Anna Madill
Biographic Data
| ID | 112791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Madill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Madill |
| SIGNATURE | MADILL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9406-507X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A scoping review of the use of visual methods in supporting women with substance use histories
Problematic use of substances is a growing global issue, however only 1 in 18 women with this issue seek treatment and interventions have been critiqued for overlooking gender-specific needs. Given the rich history of visual methods in research and therapy, our aim is to conduct a scoping review exploring how visual methods are used in research involving cisgender women with a substance use history, with a particular focus on their potential to s…
I never actually thought about it”
We describe a novel approach to member reflection interviewing which integrates audio-visual elicitation materials based on researcher interpretation of participant-generated social media data. Informed by Bakhtinian dialogism, this method extends existing member reflection and elicitation methods to develop a new phase of data generation and analysis at the mid-point of a research project, in this case one exploring men’s social media stories of…
How Do Men Who Post Publicly on Social Media Author Themselves and Their Experiences of Crohn's Disease? A Dialogical Analysis of Three Cases
Despite distinct sex- and gender-related differences in the presentation and manifestation of Crohn's disease (CD), little research to date has considered men's particular experiences. Whilst hegemonic masculine ideals have been reported to negatively impact men's mental and physical health, increasingly research has emphasized that men engage in a diverse range of practices, including those beneficial to health. One such practice is posting abou…
What Protects At-Risk Young People in India From Using and Abusing Substances? A Photo-Led Study of Lived Experience
Youth substance abuse is widespread in India. Data is needed to inform the focus of prevention approaches. Our aim was to understand the perspectives of Indian young people about what protects them from substance (ab)use, and our study followed protocols approved by UK and Indian university research ethics committees. We recruited 15 Indian adolescents from Assam (seven males, eight females) aged 15 to 18 years at elevated risk because they had f…
Young Adult Resilience for Recovery From Substance Addiction in Assam, India
Substance addiction can be considered a form of social injustice grounded in interactions between individual, family and community‐level risk factors. Although prevention and treatment of substance use disorder is a key target of the United Nations sustainable development goal Good Health and Well‐Being, many low‐and‐middle‐income countries lack a culturally validated approach for its management. We contend that a resilience approach may provide …
Pathways to recovery model of youth substance misuse in Assam, India
INTRODUCTION: There are global calls for better understanding of substance use disorder (SUD) to inform prevention, risk reduction and treatment of this relapse-prone disorder. Our aim in this article is to understand the pathways to recovery of youth in Assam, India who have suffered SUD. METHODS: We recruited 15 participants (11 men and 4 women) via two rehabilitation facilities. All are addicts-in-recovery aged 19-24 years. Material was genera…
Using evidence in mental health policy agenda-setting in low- and middle-income countries
The purpose of this article is to close the gap in frameworks for the use of evidence in the mental health policy agenda-setting in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Agenda-setting is important because mental health remains a culturally sensitive and neglected issue in LMICs. Moreover, effective evidence-informed agenda-setting can help achieve, and sustain, the status of mental health as a policy priority in these low-resource contexts. …
Workable ranges model
We introduce the Workable Ranges Model (WRM) as a visual map and method for enacting and exploring embodied knowing about stress and emotion regulation. The WRM portrays three core psychophysical states in spatial form. Optimal and flexible regulated states are positioned centrally between two lines representing thresholds of tolerance beyond which are hyperarousal above and hypoarousal below. In developing the WRM as a method of embodied enquiry…
Are Female Paraphilias Hiding in Plain Sight? Risqué Male–Male Erotica for Women in Sinophone and Anglophone Regions
Female-oriented male–male erotica is a genre of popular culture often know as Boys’ Love (BL), yaoi, and danmei. It is one of the largest by-and-for women sexual subcultures and a global phenomenon. With the largest data sets in the field, we ask: Which risqué sexual content do Sinophone (Chinese-speaking) and Anglophone (English-speaking) participants particularly enjoy in BL and does this differ between cultures?, and Are there sub-demographics…
‘The Big Picture’
‘The Big Picture’ was a participatory video (PV) project. The aim was to increase the involvement of young people in India in the active development of practice and policy regarding substance use disorder (SUD). Working with drug rehabilitation centres to innovate their programmes, the team used video production as a tool to help young people advocate for policy change by promoting public awareness of how they see this issue. Unlike many accounts…
How can we mainstream mental health in research engaging the range of Sustainable Development Goals? A theory of change
Mental health is a leading cause of ill-health worldwide, disproportionately affects low-and-middle-income countries and, increasingly, is considered relevant across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Hence, we ask: How can we mainstream mental health in research engaging the range of SDGs? We use the UK Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) as a case study. In a previous scoping review, we purposefully sampled non…
Using cocreated visually informed community mental health education in low‐ and middle‐income countries
INTRODUCTION: Our aim is to evaluate the visually informed community mental health education materials cocreated in our research on youth substance misuse in Assam, India, and to reflect on what we might learn for similar initiatives in low- and middle-income countries. METHODS: Materials consist of: (i) images participants brought to the interview; (ii) 30 posters cocreated by participants to convey key messages from their interview; (iii) six s…
Reflective rumination mediates the effects of neuroticism upon the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory
Across three studies we explored neuroticism in relation to the fading affect bias, which refers to the greater fading of unpleasant compared to pleasant emotions in autobiographical memory. With increasing neuroticism, there was an increase in the frequency of unpleasant event rehearsal, which was then linked to less fading of negative affect. Study 2 showed this effect was specific to reflective rehearsal, with Study 3 clarifying the mediating …
Engagement with Female-oriented Male-Male Incest Erotica
Boys' Love (BL) is a global by-and-for women genre of youth culture focused on male-on-male sexuality and romance. Incest relationships are not uncommon in BL yet there is no research on what kinds are of most interest to the audience, and with which sub-demographics, and none offer an intercultural comparison. We address this lacuna analyzing data from the largest BL audience survey to date in both Anglophone (N = 1715) and Sinophone (N = 1922) …
Forced adulthood
Quarterlife crisis’ describes difficulties experienced by young people in their transition to adulthood. Little is known about how this crisis manifests in different cultural contexts or the impact of educational background. Using photo-elicitation and timeline interviews, we explore the lived experience of ‘quarterlife crisis’ among 22-30 year olds from England (n=16) and Assam, India (n=8), each group including people with and people without a …
Female-Oriented Male-Male Erotica
Our aim is to compare comprehensive data on the engaged demographics of female-oriented male-male erotica in Anglophone regions and that of the greater China area. Our study constitutes the largest such data set in each region (Anglophone N = 1707; Chinese N = 1498). Data were analysed from our online Boys’ Love (BL) fandom survey: one version in English and an almost identical version in Chinese. We confirm that the engaged Anglophone demographi…
Conversational Patterns and Listener Responses Associated With an Enhanced Fading Affect Bias After Social Disclosure
The fading affect bias (FAB) is a phenomenon of autobiographical memory whereby negative emotions associated with event memories fade in intensity over time more than positive emotions. Social disclosure enhances the FAB and listener responsiveness during social disclosure is an important facet; however, little is known about the nature of listener verbal responses that facilitate an enhanced FAB. In this study, we used discourse analysis to expl…
Managing the (In)visibility of Chronic Illness at Work
Interactionally, the workplace may be dilemmatic for a person with "invisible" chronic illness. Risks of stigmatization exist if they disclose their condition to colleagues. Meanwhile, not disclosing threatens well-being and entitlements. Using Bakhtin's dialogism as a theoretical framework, we explored these social aspects of illness: inductively analyzing narratives from 20 participants with multiple sclerosis (MS). Capitalizing on concepts fro…
Being and Performing "Older" Woman in Electronic Dance Movement Culture
This article foregrounds the accounts of a cohort of clubbers who are largely ignored both by journalists and scholars alike. Grounded in the accounts of aging female clubbers and their participation in electronic dance music culture, it investigates the lived experience of being and performing the category of "older woman" in this context. It examines the materiality of their participation and their tactical responses to being in an environment …
Mirrors, portraits, and member checking
Consultation is an important feature of research, and increasingly, researchers are required to work in partnership with stakeholders to improve the impact of their work. Our aim was to demonstrate what can be learned from the scholarship on, and practice of, member checking to facilitate productive knowledge exchange. Using dialogical analysis, we explored 3 member check interactions from 3 different qualitative psychology projects, focusing our…
Male‒male marriage in Sinophone and Anglophone Harry Potter danmei and slash
The aim of this study is to compare Sinophone and Anglophone fan fiction consisting of female-oriented male‒male romance: danmei and slash, respectively. To increase comparability, we analysed Harry Potter fan fiction in which the characters Harry and Draco are married. Male‒male marriage was selected because our online Sinophone and Anglophone BL fandom surveys indicate this to be the most popular story element of the nine options we provided. W…
Photo-elicitation and time-lining to enhance the research interview
The aim of this article is to convey our experience of using photo-elicitation and time-lining to enhance the research interview. We reflect on a study on the “quarterlife crisis” in India and the United Kingdom. Participants were ages 22–30 and self-defined as having experienced difficulties “finding their place in the world.” There were 16 British (8 women, 8 men) and 8 Indian participants (4 women, 4 men). First, we consider how photo-elicitat…
When Your Pregnancy Echoes Your Illness
Our aim is to provide an understanding of the experience of women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who have made the transition to motherhood. A total of 22 mothers with IBD were recruited from around the United Kingdom. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using thematic analysis. The central concept- Blurred Lines-offers a novel frame for understanding the transition to motherhood with IBD through identifying parallels be…
What is the experience of having a sibling with autism spectrum disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can have a significant impact on the family system, while siblings of individuals with ASD often take on considerable responsibility. Although research has investigated the experience of having a sibling with ASD using children and adolescents, few have explored the experience with young adults. The present study aimed to address this using the following research question: ‘What is it like for young adults to have a…
Even better than the real thing
Boys' Love (BL) is an umbrella term for a cluster of genres originating in early 1970s Japanese popular culture which portray male-male sexuality largely by and for women. BL manga in commercial translation usually takes the form of books bringing together stories under the name of a single mangaka which appeared as one-shots or as longer serialisations in Japanese magazines. Melanie Klein provides one of the most influential accounts of the psyc…
Objectivity and reliability in qualitative analysis
The effect of the individual analyst on research findings can create a credibility problem for qualitative approaches from the perspective of evaluative criteria utilized in quantitative psychology. This paper explicates the ways in which objectivity and reliability are understood in qualitative analysis conducted from within three distinct epistemological frameworks: realism, contextual constructionism, and radical constructionism. It is argued …
The Potential of Conversation Analysis for Psychotherapy Research
An illustrative analysis is offered demonstrating the potential of conversation analysis for psychotherapy research. Extracts are presented from an unresolved problematic theme selected from an unsuccessful eight-session psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy of a female client presenting with a major depressive episode. The authors identify descriptive devices and communicative skills on which the client and therapist draw in the process of problem…
Best friends and better coping
This is a novel investigation of whether, and how, a single close supportive friendship may facilitate psychological resilience in socio-economically vulnerable British adolescents. A total of 409 adolescents (160 boys, 245 girls, four unknown), aged between 11 and 19 years, completed self-report measures of close friendship quality, psychological resilience, social support, and other resources. Findings revealed a significant positive associatio…
A Metasynthesis of the Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by chronically elevated blood glucose and high risk of comorbidities. In this article we report a metasynthesis of the 21st-Century qualitative research concerning the self-management of type 2 diabetes. We identified 38 relevant articles (sample size range 6 to 175), which were synthesized through a process of iterative reading and theory development. In this literature, authors argued and as…
The meanings of organ donation
So you did what you wanted then’
This paper explores issues concerning personal agency in discursive psychology and discourse analysis, with a particular emphasis on agency in terms of motivational accounts of the person. Issues are discussed in relation to the efficacy, acceptability, and accessibility of discourse analytic research for the practising psychotherapist. We suggest that such an approach may raise problems in four areas. First, we argue that without explicit theori…
Identity change and the human dissection experience over the first year of medical training
EastEnders
This article describes a study investigating narratives obtained from 45 participants about their watching of the television program, EastEnders. The first aim was to understand why people watch this program. The second aim was to identify the kinds of social object dominating their accounts as a way of revealing the forms of cultural debate catalyzed by the show. Material was generated via an open-ended email questionnaire and analyzed qualitati…
Dissociation, trauma, and the role of lived experience
Voice hearing (VH) is often regarded as pathognomic for schizophrenia. The purpose of this article is to review and integrate historical, clinical, epidemiological, and phenomenological evidence in order to suggest that VH may be more appropriately understood as a dissociative rather than a psychotic phenomenon. First, we discuss the lifetime prevalence of VH in the general population, which is estimated to range between 1% and 16% for adult nonc…
Photo-elicitation and time-lining to enhance the research interview
The aim of this article is to convey our experience of using photo-elicitation and time-lining to enhance the research interview. We reflect on a study on the “quarterlife crisis” in India and the United Kingdom. Participants were ages 22–30 and self-defined as having experienced difficulties “finding their place in the world.” There were 16 British (8 women, 8 men) and 8 Indian participants (4 women, 4 men). First, we consider how photo-elicitat…
Interaction in the Semi-Structured Interview
The validity of interview data for social science research is under sophisticated critique. In this article, verbal interaction in semi-structured interviews (SSIs) is compared to that in naturalistic conversation in terms of participant use of and response to indirect complaints (ICs). SSIs are analyzed with Boxer's (1993a Boxer, D. 1993a. Complaining and commiserating: a speech act view of solidarity in spoken American English, New York: Peter …
Female-Oriented Male-Male Erotica
Our aim is to compare comprehensive data on the engaged demographics of female-oriented male-male erotica in Anglophone regions and that of the greater China area. Our study constitutes the largest such data set in each region (Anglophone N = 1707; Chinese N = 1498). Data were analysed from our online Boys’ Love (BL) fandom survey: one version in English and an almost identical version in Chinese. We confirm that the engaged Anglophone demographi…
Managing the (In)visibility of Chronic Illness at Work
Interactionally, the workplace may be dilemmatic for a person with "invisible" chronic illness. Risks of stigmatization exist if they disclose their condition to colleagues. Meanwhile, not disclosing threatens well-being and entitlements. Using Bakhtin's dialogism as a theoretical framework, we explored these social aspects of illness: inductively analyzing narratives from 20 participants with multiple sclerosis (MS). Capitalizing on concepts fro…
Being and Performing "Older" Woman in Electronic Dance Movement Culture
This article foregrounds the accounts of a cohort of clubbers who are largely ignored both by journalists and scholars alike. Grounded in the accounts of aging female clubbers and their participation in electronic dance music culture, it investigates the lived experience of being and performing the category of "older woman" in this context. It examines the materiality of their participation and their tactical responses to being in an environment …
Engagement with Female-oriented Male-Male Incest Erotica
Boys' Love (BL) is a global by-and-for women genre of youth culture focused on male-on-male sexuality and romance. Incest relationships are not uncommon in BL yet there is no research on what kinds are of most interest to the audience, and with which sub-demographics, and none offer an intercultural comparison. We address this lacuna analyzing data from the largest BL audience survey to date in both Anglophone (N = 1715) and Sinophone (N = 1922) …
When Your Pregnancy Echoes Your Illness
Our aim is to provide an understanding of the experience of women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who have made the transition to motherhood. A total of 22 mothers with IBD were recruited from around the United Kingdom. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using thematic analysis. The central concept- Blurred Lines-offers a novel frame for understanding the transition to motherhood with IBD through identifying parallels be…
Faculty Members’ Perceptions of How Academic Work is Evaluated
How do transitional objects work
Research into the use of transitional objects (Winnicott, 1971) by adult clients in psychotherapy has given little attention to the question of how a transitional object (TO) works. This question is addressed through the use of a semi‐structured interview. Data was collected on the clinical practice and theoretical understanding of TO emergence and use of three psychodynamic‐interpersonal (PI) and three Gestalt psychotherapists. A grounded theory…
So you did what you wanted then’
This paper explores issues concerning personal agency in discursive psychology and discourse analysis, with a particular emphasis on agency in terms of motivational accounts of the person. Issues are discussed in relation to the efficacy, acceptability, and accessibility of discourse analytic research for the practising psychotherapist. We suggest that such an approach may raise problems in four areas. First, we argue that without explicit theori…
How do transitional objects work
Research into the use of transitional objects (Winnicott, 1971) by adult clients in psychotherapy has given little attention to the question of how a transitional object (TO) works. This question is addressed through the use of a semi‐structured interview. Data was collected on the clinical practice and theoretical understanding of TO emergence and use of three psychodynamic‐interpersonal (PI) and three Gestalt psychotherapists. A grounded theory…
Objectivity and reliability in qualitative analysis
The effect of the individual analyst on research findings can create a credibility problem for qualitative approaches from the perspective of evaluative criteria utilized in quantitative psychology. This paper explicates the ways in which objectivity and reliability are understood in qualitative analysis conducted from within three distinct epistemological frameworks: realism, contextual constructionism, and radical constructionism. It is argued …
The Potential of Conversation Analysis for Psychotherapy Research
An illustrative analysis is offered demonstrating the potential of conversation analysis for psychotherapy research. Extracts are presented from an unresolved problematic theme selected from an unsuccessful eight-session psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy of a female client presenting with a major depressive episode. The authors identify descriptive devices and communicative skills on which the client and therapist draw in the process of problem…
EastEnders
This article describes a study investigating narratives obtained from 45 participants about their watching of the television program, EastEnders. The first aim was to understand why people watch this program. The second aim was to identify the kinds of social object dominating their accounts as a way of revealing the forms of cultural debate catalyzed by the show. Material was generated via an open-ended email questionnaire and analyzed qualitati…
The meanings of organ donation
Identity change and the human dissection experience over the first year of medical training
Survey of British Psychological Society Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section Members 2006
Being a South Asian Muslim woman and mentally ill in the UK
Razia Akhtar graduated with a first-class degree in psychology from the University of Leeds this summer. I was lucky enough to supervise her project which was a grounded theory analysis of interviews Razia conducted with South Asian Muslim women who attended a day centre at which she volunteered. I asked Razia to write a summary of her project for the newsletter as her research was of such a high standard and provides a unique insight into an imp…
Response to the findings of the survey of British Psychological Society Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section Members 2006
Qualitative research and its place in psychological science.
In discussing the place of diverse qualitative research within psychological science, the authors highlight the potential permeability of the quantitative-qualitative boundary and identify different ways of increasing communication between researchers specializing in different methods. Explicating diversity within qualitative research is facilitated, initially, through documenting the range of qualitative data collection and analytic methods avai…
Faculty Members’ Perceptions of How Academic Work is Evaluated
Interaction in the Semi-Structured Interview
The validity of interview data for social science research is under sophisticated critique. In this article, verbal interaction in semi-structured interviews (SSIs) is compared to that in naturalistic conversation in terms of participant use of and response to indirect complaints (ICs). SSIs are analyzed with Boxer's (1993a Boxer, D. 1993a. Complaining and commiserating: a speech act view of solidarity in spoken American English, New York: Peter …
A Metasynthesis of the Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by chronically elevated blood glucose and high risk of comorbidities. In this article we report a metasynthesis of the 21st-Century qualitative research concerning the self-management of type 2 diabetes. We identified 38 relevant articles (sample size range 6 to 175), which were synthesized through a process of iterative reading and theory development. In this literature, authors argued and as…
Subjectivity in psychological science
The problem of subjectivity within psychological research has long been recognized. The practices of scientific psychology, however, continue to assume that objectivity is desirable, even if not completely possible, and that subjectivity is a source of bias that must be minimized or eliminated. Such a dispassionate stance has offered and continues to offer a range of benefits, not least a tight focus on participants' relevant responses. Nonethele…
Dissociation, trauma, and the role of lived experience
Voice hearing (VH) is often regarded as pathognomic for schizophrenia. The purpose of this article is to review and integrate historical, clinical, epidemiological, and phenomenological evidence in order to suggest that VH may be more appropriately understood as a dissociative rather than a psychotic phenomenon. First, we discuss the lifetime prevalence of VH in the general population, which is estimated to range between 1% and 16% for adult nonc…
Boys’ Love Manga for Girls
Suzuhara’s collection of yonkoma (four-panel) comic strips ‘Here in Magic Land’ are published in ‘J-BOY by Biblos’ (2006). This is an English-language anthology of original Japanese manga (comics) of the genre known as Boys’ Love (BL).1 The cast of characters and the scenarios they imply indicate some of the motifs around which BL revolves: Magic Land Friends Shiro: A boy from the cat family became Al’s apprentice in hopes of becoming a wizard. A…
Qualitative research is not a paradigm
Even better than the real thing
Boys' Love (BL) is an umbrella term for a cluster of genres originating in early 1970s Japanese popular culture which portray male-male sexuality largely by and for women. BL manga in commercial translation usually takes the form of books bringing together stories under the name of a single mangaka which appeared as one-shots or as longer serialisations in Japanese magazines. Melanie Klein provides one of the most influential accounts of the psyc…
Best friends and better coping
This is a novel investigation of whether, and how, a single close supportive friendship may facilitate psychological resilience in socio-economically vulnerable British adolescents. A total of 409 adolescents (160 boys, 245 girls, four unknown), aged between 11 and 19 years, completed self-report measures of close friendship quality, psychological resilience, social support, and other resources. Findings revealed a significant positive associatio…
What is the experience of having a sibling with autism spectrum disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can have a significant impact on the family system, while siblings of individuals with ASD often take on considerable responsibility. Although research has investigated the experience of having a sibling with ASD using children and adolescents, few have explored the experience with young adults. The present study aimed to address this using the following research question: ‘What is it like for young adults to have a…
Mirrors, portraits, and member checking
Consultation is an important feature of research, and increasingly, researchers are required to work in partnership with stakeholders to improve the impact of their work. Our aim was to demonstrate what can be learned from the scholarship on, and practice of, member checking to facilitate productive knowledge exchange. Using dialogical analysis, we explored 3 member check interactions from 3 different qualitative psychology projects, focusing our…
Male‒male marriage in Sinophone and Anglophone Harry Potter danmei and slash
The aim of this study is to compare Sinophone and Anglophone fan fiction consisting of female-oriented male‒male romance: danmei and slash, respectively. To increase comparability, we analysed Harry Potter fan fiction in which the characters Harry and Draco are married. Male‒male marriage was selected because our online Sinophone and Anglophone BL fandom surveys indicate this to be the most popular story element of the nine options we provided. W…
Photo-elicitation and time-lining to enhance the research interview
The aim of this article is to convey our experience of using photo-elicitation and time-lining to enhance the research interview. We reflect on a study on the “quarterlife crisis” in India and the United Kingdom. Participants were ages 22–30 and self-defined as having experienced difficulties “finding their place in the world.” There were 16 British (8 women, 8 men) and 8 Indian participants (4 women, 4 men). First, we consider how photo-elicitat…
When Your Pregnancy Echoes Your Illness
Our aim is to provide an understanding of the experience of women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who have made the transition to motherhood. A total of 22 mothers with IBD were recruited from around the United Kingdom. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using thematic analysis. The central concept- Blurred Lines-offers a novel frame for understanding the transition to motherhood with IBD through identifying parallels be…
Psychology (38 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Qualitative research (15 works) · Social science (15 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)