Rate My Professor Leanne Hall

Dr. Leanne Hall is a Lecturer (Teaching and Leadership) in the School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. She brings over 25 years of experience as a Clinical Psychologist to her academic role. Prior to joining Macquarie University, she served as General Manager of Clinical Governance and Performance for a national youth charity, spearheading the development of innovative intervention and support programs that center lived experience in trauma-informed mental health care for young people, moving away from overly medicalized approaches. Her career encompasses work across public and private sector programs and organizations, including more than 15 years in private practice specializing in evidence-based interventions with young people, adults, and families, utilizing culturally sensitive models that prioritize lived experience and open dialogue. Hall has provided expert advice on barriers and failings within the mental health system to Commonwealth Government Select Committee Hearings, Senior Policy Officers, and Cabinet Ministers. She maintains extensive industry partnerships spanning education, clinical service delivery, lived experience networks, peak bodies, government, and the not-for-profit sector, advocating for a redesigned mental health system founded on lived experience, equality, and community co-design.

Hall's research centers on embodiment in endurance sport, the injured sporting body, and sport as a disciplinary practice and technology of the self, with a particular focus on female embodiment drawing from feminist theory, power relations, and sociocultural structures. She employs qualitative approaches including meta-synthesis, narrative inquiry, arts-based and visual narrative inquiry, grounded theory, ethnography, and autoethnography to explore lived experiences in sociocultural contexts. Additionally, her educational scholarship examines dialogical and relational pedagogies in clinical psychology training, promoting reflective practice, professional identity development, and collaborative meaning-making. Key publications include 'The embodied experiences of injured ultra-runners: a body-mapping study' (Hall & Rhodes, 2024, Human Arenas), 'Ultra-running: repositioning the injury experience within an embodiment framework' (Hall & Rhodes, 2023, Human Arenas), 'Embodied experiences of injured endurance runners: a qualitative meta-synthesis' (Hall, Rhodes & Papathomas, 2022, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health), 'Depression, anxiety and stress among patients with inflammatory bowel disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: Australian national survey' (Cheema et al., 2021, BMJ Open Gastroenterology), and 'More than mechanics: injury, running, and healing' (Hall, 2020, Beyond the psychology industry). She has presented on topics such as 'Through the Darkness, humanizing suicidal thoughts' (2023) and the development of a youth lived experience workforce (2023).