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Department Of Sociology
Research Centres
Research Groups
- Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse
- Centre for Social Justice and Community Action
- Communities and Social Justice
- Health and Social Theory
- Higher Education and Social Inequalities
- Transgressive Leisure
- Violence and Abuse
Research Projects
- 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)
- CECAN - Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus
- Child Advocacy Project
- 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
- CRITICAL - Combatting Criminals in the Cloud
- Debt on Teesside: Pathways to Financial Inclusion
- Development of an Administrator led Interview Technique for the Assessment of Physical Activity Levels in Children
- ESRC Research ‘Seminar series on genetics, technology, security and justice. Crossing, contesting and comparing boundaries’
- 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
- Evaluating the use of contextual data in undergraduate admissions
- 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)
- Extreme events and vulnerable people: Harnessing science to practice
- Faithful judgements: the role of religion in lay bioethical evaluations of new reproductive and genetic technologies
- Fathering Within Child Welfare
- Female Sports Fandom in the North East: A Historical Study of Female Fandom and the Critical Intersections Between Sports Spectatorship and Participation
- 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
- HIVE – Health Interventions in Volcanic Eruptions
- Imagine, The social, historical, cultural and democratic context of civic engagement: imagining different communities and making them happen
- Independent Mental Health Act Advocacy
- Independent Specialist Advocacy in England and Wales: Recommendations for good practice
- Innovation and the application of knowledge for more effective policing
- 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
- Knowledge for Use (K4U)
- Leading Together in Growing Methodist Churches in the North East of England
- Letting the Future In: helping children and young people overcome the effects of sexual abuse
- Leverhulme Artist in Residence - Margareta Kern
- Leverhulme Artist in Residence - Richard W Hardwick
- 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 and evaluating the use of contextual data in undergraduate admissions in Scotland
- 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
- PACERS: The use of accelorometry-based activity monitors and linked web portal to enhance long-term maintenance of physical activity in adults
- Performance Assessment and 'wicked issues': the case of inequalities
- Policing Anti-Social Behaviour in Cleveland
- Policing Domestic Abuse Knowledge Transfer Project
- Politics, Community and Resistance in Skid Row.
- Promoting organisational citizenship and collegiality: The utility of an online, value-centred training programme for leadership assessment and development
- 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
- Revitalising the Health Equity Agenda, ESRC Seminar Series
- 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.
- Social Work and Social Movements in the Context of Conflict
- Sport and Peace: A Sociological Study of Interventionist Programmes
- Step Up to Social Work Longitudinal Evaluation
- Sure Start in County Durham
- Sustainable Development in African Sport: Interventions in Ghana and Tanzania
- 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 effects of public recognition on the private selves of high profile athletes
- The Future of Forensic Bioinformation
- The impact of a market in tuition fees on fair access to more prestigious universities and subjects
- The Outcome of Men's Participation in RESPECT
- The Political Participation of Private Business Owners in China
- The Role of Smartphones and Technology in Sexual and Romantic Lives
- Think Ahead Social Work Qualifying Programme Evaluation
- Understanding Rape in West Yorkshire
- Understanding the dynamics of clinico-managerial relationships
- Understanding the Gendered Experiences of Mostly Heterosexual Men
- Understanding the prevalence of fitness to practise cases about paramedics and social workers in England
- 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?
- Whole Systems Working in Mental Health
- Why do some men take a public stance against men's violence against women, and how can more men be encouraged to do so?
Policy, Professions and Communities
School of Applied Social Sciences
- 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
- A Week in Your Life: Exploring the Everyday Lives of Teenage Mothers
- Christian responses to debt and financial exclusion
- Dispersed Belongings: Experiences of young forced migrants in regional cities in the United Kingdom and Australia
- Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents
Staff
Academic Staff: Sociology and Criminology
- Dr Elham Amini
- Dr Jason Arday
- Professor Sarah Banks
- Professor Vikki Boliver
- Dr Charlotte Branchu
- Dr Donna Marie Brown
- Emeritus Professor David S. Byrne
- Prof Brian Castellani, FAcSS
- Dr William Coyles
- Dr William Craige
- Dr Matthew David
- Prof Catherine Donovan
- Professor Simon Forrest
- Dr Sol Gamsu
- Dr Kimberly Jamie
- Dr Alison Jobe
- Dr Kelly Johnson
- Dr Hannah King
- Dr Christopher Lawless
- Dr Lisa Mckenzie
- Professor Tiago Moreira
- Dr Kate O'Brien
- Dr Andrew Orton
- Dr Malcolm Parkes
- Dr Sue Regan
- Dr Fiona Vera-Gray
- Professor Nicole Westmarland
- Dr Jonathan Wistow
- Dr Keming Yang
Academic Staff: Social Work
- Ms Helen Charnley
- Professor Simon Hackett
- Dr Sui-Ting Kong
- Dr Josie Phillips
- Prof Roger Smith
- Mrs Jane Wistow
Research Staff
- Dr Stephen Burrell
- Dr Kate Butterby
- Dr Queralt Capsada-Munsech
- Dr Naomi Griffin
- Dr Katherine Jackson
- Dr Sarah Keyes
- Dr Mandy Powell
- Dr Evgenia Stepanova
- Dr Jane Wilcockson
Professional Support Staff: Departmental
Professional Support Staff: Research
Professional Support Staff: Education
Honorary/Visiting/Emeritus
Postgraduate Research Students: 32 Old Elvet
- Carlos Aguilar-colorado
- Naci Akdemir
- Iheoma Amaeshi
- Eleanor Boden
- Graham Bright
- Helen Casey
- Mehzeb Chowdhury
- Rebecca Dean
- Ms Marianne Doherty
- Ali Donmez
- Adam Gemar
- Wendy Gill
- Kirsten Ellen Hall
- Hester Hockin-Boyers
- Karen Ingala-smith
- Verity Joyce
- Mi-young Kang
- Cheng Lu
- Siti Mauzud
- Grace Mccatty
- Victoria Meaby
- Mr Paul Michaels
- Karel Musilek
- Charles Ng
- Mark Ogilvie
- Seunghoon Oh
- Mr Benjamin Rigby
- Helen Roberts
- Margaret Robinson
- Fouzia Sadaf
- Caitlin Sedgeworth
- Rachel Sempija
- Iram Shah
- Katie Smith
- Miss Verity Smith
- Ms Lindy Syson
- Andreas Themistocleous
- Ros Walling-wefelmeyer
- Yi Wang
- Jen Wingate
- Miss Maddy Winnard
- Chong Zhang