Donna Carlyle

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing

Before moving into Higher Education I worked in practitioner, leadership and management roles within the NHS for over 25 years. These roles included Health Visiting and Specialist Health Visiting (for children with complex and additional needs), and as a Sure Start Community Health Co-ordinator. In the past 12 years I worked as a therapist in CAMHS (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services) providing early intervention for children (birth to 5) and their families as an Early Years Mental Health Specialist within a Sure Strart Children’s Centre. This was part of an integrated team across health and social care, delivering support for the social and emotional development of children in line with the ‘Every Child Matters’ agenda. During this time, I was involved in the development of ‘Getting to know your Baby’ antenatal, parent craft sessions, city wide in Sunderland which was highly commended in the Nursing Times Awards, 2010. I also piloted and evaluated a therapeutic group approach, ‘Fun Friends’, for young children (aged 4-7 years) with anxiety (using a cognitive behavioural therapy framework). This won the ‘Patient Safety & Care Awards’ in 2014 and is now part of a rolling programme within Sunderland.

Campus Address

Coach Lane Campus East
Room H213

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Before moving into Higher Education Donna worked in practitioner, leadership and management roles within the NHS for over 25 years. These roles included Health Visiting and Specialist Health Visiting (for children with disabilities/complex and additional needs), and as a Sure Start Community Health Co-ordinator.

In her previous clinical post, she worked for 8 years as a therapist in CAMHS (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services) providing early intervention for children (from birth to 5) and their families as an Early Years Mental Health Specialist within a Sure Start Children’s Centre. This was part of an integrated team across health and social care, delivering support for the social and emotional development of children in line with the ‘Every Child Matters’ agenda. During this time, she was involved in the development of ‘Getting to know your Baby’ an antenatal programme, city wide in Sunderland, which was highly commended in the Nursing Times Awards, 2010 and LGC 2012.

Donna also piloted and evaluated a therapeutic group approach, ‘Fun Friends’, for young children (aged 4-7 years) with anxiety (using a cognitive behavioural therapy framework). This won the ‘Patient Safety & Care Awards’ in 2014 and is now part of a rolling programme within Sunderland. Donna continues to have an interest in infant mental health and the 1001 Critical Days Agenda.

Current research interests include infant mental health, human-animal interactions, Pets-As-Therapy, history of the school dog, children's literature, visual methods, comics, ethnography and Deleuzian philosophy.

Donna’s doctoral thesis seeks to explore, using visual methods, children’s experiences of interacting with a canine in the classroom/school setting:

“Growing up with School Dog ‘Ted’ – An Ethnographic Study” and the influence this relationship has on their growth, social and emotional development and wellbeing.

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Floating Harmony: cutting-apart-back-together – a constellation of ‘becoming with’ in Horse ‘Henry Rainbow’ & Devoted Rider, Carlyle, D. 31 Oct 2022, In: Journal of Posthumanism
Deleuze Becoming-Mary Poppins: Re-Imagining the Concept of Becoming-Woman and Its Potential for Challenging Current Notions of Parenting, Gender and Childhood, Carlyle, D., Sidebottom, K. 20 Oct 2021, In: Humanities
"Dog" is "God" Spelled Backward: "Poppy Jingles", the staff Well-being Spaniel, Carlyle, D., Watson, K. 1 Mar 2021, In: Health and Social Care Chaplaincy
Bearing Witness to the Beauty of Enactive Kinesthetic Empathy across Species in Canine-Human and Equine-Human Interactions: Participant-Observation Ethnographies, Carlyle, D., Graham, P. 2020, In: People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice
Multiple me, the unfolding ethnographer: Multiple becomings and entanglements are a more-than-human ethnographer, Carlyle, D. 5 Jul 2020
Opening up the unfamiliar and enabling new pathways for movement and becoming: Through, in, and beyond attachment, Carlyle, D., Robson, I., Lhussier, M. 17 Jan 2020, In: Journal of Childhood Studies
Bodies of knowledge, kinetic melodies, rhythms of relating and affect attunement in vital spaces for multi-species well-being: Finding common ground in intimate human-canine and human-equine encounters, Carlyle, D., Graham, P. 7 Nov 2019, In: Animals
Walking in rhythm with Deleuze and a dog inside the classroom: being and becoming happy and well together, Carlyle, D. 9 Jul 2019, In: Medical Humanities
Re-energising the role of vitalism theory in child development, nature orientation and research, Carlyle, D. 1 Sep 2018, In: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
Promoting Pluralism in Counselling: an Untapped Source of Relational Mapping as Therapeutic Process, Carlyle, D. Dec 2017, In: International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling

Qualifications

Health and Community Studies MSc January 04 2016
Therapeutic Psychology Diploma September 05 2011
Professional Development Certificate September 06 2010
Counselling HND September 06 2004
Health and Community Studies BSc (Hons) September 07 1998
Master of Public Health MPH 2006
Psychotherapist/Counsellor British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) 2004
Health Visitor Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 1998
School Nurse 1993
Registered General Nurse RGN 1990

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