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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
- Sociology and Social Policy
- 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
- Ms Maggie McDowell
- 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 Simon Darnell
- Professor David W. Eccles
- 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
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
Support Staff: Sport
Research Staff
Honorary/Visiting/Emeritus
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- Miss Yalda Afzali
- Ms Sue Alderson
- Miss Wan Chiu
- Miss Ke Cui
- Mr David Divine
- Dr 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 Jen Wingate
Postgraduate Students: 32 Old Elvet - Room 001
- Mrs Janis Bourne-day
- Mr Graham Bright
- Dr Tracy Craggs
- Mr William Craige
- Mr. Lindsey Gaston
- Miss Stephanie Rich
- Mrs Evgenia Stepanova
- Ms Kelly Stockdale
- Mr. Hakim Taha
- Mrs 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
- Mrs Iheoma Amaeshi
- Ms Victoria Armstrong
- Miss Hannah Bows
- Ms Rosemary Campbell
- Miss Barbara Carbon
- Mr Jon-Fernando Carey
- Mrs Christine Carroll
- Mr Mehzeb Chowdhury
- Mr Peter Clarke
- Mr Stephen Crossley
- Ms Lesley Deacon
- Miss Rebecca Dean
- Ms Raniea Fakeehy
- Mr Anthony Garnett
- Ms Helen Gatenby
- Ms Dimitra Giannou
- Ms Rebecca Gomm
- Mrs Elizabeth Hackney
- Mr Philip Heslop
- Mrs Maureen Johnson
- Mr Patrick Knaap
- Miss Becca Lawrence
- Ms Maria-Inés Martinez-Herrero
- Miss Elizabeth McClory
- Miss Angie Ng
- Mr Charles Ng
- Mr Thomas Raymen
- Ms Susan Robson
- Mr Leigh Rooney
- Ms Rachel Sempija
- Miss Rachel Sensicle
- Ms Felicity Shenton
- Mr Gavin Turnbull
- Mr James Ward
- Ms Sarah Wydall
- Miss Ying Zhou