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

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