A response to the LGA publication ‘The Care Act 2014: Ten Years on From Royal Assent’ Authors: Dr Sarah Lonbay (University of Sunderland), Dr Keith Chappell (University of Sunderland), Dr Carole Southall (Northumbria University), Mr Jamie Scorer (University of Sunderland) Introduction It has now been a decade since the passing of the Care Act 2014… Continue reading A decade of safeguarding
Tag: Research
Former UoS MSc Inequality and Society student shares her research on the representation of girls and women on social media outlets
by Chloe Morgan The article I have shared on Research Gate (link below) is a result of my Dissertation research conducted as an MSc social science student on the MSc ‘Inequality and Society’ programme at the University of Sunderland (UoS). I studied at the UoS, part time, from September 2019 to September 2021. I am… Continue reading Former UoS MSc Inequality and Society student shares her research on the representation of girls and women on social media outlets
A Vision of Safety: An arts based project
The research team: Sarah Lonbay, Steve O’Driscoll, Jess Dougherty, Carole Southall, Pat Higgins. This participatory arts-based project was designed to explore the concept of safety and what it means to people who have experienced mental health problems and abuse. Two separate groups worked to co-create artwork that reflected what safety means to them. The two… Continue reading A Vision of Safety: An arts based project
A Vision of Safety: An arts based project to explore the concept of safety
A participatory arts based project is underway to explore the concept of safety and what this means to people who have experienced difficulty in their lives related to mental health and/ or abuse and trauma. Two groups have worked together to co-create artwork that reflects what safety means to them. The two pieces, titled “Peace… Continue reading A Vision of Safety: An arts based project to explore the concept of safety
The transitional experiences of Thai women following migratory marriage to England, by Dr. Angie Wilcock.
This blog post highlights and explores a piece of research carried out Dr Angie Wilcock who works within the Criminology team on both undergraduate and MSc programmes. The research focused on female Thai nationals married to a UK citizen living in England. The aim of the research was to gain an understanding about the women’s… Continue reading The transitional experiences of Thai women following migratory marriage to England, by Dr. Angie Wilcock.
New Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellows in the Centre for Applied Social Sciences
We are really pleased to share the news that two members of our Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS) have been awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Research and Knowledge Exchange (RKE) Fellowship. Dr. Lesley Deacon and Dr. Matt Durey have both been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s RKE Fellowships which will give them dedicated time and resources to undertake… Continue reading New Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellows in the Centre for Applied Social Sciences
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?