Advance HE in recognition of her expertise in teaching and learning. Her research and teaching include critical pedagogies, gender, sexuality and family studies, discomforting pedagogies and teacher narratives of teaching diversity and difference, situated emotionality in research and professional practice. She is currently completing research on the health outcomes and well being effects of hospital gardens; the lives and experiences of women who are not mothers and pedagogies of empowerment. She has previously published work on domestic violence, lesbian motherhood, feminism, fatherhood and masculinity.

Qualifications:

2008 PhD Finding a Place: Negotiating Lesbian Parental Identities 1995 PG Certificate in Higher Education University of Sunderland. 1994 PG. HE Cert University of Central Lancashire 1993 MA Women’s Studies (Applied) University of Bradford. 1984 BA (Hons) Sociology (Major), English Literature (Minor). University of Lancaster

My Latest

Quaid, Sheila and Young, Amy (2024) Bringing Humanising Influences to Critical Care Through the Natural Environment: Collaborative Evaluation of the new Critical Care Garden at James Cook University Hospital Summary Report. Project Report. University of Sunderland. (Unpublished)
Quaid, Sheila (2024) Bringing Humanising Influences to Critical Care Through the Natural Environment: Collaborative Evaluation of the new Critical Care Garden at James Cook University Hospital : Policy Brief. Project Report. University of Sunderland. (Unpublished)
Williams, Helen and Quaid, Sheila (2023) 'You don't get taught that' – How ‘safe’ classrooms can hinder learning. Teaching in Higher Education. ISSN 1470-1294
Quaid, Sheila (2022) Critical and Visual Sociological Pedagogies. In: BSA Annual Conference 2022: Building Equality and Justice Now, 20 Apr 2022, Online.
Quaid, Sheila, Williams, Helen and Wilcock, Angela (2022) Do we need the HE classroom in Social Sciences to be a safe space or a discomforting space ? Research from the teacher perspective. In: CASS Public Seminar Series, 26 Jan 2022, University of Sunderland. (In Press)

My Most Viewed

	Item title
1	Fatherhood and Masculinities A comparative study of the ideals and realities of fatherhood and masculinity in Britain and Sweden	377	0
2	Reflections on Reading Spare Rib: Personal and Political	297	31
3	Lesbian Mothering and Risky Choices; ‘Dangerous’ New forms of love and kinship	281	31
4	Mums the Word	246	115
5	Exploring the Dynamics of Situated Emotionality in Feminist Standpoint Epistemology	214	0
6	The Criminal Justice Response to Women who Kill	213	176
7	Negotiating Families and Personal Lives in the 21st Century: Exploring Diversity, Social Change and Inequalities.	182	19
8	Vote 100	173	58
9	Troubling Knowledges and Difficult Pedagogical Moments for Students Learning	165	82
10	The Future, Reproductive Autonomy, Choice and Care: Narratives on life and future from women who are not mothers.	154	30

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