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Professor Lindsay O&/people/lo8/039;Dell
Professional biography
I am the director of the Graduate School at the Open University. My current teaching focusses on postgraduate research skills benchmarked to Research Councils' training expectations.
My key area of teaching and research interest focuses on children who are in some way ‘different’, including children with autism, working children, sexually abused children and children with a visible difference. I have pursued this through my teaching and research at a number of universities before joining the OU in September 2008.
I am interested in ‘difference’ in terms of concepts such as cultural identity, geographical location, gender, ethnicity, age and (dis)ability. This has led me to become involved in a number of projects such as a DelPHE/British Council funded project to work with the Royal University in Phnom Pehn (where Iwas an adjunct professor to the Psychology Department) and an ESRC funded project to examine young people’s unusual work roles (including young people who act as young carers and language brokers).
Research interests
My research focuses on three broad areas:
- Constructions of child development in contemporary society, including issues of disability, neurodiversity, migration and 'culture'
- neurological difference and the construction of autism
- understandings of non/normative development
Teaching interests
My key teaching interests are within the children and young people area, particularly:
- Lifespan development and early years development
- Child abuse, child protection
- Developmental psychology
- Research methods
I am interested in acknowledging 'difference' in teaching situations, including difference around gender, 'culture', ethnicity, (dis)ability and geographical location. I have a strong commitment to equal opportunities and valuing diversity.
I have experience of examining and validating undergraduate and taught Masters programmes at 5British Universities.
Research groups
| Name | Type | Parent Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Children and Young People Research Group | Group | Faculty of Health and Social Care |
Externally funded projects
MK Gallery Evaluation
| Role | Start date | End date | Funding source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | 19 Feb 2020 | 31 Dec 2021 | MK Gallery |
This is an evaluation of MK Gallery’s art project that supports families who have a child with complex needs. | |||
Disabled children and their families’ experiences of inclusion through the Art and Us programme
| Role | Start date | End date | Funding source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | 01 Jan 2020 | 31 Dec 2021 | Rix-Thompson-Rothenburg Foundation |
This is an extension of the evaluation work that the team are undertaking for MK Gallery’s art project that supports families who have a child with complex needs. The project aims to document families’ experiences of an art project and its impact on the wellbeing of the whole family including a child with profound and multiple learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities. | |||
Swedish/UK research dialogue on critical approaches to autism
| Role | Start date | End date | Funding source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | 01 Sep 2016 | 31 Aug 2017 | ISRF Independent Social Research Foundation |
The project will enable academics from the UK and Sweden to engage in a series of meetings and dialogues. Dr Lindsay O’Dell (èƵ&/people/lo8/44; UK) and Associate Professor Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist (Umea University&/people/lo8/44; Sweden) will visit each other to explore and refine conceptual work around the construction of autism. Their joint work to date has begun to develop a critical approach to understanding autism&/people/lo8/44; conceptualising it as an identity rather than as a medical diagnostic category. This approach&/people/lo8/44; whilst becoming more recognised&/people/lo8/44; is still in its earliest stages of development as an international research field. | |||
Narratives of ADHD: A qualitative study of women’s narrative accounts of living with ADHD
| Role | Start date | End date | Funding source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | 01 Apr 2015 | 31 Mar 2016 | BRITAC British Academy |
Taking a qualitative&/people/lo8/44; discursive approach to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder we focus on the narratives of women in the UK who have either a formal&/people/lo8/44; or self defined&/people/lo8/44; diagnosis of ADHD. Understandings and patterns of diagnosis of ADHD can be seen to be gendered&/people/lo8/44; with the assumption that it affects boys and men. The study will contribute to knowledge on the lives of girls and women with ADHD&/people/lo8/44; examining women’s retrospective accounts to make sense of their transition through childhood to become adults with ADHD. The project is an exploratory study to collect a new&/people/lo8/44; small corpus of qualitative data on women with ADHD and to identify issues to be explored in a future larger scale research project. The project aims to carry out a discursive analysis of women’s narratives to: • Investigate the identity work of women in relation to their experiences of living with ADHD • Explore (possible) differences in the way women assumed an ADHD identity in either childhood or adulthood; in order to examine how ADHD impacted upon their childhood and the role of diagnosis in childhood&/people/lo8/44; later in adulthood or self-identification • Explore how women account retrospectively for ADHD in their childhood and how they construe their transitions to adulthood This will be of interest to qualitative researchers in ADHD&/people/lo8/44; gender and disability studies and practitioners in health&/people/lo8/44; social care and education. | |||
Evaluation of Spinal Injuries Association
| Role | Start date | End date | Funding source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | 26 Jan 2015 | 30 Apr 2015 | Spinal Injuries Association |
Aims of the evaluation: • To cover all 10 regional centres in England and Wales&/people/lo8/44; including the service based at Headley Court for armed forces • Evaluate current peer support service in the regions • Explore areas of need for additional service provision e.g. peer support in the community&/people/lo8/44; further support for families and friends&/people/lo8/44; additional support for healthcare practitioners • Explore other issues as required for example&/people/lo8/44; examine the mixed feedback regarding feeling more/less isolated following seeing a peer support worker | |||
Critical autism network: Policy&/people/lo8/44; practice and identities in 5 national contexts
| Role | Start date | End date | Funding source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | 01 Sep 2014 | 31 Aug 2017 | LEVERHULME The Leverhulme Trust |
Drawing on expertise from the UK&/people/lo8/44; Australia&/people/lo8/44; Brazil&/people/lo8/44; Canada and Sweden&/people/lo8/44; the Critical Autism Research Network brings together researchers who are keen to advance and deepen knowledge about the complex worlds of autism experiences&/people/lo8/44; identities&/people/lo8/44; cultures&/people/lo8/44; politics and policy. Bridging a range of academic disciplines from sociology to philosophy of science to political science and psychology&/people/lo8/44; network leaders are interested primarily in locating what we can learn comparatively about the experience of autism in different national contexts focusing on five themes: the construction of autism; advocacy; neurodiversity; policies and interventions. The bid will support three annual meetings which will enable the group to work together&/people/lo8/44; to host conferences around the network’s key themes and to produce a series of publications. | |||
Exploring narrative approaches to research and re-presentation in the late postmodern era
| Role | Start date | End date | Funding source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co-investigator | 01 Dec 2013 | 31 May 2014 | BSA The British Sociological Association |
We are now in the beginnings of late post-modernity (Braidotti 2006). This conference seeks to bring together a group of like-minded researchers who are interested in exploring the possibilities of narrative approaches in sociological research&/people/lo8/44; especially in health and social care. Furthermore&/people/lo8/44; this conference seeks to equip emerging scholars with the skills to enact high quality narrative research. | |||
Publications
Journal articles
(2024)
O'Connor, Grainne; O'Dell, Lindsay; Álvarez, Inma; Tipi, Nicoleta; Bowes-Catton, Helen and Luck, Rachael
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 26(1) (pp. 211-226)
(2024)
Earle, Sarah; Blackburn, Maddie; Chambers, Lizzie; Downing, Julia; Flemming, Kate; Hale, Jamie; Marston, Hannah; O'Dell, Lindsay and Sinason, Valerie
Progress in Palliative Care, 32(6) (pp. 438-445)
(2023-01)
Madeley, Anna-Marie; Earle, Sarah and O'Dell, Lindsay
Midwifery, 116, Article 103532
(2022)
Earle, Sarah; Blackburn, Maddie; Chambers, Lizzie; Downing, Julia; Fleming, Kate; Hale, Jamie; Marston, Hannah R.; O'Dell, Lindsay; Sinason, Valerie; Watts, Lucy and Whitney, Sally
Qualitative Health Research, 32(14) (pp. 2055-2065)
(2020-12)
Earle, Sarah; O'Dell, Lindsay; Davies, Alison and Rixon, Andrew
Sexuality and Disability, 38(4) (pp. 567-595)
(2019-06-03)
Stenner, Paul; O'Dell, Lindsay and Davies, Alison
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 49(2) (pp. 179-197)
(2019-03-27)
O'Dell, Lindsay; Earle, Sarah; Rixon, Andrew and Davies, Alison
Nursing Standard, 34(4) (pp. 69-75)
(2019)
Rixon, Andy; Lomax, Helen and O'Dell, Lindsay
Children's Geographies, 17(5) (pp. 618-629)
(2019)
Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna; Kourti, Marianthi; Jackson-Perry, David; Brownlow, Charlotte; Fletcher, Kirsty; Bendelman, Daniel and O'Dell, Lindsay
Disability & Society, 34(7-8) (pp. 1082-1101)
(2018-08-01)
O’Dell, Lindsay; Brownlow, Charlotte and Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna
Feminism & Psychology, 28(3) (pp. 349-354)
(2017-11-01)
Crafter, Sarah; Cline, Tony; Abreu, Guida de and O'Dell, Lindsay
Childhood, 24(4) (pp. 517-530)
(2017-05-01)
Tarrant, Anna; Featherstone, Brid; O'Dell, Lindsay and Fraser, Clare
Qualitative Social Work, 16(3) (pp. 351-366)
(2016-05-07)
O'Dell, Lindsay; Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna; Ortega, Francisco; Brownlow, Charlotte and Orsini, Michael
Disability & Society, 31(2) (pp. 166-179)
(2015-11-24)
Crafter, S.; de Abreu, G.; Cline, T. and O'Dell, L.
Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 28(1) (pp. 83-96)
(2015-10-01)
Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna; Brownlow, Charlotte and O'Dell, Lindsay
Disability Studies Quarterly, 35(4)
(2015-08)
O'Dell, Lindsay
Feminism & Psychology, 25(3) (pp. 402-407)
(2015-05)
Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna; O'Dell, Lindsay and Brownlow, Charlotte
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 25(3) (pp. 219-231)
(2014-06)
O'Dell, Lindsay; Crafter, Sarah; Abreu, Guida and Cline, Tony
Australian Community Psychologist, 26(1) (pp. 28-36)
(2014-06)
Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna; O'Dell, Lindsay and Brownlow, Charlotte
Australian Community Psychologist, 26(1) (pp. 18-27)
(2013)
Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hannah; Brownlow, Charlotte and O'Dell, Lindsay
Disability & Society, 28(3) (pp. 367-379)
(2012-12)
O'Dell, Lindsay; Crafter, Sarah; Abreu, Guida de and Cline, Tony
Qualitative Research, 12(6) (pp. 702-714)
(2011)
Cline, Tony; Crafter, Sarah; O'Dell, Lindsay and de Abreu, Guida
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 32(3) (pp. 207-220)
(2010-10)
O'Dell, L.; Crafter, S.; De Abreu, G. and Cline, T.
Disability and Society, 25(6) (pp. 643-655)
(2010)
Cline, Tony; De Abreu, Guida; O'Dell, Lindsay and Crafter, Sarah
MediAziono: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and Cultures, 10 (pp. 105-124)
(2009-12)
Brownlow, Charlotte and O'Dell, Lindsay
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 47(6) (pp. 473-478)
(2009-07)
Brownlow, Charlotte and O'Dell, Lindsay
Community Practitioner, 82(7) (pp. 18-21)
(2009-05)
Crafter, Sarah; O'Dell, Lindsay; Abreu, Guida de and Cline, Tony
Children and Society, 23(3) (pp. 176-188)
(2009-03)
Cline, Tony; Crafter, Sarah; de Abreu, Guida and O'Dell, Lindsay
Pastoral Care in Education, 27(1) (pp. 29-39)
(2009)
Prior, Jess and O'Dell, Lindsay
Journal of Health Psychology, 14(6) (pp. 731-740)
(2008)
O'Dell, Lindsay
Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 6
(2008)
O'Dell, Lindsay
Children and Society, 22(5) (pp. 383-392)
(2007)
O'Dell, Lindsay
Psychology of Women Section Review, 9(2) (pp. 29-32)
(2007)
Brownlow, Charlotte and O'Dell, Lindsay
Mental Retardation, 44(5) (pp. 315-321)
(2005-12)
O'Dell, Lindsay and Brownlow, Charlotte
British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 33(4) (pp. 194-199)
(2004-03)
O'Dell, Lindsay; de Abreu, Guida and O'Toole, Sarah
The Psychologist, 17(3) (pp. 138-141)
(2004)
O'Dell, Lindsay and Prior, Jess
Support for Learning, 20(1) (pp. 35-40)
(2003)
O'Dell, L.
Educational and Child Psychology, 20(1) (pp. 22-33)
(2002-10)
Brownlow, Charlotte and O'Dell, Lindsay
Disability and Society, 17(6) (pp. 685-694)
(2002)
Collins, Patricia; Maguire, Moria and O'Dell, Lindsay
Journal of Health Psychology, 7(6) (pp. 641-652)
Book chapters
(2024)
Earle, Sarah; Blackburn, Maddie; Chambers, Lizzie; Downing, Julia; Flemming, Kate; Hale, Jamie; Marston, Hannah R.; O'Dell, Lindsay; Sinason, Valerie and Whitney, Sally
In: Jones, Kerry and Horne, Joanna eds. Understanding the Grief and Loss Experiences of Carers: Research, Practitioner and Personal Perspectives. Routledge Key Themes in Health and Safety (pp. 27-40)
ISBN : 9781003435365 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London
(2023)
Brownlow, Charlotte; O'Dell, Lindsay and Abawi, Ding
In: Milton, Damian and Ryan, Sara eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies. Routledge International Handbooks (pp. 20-33)
ISBN : 9780367521073 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London
(2023)
Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna; Milton, Damien and O'Dell, Lindsay
In: Milton, Damien and Ryan, Sara eds. Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies. Routledge International Handbooks (pp. 182-193)
ISBN : 9780367521073 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon, Oxon
(2018-10-10)
O'Dell, Lindsay; Brownlow, Charlotte and Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna
In: O'Dell, Lindsay; Brownlow, Charlotte and Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna eds. Different Childhoods: Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories (pp. 146-156)
ISBN : 9781138654037 | Publisher : Routledge
(2018)
O'Dell, Lindsay; Brownlow, Charlotte and Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna
In: O'Dell, Lindsay; Brownlow, Charlotte and Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna eds. Different Childhoods: Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories
ISBN : 9781138654037 | Publisher : Routledge
(2018)
O'Dell, Lindsay; Crafter, Sarah; de Abreu, Guida and Cline, Tony
In: O'Dell, Lindsay; Brownlow, Charlotte and Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna eds. Different Childhoods: Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories (pp. 119-131)
ISBN : 9781138654037 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon
(2017)
Cline, Tony; Crafter, Sarah; Abreu, Guida de and O'Dell, Lindsay
In: Antonini, Rachele; Cirillo, Letizia; Rossato, Linda and Torresi, Ira eds. Non-professional Interpreting and Translating: State of the art and future of an emerging field of research. Benjamins Translation Library (129) (pp. 281-294)
ISBN : 9789027258755 | Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
(2003)
O'Dell, L.
In: Warner, Sam and Reavey, Paula eds. New Feminist Stories of Child Sexual Abuse (pp. 131-147)
ISBN : 978-0-415-25943-9 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : UK
(2003)
O'Dell, Lindsay
In: Reavey, Paula and Warner, Sam eds. New Feminist Stories of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Scripts and Dangerous Dialogues (pp. 131-147)
ISBN : 0-415-25943-6 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London
Edited books
(2018)
O'Dell, Lindsay; Brownlow, Charlotte and Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna eds.
ISBN : 978-1-138-65403-7 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon, Oxon
Conference items
(2024)
Bowes-Catton, Helen; O'Connor, Gráinne; O'Dell, Lindsay; Álvarez, Inma; Tipi, Nicoleta and Luck, Rachael
In : Psychological of Women and Equalities Section Annual Conference 2024 (10-12 Jul 2024, Birmingham, UK)
(2022-11)
Earle, Sarah; Blackburn, Maddie; Lizzie, Chambers; Downing, Julia; Flemming, Kate; Hale, Jamie; Marston, Hannah; O'Dell, Lindsay; Sinason, Valerie; Watts, Lucy and Whitney, Sally
In : Hospice UK National Conference: Finding a Way Forward (22-24 Nov 2022, Glasgow, UK)
(2021-11)
Earle, Sarah; Blackburn, Maddie; Lizzie, Chambers; Downing, Julia; Flemming, Kate; Hale, Jamie; Marston, Hannah; O'Dell, Lindsay; Sinason, Valerie; Watts, Lucy and Whitney, Sally
In : Hospice UK National Conference: A New World (3-5 Nov 2021, Liverpool, UK)
(2021-08)
Earle, Sarah; Blackburn, Maddie; Lizzie, Chambers; Downing, Julia; Flemming, Kate; Hale, Jamie; Marston, Hannah; O'Dell, Lindsay; Sinason, Valerie; Watts, Lucy and Whitney, Sally
In : European Sociological Association Conference: Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures (31 Aug - 3 Sep 2021, Barcelona, Spain)
(2014)
Bruce, James; Faulkner, Dorothy and O'Dell, Lindsay
In : UKCGE International Annual Conference (2014, Dublin)
(2010-09)
Crafter, Sarah; De Abreu, Guida; Cline, Tony and O'Dell, Lindsay
In : European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Special Interest Group 21: Learning and Teaching in Culturally Diverse Settings: Moving through cultures of learning (2-3 Sep 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
(2010-08)
Crafter, S.; O'Dell, Lindsay; Cline, T. and de Abreu, G.
In : BPS Qualitative Research in Psychology Section QMiP conference (23-25 Aug 2010, Nottingham, UK)
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