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Associate Professor Leigh Coombes
Associate Professor
Doctoral Mentor Supervisor School of PsychologyMy research focus is embedded within the HEARTH research cluster that has a focus on IPV, DV and sexual violence.
Sexuality and women's marginalisation are also of significance to our research.
Professional
Certifications and Registrations
- Licence, Mentor Supervisor, Massey University
Research Expertise
Research Interests
domestic and sexual violence
women's sexuality
women's experiences of reproductive violence
qualitative methodlogies that privilege reflexivity
Thematics
21st Century Citizenship, Health and Well-being
Area of Expertise
Field of research codes
Citizenship (160602):
Correctional Theory, Offender Treatment and Rehabilitation (160202):
Criminological Theories (160204):
Criminology (160200):
Gender Specific Studies (169901):
Human Geography (160400):
Other Studies in Human Society (169900):
Political Science (160600):
Political Theory and Political Philosophy (160609):
Studies In Human Society (160000)
Research Outputs
Journal
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C., Rogerson, A.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Connor, G., Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Connor, G., Coombes, L.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Journal article]Authored by: Coombes, L.
Book
[Chapter]Authored by: Coombes, L., Denne, S., Morgan, C.
[Chapter]Authored by: Coombes, L., Denne, S.
[Chapter]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Chapter]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Chapter]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Chapter]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
Report
[Technical Report]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Technical Report]Authored by: Coombes, L., Denne, S., Morgan, C.
[Technical Report]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Technical Report]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Technical Report]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
Thesis
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Coombes, L.
Conference
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Coombes, L., Denne, S.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L., Denne, S.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L., Ross, K.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C., Rogerson, A.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L., Denne, S., Morgan, C.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
Other
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L., Morgan, C.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Coombes, L.
Teaching and Supervision
Teaching Statement
Summary of Doctoral Supervision
Position | Current | Completed |
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Main Supervisor | 5 | 12 |
Co-supervisor | 3 | 10 |
Current Doctoral Supervision
Main Supervisor of:
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Hazel Buckingham
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Doctor of Philosophy
Reimagining flows of care and dignity in ethical responses to family violence -
Kate Duin
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Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Narratives of becoming: Making sense of neurodivergent rainbow rangatahi lived experiences through affirmations of difference. -
Jacki Rowles
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Doctor of Philosophy
A Family Violence Cartography of Negative Support Service Responses to Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Becoming Response-able. -
Amelia Perry
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Doctor of Clinical Psychology
The Therapeutic Counterspace as an Ethical Encounter: A Dignified Response to Gendered Sexual Violence and Women’s Narratives of Pain -
Dan Luff
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Doctor of Philosophy
LIFE within the Society-of-Captives: Exploring the pains of imprisonment for real
Co-supervisor of:
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Joanne Stevenson
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Doctor of Philosophy
Gendered violence and visual representations of women's bodies -
James McNab
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Doctor of Philosophy
Harm Through Justice -
Ruth Bateson
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Doctor of Philosophy
Exploring unheard stories and unmapped lifeworlds with Third Culture Kids
Completed Doctoral Supervision
Main Supervisor of:
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2024
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Thea Wass
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Doctor of Clinical Psychology
(Re)mapping Women’s Cosmology: Transformative Potentia of Women’s Stories -
2023
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Michelle Roestenburg
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Doctor of Philosophy
Te whakaohooho, te whakarauora mauri: The re-awakening and re-vitalising Indigenous ‘spirit’ of power, healing, goodness and wellbeing -
2022
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Jasmine Gillespie-Gray
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Doctor of Clinical Psychology
power, partnership and pussy: women’s experiences of sex and consent in abusive relationships -
2021
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Sharon Crooks
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Doctor of Philosophy
Un-strangering ‘the stranger’ in a strange land: A multi-perspective, participant-led, exploration of in/ex-clusion in NZ mainstream high schools - privileging the voices of senior ‘high functioning’ autistic students. -
2019
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Geneva Connor
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Doctor of Philosophy
The Impossible Feast of the Uncanny Technowoman: A Plural Feminist Cyborg Writes of the Possibilities for Science Fiction and Potent Body Politics - view more...
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2019
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Stephanie Denne
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Doctor of Philosophy
Becoming (non)violent: Accountability, subjectivity and ethical non-violence in response to intimate partner violence -
2017
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Chelsea Dowling
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Doctor of Clinical Psychology
A Sexual Masquerade: The Performance of Desire and Femininity in a Fifty Shades of Grey Era -
2017
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Mohd Najmi Daud
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Doctor of Philosophy
Globalisation in the Malaysian context: The experience of Malay adolescents with 'conduct disorders' -
2013
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Denise Blake
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Doctor of Philosophy
Wade in the Water: Storying Adoptees Experiences through the Adoption Act 1955 -
2013
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Keith Mowat
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Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Masculinity as a site of pre-emptive intervention in the prevention of child sexual abuse -
2012
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Sara Poananga
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Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Positive "Whanau Management" Privileging the Centrality of Whanau and Culturally Specific Understandings of Child Discipline for Effective Psychological Practice with Maori -
2011
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Stephanie Dillon
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Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Towards a typology of youth sexual harmers in Aotearoa, New Zealand - view less...
Co-supervisor of:
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2024
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Matthew Kean
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Doctor of Philosophy
Men’s Work: Narratives of engaging with change and becoming non-violent. -
2023
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Caitlin Helme
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Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Narratives of Embedded Oppression and the Covid-19 Pandemic Response: Voices from Marginalised Sexual Violence Survivors in Aotearoa New Zealand -
2021
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Anthony Mattson
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Doctor of Philosophy
Be(com)ing men in another place: The migrant men of Gandhi Nivas and their violent stories -
2021
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Guenevere Weatherley
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Doctor of Philosophy
Precarious Feminine Identities -
2020
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Adrienne Everest
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Doctor of Philosophy
Voices from the family violence landscape: Gifts of experiences, understandings and insights from the heart of the sector - view more...
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2015
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Victoria Weedon
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Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Evaluation of the Good Way Model: A strengths-based integrative model of therapy for young people (with & without an intellectual disability) who have harmful sexual behaviours -
2014
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Ann Rogerson
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Doctor of Philosophy
Transforming feminist care ethics: Tracing (un)memorable mother-daughter relations through psychoanalytic inquiry -
2012
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Virginia Tamanui
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Doctor of Philosophy
Our unutterable breath: A Maori indigene's autoethnography of whanaungatanga -
2011
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Simon Webb
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Doctor of Philosophy
Writing truth as non-violence -
2010
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Prudence Fisher
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Doctor of Philosophy
Young women, power, intimate relationships and wellbeing: The circumstances that enable young women's resistant subjective desires: "A pash and a dash"
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