Professor Adrian Coyle

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Adrian Coyle
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About

I am a Social Psychologist and my research and publications have principally addressed psychological issues in identity, religion and society, loss and bereavement, and sexualities. Much of this work has been framed in terms of social psychological approaches, theories and concepts.

The vast majority of my research is qualitative: I have contributed to the promotion of qualitative research in British psychology and remain a keen advocate of its value in developing insightful and useful answers to important contemporary questions.

I was co-editor of the award-winning book, Lesbian & Gay Psychology: New Perspectives (with Celia Kitzinger: BPS Blackwell, 2002), and of Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology (with Evanthia Lyons: SAGE, 2007, 2016, 2021), which is now in its third edition. 

I retired in 2019 but continue to write and research. 

Academic responsibilities

Emeritus Professor of Psychology

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) (First Class) Psychology with Philosophy (University College Dublin, 1986)
  • PhD Psychology (University of Surrey, 1991)
  • MA (Distinction) Psychology of Religion (Heythrop College, University of London, 2010)
  • MA (Distinction) Christian Theology (Heythrop College, University of London, 2014)

Teaching and learning

Undergraduate courses taught

Research

I have (co-)supervised the research of 13 PhD graduates and over 80 Practitioner Doctorate graduates.

Most recent PhD graduates:

  • Katharine Clifford (2021) – '"It's actually not as bad as it seems": Understanding the process of resilience for children with a visible difference during the secondary school transition' (co-supervised with Dr Jess Prior and Dr Chris Hewer)
  • Neus Beascoechea Seguí (2020) – 'Rethinking power: British Muslim women's understandings, experiences and performances of power' (co-supervised with Professor Evanthia Lyons)
  • Ben Colliver (2019) – 'The normalcy of hate: A critical exploration of micro-crimes targeting transgender people' (co-supervised with Dr Joanna Jamel and with Dr Marisa Silvestri, University of Kent)
  • Alice Herron (2019, University of Surrey) – ‘Godless mystics – Atheists and their mystical experiences: Towards a grounded theory' (co-supervised with Dr Emma Williams, University of Surrey)
  • Abdallah Eric Rothman (2019) – ‘Building an Islamic psychology and psychotherapy: A grounded theory study'

As I am now retired, I am no longer accepting new PhD students.

Areas of specialism

  • Identity
  • Religion and society
  • Loss and bereavement
  • Mental health and psychotherapy
  • Qualitative research approaches and methods

Research student supervision

Main supervision

Other supervision

Publications

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Number of items: 58.

Article

Rothman, A. and Coyle, A. (2023) The clinical scope of Islamic psychotherapy : a grounded theory study. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 10(1), pp. 4-19. ISSN (print) 2326-4500

Goodman, Simon, Tafi, Vanessa and Coyle, Adrian (2022) Alternative 'Lives Matter' formulations in online discussions about Black Lives Matter : use, support and resistance. Discourse & Society, ISSN (print) 0957-9265 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Steffen, Edith Maria, Timotijevic, Lada and Coyle, Adrian (2020) A qualitative analysis of psychosocial needs and support impacts in families affected by young sudden cardiac death (YSCD) : the role of community and peer support. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 19(8), pp. 681-690. ISSN (print) 1474-5151

Colliver, Ben and Coyle, Adrian (2020) 'Risk of sexual violence against women and girls' in the construction of 'gender-neutral toilets' : a discourse analysis of comments on YouTube videos. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 4(3), ISSN (print) 2398-6808

Héliot, YingFei, Gleibs, Ilka H., Coyle, Adrian, Rousseau, Denise M. and Rojon, Céline (2020) Religious identity in the workplace : a systematic review, research agenda, and practical implications. Human Resource Management, 59(2), pp. 153-173. ISSN (print) 0090-4848

Rothman, Abdallah and Coyle, Adrian (2020) Conceptualizing an Islamic psychotherapy : a grounded theory study. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 7(3), pp. 197-213. ISSN (print) 2326-4500

Fernandez, E and Coyle, Adrian (2019) Sensitive issues, complex categories, and sharing festivals : Malay Muslim students' perspectives on interfaith engagement in Malaysia. Political Psychology, 40(1), pp. 37-53. ISSN (print) 0162-895X

Rothman, Abdallah and Coyle, Adrian (2018) Toward a framework for Islamic psychology and psychotherapy : an Islamic model of the soul. Journal of Religion and Health, 57(5), pp. 1731-1744. ISSN (print) 0022-4197

Slater, Roy and Coyle, Adrian (2017) Time, space, power and the liminal transformation of the psychologised "self". Theory & Psychology, 27(3), pp. 369-388. ISSN (print) 0959-3543

Steffen, Edith and Coyle, Adrian (2017) 'I thought they should know...that daddy is not completely gone' : a case study of sense-of-presence experiences in bereavement and family meaning-making. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 74(4), pp. 363-385. ISSN (print) 0030-2228

Vandrevala, Tushna, Coyle, Adrian, Walker, Victoria, Torres, Joshelyn Cabrera, Ordona, Izobel and Rahman, Panna (2017) 'A good method of quitting smoking' or 'just an alternative to smoking'? Comparative evaluations of e-cigarette and traditional cigarette usage by dual users. Health Psychology Open, 4(1), ISSN (online) 2055-1029

Potter, Kate and Coyle, Adrian (2017) Psychotherapeutic practitioners' views of the efficacy of mindfulness for the treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder : a qualitative key informant analysis. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 19(2), pp. 124-140. ISSN (print) 1364-2537

Hadjiosif, Miltiades and Coyle, Adrian (2017) 'That boy needs therapy' : constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 19(4), pp. 357-377. ISSN (print) 1364-2537

Whiteley, Charlotte, Coyle, Adrian and Gleeson, Kate (2017) An idiographic analysis of women's accounts of living with mental health conditions in Haredi Jewish communities. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 20(3), pp. 277-293. ISSN (print) 1367-4676

Kassianos, A.P., Coyle, A. and Raats, M.M. (2015) Perceived influences on post-diagnostic dietary change among a group of men with prostate cancer. European Journal Of Cancer Care, 24(6), pp. 818-826. ISSN (print) 0961-5423

Dewe, Michaela, Ogden, Jane and Coyle, Adrian (2015) The cigarette box as an advertising vehicle in the UK : a case for plain packaging. Journal of Health Psychology, 20(7), pp. 954-962. ISSN (print) 1359-1053

Shaw, Bryony, Coyle, Adrian, Gatersleben, Birgitta and Ungar, Simon (2015) Exploring nature experiences of people with visual impairments = Vivir la naturaleza con una discapacidad visual. Psyecology, 6(3), pp. 287-327. ISSN (print) 2171-1976

Dewe, Michaela and Coyle, Adrian (2014) Reflections on a study of responses to research on smoking: a pragmatic, pluralist variation on a qualitative psychological theme. Review of Social Studies: Methodological Choices and Challenges, 1(1), pp. 21-36. ISSN (print) 205-448X

Lopes, Paulo Nuno, Coyle, Adrian and Gallie, Jack (2014) Emotion and self-regulation in deliberate personal change : a case study analysis. Psicologia: Revista da Associacao Portuguesa de Psicologia, 28(1), 19 - 31. ISSN (print) 2183-2471

Karlsen, May Lene, Coyle, Adrian and Williams, Emma (2014) "They never listen" : towards a grounded theory of the role played by trusted adults in the spiritual lives of children. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 17(3), 297 - 312. ISSN (print) 1367-4676

Jaspal, Rusi and Coyle, Adrian (2014) Threat, victimhood, and peace : debating the 2011 Palestinian UN state membership bid. Digest of Middle East Studies, 23(1), 190 - 214. ISSN (print) 1060-4367

Slater, Rory and Coyle, Adrian (2014) The governing of the self/the self-governing self : multi-rater/source feedback and practices 1940-2011. Theory & Psychology, 24(2), 233 - 255. ISSN (print) 0959-3543

May, Katherine, Strauss, Clara, Coyle, Adrian and Hayward, Mark (2014) Person-based cognitive therapy groups for distressing voices : a thematic analysis of participant experiences of the therapy. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches, 6(1), 16 - 26. ISSN (print) 1752-2439

Coyle, Adrian (2012) The relationship between Adomnan of Iona's ' Life of St Columba ' and Celtic Christianity/spirituality. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 2(1), pp. 77-90. ISSN (print) 2044-0243

Coyle, Adrian (2011) Critical responses to faith development theory : a useful agenda for change? Archive for the Psychology of Religion/Archiv für Religionspsychologie, 33(3), 281 - 298. ISSN (print) 0084-6724

Coyle, Adrian and Lyons, Evanthia (2011) The social psychology of religion : current research themes. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 21(6), 461 - 467. ISSN (print) 1052-9284

Spiliotis, Dimitri, Brown, Dora and Coyle, Adrian (2011) The psychotherapeutic tales of five gay men in Greece. Psychology of Sexualities Reveiw, 2(1), 25 - 40. ISSN (print) 2047-1467

Steffen, Edith and Coyle, Adrian (2011) Sense of presence experiences and meaning-making in bereavement : a qualitative analysis. Death Studies, 35(7), 579 - 609. ISSN (print) 0748-1187

Coyle, Adrian and Lochner, Jenny (2011) Religion, spirituality and therapeutic practice. Psychologist, 24(4), 264 - 266. ISSN (print) 0952-8229

Shepperd, Dan, Coyle, Adrian and Hegarty, Peter (2010) Discourses of friendship between heterosexual women and gay men : mythical norms and an absence of desire. Feminism & Psychology, 20(2), 205 - 224. ISSN (print) 0959-3535

Jaspal, Rusi and Coyle, Adrian (2010) "Arabic is the language of the Muslims - that's how it was supposed to be" : exploring language and religious identity through reflective accounts from young British-born South Asians. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 13(1), 17 - 36. ISSN (print) 1367-4676

Steffen, Edith and Coyle, Adrian (2010) Can " sense of presence " experiences in bereavement be conceptualised as spiritual phenomena? Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 13(3), 273 - 291. ISSN (print) 1367-4676

Jaspal, Rusi and Coyle, Adrian (2010) ' My language, my people ' : language and ethnic identity among British-born South Asians. South Asian Diaspora, 2(2), 201 - 218. ISSN (print) 1943-8192

Jaspal, Rusi and Coyle, Adrian (2009) Language and perceptions of identity threat. Psychology & Society, 2(2), 150 - 167. ISSN (online) 2041-5893

Jackson, Joanna and Coyle, Adrian (2009) The ethical challenge of working with spiritual difference: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of practitioners' accounts. Counselling Psychology Review, 24(3&4), 86 - 99. ISSN (print) 1757-2142

Jaspal, Rusi and Coyle, Adrian (2009) Reconciling social psychology and sociolinguistics can have some benefits : language and identity among second generation British Asians. Social Psychological Review, 11(2), 3 - 14.

Coyle, Adrian (2008) Qualitative methods and 'the (partly) ineffable' in psychological research on religion and spirituality. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 5(1), 56 - 67. ISSN (print) 1478-0887

Bowskill, Matt, Lyons, Evanthia and Coyle, Adrian (2007) The rhetoric of acculturation : when integration means assimilation. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46(4), 793 - 813. ISSN (print) 0144-6665

Milton, M, Coyle, A and Legg, C (2005) Countertransference issues in psychotherapy with lesbian and gay clients. European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling & Health, 7(3), 181 - 197. ISSN (print) 1364-2537

Walton, Chris, Coyle, Adrian and Lyons, Evanthia (2004) Death and football : an analysis of men's talk about emotions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 43(3), 401 - 416. ISSN (print) 0144-6665

Osborne, James and Coyle, Adrian (2002) Can parental responses to adult children with schizophrenia be conceptualized in terms of loss and grief? A case study analysis. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 15(4), pp. 307-323. ISSN (print) 0951-5070

Riggs, Esther H. and Coyle, Adrian (2002) Young people's accounts of homelessness : a case study analysis of psychological well-being and identity. Counselling Psychology Review, 17(3), pp. 5-15. ISSN (print) 1757-2142

Knudson, Benjamin and Coyle, Adrian (2002) The experience of hearing voices. Existential Analysis, 13, pp. 117-134. ISSN (print) 1752-5616

Knudson, Benjamin and Coyle, Adrian (2002) Parents' experiences of caring for sons and daughters with schizophrenia : a qualitative analysis of coping. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 5(2), pp. 169-183. ISSN (print) 1364-2537

Coyle, Adrian and Rafalin, Deborah (2001) Jewish gay men's accounts of negotiating cultural, religious, and sexual identity : a qualitative study. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 12(4), pp. 21-48. ISSN (print) 0890-7064

Book

Lyons, Evanthia and Coyle, Adrian, eds. (2021) Analysing qualitative data in psychology. 3rd ed. London, U.K. : Sage Publications Ltd. 485p. ISBN 9781529702101

Coyle, Adrian and Kitzinger, Celia, eds. (2002) Lesbian and gay psychology : new perspectives. Oxford, U.K. : British Psychological Society and Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 300p. ISBN 9781405102216

Book Section

Coyle, Adrian (2021) Introduction to qualitative psychological research. In: Lyons, Evanthia and Coyle, Adrian, (eds.) Analysing qualitative data in psychology. 3rd ed. London, U.K. : Sage Publications Ltd. pp. 11-34. ISBN 9781529702101

Coyle, Adrian (2021) Discourse analysis. In: Lyons, Evanthia and Coyle, Adrian, (eds.) Analysing qualitative data in psychology. 3rd ed. London, U.K. : Sage Publications Ltd. pp. 270-294. ISBN 9781529702101

Colliver, Ben, Coyle, Adrian and Silvestri, Marisa (2019) The 'online othering' of transgender people in relation to 'gender neutral toilets'. In: Lumsden, Karen and Harmer, Emily, (eds.) Online othering : exploring digital violence and discrimination on the web. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 215-237. (Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity) ISBN 9783030126322

Xenaki, Maria and Coyle, Adrian (2014) Grieving alone? Towards an understanding of the experience of bereaved single parents : an interpretative phenomenological analysis. In: Rotar, Marius , Teodorescu, Adriana and Rotar, Corina, (eds.) Dying and death in 18th-21st century Europe. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 396 - 423. (Dying and Death Studies, 2) ISBN 9781443855471

Coyle, Adrian and Murtagh, Niamh (2014) Qualitative approaches to research using identity process theory. In: Jaspal, Rusi, (ed.) Identity process theory : identity, social action and social change. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. pp. 41 - 64. ISBN 9781107022706

Steffen, Edith and Coyle, Adrian (2012) ' Sense of presence ' experiences in bereavement and their relationship to mental health : a critical examination of a continuing controversy. In: Murray, Craig, (ed.) Mental health and anomalous experience. Hauppauge, U.S. : Nova Science Publishers. pp. 33 - 56. (Psychology Research Progress, (3)) ISBN 9781621003502

Walton, Chris, Coyle, Adrian and Lyons, Evanthia (2003) 'There you are man': men's use of emotion discourses and their negotiation of emotional subject positions. In: Harre, Rom and Moghaddam, Fathali, (eds.) The self and others : positioning individuals and groups in personal, political, and cultural contexts. Westport, U.S. : Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 45-60. ISBN 0275976246

Poria, Y, Coyle, A and Desombre, T (2001) Serving all the community? The views and preferences of lesbian and gay consumers of health care. In: Davies, HTO , Tavakoli, M and Malek, M, (eds.) Quality in health care : strategic issues in health care management. Aldershot, U.K. : Ashgate. pp. 184 - 197.

Daniels, M. and Coyle, A. (1993) 'Health dividends' : the use of co-operative inquiry as a health promotion intervention with a group of unemployed women. In: Trent, Dennis R. and Reed, Colin, (eds.) Promotion of Mental Health. Aldershot, U.K. : Avebury Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. 207 - 220. 2 ISBN 9781856284301

Coyle, A. and Daniels, M. (1993) Psychological well-being and gay identity : some suggestions for promoting mental health among gay men. In: Trent, Dennis R. and Reed, Colin, (eds.) Promotion of Mental Health 1992. Aldershot, U.K. : Avebury Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. 189 - 206. 2 ISBN 9781856284301

Thesis

Coyle, Adrian Gerard (1991) The construction of gay identity. (PhD thesis), University of Surrey, .

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