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School Of Applied Social Sciences
Research Centres
Research Groups
- Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse
- Crime, Deviance and Culture
- Policy, Professions and Communities
- Sport, Health and Policy
Research Projects
- 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?
- Animal and Child Maltreatment
- Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC), £320K
- Children’s hospice service data mapping project 2011/12
- Community-based participatory research: ethics and outcomes
- Comparative analysis of local strategies to tackle health inequalities.
- Comparative Cultural Strategy and socio-economic indicators
- Connecting Localism and Community Empowerment
- Debt on Teesside: Pathways to Financial Inclusion, £110K
- Development of an Administrator led Interview Technique for the Assessment of Physical Activity Levels in Children
- Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents, £3.5m (Durham £680K)
- European Patient Organisations in the Knowlege Society (EPOKS)
- 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 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 the Community Audit Process in Connected Care
- Evaluation of UR Boss, Howard League (young people, participation and youth justice)
- Faithful judgements: the role of religion in lay bioethical evaluations of new reproductive and genetic technologies, £17K
- Fathering Within Child Welfare
- Focusing on the Case in Quantitative and Qualitative Research
- Focusing on the Case in Quantitative and Qualitative Research (2004-2005)
- 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
- Good Practice in Diaconal Ministry
- Health Improvement and Housing Action
- Imagine, The social, historical, cultural and democratic context of civic engagement: imagining different communities and making them happen, £2.2M (Durham £290K)
- 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
- Letting the Future In: helping children and young people overcome the effects of sexual abuse, £360K (Durham £85K)
- Leverhulme Artist in Residence - Margareta Kern, £15K
- Leverhulme Artist in Residence - Richard W Hardwick, £15K
- 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)
- North East Conferences on Sexual Violence
- Ordinary ethics: the moral evaluation of the new genetics by non-professionals
- Outcomes of Custody Diversion for Violent Mentally Disordered Offenders
- Performance Assessment and 'wicked issues': the case of inequalities
- Politics, Community and Resistance in Skid Row.
- Prison and Offender Research in Social Care and Health (PORSCH)
- Promoting the Social Inclusion of Young People: The Role of Faith Communities
- 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
- Service User Led Research in Mental Health
- Social Inclusion through Employment Support for Adults with Mental Illness - SESAMI
- Social Science Approaches to the Study of Mental Health.
- Sport and Peace: A Sociological Study of Interventionist Programmes
- Sure Start in County Durham
- 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
- 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 impact of a market in tuition fees on fair access to more prestigious universities and subjects, £5K
- The Outcome of Men's Participation in RESPECT
- The Political Participation of Private Business Owners in China
- Understanding Rape in West Yorkshire
- Understanding the dynamics of clinico-managerial relationships
- Using Virtual Reality Technology to Empower People with Dementia in Accessing and Using Public Spaces
- Valuing Diversity, Exploring Faith and Culture: A project that worked with young people in the North East of England
- What do perpetrator programmes add to co-ordinated community responses to domestic violence? £650K
- Whole Systems Working in Mental Health
Policy, Professions and Communities
Staff
Academic Staff: Sociology and Criminology
- Dr Vikki Boliver
- Professor Jonathan Bradshaw
- Professor David S. Byrne
- Dr Mark Cresswell
- Dr Matthew David
- Dr Les Gofton
- Professor Ian Greener
- Dr Ivan Hill
- Dr Sam Hillyard
- Dr Kimberly Jamie
- Dr Alison Jobe
- Dr Hannah King
- Dr Christopher Lawless
- Dr Mark McCormack
- Professor Linda McKie
- Dr Michael McManus
- Professor Fiona Measham
- Dr. Tiago Moreira
- Dr Kate O'Brien
- Professor Maggie O'Neill
- Professor David S. Wall
- Professor Nicole Westmarland
- Dr Jonathan Wistow
- Dr Keming Yang
Academic Staff: Sport
- Dr Susan Bock
- Mr Robert Cramb
- Dr Caroline Dodd-Reynolds
- Professor David W. Eccles
- Dr Iain Lindsey
- Dr Emily J. Oliver
- Dr Stacey Pope
- Dr Emma Poulton
- Dr Martin Roderick
Academic Staff: Social Work
- Ms Helen Charnley
- Professor Lena Dominelli
- Ms Beverley Blythe
- Professor Gary Craig
- Dr Michaela Griffin
- Professor Simon Hackett
- Ms Anne-marie Ianzito
- Dr Vasilios Ioakimidis
- Ms Mary Judges
- Mr Stefan Klidzia
- Mrs Josie Phillips
- Prof Roger Smith
- Mrs Jane Wistow
Academic Staff: Community and Youth Work
Support Staff
Support Staff: Community and Youth Work
Support Staff: Research
Support Staff: Sociology and Criminology
Support Staff: Social Work
- Miss Joanne Cheseldine (maternity leave)
- Ms Joanne Hare
- Mrs Pauline Harrison (maternity cover)
- Mrs Traci Rohl
- Mrs Jan Smith
Support Staff: Sport
Research Staff
- Dr Andrea Armstrong
- Dr Stefano Bonino
- Miss Kate Butterworth
- Dr Ladan Cockshut
- Dr Julia Downes
- Dr Anni Raw
- Dr Evgenia Stepanova
Honorary/Visiting/Emeritus
Postgraduate Research Students: 32 Old Elvet
- Miss Yalda Afzali
- Ms Sue Alderson
- Miss Beth Allen
- Mr Yasser Almajed
- Mrs Iheoma Amaeshi
- Ms Elham Amini
- Miss Weaam Arif
- Ms Victoria Armstrong
- Miss Maeve Blackman
- Mrs Janis Bourne-day
- Miss Hannah Bows
- Mr Graham Bright
- Mr Stephen Burrell
- Ms Rosemary Campbell
- Miss Barbara Carbon
- Mr Jon-Fernando Carey
- Mr Mehzeb Chowdhury
- Dr Tracy Craggs
- Mr William Craige
- Mr Stephen Crossley
- Miss Ke Cui
- Ms Andrea Darling
- Ms Lesley Deacon
- Miss Rebecca Dean
- Mr David Divine
- Mr Thomas Dodsley
- Mr Ali Donmez
- Ms Judith Evans
- Ms Raniea Fakeehy
- Mr Anthony Garnett
- Ms Helen Gatenby
- Ms Dimitra Giannou
- Ms Rebecca Gomm
- Miss Sarah Greenhow
- Mrs Elizabeth Hackney
- Ms Coral Hanson
- Mr Peter Hart
- Ms Kelda Henderson
- Mr Philip Heslop
- Mr. Colm Hickey
- Mr Alexander Hodge
- Mrs Maureen Johnson
- Mrs Verity Joyce
- Mrs Mi-young Kang
- Mr Patrick Knaap
- Miss Natasha Kriznik
- Miss Janet Lawrence
- Miss Becca Lawrence
- Mr Martin Leather-barrow
- Miss Emma Linney
- Ms Maria-Inés Martinez-Herrero
- Mr Thomas May
- Miss Elizabeth McClory
- Ms Maggie McDowell
- Ms Cynthia Meersohn-schmidt
- Mr Max Morris
- Mr Joseph Nagle
- Miss Angie Ng
- Mr Charles Ng
- Mr Pearson Nkhoma
- Mrs Ethna Parker
- Mr Renan Petersen-Wagner
- Mrs Larissa Raffles
- Mr Thomas Raymen
- Miss Stephanie Rich
- Mrs Helen Roberts
- Ms Susan Robson
- Mr Leigh Rooney
- Ms Rachel Sempija
- Ms Iram Shah
- Ms Felicity Shenton
- Mrs. Silvia Soriano-Rivera
- Mr Nathan Stephens Griffin
- Ms Kelly Stockdale
- Mr. Hakim Taha
- Mrs Katie Thorlby
- Mr Gavin Turnbull
- Miss Chih-yung Wang
- Miss Jen Wingate
- Mr Richard Wistow
- Ms Sarah Wydall
- Miss Handan Xue
