Dr Sheridan Linnell
Dr Sheridan Linnell
- Biography
- Qualifications
- Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
- Awards / Honours
- Grants / Current Projects
- Selected Publications
- Professional Affiliations
Biography
Sheridan Linnell is the Course Advisor for the Master of Art Therapy. She is an early career researcher with a particular interest in developing a critical approach to art therapy. Sheridan worked in the community sector for over twenty years, as well as in independent practice, before becoming a full time lecturer in 2008. Her book, 'Art therapy and narrative therapy: an account of practitioner research', is due for publication later this year. Sheridan originally studied literature, and a small book of her poems has been published.
Qualifications
BA (Hons)(Syd); MA (Art Therapy) (UWS); PhD (UWS)
Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
Art therapy; expressive therapies; narrative therapy, arts-informed research; Risk discourse; subjectivity; feminism; postcolonialism, poststructural theory; writing as enquiry
Awards / Honours
Margaret Cramp Memorial Prize for English Literature
Grants / Current Projects
Seeding Grant UWS 2010 'An initial study of how counsellors and art psychotherapists working with young people respond to the discourse of risk
Selected Publications
Book
Linnell, S (2010). Art psychotherapy and narrative therapy: an account of practitioner research (opens in a new window) UAE: Bentham Science Publications.
Linnell, S. (2001). Cutting Room. Wollongong: Five Islands Press.
Book chapter
Linnell, S. (2008). ‘Found wanting and becoming undone’: a response to Eva Bendix Petersen’s “Passionately attached: Academic subjects of desire” ’. In Davies, B. (Ed.) A lived history of the thought of Judith Butler. London: Routledge, pp. 69-85.
Journals
Linnell S. (2009). Becoming 'Otherwise': A story of a collaborative and narrative approach to art therapy with Indigenous kids 'in care', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art Therapy (opens in a new window) (ANZJAT), 4 (1): 15-26
Bansel, P., Davies, B., Laws, C. & Linnell, S. (2009). 'Bullies, bullying and power in the contexts of schooling.' British Journal of Sociology of Education, (opens in a new window) 30 (1): 59-69.
Bansel, P., Davies, B., Gannon, S. & Linnell, S. (2008). 'Technologies of audit at work on the writing subject.' Studies in Higher Education, (opens in a new window) 33 (6): 673-683.
Linnell, S., Bansel, P., Elwood, C. & Gannon, S. (2008) ‘Precarious listening.’ International Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, (opens in a new window) 14 (2): 285-306.
Williams, C. & Linnell, S. (2006). ‘When the doctors consulted the narrative therapist… An experiment in questioning dominant stories of PhD pedagogy.’ (opens in a new window) The International Journal of Critical Psychology, 18, 56-80.
Linnell, S. (2004). ‘Towards a ‘poethics’ of therapeutic practice: Extending the relationship of ethics and aesthetics in narrative therapies through a consideration of the late work of Michel Foucault’. The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (opens in a new window) 2004, 4, 42-54.
Exhibition and catalogue publication
Linnell, S. Perry, S. Pretorius, J. & Westwood, J. (2007) ‘Where knowing and not knowing touch’ (opens in a new window) Contemporary art as a mode of research, subjective transformation and social engagement. At the Vanishing Point’ Contemporary Art Gallery, Newtown, 27 September – 7 October 2007.
Professional Affiliations
Registered professional member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Art Therapists (opens in a new window)
