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Rebecca Fish
Thesis Working Title
Experiences of women with learning disabilities in a secure service
Research Interests
I am a full time PhD student in the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies. My interests are qualitative research in the areas of: disability studies, feminist research, mental health research. In the past I have researched and written about experiences of self harm and aggression within health services from the perspectives of staff and service users.
My current PhD project is an ethnographic study of two wards for women, in an NHS secure service for people with learning disabilities. I have spent time with staff and service users and interviewed 25 people so far.
Would like to meet
People studying feminist and disability studies, mental health services, people with learning disabilities, borderline personality disorder, self harm, seclusion, physical intervention/restraint, special observations.
Other Interests and Hobbies
I have four children (all boys) who keep me busy, so apart from reading, my interests usually involve lego and homework!
Publications
Duperouzel H and Fish R (2012) 'Minimising Harm' in Heslop, P and Lovell, A (eds) 'Self injury and people with learning disabilities' (in press)
Fish R (2012) Women with Learning Disabilities in secure services: A review of the literature' British Journal of Forensic Practice (in press)
Fish R and Reid H (2012) 'Working with self-harm: accounts of two staff groups' Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour (March)
Fish R, Woodward S and Duperouzel H (2011) 'Change can only be a good thing: staff views on the introduction of a harm minimisation policy in a Forensic Learning Disability service' - British Journal of Learning Disabilities (early online view April 2011)
Moores, P (service user) Fish, R and Duperouzel H (2011) ''I can try and do my little bit' - Training staff about self-injury' - Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour 2(1) p4-7
Duperouzel H and Fish R (2010) 'Hurting no-one else's body but your own: People with learning disabilities who self injure in a forensic service' Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities Volume 23, Issue 6, pages 606-615, November 2010
Fish R and Duperouzel H (2008) 'Just another day dealing with wounds': self-injury and staff-client relationships' Learning Disability Practice 11(4) p12-15
Duperouzel, H and Fish, R (2008) 'Why couldn't I stop her? Self injury: the views of staff and clients in a medium secure unit.' British Journal of Learning Disabilities 36 p59-65
Fish, R and Culshaw, E (2005) 'The last resort? Staff and client perspectives on physical intervention' Journal of Intellectual Disabilities 9(2) p93 - 107
Harker-Longton, W and Fish, R (2002) 'Cutting doesn't make you die: One woman's views on the treatment of her self-injurious behaviour' Journal of Learning Disabilities 6(2) p 137-151
Lobley, J and Fish, R (2002) 'Evaluating a forensic service for people with learning disabilities: Comparing approaches' in Dale C, Storey L (Editors) 2002 Care and Treatment of Offenders with a Learning Disability. Nursing Praxis International, Chichester
Fish, R and Lobley, J (2001) 'Evaluating a forensic service for people with learning disabilities: Comparing approaches' Journal of Learning Disabilities 5(2) p 97-109
Fish, R (2000) 'Working with people who harm themselves in a forensic learning disability service: Experiences of direct care staff' Journal of Learning Disabilities 4(3) p 193-207
(featured on) MIND DVD (2009) 'Cutting the Risk' - interviews with researchers staff and service users about self harm
Associated research centres: Centre for Disability Research CeDR, Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
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