Qualifications

• MA (Clinical Psychology)
• DPhil
• CPsychol

Teaching

• Psychopathology (Year 2 - module leader)
• Critical Issues in Health Psychology (Year 3 - module leader)
• Psychological Therapies (Year 3 - module leader)
• Qualitative Research Methods (MSc Research Methods in Psychology)
• Developmental Psychopathology (MSc Clinical Child Psychology)

Professional Associations

• Registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Council UK
• Chartered Clinical Psychologist, British Psychological Society
• Honorary clinical psychologist, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Newham Talking Therapies Service
• Committee member, Faculty of HIV and Sexual health, Division of Clinical Psychology, British Psychological Society
• Trainee member of the British Psychoanalytic Council
• Honorary senior lecturer, Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology
• Ad hoc peer reviewer for: AIDS Care; Psychology, Health & Medicine; Disability & Rehabilitation; Health Psychology Review; Psychiatric Services; Journal of Health Psychology; Health Psychology Review; Journal of the International AIDS Society; African Journal of Disability; Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology; Culture, Health & Sexuality; Health Education and Behaviour

Research
My research interests are varied, but can broadly be classified as focusing on critical health psychology. I am particularly interested in psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS, partly due to having trained and worked in South Africa, where HIV is such a pressing health issue. I have done some research on HIV and stigma, as well as HIV and public health, looking for example at the role of counsellors, and the inclusion (or exclusion) of persons with disabilities. I am also interested in mental health, and psychoanalysis. I predominantly use qualitative research methods, as I think such an approach is more appropriate for a critical perspective on health and social issues.

Member of the Applied, Social and Health Research Group

PhD supervision
Current PhD students:
Charlotte Smith: Exploring the process through which women disclose their HIV positive status to an intimate partner
Magdalena Borawska-Charko: Sex education and young people with learning disabilities

I am interested in supervising potential PhD students in the following topic areas:

• HIV/AIDS and sexual health
• Sexuality
• Critical health psychology
• Critical social psychology
• Mental health

Current Projects

• A pilot project examining sex education for young people with learning disabilities. Collaboration with Dr Mick Finlay. Funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant.

• Improving Staff Competencies in working with LGBT Mental Health Service Users. Collaboration with Dr Daragh McDermott. Funded by the South Essex Partnership Trust.

• Sexual self-esteem among people living with HIV. Collaboration with Dr Rachel Cook and Dr Daragh McDermott. Pilot study funded by ARU.

Previous Projects:

2009-2010 Correlates of stress in both children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their parents: Collaboration with Dr Amanda Ludlow (PI) and Dr Matt Bristow. Funded by the ARU Research Enhancement Strategy Grant

2006-2009: Community, Self and Identity Project: An inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional collaborative teaching and research project on diversity education and critical pedagogy in post-Apartheid South Africa. Collaborative project with partners from South Africa. Funded by the South African Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD); and the South Africa National Research Foundation Focus Area Programme.

2006-2008: HIV/AIDS and Disability in South Africa
Funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa



Publications List

Books

Rohleder, P., & Lyons, A. (Eds.) (forthcoming). Qualitative research in clinical and health psychology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Leibowitz, B., Swartz, L., Bozalek, V., Carolissen, R., Nicholls, L., & Rohleder, P. (Eds.) (2012). Community, self and identity: Educating South African university students for citizenship. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Rohleder, P. (2012). Critical issues in clinical and health psychology. London: Sage Publications.[Available from Sage]

Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Kalichman, S., & Simbayi, L. (Eds.) (2009). HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On: Psychosocial Perspectives. New York: Springer.
[Available from Springer and Amazon]


Chapters in Books

Rohleder, P., & Swartz, L. (2012). Disability, sexuality and sexual health. In P. Aggleton, P. Boyce, H.L. Moore, & R. Parker (Eds.),Understanding global sexualities: New frontiers (pp. 138-152). London: Routledge.

Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Eide, A.H., & MacGregor, H. (2009). HIV/AIDS and persons with disabilities. In P. Rohleder, L. Swartz, S. Kalichman, & L. Simbayi (Eds.), HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On: Psychosocial Perspectives. New York: Springer.

Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., & Philander, J. (2009). Disability and HIV/AIDS: A key development issue. In M. MacLachlan & L. Swartz (Eds.), Disability and international development: Towards inclusive global health. Springer: New York.

Tomlinson, M., Drimie, S., Swartz, L., & Rohleder, P. (2009). HIV/AIDS, nutrition and structural interventions in South Africa: A move in the right direction. In P. Rohleder, L. Swartz, S. Kalichman, & L. Simbayi (Eds.), HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On: Psychosocial Perspectives. New York: Springer.

Swartz, L. & Rohleder, P. (2008). Cultural psychology. In C. Willig, & W. Stainton-Rogers (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research methods in psychology (pp. 541-553). London: Sage Publications

Swartz, L., Schneider, M., & Rohleder, P. (2006). HIV/AIDS and disability: New challenges. In B. Watermeyer, L. Swartz, T. Lorenzo, M. Schneider, & M. Priestley (eds.), Disability and social change: A South African agenda (pp. 108-115). Cape Town: HSRC Press.


Peer-reviewed Journal Articles:

Groce, N., Rohleder, P., Eide, A.H., MacLachlan, M., Mall, S., & Swartz, L. (2013). HIV issues and people with disabilities: A review and agenda for research. Social Science & Medicine, 77, 31-40

Ludlow, A., Skelly, C., & Rohleder, P. (2012). Challenges faced by parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Health Psychology, 17(5), 702-711

Rohleder, P., Eide, A.H., Swartz, L., Ranchod, C., Schneider, M., & Schür, C. (2012). Gender differences in HIV knowledge and unsafe sexual behaviour among disabled people in South Africa. Disability & Rehabilitation, 34(7), 605-610.

Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Schneider, M., & Eide, A.H. (2012). Challenges to providing HIV prevention education to youth with disabilities in South Africa. Disability & Rehabilitation, 34(8), 619-624.

Eide, A.H., Schür, C., Ranchod, C., Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., & Schneider, M. (2011). Disabled persons' knowledge of HIV prevention and access to health care prevention services in South Africa. AIDS Care, 23(12), 1595-1601.

Rohleder, P. (2011). Book review: AIDS in Africa: How the poor are dying, By Nana Poku. Psychology & Sexuality, 2 (3), 263-268.

Carolissen, R., Rohleder, P., Bozalek, V., Swartz, L., & Leibowitz, B. (2010). "Community psychology is for poor, black people": Challenges in teaching community psychology in South Africa. Equity and Excellence in Education, 43 (4), 495-510

Leibowitz, B., Bozalek, V., Carolissen, R., Nicholls, L., Rohleder, P. & Swartz, L., & (2010) Bringing the Social into Pedagogy; Unsafe learning in an uncertain world. Teaching in Higher Education, 15 (2), 123-133.

Leibowitz, B., Bozalek, V., Rohleder, P., Carolissen, R., & Swartz, L. (2010). "Ah, but the whiteys Love to Talk About Themselves": Discomfort as a pedagogy for change. Race, Ethnicity and Education. 13 (1), 83-100.

Rohleder, P. (2010). Educators' ambivalence and anxieties in providing sex education for persons with learning disabilities. Psychodynamic Practice, 16 (2), 165-182.

Rohleder, P. (2010). "They don't know how to defend themselves": Talk about disability and HIV risk in South Africa. Disability & Rehabilitation, 32 (10), 855-863.

Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Schneider, M., Groce, N., & Eide, A.H. (2010). HIV/AIDS and disability organizations in South Africa. AIDS Care, 22 (2), 221-227.

Tomlinson, M., Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Drimie, S., & Kagee, A. (2010). Broadening psychology's contribution to addressing issues of HIV/AIDS, poverty and nutrition: Structural issues as constraints and opportunities. Journal of Health Psychology, 15 (7), 972-981.

Rohleder, P., Braathen, S.H., Swartz, L., & Eide, A.H. (2009). HIV/AIDS and disability in Southern Africa: A Review of relevant literature. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31 (1), 51-59.

Rohleder, P., & Swartz, L. (2009). Providing sex education to persons with learning disabilities in the era of HIV/AIDS: Tensions between discourses of human rights and restriction. Journal of Health Psychology, 14 (4), 601-610.

Swartz, L., Rohleder, P., Bozalek, V., Carolissen, R., Leibowitz, B., & Nicholls, L. (2009). "Your mind is the battlefield": South African trainee health workers engage with the past. Social Work Education, 28 (5), 488-501.

Rohleder, P. (2008). Challenges to confidentiality in a support group for HIV-positive prisoners in South Africa. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 36 (3), 277-285.

Rohleder, P., Bozalek, V., Carolissen, R., Leibowitz, B., & Swartz, L. (2008). Students' evaluations of e-learning as a tool in a collaborative project between two South African universities. Higher Education, 56 (1), 95-107.

Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Bozalek, V., Carolissen, R., & Leibowitz, B. (2008). Community, self and identity: Participation action research and the creation of a virtual community across two South African universities. Teaching in Higher Education, 13 (2), 131-143.

Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Carolissen, R., Bozalek, V., & Leibowitz, B. (2008). "Communities isn't just about trees and shops": Students from two South African universities engage in dialogue about 'community' and 'community work'. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 18 (3), 253-267.

Bozalek, V., Rohleder, P., Carolissen, R., Leibowitz, B., Nicholls, L., & Swartz, L. (2007). Students learning across differences in a multi-disciplinary virtual learning community. South African Journal of Higher Education, 21 (7), 812-825.

Leibowitz, B., Rohleder, P., Bozalek, V., Carolissen, R., & Swartz, L. (2007). "It doesn't matter who or what we are, we are still just people": Strategies used by university students to negotiate difference. South African Journal of Psychology, 37 (4), 702-719.

Rohleder, P. (2007). HIV and the "other". Psychodynamic Practice, 13 (4), 401-412.

Rohleder, P., Fish, W., Ismail, A., Padfield, L. & Platen, D. (2007). Dealing with diversity in a virtual learning community across two South African universities. South African Journal of Higher Education, 21 (7), 893-906

Rohleder, P., & Gibson, K. (2006). "We are not fresh": HIV-positive women talk of their experience of living with their spoiled identity. South African Journal of Psychology, 36 (1), 25-44.

Rohleder, P., Miller, M., & Smith, R. (2006). Doing time: Clinical psychologists' experience of community service in a prison placement. South African Journal of Psychology, 36 (4), 795-812

Rohleder, P., & Swartz, L. (2005). 'What I've noticed what they need is the stats': Lay HIV counsellors' reports of working in a task-orientated health care system. AIDS Care, 17 (3), 397-406


Selected Recent Conference Proceedings

Rohleder, P., Eide, A.H., Swartz, L., Ranchod, C., Schneider, M., & Schür, C. (2011). Gender differences in level of HIV knowledge and HIV risk behaviours among people with disabilities in South Africa. Paper presented at the 10th International AIDS Impact Conference, 12-15 September 2011, Santa Fe, USA.

Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Eide, A.H., & Schneider, M. (2011). Providing HIV prevention for youth with disabilities in South Africa. Paper presented at the 10th International AIDS Impact Conference, 12-15 September 2011, Santa Fe, USA.

Rohleder, P. (2011). Sexuality, sexual health and disability. Organised special session for the 8th biennial meeting of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS), 6-9 July 2011, Madrid, Spain.

Rohleder, P. (2011). Disability, sexuality and HIV risk. Paper presented as part of organised special session 'Sexuality, sexual health and disability' at the 8th biennial meeting of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS), 6-9 July 2011, Madrid, Spain.

Carolissen, R.L., Bozalek, V., Leibowitz, B., Swartz, L., Nicholls, L. & Rohleder, P. (2010) "It was like unearthing something that we keep underground, the whole issue of race, colour, opportunity": A critical race theory analysis of South African human service profession students' retrospective engagements with race. Paper presented at the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), 14-18 June, Istanbul.

Leibowitz, B., Carolissen, R.L., Bozalek, V., Swartz, L., Nicholls, L. & Rohleder, P. (2010). The "pedagogy of discomfort" as an approach to support curriculum development for inclusive education. Paper presented at the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), 14-18 June, Istanbul.

Nicholls, L., Bozalek, V., Carolissen, R.L., Swartz, L., Rohleder, P., & Leibowitz, B. (2010) Exploring Identity and Disrupting Silence; a transdisciplinary community work module. 15th World Federation of Occupational Therapy Congress, 4 - 7 May 2010, Santiago Chile.

Rohleder, P. (2009). Improving participation in HIV prevention and treatment: Lessons from South Africa. Organised symposium for the 6th biennial conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) on 8-11 July, 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Rohleder, P., & Swartz, L. (2009). Persons with disabilities and HIV prevention. Paper presented as part of organised symposium for the 6th biennial conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) on 8-11 July, 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Bozalek, V., Carolissen, R., Leibowitz, B., & Nicholls, L. (2009). "We as the new generation should not allow the past to shape our present and future": South African trainee health workers discuss race and apartheid. Paper presented at the 6th biennial conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) on 8-11 July, 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Swartz, L., Bozalek, V., Carolissen, R, Leibowitz, B., Nicholls, L., & Rohleder, P. (2009). Community, self and identity: participatory learning for active citizenship across the divides of two South African universities. Poster presented at UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education on 5-8 July 2009 in Paris, France.

Swartz, L., Bozalek, V., Carolissen, R, Leibowitz, B., Nicholls, L., & Rohleder, P. (2009). Educating for (New) South African Citizenship: Engaging Trainee Health Workers with Issues of Difference. Paper presented at the 16th International Conference on Learning on 1-4 July, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.

Leibowitz, B., Bozalek, V., Carolissen, R., Swartz, L., Nicholls, L. & Rohleder, P. (2009). The Community, Self and Identity Project (South Africa). Paper presented at the American Education Research Association (AERA) 2009 Conference on 13 - 17 April, 2009, in San Diego, United States of America.

Bozalek, V., Swartz, L., Carolissen, R., Leibowitz, B., Rohleder, P., & Nicholls, L. (2008). Pedagogical practices that foster conversations across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Paper presented at the ISSoTL 5th Annual Conference Celebrating Connections ~ Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship October 16~19/2008, Edmonton~Alberta~Canada

Carolissen, R., Swartz, L., Rohleder, P., Bozalek, V., Nicholls, L., & Leibowitz, B. (2008). Using participatory action research to teach community in a diverse and interdisciplinary community: the case of the community, self and identity project. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Community Psychology on 4-6 June 2008, Lisbon, Portugal.

Leibowitz, B., Carolissen, R., Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Bozalek, V., & Nicholls, L. (2008). Engaging students in the health and social sciences across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Paper presented at the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference on 18-21 June 2008, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada.

Nicholls, L., Rohleder, P., Bozalek, V., Swartz, L., Carolissen, R., & Leibowitz, B. (2008). "Apartheid was your past ...not mine"; experiences of denial, shame and the creative arts in teaching an inter-racial and inter-professional course in a South African University. Paper presented at the OPUS Conference - Organizational and social dynamics: International Perspectives from Group Relations, Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory on 21-22 November 2008, London, United Kingdom.

Rohleder, P., & Swartz, L. (2007). Preliminary findings from the national HIV and disability survey. Paper presented at the 13th South African Psychology Congress on 28-31 August, Durban, South Africa

Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Carolissen, R., Bozalek, V., Leibowitz, B., & Nicholls, L. (2007). Community, self and identity: Crossing boundaries in a virtual community across two South African universities. Paper presented at the 13th South African Psychology Congress on 28-31 August, Durban, South Africa