Dr Kathleen Kendall PhD, MA, BA
Associate Professor in Sociology as Applied to Medicine
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I am an Associate Professor in Sociology as Applied to Medicine. With a background in medical sociology, social policy and criminology, my research broadly addresses patient and provider experiences of treatment for mental health issues. I am especially interested in the intersection of medicine, criminalisation and mental health. I also publish in medical education with a focus on the social and behavioural sciences as well as equality, diversity and intersectionality. I am the subject lead for Sociology within the School of Medicine and have received the Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Award three times as well as the Faculty Teaching Award.
Kathleen Kendall is Associate Professor of Sociology as Applied to Medicine. In broad terms, my research explores patient and provider experiences of treatment for mental health issues. Much of this work has focused on mental health and imprisonment, such as the operation of Mental Health In-Reach Teams inside British prisons; the gendered nature of prison mental health interventions; and severe self-harm in a forensic adolescent mental health unit. These interests are reflected in a 2018 book I co-edited titled Mental Health in Prisons: Critical Perspectives on Treatment and Confinement.
I am also interested in the history of psychiatry and am completing a long-standing project on the first stand-alone asylum for ‘criminal lunatics’ in Canada - the Rockwood Asylum. Another of my historical projects critically examined one of the most extensive and intensive attempts anywhere to reduce mental health stigma. A summary of this study can be found on my online exhibit titled ‘Educating Indian Head’. I am a member of the Advisory Council for Madness Canada, an academic-community collaborative online resource for mad studies.
My concern about healthcare and marginalised populations is reflected in a PhD I am supervising on barriers and bridges to refugee health in the UK.
It is important to me that my teaching practice is evidence based and therefore I undertake medical education research and co-chair Behavioural and Social Sciences Teaching in Medicine (BeSST) – a UK community of practice for individuals teaching sociology and psychology to medical students. I am the lead author of the AMEE Guide to Teaching Sociology to Undergraduate Students and have published research on equality and diversity within medical curricula. Additionally, I co-authored a collaborative autoethnography on the experience of being a refugee university student.
Qualifications
- BA Honours, Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, 1981
- MA, Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, 1987
- PhD, Social Policy, University of Manchester, 1995
Appointments
Associate Professor in Sociology as Applied to Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
The University of Southampton
January 1999 -present
Lecturer
Department of Sociology
The University of Reading
January 1996- December 1998
Special Advisor on Female Offenders
Correctional Service Canada
April 1993 - September 1993
Program Evaluator/Researcher
Correctional Service Canada
May 1992 - March 1993
Research Associate
Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry
University of Saskatchewan Hospital and the Regional Psychiatric Centre (Prairies)
April 1989 - April 1992
Sessional Lecturer
Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan
September 1987 - April 1990
