Rate My Professor Lynda Shevellar

Lynda Shevellar's research explores the experiences of people living with heightened vulnerability, the development of community awareness, agency, and capacity to address social disadvantage and inequality, and the alignment of community development theory and education with practice alongside those with vulnerabilities. She has particular interests in inclusive learning communities through creative teaching practices, participative research strategies, engaged citizenship, and community mental health dynamics of belonging for individuals with persistent and severe mental health challenges. Key publications include the books she co-edited, The Routledge Handbook of Community Development Research (2018, with Peter Westoby) and Learning and Mobilising for Community Development: A Radical Tradition of Community-Based Education and Training (2012, with Peter Westoby), as well as articles such as 'Social science as social action to address inequalities' (2023), 'Ethical issues in community development: setting the scene' (2023), 'Destabilising social inclusion and recovery, and pursuing "lines of flight" in the mental health sector' (2020), and 'The possibility of cooperatives: a vital contributor in creating meaningful work for people with disabilities' (2019). She coordinates courses SOSC2288: Community Development - Local and International Practice and SOCY1070: Inequality, Society and the Self.