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CRiVA Directors

Name Position Department
Professor Nicole Westmarland Director, Professor of Criminology

Department of Sociology

Dr Hannah Bows Deputy Director, Associate Professor

Durham Law School

 

CRiVA Coordinators

Name Position Department
Lynne Cairns

Postgraduate Researcher

PhD Project: Contested childhoods of boys who have displayed Harmful Sexual Behaviour: Risk, harm, safety and rights

Department of Sociology

Janelle Rabe

Postgraduate Researcher

PhD Project: Why help? Understanding the role of children and young people in preventing sexual violence as bystanders in England

Department of Sociology
Nikki Rutter

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

 

CRiVA Steering Group Members

Name Position Department
Dr Samantha Burns Lecturer (Teaching) Department of Sociology
Dr Stephen Burrell  Honorary Fellow

Department of Sociology

Dr Kate Butterby

Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Sociology

Fernanda Chacon-Onetto

Postgraduate Researcher

PhD Project: Understanding change in men: A case study of a domestic violence perpetrator programme in Chile

Department of Sociology
Dr Andrea Darling Research Associate Department of Sociology
Alishya Dhir

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Sociology
Professor Catherine Donovan Professor of Sociology, Head of Department Department of Sociology

Postgraduate Researcher

PhD Project: What are the contextual systemic barriers for families experiencing Child-to-Parent Violence and Abuse when transitioning from children to adult services?  

Department of Sociology
Ayurshi Dutt

Postgraduate Researcher, Teaching Fellow

PhD Project: Forced marriage: What's 'honour' got to do with it - exploring 'honour' rationales behind forced marriages within British South Asian Communities

Department of Sociology

Professor Geetanjali Gangoli Professor Department of Sociology 
Julia Guy

Postgraduate Researcher

PhD Project: Investigating sexual harassment on public transport in the North East of England 

Department of Sociology 
Florence-Olivia Genesse

Postgraduate Researcher

PhD Project: Rape Redefined

Durham Law School
Professor Simon Hackett Professor of Child Abuse and Neglect Department of Sociology
Dr Kirsten Ellen Hall ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Sociology

Dr Kelda (Kelly) Henderson 

Honorary Fellow Department of Sociology

Laura Hepworth

Postgraduate Researcher, Teaching Fellow

PhD Project: Exploring victim-survivor identities of people with lived experience of sexual assault using arts-based methods

Department of Sociology

Clarissa Humphreys

Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response Manager PVC Colleges and Student Experience Office

Dr Alison Jobe

Assistant Professor Department of Sociology 

Cait Jobson

Postgraduate Researcher

PhD Project: Young LGBTQ+ people who have experience of domestic abuse & violence: Does social integration affect the use of informal sources of support versus the use of formal sources of support

Department of Sociology

Dr Hannah King

Associate Professor  Department of Sociology 

Dr Sui Ting Kong

Assistant Professor  Department of Sociology 

Dr Jenny Lloyd

Assistant Professor (Research) Department of Sociology

Molly Mannister

Research Assistant and Postgraduate Researcher Department of Sociology

Lihan Miao

Postgraduate Researcher

PhD Project: Social Media Representation of Domestic Violence and Online Responses in China

Department of Sociology

Professor Clare McGlynn

Professor of Law Durham Law School 

Dr Kate O'Brien

Assistant Professor  Department of Sociology 

Dr Josie Phillips

Assistant Professor  Department of Sociology 

Dr Camilla Pickles

Assistant Professor Durham Law School

Dr Sue Regan

Honorary Fellow Department of Sociology

Dr Nicole Renehan

Assistant Professor Department of Sociology

Dr Kathryn Royal

Honorary Fellow  Department of Sociology 

Sandy Ruxton

Honorary Fellow  Department of Sociology 

Katie Anne Tobin

Postgraduate Researcher

PhD Project: Reproductive rights in contemporary dystopian fiction

Department of English Studies

Zuzana Zilkova

Postgraduate Researcher

PhD Project: The role of 'relational influence' in behaviour change work with domestic abuse perpetrators

Department of Sociology