Researchers

Matthew Aldrich (BA, MSc, PhD) is a Lecturer in Economics. He is currently working on a collaborative research project investigating the role of fathers within the family and in the labour market.

Sue Bailey (BA) is a Senior Research Associate currently working on an evaluation of care proceedings in three London Boroughs. Other recent research includes an analysis of serious case reviews from 2009-11 for the DfE, and an exploration of the ways in which neglect featured in these cases of child fatality and near-fatality for the NSPCC. Sue is the coordinator of 'Making Research Count' at UEA.

Mary Beek (BA, CQSW, MA) is a Senior Research Associate and Adoption Team Manager, Norfolk Children's Services. She has an interest in fostering and adoption and in supporting caregivers.

Pippa Belderson (BA, MMedSci, PhD) is a Senior Research Associate currently working on the 'Biennial Analysis of Serious Case Reviews 2005-2007' in England for DCSF.

Alice Haynes (BA, MA) is a Senior Research Associate working with Professor O'Brien on a project with the Fatherhood Institute on ‘Engaging with fathers who are recent arrivals in the UK.’ She is also a PhD researcher in her final year. Her thesis is entitled ‘Threatened identities? The mothering experiences of asylum-seeking and refugee women.’’

Georgia Philip (BA, MA, PhD, PGCE) is an Senior Research Associate working within the Centre. She joined the CRCF in November 2011, to begin an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, working with Professor Margaret O’Brien on a project to review and evaluate ways in which programmes for separating or divorced parents may engage and support men as fathers. She completed her PhD with the Open University in 2010. Georgia’s doctoral research was a qualitative study of fathering after divorce or separation, exploring fathers’ accounts of fathering experiences and identities, and the processes of sustaining relationships with children and with mothers. Georgia is currently working on another ESRC funded project, headed by Professor Gillian Schofield, Dr Jonathan Dickens and Dr Chris Beckett, looking at care planning for Looked After Children, and the role of the Independent Reviewing Officer.

Penny Sorensen (BSc, MA) is a research Associate and PhD student currently working on her thesis entitled “Visions and voices of older men living alone.” 

Emma Ward (BSc, PhD) is a Senior Research Associate currently working on the Contact after Adoption project.

Julie Young (BA, PGCE) is a Senior Research Associate currently working on the "An investigation of care planning and the role of the Independent Reviewing Officer" project.

 

Students

Jessica Brennan (BA, MA) is a PhD student with a research focus on exploring the developmental trajectory of the caregiving behavioural system through pregnancy and the first year of motherhood.  

Laura Cook  (BA, MA, MA) is a PhD student in the School of Social Work. She is working on her thesis entitled: 'Encounters with the family in child protection practice: social workers' reflections on the home visit'. Laura's interests include practitioner reflection in child protection social work and psychodynamic interpretations of professional and organisational behaviour.  

Michela Franceschelli (MSc) is a PhD student currently working on her thesis entitled “Young British Muslims from South Asian background and their parents: negotiating religious and national identities.”

Kelly Giannakou (BSc, MSc) is a PhD student currently working on her thesis entitled “Couples’ Negotiation of Childcare in Light of Fathers’ Increased Entitlements to Paternity Leave and Flexible Working.”

Kamena Henshaw (BSc, MSc) is a PhD student, and Lecturer in Psychology, currently working on her thesis entitled “Family mealtimes: the meanings of this routine from a multi-person perspective.”  

Jane Hernon is a PhD student in the School of Social Work.

Greg Howard (MSc) is a PhD student in the School of Psychology.

Birgit Larsson (BA, MSc) is a PhD student with a research focus on the experiences and life pathways of young women who were referred to restorative justice in the UK. She is particularly interested in the topics of gender and restorative justice, community reintegration, and using narrative techniques with traumatized populations.

Ellen Lynch (MSc) is a PhD student in the School of Psychology.

Vicki McDermott (BA, MA) is a PhD student currently working on her thesis entitled “Understanding young people’s experiences and views of partner violence in teenage intimate relationships.”

Elisavet Patouris (MSc) is a PhD student in the School of Psychology. She is particularly interested in the role of socio-psychological factors such as impulsivity, moral norms, self-identity and habit in relation cannabis use among young people.

Andrew Sach (BSc, MSc, MA) is a PhD student currently working on her thesis entitled “How Looked After Children Use Social Networking Sites to Stay in Contact with Friends, Family and Carers.” 

Jinnie Ooi Ying Sze (BSc, MSc) is a PhD student interested in children's emotional wellbeing. Her research focuses on shared cognition and the transfer of interpretation bias within close relationships.

Alexia Zinonos (BA, MA) is a PhD student currently working on her thesis entitled “Migration and Community Formation: Narratives of Three Generations of Women Living in A Greek Diaspora Community.”   
 

Fellows

Ruth Gardner (BA, MSc, PhD) is an NSPCC Senior Research Fellow, based within the Centre, with research interests in family support, safeguarding children and the integration of children's services.

Clem Henricson (BA, Solicitor, FRSA) is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow within the Centre. She was formerly Director of Research and Policy at the National Family and Parenting Institute. She is a social policy analyst with particular research interests in the relationship between the state and the family, and human and social rights.

Rosalyn Proops (Hon FRCPCH) is an Honorary Lecturer within the Centre. She is the  Medical Director of Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust and has a long standing  interest in child protection issues and providing care for vulnerable children and young people.