SASS Staff

Dr Mark Cresswell

Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Sciences

Cresswell, Mark. 2007. Self-harm and the politics of experience. Journal of Critical Psychology 7(1): 9-17.
Cresswell, Mark. 2005. Psychiatric 'survivors' and testimonies of self-harm. Social Science & Medicine 61(8): 1668-1677. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Cresswell, Mark 2005. Self-Harm 'Survivors' and Psychiatry in England, 1988-1996. Social Theory & Health 3: 259-285.
Cresswell, Mark. 2003. Sex/Gender: Which is Which? A Rejoinder to Mary Reige Laner. Sociological Inquiry 73(1): 138-151.

2007: Expert Group: • In terms of international policy formation, I was an expert panel member who assisted in the compiling of the ‘Deliberate self-injury First-Aid Guideline’ formulated by the Orygen Research Centre of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Melbourne, Australia. My membership of this group lasted from August 2006 until the guidelines publication in September 2007.
2007: Journal Reviewer: Journal Reviewer for: Medical Sociology Online, Social Movement Studies, Social Science & Medicine.
2007: Membership: Member of BSA mental Health sub-group. At the Mental Health sub-group’s symposium on ‘Mental Health and Human Rights: Sociological Perspectives’ held at the University of Warwick on 22nd June, 2007, I gave one of the three morning plenary session addresses on ‘The ‘rights’ of self-harm ‘survivors’ and the role of the State’.
2007: Membership: Member of ‘Self-harm/Harm-minimisation’ group, hosted by the registered charity ‘Together’ (charity no: 211091) comprised of service users, academics, third-sector representatives and other stakeholders.
Expert Group: In terms of domestic policy formation, in November 2005 I was invited to sit on the Expert group of the Department of Health’s Victims of Violence and Abuse Prevention Programme (VVAPP) but declined at that time as I was in the middle of my doctorate.

Sociology of Medicine and Psychiatry
Mental Health, especially 'Deliberate Self-harm'
Social Movement and Social Netowrk theory, especially Mental Health and 'Survivor' Movements
History of radical thought (Marxist, Anarchist, Libertarian, Feminist)
Post-Structuralist and Post-Marxist Theory
The relationship of academia to political activisim