Stefano Licchelli
About
My research project
I have undertaken a scoping review to highlight the main research activities around older people living with HIV (OPLWHIV) and healthy, active and successful ageing to highlight the main studies around the topic. At the moment, I am conducting a qualitative study on health and ageing in OPLWHIV in rural and urban areas in England. With this study I hope to highlight how OPLWHIV make sense of their health in their local area.
Supervisors
I have undertaken a scoping review to highlight the main research activities around older people living with HIV (OPLWHIV) and healthy, active and successful ageing to highlight the main studies around the topic. At the moment, I am conducting a qualitative study on health and ageing in OPLWHIV in rural and urban areas in England. With this study I hope to highlight how OPLWHIV make sense of their health in their local area.
I am a member of the PIER Project group, a group of PGRs who came together to share, discuss and act collectively to address inequality issues. As part of the group, I contribute to organising activities and discussions. For example, I am co-hosting and co-organising reading groups around inequalities where PGRs and ECRs come together to discuss and share ideas and opinions on a particular article.
I also write short blog posts around health inequalities and HIV as well as being involved in taking care of the group’s social media, for example posting in connection with awareness days and looking for content in order to increase the visibility of the group.
If you want to know more, you can find us on Twitter @PIER_project and you can subscribe to our blog Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Equality Research Group [PIER] – Made by PGRs for PGRs. (wordpress.com)
ResearchResearch interests
My PhD research is about older people living with HIV (OPLWHIV) and their health and wellbeing. I am interested in understanding and exploring how OPLWHIV perceive their health. I am also interested in analysing the effects of stigma and intersectional stigma on the wellbeing of this population. At the moment, I am conducting a qualitative study on health and ageing in OPLWHIV in rural and urban areas in England. I am also undertaking the Stage 2 training in Health Psychology.
Research interests
My PhD research is about older people living with HIV (OPLWHIV) and their health and wellbeing. I am interested in understanding and exploring how OPLWHIV perceive their health. I am also interested in analysing the effects of stigma and intersectional stigma on the wellbeing of this population. At the moment, I am conducting a qualitative study on health and ageing in OPLWHIV in rural and urban areas in England. I am also undertaking the Stage 2 training in Health Psychology.
Teaching
During my time at the University of Surrey I have covered several different roles. I have supported Undergraduate students in Psychology transitioning from school-level to academic-level study by developing academic skills as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). As a GTA, I have also supported students from different MSc’s in Psychology developing and refreshing knowledge and understanding of descriptive statistics and basic inferential statistics. I have also taught HIV as applied to health psychology for the Chronic Condition module in the Health Psychology MSc.
2019/2020
HIV lecture for the Chronic Conditions module – MSc Health Psychology
2020/2021
GTA Academic Skills Tutorials - Undergraduate students
GTA Boots Camp in Statistics – Master Degrees in Psychology
HIV lecture for the Chronic Conditions module – MSc Health Psychology
Publications
Escape rooms are becoming prevalent in their use as a form of playful learning and gamification in higher education, often used for a multitude of purposes to enhance students’ higher education learning experiences. Whilst studies have reported their valuable uses in a range of contexts, they have often focussed on undergraduates and fewer have explored their use in formative assessment practices. This case study seeks to address this gap by exploring the perceptions of postgraduate students in completing an online escape room activity as a form of formative assessment during an MSc lecture. Postgraduate students from the School of Psychology at the University of Surrey were invited to complete an online escape room as a form of formative assessment and took part in a follow-up qualitative survey to explore their perceptions of the activity not traditionally used in their course. The results from the case study showed that (1) the escape room was viewed positively by students as a novel and creative formative assessment practice, (2) the role of peers was important in the design of the assessment approach, and (3) students welcomed challenge and mastery of the learning outcomes and activity. This case study demonstrates initial positive findings about the use of escape rooms for formative assessment and advocates for further research to be conducted in this area. We also encourage HE teachers to think about how such practices could enhance students’ learning experiences in their own teaching contexts.
This paper highlights experiences and perceptions of older gay males living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in relation to age, sexual orientation, HIV status and how they perceive health. Participants were gay males aged 50 and over living in England, diagnosed with HIV for longer than 2 years. In total, 19 interviews were conducted between March 2020 and March 2021. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Three major themes were generated: 1.) Health as holistic and as a balance; 2.) The impact of HIV on people’s lives; 3.) The Intersectionality of stigma: a lifetime of discrimination. Participants highlighted the changing nature of the concept of health through their lifespan while the intersectionality of stigma in different contexts is examined considering the personal journey of living with HIV. The implications of health as a complex concept and intersectional stigma on the planning and delivering of care in this population are discussed