DR SHEILA QUAID
BA (Hons), MA, PhD
SENIOR LECTURER, PROGRAMME LEADER FOR BA (Hons) SOCIOLOGY (SINGLE HONOURS)
Tel: 0191-515-3251
Fax: 0191-515-2229
Email: sheila.quaid@sunderland.ac.uk 
Faculty of Education and Society,
Department of Social Science,
University of Sunderland,
Priestman Building,
Green Terrace,
Sunderland, SR1 3PZ
BIOGRAPHY
Sheila Quaid is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Gender and Programme Leader BA Sociology (Single Honours). Her research and teaching is mainly in the areas of gender, sexuality and family studies. She is co author of Fatherhood and Masculinities: A Comparative Study of Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain and Sweden, with Kearney, Munson and Plantin. (2000). She has also contributed to Home Truths about Domestic Violence, (Hanmer and Itzin, 2000). Her PhD is entitled Finding a Place: Negotiating Lesbian Parental Identities, (2006). She is currently planning further research on civil partnerships and their impact on perceptions of kinship; the role of the father and/or sperm donor in lesbian led families; and the interconnections of the `mother' identity with other definers of self, such as ethnicity, disability, class and culture. She is also involved in the development of postgraduate modules in the area of violence and abuse, and the organisation of a public seminar series on current approaches to domestic violence.
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENTS
Sheila's research interests are in the field of the sociology of families, gendered and parental identities and violence and abuse. Specifically this includes her recently submitted PhD entitled; Finding a Place: Negotiating Lesbian Parental Identities. She is interested in developing further work on motherhood and new forms of kinship in late modern society.
CURRENT WORK
She is currently part of the International Centre for the Study of Violence and Abuse and the Centre for Equalities and Social Justice at the University of Sunderland. More recently she is involved in the organisation of a (Northern Rock Foundation funded) public seminar series on the relationship between feminist theories of violence and practitioner experiences.
POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION
Co-supervisor (PhD): Angela Wilcock: Title: `An exploration of how help seeking information in relation to domestic violence is communicated to the general public'.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH REPORTS
2000 'Fatherhood and Masculinities: A Comparative Study of the Ideals and Realities of Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain and Sweden.' Research report by Kearney, Mansson, Plantin and Quaid. Centre for Social Research and Practice. University of Sunderland Press.
2000 "The Criminal Justice Response to Women Who Kill", An Interview with Helena Kennedy by Sheila Quaid and Cathy Itzin, in Home Truths About Domestic Violence Edited by Jalna Hanmer and Catherine Iztin with Sheila Quaid and Debra Wigglesworth. 2000. Routledge, Taylor Francis.
2000 'Home Truths about Domestic Violence: Feminism Influencing Policy and Practice', (Eds) Jalna Hanmer and Catherine Itzin with Sheila Quaid and Debra Wigglesworth. 2000. Routledge, Taylor Francis.
