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Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA)

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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

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
Briony Anderson	Career Development Fellow	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
Caitlin Conmy	Postgraduate Researcher PhD project: An exploration of female sexual violence victim-survivors: progression from victim-survivor to offender, involvement in the criminal justice system, and interventions against the victim-offender overlap	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
Maria Duah	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
Holly McSpadden	Career Development Fellow	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 James Rowlands	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