On the 27th of October, the Law, Society and Vulnerable People Research Hub at the University of Sunderland hosted their first research event, ‘Differing perspectives on Roe v Wade; a wrong turn or opportunity for reform?’ This panel event drew together 85 registered law students, academics, midwives, medical students, and many others affiliated with the University… Continue reading A dig at Dobbs….
Eileen O’Shaughnessy and George Orwell
Professor Angela Smith has recently had an article published in the George Orwell Studies Journal. In her article, Angela looks at the context of Eileen O’Shaughnessy’s education at Sunderland Church High School, and argues that the progressive head teacher, Miss Ethel Ironside, was partly responsible for Eileen’s future life as wife and editor of Orwell’s… Continue reading Eileen O’Shaughnessy and George Orwell
COVID-19 government health posters
Professor Angela Smith and Dr Michael Higgins have recently had a paper published in Discourse, Context & Media. Their paper explores the semiotic properties of the UK government’s health information posters dealing with face coverings during the first year of the pandemic. They find that the changing political and scientific landscape is reflected in the… Continue reading COVID-19 government health posters
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
Innovative approaches to involving children with SEND in research: exploring a participatory research study
This blog post highlights and explores a piece of research enabled by the University’s participatory research fund, conducted by myself (Dr Helen Benstead), Vicki Jowett and Vicky Graham who work across the MA Education and MA SEND programmes in the School of Education. The research focused on trialing a specific set of innovatively designed qualitative… Continue reading Innovative approaches to involving children with SEND in research: exploring a participatory research study
From teacher to textbook editor: lecturer publishes first co-edited book
Having spent 14 years as a teacher and school leader before moving into educational research in higher education, Dr Elizabeth Hidson is delighted to have contributed to editing and writing for the ninth edition of Learning to Teach in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience, published today (29th July, 2022) by Routledge. The… Continue reading From teacher to textbook editor: lecturer publishes first co-edited book
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