Nicola Roberts

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Nicola Roberts

Email address:

nicola.roberts@sunderland.ac.uk

Department:

Faculty of Education & Society (2SST)

Organisation:

University of Sunderland

Address:

Wearside View, St. Peter's Campus

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Homepage URL:

http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/research/researchstaff/facultyofeducationsociety/socialsciences/drnicolaballantyne/#d.en.44337

Biography

Expertise:

Domestic and sexual violence, Probation service and offender rehabilitation, Pedagogical/educational research in HE

Job title:

Associate Professor of Criminology

Biography:

Dr Nicola Roberts is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University. After researching domestic violence and offender rehabilitation in the probation service for her post-graduate qualifications (MSc in Criminology, PhD in Criminology), she continues to research gender-based violence evaluating bystander interventions and analysing women's perceptions and strategies of safety. Her latest research on the latter can be read here rdcu.be/cMy9k on 'the makings of an exclusive community: students' perceptions of dangerous others', published with @SpringerNature in Higher Education international journal. For further information about Nicola's teaching and research see https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/about/staff/social-sciences/nicolaroberts/

My Latest

Roberts, Nicola and Marsh, Heaven (2022) A Qualitative Evaluation of Bystander Training: What Works? The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. ISSN 2059-1101 (In Press)
Roberts, Nicola (2022) The makings of an exclusive community: students’ perceptions of dangerous others. Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research. ISSN 0018-1560
Donovan, Catherine and Roberts, Nicola (2022) Violence and abuse, Universities and LGBTQ+ Students. In: Gender-based Violence in Higher Education: Theory, policy and practice. Routledge, London. (In Press)
Bloomfield-Utting, Jade, Geoghegan-Fittall, Sophie, Roberts, Nicola, Skinner, Tina, Smith, Olivia, Sweetland, Saffy and Taylor, Helen (2022) Ethics in research with victim-survivors. In: Research Handbook on Ethics in Social Research. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. (In Press)
Skinner, Tina, Bloomfield-Utting, Jade, Geoghegan-Fittall, Sophie, Roberts, Nicola, Smith, Olivia, Sweetland, Saffy and Taylor, Helen (2022) Ethical issues in potentially traumatising research: victim-survivors and researchers. In: Research Handbook on Ethics in Social Research. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. (In Press)
Roberts, Nicola and Rohan, Katy (2021) Perceptions and Practices of 'Rehabilitation' in a Community Rehabilitation Company: disconnects between theory and practice. In: Future of Probation – Special Issue Seminar Programme, 3 Nov 2021, Online. (Unpublished)
Donovan, Catherine and Roberts, Nicola (2021) Violence and abuse, Universities and LGB and/or T+ Students. In: UCU LGBT+ Research Conference, 2-4 November 2021, Online. (Unpublished)
Williams, Helen and Roberts, Nicola (2021) Apprehension, anxiety and awkwardness: transitioning to Higher Education and the implications for student retention. In: EuroCrim Conference, 8-10 September 2021, Online. (Unpublished)
Ovington, Julie and Roberts, Nicola (2021) Putting New Materialist and Posthuman theory to work in Bystander Evaluations: A Diffracted Reading. In: British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Crime and Harm: Challenges of Social and Global Justice, 7-9 July 2021, Online. (Unpublished)
Roberts, Nicola and Marsh, Heaven (2021) A Qualitative Evaluation of a Bystander Intervention: the problem of binaries. In: British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Crime and Harm: Challenges of Social and Global Justice, 7-9 July 2021, Online. (Unpublished)

My Most Viewed

	Item title
1	Gendered Perceptions of Domestic Violence: how young females are more likely than young males to know controlling domestic violence behaviours	513	384
2	Agency, Resistance and the Non ‘Ideal Victim’: How women deal with everyday sexual violence	236	0
3	The National Probation Service and Intimate Partner Violence: A discourse of risk, compliant men and the acceptance of violence against women	146	0
4	Gender, Sexual Danger and the Everyday Management of Risks: The social control of young females	145	244
5	Agency, Resistance and the Non-'Ideal' Victim: How women deal with sexual violence	145	90
6	Teaching Academics to Teach: About Pedagogy	145	72
7	Emerald Project Interim Report.	138	0
8	Inspecting ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’: The pitfalls of an austerity managerialist approach to offender supervision	132	125
9	'Probation and Risk: The paradox of 'rehabilitating' intimately violent men'	127	0
10	Understanding Student Retention from the Tutor's Perspective: What can be done to develop best-practice pedagogies?	122	0

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