Many of our research projects are coordinated into strategic research programmes and centres. To find out more about these feel free to visit the specific webpages of the programmes, centres and staff members as follows:
Transnational Social Work: Practice Research and Social Work Education: PI: Dr Sui-Ting Kong
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/sui-t-kong/
Transnational Social Work is a programme of research and impact projects that aim to promote transnational learning in social work practice, research and education. This programme of research brings together sociology of intimacy, migration studies, decolonial scholarship and social work practice research methodologies, to inform national and international players to support ethical, sustainable and positive changes for communities affected by violence and abuse, political repression, deprivation and social inequalities.
Conceptualised approaches to understanding and responding to child and adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse (CAPVA): PI: Dr Nikki Rutter - Nikki Rutter - Durham University
Conceptualised approaches to navigating child and adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse (CAPVA) is a programme of applied research and related impact activities which aims to understand family experiences of CAPVA based on participatory conceptualisations underpinned by the perspectives and priorities of those with lived experience of this phenomenon. By being led by those with lived experience, this work has evolved into a series of activities and approaches which are being implemented at community, local and national services designed to respond to families help-seeking for CAPVA.
Contextual Safeguarding Research Programme: PI: Prof. Carlene Firmin; Co-PIs: Dr Lauren Wroe, Dr Jenny Lloyd, Dr Rachael Owens
www.contextualsafeguarding.org.uk
Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families. The Contextual Safeguarding programme has run since 2015 and features a series of projects that document, inform, and understand, the implementation of the approach at organisational, system, regional, UK and international levels.
Centre for Social Justice and Community Action: Co-Direction from the CSJ Group: Dr Sui-Ting Kong
Centre for Social Justice & Community Action - Durham University
The Centre for Social Justice and Community Action is a research centre aims to promote and develop research, teaching, public/community engagement and staff development (both within and outside the university) around the broad theme of social justice in local and international settings, with a specific focus on participatory action research.
Towards inclusive criminal justice responses to sexual violence: PI: Dr Alison Jobe
https://inclusiveresponses.webspace.durham.ac.uk/
Programme: Impact of Prisons on women and their families: Co-PIs Dr Kate O’Brien
Dr Hannah King, Dr Alison Jobe; Research Assistant Dr Christina Straub
Members of CSJ are involved in a programme of research and impact work that focuses on prisons and families, and on the experiences of women in the prison system. Their work in this area draws on collaborations with various partners involved in delivering vital support to women, men and children impacted by incarceration. They draw primarily on qualitative, participatory, and peer-led research methods.
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