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School Of Applied Social Sciences
Research Centres
Research Groups
- Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse
- Crime, Violence and Abuse
- Policy, Professions and Communities
- Sociology and Social Policy
- Sport, Health and Policy
Research Projects
- Evaluation of Raising Your Game, Mencap (young people with learning difficulties and the justice system)
- Evaluation of Step Up to Social Work, Department for Education (fast-track social work qualifying programme)
- Evaluation of UR Boss, Howard League (young people, participation and youth justice)
Crime, Violence and Abuse
- Animal and Child Maltreatment
- Forensic DNA Databasing: A European Perspective
- Genetic Information and Crime Investigation: Social, Ethical and Public Policy Aspects of the establishment, Expansion and Police Use of The National DNA Database
- Implementing Policy Change in Youth Justice
- Leverhulme Artist in Residence - Margareta Kern
- North East Conferences on Sexual Violence
- Outcomes of Custody Diversion for Violent Mentally Disordered Offenders
- Politics, Community and Resistance in Skid Row.
- Prison and Offender Research in Social Care and Health (PORSCH)
- Public attidues to the death penalty in mid twentieth-century England and Wales
- Public Attitudes to the Death Penalty in England and Wales, 1928-1965
- Race, Crime and Justice: mapping Black Minority Ethnic (BME) and refugee groups and communities in the NE region
- Recidivism, desistence and life course trajectories of young sexual abusers
- The development and piloting of tools to measure the impact of Rape Crisis intervensions on health, mental health and well-being
- The Development of a New Pathway of Care for Female Offenders who Self-Harm in HMP YOI Low Newton: a joint project between HMPS, County Durham PCT and Durham University.
- The Future of Forensic Bioinformation
- The Outcome of Men's Participation in RESPECT
- Understanding Rape in West Yorkshire
- What do perpetrator programmes add to co-ordinated community responses to domestic violence?
Policy, Professions and Communities
- Mapping and Exploring Services for Children and Young People who have Sexually Abused
- A detailed Mapping IPV Services in the North East
- A Review of the Patient's Advocacy Service at Ashworth Hospital
- An Everyday Journey: discovering the meaning and value in youth work
- An explorationof Post Adoption Depression Syndrome (PADS). What is it? What are its causes? And what are adopters' experiences?
- Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC)
- Children’s hospice service data mapping project 2011/12
- Community-based participatory research: ethics and outcomes
- Connecting Localism and Community Empowerment
- Debt on Teesside: pathways to inclusion
- Evaluating Inter-professional Training for Safeguarding Children
- Evaluating Multidisciplinary Risk Assessment Management and Planning Development Programme
- Evaluating new Roles in the Mental Health Workforce and Ways of Working
- Evaluating Risk Assessment Planning and Management (RAMP) In Shropshire PCT
- Evaluation of Assertive Outreach in the North East and Yorkshire - Stage II
- Evaluation of the Community Audit Process in Connected Care
- Faithful judgements: the role of religion in lay bioethical evaluations of new reproductive and genetic technologies
- Fathering Within Child Welfare
- Good Practice in Diaconal Ministry
- Health Improvement and Housing Action
- Independent Mental Health Act Advocacy
- Independent Specialist Advocacy in England and Wales: Recommendations for good practice
- Internationalising Institutional and Professional Practices: Community Partnership Models of Change in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka
- Interprofessional Education for Community Mental Health
- Keeping safe and feeling secure
- Lifemapping: trajectories of exclusion and young people's views on Identification, Referral and Tracking (IRT). Report to County Durham Identification Referral and Tracking Initiative.
- Making ends meet: action on sustainable livelihoods
- Mapping Unit
- National Evaluation: myplace (2009-2011)
- Ordinary ethics: the moral evaluation of the new genetics by non-professionals
- Performance Assessment and 'wicked issues': the case of inequalities
- Promoting the Social Inclusion of Young People: The Role of Faith Communities
- Social Inclusion through Employment Support for Adults with Mental Illness - SESAMI
- The contribution of detached and outreach youth work to the involvement of socially excluded young people in relevant and accessible education, training and employment in England and Wales, with particular reference to the Connexions initiative
- Valuing Diversity, Exploring Faith and Culture: A project that worked with young people in the North East of England
Sociology and Social Policy
- Comparative Cultural Strategy and socio-economic indicators
- European Patient Organisations in the Knowlege Society (EPOKS)
- Focusing on the Case in Quantitative and Qualitative Research
- Focusing on the Case in Quantitative and Qualitative Research (2004-2005)
- The impact of a market in tuition fees on fair access to more prestigious universities and subjects
- The Political Participation of Private Business Owners in China
Sport, Health and Policy
- Comparative analysis of local strategies to tackle health inequalities.
- Development of an Administrator led Interview Technique for the Assessment of Physical Activity Levels in Children
- Service User Led Research in Mental Health
- Social Science Approaches to the Study of Mental Health.
- Sport and Peace: A Sociological Study of Interventionist Programmes
- Sure Start in County Durham
- Understanding the dynamics of clinico-managerial relationships
- Using Virtual Reality Technology to Empower People with Dementia in Accessing and Using Public Spaces
- Whole Systems Working in Mental Health
Staff
Head of School
Academic Staff: Sociology and Criminology
- Dr Vikki Boliver
- Prof David S. Byrne
- Dr Yulia Chistyakova
- Dr Mark Cresswell
- Dr Matthew David
- Dr Les Gofton
- Professor Ian Greener
- Dr Ivan Hill
- Dr Sam Hillyard
- Dr Alison Jobe
- Dr Laura Kelly
- Dr Hannah King
- Dr Christopher Lawless
- Dr Fadhila Mazanderani
- Dr Mark McCormack
- Ms Maggie McDowell
- Prof Linda McKie
- Dr Michael McManus
- Prof Fiona Measham
- Dr. Tiago Moreira
- Professor Maggie O'Neill
- Professor Jo Phoenix
- Dr Nicole Westmarland
- Dr Jonathan Wistow
- Dr Keming Yang
Academic Staff: Sport
- Dr Susan Bock
- Dr Luis Calmeiro
- Mr Robert Cramb
- Dr Simon Darnell
- Prof David Eccles
- Dr Emma Poulton
- Dr Martin Roderick
Academic Staff: Social Work
- Ms Helen Charnley
- Professor Lena Dominelli
- Ms Beverley Blythe
- Prof Gary Craig
- Dr Michaela Griffin
- Professor Simon Hackett
- Dr Vasilios Ioakimidis
- Dr Christine Jones
- Ms Mary Judges
- Mr Stefan Klidzia
- Prof Roger Smith
Academic Staff: Community and Youth Work
Support Staff
- Dr Richard Bruce
- Mrs Miriam Chisholm
- Mrs Maria Aznarez
- Mrs Pauline Harrison
- Mrs Jill Lea
- Mrs Anne Park
- Mrs Gail Rendle
- Mrs Traci Rohl
- Mrs Elizabeth Ryan
Support Staff: Community and Youth Work
Support Staff: Sociology and Criminology
Support Staff: Social Work
Support Staff: Sport
Research Staff
- Dr Vici Armitage
- Dr Andrea Armstrong
- Dr Thomas Brock
- Dr Julia Downes
- Mrs Josie Phillips
- Mr Richard Wistow
Honorary/Visiting/Emeritus
- Dr Gill Callaghan
- Prof Roy Boyne
- Prof Bob Hudson
- Prof Susan Hyatt
- Prof Brian Roberts
- Prof Robin Williams
Postgraduate Students: Elvet Riverside I - Library Mezzanine
- Miss Yalda Afzali
- Ms Sue Alderson
- Mr Faisal Almuhareb
- Miss Wan Chiu
- Miss Ke Cui
- Mr David Divine
- Miss Karen Elliott
- Miss Sarah Greenhow
- Mr Peter Hart
- Mrs Verity Joyce
- Mrs Mi-young Kang
- Miss Natasha Kriznik
- Miss Emma Linney
- Mr. Soby Mathew
- Mr Thomas May
- Mr Pearson Nkhoma
- Mrs Rawan Nuseibeh
- Mrs Ethna Parker
- Miss Jennifer Wingate
Postgraduate Students: 32 Old Elvet - Room 001
- Mrs Janis Bourne-day
- Ms Beth Casey
- Dr Tracy Craggs
- Mr William Craige
- Mr. Lindsey Gaston
- Miss Stephanie Rich
- Ms Jane Sendall
- Mrs Evgenia Stepanova
- Ms Kelly Stockdale
- Mr. Hakim Taha
- Miss Katie Thorlby
- Miss Handan Xue
Postgraduate Students: 32 Old Elvet - Room 201
- Ms Elham Amini
- Mr Eric Baumgartner
- Miss Maeve Blackman
- Mr Thomas Dodsley
- Mr Mark Edwards
- Miss Amy Halls
- Mr. Colm Hickey
- Miss Janet Lawrence
- Ms Cynthia Meersohn-schmidt
- Mr Renan Petersen-Wagner
- Mrs. Silvia Soriano-Rivera
- Mr Nathan Stephens Griffin
Postgraduate Students
- Miss Beth Allen
- Mr Yasser Almajed
- Miss Lynn Anderson
- Ms Rosemary Campbell
- Mr Jon-Fernando Carey
- Mrs Christine Carroll
- Mr Peter Clarke
- Ms Lesley Deacon
- Ms Raniea Fakeehy
- Mr Anthony Garnett
- Ms Helen Gatenby
- Mrs Elizabeth Hackney
- Mr Philip Heslop
- Ms Anne Jenkins
- Mrs Maureen Johnson
- Miss Becca Lawrence
- Ms Maria Martinez
- Miss Christine Mcallister
- Miss Elizabeth McClory
- Miss Angie Ng
- Ms Susan Robson
- Ms Rachel Sempija
- Miss Rachel Sensicle
- Mr Kris Southby
- Mr Gavin Turnbull
- Mr James Ward
- Ms Sarah Wydall