Category: Social Sciences

Safe in the City? Female students’ experiences of urban landscapes

Dr Matthew Durey, Dr Nicola Roberts, and Professor Catherine Donovan (Durham University) contributed a chapter entitled ‘Negotiating landscapes of (un)safety: atmospheres and ambivalence in female students’ everyday geographies’ to the recently published collection Landscapes of Hate: Tracing Spaces, Relations and Responses published by Bristol University Press. This chapter reflects on qualitative data from a survey… Continue reading Safe in the City? Female students’ experiences of urban landscapes

Stopping gender-based violence in Higher Education

Dr. Nicola Roberts Reports of Violence and Abuse by LGBTQ+ University Students Dr Nicola Roberts and Professor Catherine Donovan (Durham University) have had a chapter ‘Violence and abuse, universities and LGBTQ+ students’ published in a new book ‘Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education: Policy, Practice, and Partnerships’ with publishers Routledge. Drawing on findings from Project… Continue reading Stopping gender-based violence in Higher Education

Retaining students in Higher Education

Dr. Nicola Roberts Dr Nicola Roberts has had her statistical analysis on student retention published in the Journal of Further and Higher Education, a Routledge journal. Read the article here about ‘variables predicting the odds of failing to progress onto the second year of study for criminology students in a UK university’: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/B3NEAQSC86FEPSZCTYEE/full?target=10.1080/0309877X.2022.2088268. The findings… Continue reading Retaining students in Higher Education

Bystander training: What works?

by Dr. Nicola Roberts Despite the use of bystander training in universities in the UK, very little is known about what works in such training. Our article, by Dr Nicola Roberts and Heaven Marsh, ‘A qualitative evaluation of bystander training: What works?’ shows what works. Published with Wiley Open Access here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hojo.12487, it shows that… Continue reading Bystander training: What works?

New research published on Enhancing ‘best practice’ in trauma-informed social work education

Dr. Sarah Lonbay (University of Sunderland) and Dr. John Cavener (Northumbria University) have just published a new study which explored how to teach difficult ‘trauma material’ in the classroom. The study explored social work educators’ and students’ experiences and found that trauma informed principles are implicitly applied within educational activity. Sarah and John suggest a… Continue reading New research published on Enhancing ‘best practice’ in trauma-informed social work education

Transitioning to Higher Education

By Dr. Helen Williams and Dr. Nicola Roberts Dr Helen Williams and Dr Nicola Roberts have published an article based on research into how Criminology students transition to higher education – ‘I just think it’s really awkward’ : transitioning to higher education and the implications for student retention, published with @SpringerNature in the international journal, Higher Education: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00881-1.… Continue reading Transitioning to Higher Education

Student Safety and Campus Security

By Dr. Nicola Roberts The second article from the ‘student safety and campus security’ research has been published by Dr Nicola Roberts on ‘the dark and desolate campus: what can be done to enhance students’ perceptions of safety on-campus’? With Emerald Publishing in the Safer Communities journal: DOI https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-01-2022-0006. The implications of the findings point… Continue reading Student Safety and Campus Security

The makings of an exclusive community: Students’ perceptions of dangerous others

Dr. Nicola Roberts Further to the blog posted on 1 October 2020, the first article from the ‘student safety and campus security’ research has been published on ‘the makings of an exclusive community: students’ perceptions of dangerous others’, published with @SpringerNature in Higher Education international journal. The implications for HEIs are important! The paper argues… Continue reading The makings of an exclusive community: Students’ perceptions of dangerous others

“The Existential Crunch that is Middle Age”

Exploring the experiential impact of life course events on the psychosocial wellbeing of women at midlife in the UK Jacqui Merchant, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy Jacqui is a senior lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Sunderland. Jacqui has worked at the university for over 25 years,… Continue reading “The Existential Crunch that is Middle Age”