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Qualitative methods; thematic analysis; grounded theory; narrative analysis; semiotics; interpretative phenomenological analysis; LGBTQ+ mental health; LGBTQ+ youth and safeguarding; mental health; sex work; homelessness; nicotine harm reduction; e-cigarettes; smoking cessation
I am interested in complex, quantum, and fuzzy-logic patterns of decision-making, choice, and 'agency' (the ability to have and make conscious choices within a defined context). I use queer theory with established and innovative methods for trans-disciplinary data collection and analysis with underserved (marginalised, sometimes ‘hard to reach’) populations.
I currently partner with Croydon Safeguarding Children Partnership (CSCP) to design, deliver, and evidence training with safeguarding stakeholders to extend cultural competences working with young trans and non-binary people, LGBTQ+ young people who are known to services. Our shared aim is to go beyond cultural competence, to develop 'Cultures of Confidence' that young people can be confident in the responses of safeguarding staff.
From 2010 to 2015, I was an academic advisor for PACE Health, a mental health charity for LGBTQ people in London, and co-author of the Risk and Resiliency Explored (RaRE) Report into LGBT mental health in England.
With colleagues in the Centre for Addictive Behaviours Research (CABR), I designed and delivered innovative interventions to capture detailed ecological data about addiction and mental health in contexts of street drinking, smoking, and homelessness.
My PhD research with men-who-sell-sex-to-men through magazine ads and social media used a non-pathologising, psycho-social approach to intersections of sex, gender, labour, and scarcity. I write critical perspectives of identity-typologies in psycho-social models of sex work.
My current research is deconstructing discursive and narrative patterns in data collected from interviews, focus groups, ethnographies, and participatory action-research to help understand and illustrate the complexity of meaning making for individuals within larger identity groups, to disrupt the homogenisation and erasure of minoritised groups within minoritised groups, such as LGBTQ+ people experiencing homelessness or at risk of suicide.
I supervise a number of PhD and MPhil students. I invite new student proposals.
Courses taught
Mental Health and Clinical Psychology - MSc
Psychology - MSc
Psychology - BSc (Hons)
Psychology (Child Development) - BSc (Hons)
Psychology (Clinical Psychology) - BSc (Hons)
Psychology (Forensic Psychology) - BSc (Hons)
Psychology - PhD
Postgraduate Research Supervision
Current
| Miss Isabelle Maria Kelly | Doctoral Research Project | PhD |
| Miss Reilly Jane Bromfield | Doctoral Research Project | MRes |
| Ms Charlotte Taylor-Page | Doctoral Research Project | PhD |
| Mr Nate Rae | Doctoral Research Project | PhD |
| Miss Pallavi Kaul | Doctoral Research Project | PhD |
| Ms Maureen Linda Helen Raphael | Doctoral Research Project | PhD |
| Mr Andy Owusu | Doctoral Research Project | PhD |
London South Bank University
Birkbeck College, University of London
University of Manitoba, Canada
Higher Education Academy
I delivered lectures on on Legislation, Activism and Sexualities
for Social Policy (Level 6) to address LGBTQ+ politics, rights, and social policy with a critical and historical lens and demonstrate the intersections of feminist, race, and queer social justice issues.
My lectures explored issues of equality and equity that people who are LGBTQ+ face in contemporary Britain. I designed this class as a lecture and seminar and updated it each year to reflect changes in policy and social attitudes.
I updated and delivered five lectures and additional learning resources in social psychology (Level 4). I added readings, examples, and critique to an existing framework that provided opportunity for students to reflect critically from contemporary and intersectional perspectives. I was nominated by students for a teaching excellence award.
I led on projects involving pattern cutting (aka 'pattern making'), fit development, and new design for commercial textile products. I worked as a pattern cutter, designer, grader, and layplanner for clients whose products include made-to-measure tailoring (men's and ladies'), couture, corsetry, lingerie, swimwear, childrenswear and high-performance sportswear.
I led fit projects for international retailers, developed products worn in Olympic competition, graded patterns for garments exhibited in the Victoria & Albert Museum, and co-produced bespoke collections for clients. My patterns are available in a number of instructional books produced to support named authors and published by DK Dorling Kindersley (Penguin Random House) for people who sew at home.
I trained commercial users and Higher Education staff and students to be proficient with CAD/CAM systems for over 20 years.
I launched and represented computer-aided-design (CAD) and computer-aided-manufacturing (CAM) software and hardware solutions in the commercial sewn-products sector. I designed marketing campaigns, wrote promotional editorial, created warm-leads from contacts, converted leads into new customers, and maintained long-term, satisfied customer-service relationships to leverage opportunities for repeat custom.
| Funder | Year won | Project | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Croydon Council | 2023 | LSBU x CSCP x LGBTQ+ Cultural Confidence & Cultural Competencies Project | Principal Investigator |
| National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) | 2021 | Effects of e-cigarettes vs usual care for smoking cessation when offered at homeless centres: A cluster randomised controlled trial | Co-Investigator |
| Proposal | Project | Role | Funder | Status | Status last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluating 'a day in the life' game | Evaluating 'a day in the life' game | Co-Investigator | Game in Lab | OPEN Approved for submission | Sep 2024 |
| PSL2324-0048 APS_R&E Work_Croydon Safeguarding Children Partnership | APS_R&E Work_Croydon Safeguarding Children Partnership | Principal Investigator | Croydon Council | OPEN Submitted | Dec 2023 |
Risk and resilience: exploring the potential of LGBTQ third sector and academic partnership
Nodin, N., Pestano, C., Peel, E., Rivers, I. and Tyler, A. (2023). Risk and resilience: exploring the potential of LGBTQ third sector and academic partnership. Community Development Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad008
Exploring LGBT resilience and moving beyond a deficit-model: findings from a qualitative study in England
Peel, E., Rivers, I., Tyler, A., Nodin, N. and Perez-Acevedo, C. (2022). Exploring LGBT resilience and moving beyond a deficit-model: findings from a qualitative study in England. Psychology & Sexuality. 14 (1), pp. 114-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2022.2063754
Effects of e-cigarettes vs usual care for smoking cessation when offered at homeless centres: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.
Soar, K., Mair, C., Dawkins, L., Bauld, L., Brown, R., Lennon, J, Ford, A., McMillan, L, Hajek, P., Li, J., Parrott, S., Notley, C., Ward, E' Varley, A, Robson, D., Pesola, F., Tyler, A., Carlisle, M and Dr Sharon Cox (2022). Effects of e-cigarettes vs usual care for smoking cessation when offered at homeless centres: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. London Network of Nurses and Midwives Homelessness Annual Conference. St Martins in the Field, London 01 - 01 Apr 2022
Evaluating the effectiveness of e‐cigarettes compared with usual care for smoking cessation when offered to smokers at homeless centres: Protocol for a multi‐centre cluster randomised controlled trial in Great Britain
Cox, S., Bauld, Linda, Brown, R., Carlise, M., Ford, A., Hajek, P., Li, J., Notley, C., Parrott, S., Pesola, F., Robson, D., Soar, K., Tyler, A., Ward, E. and Dawkins, L. (2022). Evaluating the effectiveness of e‐cigarettes compared with usual care for smoking cessation when offered to smokers at homeless centres: Protocol for a multi‐centre cluster randomised controlled trial in Great Britain. Addiction (Abingdon, England). https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15851
Exploring the uptake and use of electronic cigarettes provided to smokers accessing homeless centres: a four-centre cluster feasibility study
Cox, S., Ford, A., Li, Ji., Best, C., Tyler, A., Robson, D., Bauld, L., Hajek, P., Uny, I., Parrott, S. and Dawkins, L. (2020). Exploring the uptake and use of electronic cigarettes provided to smokers accessing homeless centres: a four-centre cluster feasibility study. Journal of Public Health Research. 9 (7). https://doi.org/10.3310/phr09070
A cluster feasibility trial to explore the uptake and use of e-cigarettes versus usual care offered to smokers attending homeless centres in Great Britain
Dawkins, L., Bauld, L., Ford, A., Robson, D., Hajek, P., Parrott, S., Best, C., Li, J., Tyler, A., Uny, I. and Cox, S. (2020). A cluster feasibility trial to explore the uptake and use of e-cigarettes versus usual care offered to smokers attending homeless centres in Great Britain. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240968
Data for: A cluster feasibility trial to explore the uptake and use of e-cigarettes versus usual care offered to smokers attending homeless centres in Great Britain
Dawkins, L., Cox, S., Tyler, A., Bauld, L, Ford, A, Robson, D, Hajek, P, Best, C, Li, J, Uny, I and Parrott, S (2020). Data for: A cluster feasibility trial to explore the uptake and use of e-cigarettes versus usual care offered to smokers attending homeless centres in Great Britain. London South Bank University. https://doi.org/10.18744/lsbu.8q255
Understanding women's feelings about safety and hazards of street drinking in London through interpretative phenomenological analysis
Tyler, A., Moss, A. and Cox, S. (2019). Understanding women's feelings about safety and hazards of street drinking in London through interpretative phenomenological analysis. Addictive Behaviors. 99, p. 106042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106042
A cross sectional survey of smoking characteristics and quitting behaviour from a sample of homeless adults in Great Britain
Dawkins, L, Ford, A., Bauld, L, Balaban, S, Tyler, A and Cox, S (2019). A cross sectional survey of smoking characteristics and quitting behaviour from a sample of homeless adults in Great Britain. Addictive Behaviors. 95 (2019), pp. 35-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.02.020
Optics and Illusions of Street Drinking in East London: A thematic analysis
Tyler, A., Cox, S. and Moss, A. (2018). Optics and Illusions of Street Drinking in East London: A thematic analysis. SSA Annual Conference, Society for the Study of Addiction. Newcastle 07 - 08 Nov 2018
LGBT people and suicidality in youth: A qualitative study of perceptions of risk and protective circumstances
Rivers, I, Gonzalez, C, Nodin, N, Peel, E and Tyler, A (2018). LGBT people and suicidality in youth: A qualitative study of perceptions of risk and protective circumstances. Social Science and Medicine. 212, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.06.040
Sex Work
Tyler, A. (2017). Sex Work. in: Vossler, A., Harvard, C., Pike, G., Barker, M-J. and Raabe, B. (ed.) Mad or Bad? A Critical Approach to Counselling and Forensic Psychology London Sage.
The RaRE Research Report: LGB&T Mental Health - Risk and Resilience Explored
Nodin, N, Peel, E, Tyler, A and Rivers, I (2015). The RaRE Research Report: LGB&T Mental Health - Risk and Resilience Explored. London PACE.
M$M@Gaydar - Queering the Social Network
Tyler, A. (2015). M$M@Gaydar - Queering the Social Network. in: M. Laing, K. Pilcher & N. Smith (ed.) Queer Sex Work Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). pp. 140-150