Excited to announce that Chris Millora and I have a chapter in the upcoming Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth published by Edward Elgar Publishing! Our chapter is entitled, 'Researching the criminalisation of young people’s dissent: insights from Southeast Asia'

New paper klaxon!!!!
The paper that reviewer 2 said shouldn't include children 😅
I am SO proud of this one and every single co-researcher involved 👏 👏
Durham Sociology
CRiVA Durham Uni MSW Capa First Response PEGS Child To Parent Abuse Support journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

📢Calling folks/orgs interested/working in the area of #ChildSexualAbuse in the #UK & #India . We have secured funding from Royal Holloway n are organising a HYBRID #symposium Royal Holloway Law and Criminology. Send in ur abstract NOW! Details👇
#CSA #Law #SocialWork
Ravinder Barn Anna Gupta Dr Sushri Sangita Puhan

In solidarity with Selma Taha and Southall Black Sisters

1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Every single pound you donate makes a difference to Cancer Research UK’s groundbreaking work, so please sponsor me now. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/geetanjal…

Last week I was honoured to give a seminar at CASCADE Cardiff University after I wrote to thank Donald Forrester for his talk on Social Work & rights. Making sense of SW beyond ‘help’, oriented by rights, feels disruptive & meaningful. I was so warmly welcomed & feel very grateful 🙌🏼 (1/2)

So incredibly proud of you Lynne!! Keep shining brightly! Always so inspiring! 🤩

One of our NINE DTP students, Lynne, had a great opportunity to present at the CASCADE research centre Cardiff University

linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Wow well-done Cait Jobson 🏳️‍🌈! 👏

Happy launch day!!!
So excited that the past 18 months of work with Changing Relations has come to fruition as we share the process, evaluation, & resources in responding to children and young people's disclosures of abuse Durham Sociology CRiVA ResDevelopment Research England

Amazing thread recapping the brilliant talks from Day 1 of the Preventing GBV conference co-organised by CRiVA UCLanCriminalJustice! Such a learning-filled day and reading Nikki Rutter's insights boosted my learning even more

Dr Kelly Henderson Durham Uni MSW Prof. Carlene Firmin The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan CRiVA You too! Watching Carlene present is like watching a really great movie; it doesn't matter how many times I've seen it, I always come away with something new. Listening to Carlene, it's a new thought, a new reflection, a new way to consider safety and safeguarding ☺️💗

Brilliant presentation by Kate Fitz-Gibbon showcasing a best practice model on whole of system reform with sustained commitment with funding and political action on family violence in VIC urging other Aus states to follow (connecting to the fantastic work of MonashGFV) #gbv2034

Fantastic talk by Prof. Carlene Firmin that highlighted the urgency and significance of challenging individualisation when engaging children and instead focus on addressing contexts that facilitate harm #gbv2034

Thought-provoking talk by Professor Geetanjali Gangoli on critically reflecting on the impact of criminalisation and the law on prevention, its connection to social justice, and the importance of centring the voices of the affected communities

Overall, changing the law may not change all behaviour, but it does create some normative understanding of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour; how to do this without criminalising some of the most vulnerable/oppressed members of a community #PreventingGBV

Furthermore, a child being 'known' to services does not mean people know the child... their likes, dislikes, hopes, dreams, ambitions... children need to be known as individuals - not just on their relation to various systems

Prof. Carlene Firmin spoke to how systems and processes are not necessarily providers of safety. All too frequently, they replicate and reproduce racist, sexist, and harmful experiences; particularly the police and schools who can we seen as systems of violence/harm

Great pleasure to work with the like-minds and wild-minds. Cannot be prouder to have such a great team promoting #transcultural #socialwork Big shout-out for Hei UK Welcomes Refugees 🧡 , our Janelle Rabe and Jane Shears from BASW Well done BASW Diaspora Social Workers SIG for such a great conference!

✨ New pub alert ✨ great to have this piece A/Prof Bianca Fileborn and I wrote out which adds an important LGBTQ+ perspective to the street harassment literature 🌈

Our paper argues that a cisheteronormative gendered framework cannot fully account for queer peoples experiences.