Dr Windy Grendele

I am a senior lecturer with a strong drive towards qualitative research. I developed specialist knowledge in several areas of Social Psychology, such as group dynamics, social dominance and coercive control in a gated religious environment. During my PhD, I explored the lived experiences of people shunned from the Jehovah's Witnesses community with particular reference to the impact on the individual's life and the strategies employed to cope with such an event. I am particularly interested in how mandated shunning threatens the fundamental human rights of the individual and the possible implications of this within the UK justice system.