Dr Caroline Dryden [PhD CPsychol]
Section of Public Health
School Of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Office: Room 2021, 2nd Floor, Regent Court
Tel: +44(0) 114 222 0896
Fax: +44(0) 114 272 4095
email : c.dryden@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
I completed a BSc and PhD in psychology at the University of Bristol before working for some years as a researcher and then lecturer at Loughborough University, Sheffield Hallam and then the University of Sheffield. I came to in ScHARR in 2004 and transferred to Public Health in 2009 where I currently work as a lecturer in Social Science and Health.
Research Interests
Gender relations and health; food, family and health; mental health; qualitative methods and health.
Teaching Interests
Health Psychology; Psychosocial Studies; Research Methods.
Professional Activities
Chartered member of the British Psychological Society. Regular peer reviewer for major journals in my field.
Current Projects
RfPB 'Understanding and Preventing Adverse Effects of Psychological Therapies 2011-2013 (P.I. Glenys Parry)
Key Publications
- Dryden C, Doherty K H and Nicolson P. (2010) Accounting for the Hero: A critical-discursive approach to children’s experience of domestic violence and the construction of masculinities, British Journal of Social Psychology, 49 (1) 189-20
- Owen J, Metcalfe A, Dryden C and Shipton G. (2010) If they don't Eat it it's not a Proper Meal: Images of risk and choice in fathers' accounts of family food practices. Health, Risk and Society, 12 (4) 395-406
- Metcalfe A, Owen J, Dryden C and Shipton G. (2010) Concrete Chips and Soggy Semolina: The contested spaces of the school dinner hall, Population, Space and Place (not yet in print: available online)
- Almuammar A, Dryden C and Burr J A. (2010) Factors associated with late presentation of cancer: a limited literature review, Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice. 9 (2) pp 117-123
- Dryden C, Metcalfe A, Owen J M and Shipton G. (2009) Picturing the lunchbox: Children drawing and talking about ‘dream’ and ‘nightmare’ lunchboxes in the primary school setting. In James A, Kjorholt A-T and Tingstead, V. (eds) Children Food and Identity in Everyday Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- Metcalfe A, Dryden C, Johnson M, Owen J M and Shipton G. (2009) Fathers, Food and Family Life in Jackson P. (ed) Changing Families, Changing Food. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- Metcalfe A, Owen J, Shipton G and Dryden C. (2008) Inside and outside the school: themes and reflections. Children’s Geographies 6: 403-412
- Dryden C. (1999) Being Married Doing Gender, London: Routledge