Sally SJ Brown- Doctor of Philosophy
- Research Fellow at University of Leeds
Sally SJ Brown
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Research Fellow at University of Leeds
Inclusion, diversity, equity, health, wellbeing, yoga
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Introduction
My work focuses on diversity, inclusion and equity in areas including public health and social care, wellbeing and leisure. My areas of interest include health inequalities, yoga, autism, disability, digital exclusion and spirituality. My doctoral thesis explored access and inclusion in yoga for marginalised groups.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
August 2023 - August 2024
Education
February 2020 - August 2024
Leeds Beckett University
Field of study
- Health Promotion
January 2015 - May 2017
September 1982 - June 1985
Publications
Publications (15)
Yoga students and teachers in the UK and global north are predominantly white, female and university educated. This indicates that yoga, and its well-documented physical, mental, social and emotional benefits, may be less accessible for marginalised groups.
This qualitative study sets out to explore the yoga access experiences of people with margin...
Addressing digital inequality is a global, national, and regional policy priority because of the significant adverse impacts on individuals and communities of digitally excluded citizens. In the UK, it is estimated that for every £1 invested in interventions to enable digitally excluded people to build their basic digital skills, a return of £9.48...
Yoga originated in the Indian subcontinent an estimated 2.500 to 5,000 years ago. Increasingly popular in high-income countries, yoga offers multiple health and wellbeing benefits. However, in the United Kingdom (UK) and other high-income countries participants, or practitioners, are predominantly white, female and university educated and marginali...
Background
Delivery of health and care services using a combination of remote and/or in-person channels and digital and/or traditional tools (Hybrid Service Delivery, HSD) is increasingly seen as a way of improving quality and affordability, improving access, personalisation and sustainability, and reducing inequalities. Across the voluntary, commu...
This research explores, for the first time, barriers to yoga access for marginalised groups in the UK and examines health inequality impacts. It was prompted by experiences of teaching yoga in a northern city neighbourhood amongst the 10% most deprived in the country.
Yoga offers multiple health benefits and is socially prescribed by NHS clinicia...
My poster presentation at the Society for Social Medicine (SSM) Annual Scientific Meeting outlined the findings of my qualitative research which explored access and inclusion in the mind-body activity of yoga.
Data was collected by means of 1-1 semi-structured interviews with 15 people with a broad and intersectional range of marginalised identit...
The mindful movement activity of yoga offers multiple health and wellbeing benefits. However, in the UK, participants are predominantly white, higher-educated and female. This research explores yoga access and inclusion experiences of people with intersectional marginalised identities. Using a critical intersectional approach, it identifies access...
Marginalised groups of all kinds are significantly under-represented in yoga in the UK. Nationally yoga practitioners are 91% white, 87% female and 71% university educated (Cartwright, 2020). Yoga offers multiple health and wellbeing benefits. If yoga is inaccessibility to people with marginalised identities then does this therefore represent signi...
This presentation platforms my PhD research which identifies and explores the accessibility and diversity of the practice of yoga. It is the first to examine yoga accessibility for people with a broad and intersectional range of marginalised identities in the United Kingdom (UK).
The activity of yoga is identified in the literature as offering mu...
Minorities of all kinds in the UK are significantly under-represented in the activity of yoga. Over 70% of British yoga teachers and students are white, female and university educated. Participating in yoga offers well-documented physical, mental, social and emotional benefits. Barriers to yoga access therefore represent health inequality for minor...
Poster entitled 'Exploring yoga accessibility and inclusion for marginalised groups a qualitative study of northern UK cities'.
A review of the literature indicates that the modern mindful movement practice of yoga is almost exclusively undertaken in the UK and global north by white, educated women (Cartwright, 2020). This study asks if minorities...
I am currently in the second year of my PHD research exploring yoga accessibility and inclusivity in the UK. My study is in the context of current literature that shows UK yoga teachers and students to be overwhelmingly white, female and further educated. My poster sets out my methodology, ongoing fieldwork and emerging initial findings. I am emplo...
My PHD research explores yoga accessibility and inclusivity in the UK. My study is in the context of current literature that shows UK yoga teachers and students to be overwhelmingly white, female and further educated. This presentation sets out my methodology, ongoing fieldwork and emerging initial findings. I am employing a qualitative methodology...
