2020 Cohort - NINE DTP

Cara Leavey: “Precarious work, precarious health: The impact of precarious employment on young adults’ health and wellbeing in the UK”

Students, 2022-23, Health Well-being and Society, Newcastle University

Anna McClean: “Planning for floods: an analysis of planning law and planning practice in the management of flood risk and flood mitigation”

Former students, Students, 2017-18, Law and Society, Newcastle University

Amy Hill: “An intersectional study of gender and the Royal Air Force”

Students, 2023-24, Law and Society, Newcastle University

Sophie Lively: “Narrating Masculinities: Racism, Nationalism and Belonging amongst Working Class Men in Tyneside”

Students, 2023-24, Conflict Security & Justice, Newcastle University

Fiona Lowe: “Digital Business Model Innovation and the Institutional Preservation of the Arts and Heritage Sector”

Students, 2021-22, Management Business and Economics, Queen's University Belfast

Yuanya Zhang: “Chinese rural students’ digital engagement in relation to their schooling experiences”

Students, 2021-22, Durham University, Education

Vu Tran-Thanh: “Exploring Queer Teachers’ Professional Identity Through LGBTQ+ Inclusivity in the ESOL Classroom”

Students, 2022-23, Durham University, Education

Chloe Fielding: “Anxious at School? Who, Why, and What Helps?”

Students, 2022-23, Durham University, Psychology

Jess Hirst: “Developing a holistic understanding of the barriers and facilitators to school outcomes for autistic pupils in mainstream schools”

Students, 2021-22, Durham University, Psychology

Gemma Herbert: “The social experiences of autistic pupils in mainstream secondary schools: A mixed-methods study of what inclusion means for autistic and neurotypical adolescents”

Students, 2022-23, Durham University, Psychology

Lauren Clucas: “Investigating the effects of gesture on early word learning”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Psychology

Charlie Greenall: “Eating behaviour in autism: co-produced conceptualisation & scale development”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Psychology

Melody Bishop: “A qualitative longitudinal study on the illness experiences of UK students with long-term health conditions during their first year of transition to an elite collegiate university”

Students, 2022-23, Durham University, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Julia Guy: “Changing the Tracks: Investigating sexual harassment on public transport in the North-East of England”

Students, 2021-22, Durham University, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Madeleine Winnard: “Widening participation: access and experience of underrepresented students at an elite university in an era of high fees”

Students, 2016-17, Durham University, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Sam Colclough: “A Labour Theory of Knowledge: Political Epistemology and UK Scientific Advice During a Pandemic”

Students, 2021-22, Durham University, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Molly Manister: “Agent of support or agent of surveillance? The expectations on children’s social care professionals in the prevention of youth radicalisation”

Students, 2022-23, Children Youth and Families, Durham University

Gary Reynolds: “County lines and the criminal exploitation of children and young people: An exploratory and critical study of the system response to child criminal exploitation and the local authority care provision for children and young people in Cumbria”

Students, 2022-23, Children Youth and Families, Durham University

Xin Fan: “School choice fever: Parents’ perceptions and practices in rural China”

Students, 2022-23, Children Youth and Families, Durham University

Hannah Morgan: “(Un)suspended Temporality: Everyday Smartphone Practices and the Navigation of Slow Emergency for Asylum Seekers in the UK”

Students, 2021-22, Durham University, Human Geography

Anil Sindhwani: “From House to Home: Social Citizenship, State-Led Displacement, and the Haringey Development Vehicle”

Students, 2021-22, Durham University, Human Geography

Tilly Hall: “Care(ing) in the Disaster Risk Management Assemblage: An Empirical Study of Wildfire Disaster Risk Management in Sonoma County, California”

Students, 2021-22, Durham University, Human Geography

Robert Gilmore: “Participating our way to low-carbon cities or decarbonising our way to urban democracy: An exploration of processes and outcomes in contemporary urban climate change politics”

Students, 2022-23, Durham University, Human Geography

Joaquim Gaignard: “Transforming a Nation by turning North: Scotland’s external policy efforts to promote a new Northern Scottish identity”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Human Geography

Lisa Meek: “Player Connected: Understanding interaction between players, videogames and their environments”

Students, 2022-23, Media & Society, Sunderland University

Emily Jeffries: “The Moral of the Story: Investigating the co-evolution of storytelling and prosociality using comparative analysis and game theory experiments”

Students, 2022-23, Anthropology, Durham University

Loes Lijnders: “Death Mobilities: Funerals, Translocal Families and Urban Life in South Sudan and Sudan”

Students, 2021-22, Anthropology, Durham University

Métrey Tiv: “Responses to Lassa fever disease in Nigeria: A multilevel ethnography of a health system”

Students, 2022-23, Anthropology, Durham University

Stuti Pradhan: “Gender and Citizenship in the Eastern Himalayan Borderlands”

Students, 2022-23, Newcastle University, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Kate Howley: “Discourses of non-participation in Higher Education and the reproduction of class inequalities”

Students, 2023-24, Newcastle University, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Dan Nicholls – “When the ‘will of the people’ conflicts with the ‘good of the people’: A problem in Political Philosophy”

Students, 2018-19, Durham University, Politics and International Relations

Wangyin Zhao: “A disaster for whom? The conditional impact of natural disasters on civil conflicts”

Students, 2022-23, Durham University, Politics and International Relations

Nicole Devlin “How the trauma of the Northern Ireland Troubles conflict has impacted social identities.”

Students, 2023-24, Psychology, Queen's University Belfast

Jonathan Horner: “Beyond Boilerplate? An Analysis of the Effect of the ‘Section 172(1) Statement’ requirement on the reporting of FTSE 100 companies’.”

Students, 2023-24, Law & Society, Queen's University Belfast

Rachel Reay “Decline, destruction and divides: beneath the surface of regeneration in seaside towns”

Students, 2018-19, Durham University, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Emily Faux: “When Nukes Go “POP”: Nuclear Weapons in Contemporary Popular Culture”

Students, 2022-23, Conflict Security and Justice, Newcastle University

Emily Upson: “Influencing Governance in Xinjiang: How to Understand and Utilise Correlations between Global Discourses and Post-2016 CCP Policy Changes”

Students, 2021-22, Language Based Area Studies, Newcastle University

Yosley Carrero Chavez: “Affective Polarisation, Social Media and One-Party States: The Cuban Case Study”

Students, 2023-24, Language Based Area Studies, Newcastle University

Toby Donegan-Cross: “Food production, accounting and consumption on Durham Priory’s estate, c. 1250–1500”

Students, 2022-23, Durham University, Economic and Social History

Laura Tidd: “Border Lands: Women’s Experiences of Diagnosis, Treatment and Everyday Life with Borderline Personality Disorder”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Health Well-being and Society

Em Richardson: “Working with Words: Improving metalinguistic awareness of words with multiple meanings in autistic children”

Students, 2021-22, Linguistics, Newcastle University

Muhamad Ali: “English as an Additional Language ( EAL) provision for resettled Arabic- speaking refugees in North East mainstream secondary schools: challenges and opportunities for teachers and learners”

Students, 2019-20, Education, Newcastle University

Hannah Budge: “Women in Agriculture in the Scottish Islands”

Students, 2019-20, Environmental Planning, Newcastle University

Farhan Anshary: “The city, the periphery, and the faraway: Contesting imaginaries of “cities” and “non-cities” in a mega-city region”

Students, 2021-22, Environmental Planning, Newcastle University

Nouhad Abou Melhem: “Exploring key drivers of individual differences in the language development of 3 year-old Lebanese children”

Students, 2021-22, Children Youth and Families, Newcastle University

Erin-Beth Nugent: “Making Professionals: Training regimes, everyday practices, and the experiences and perspectives of boys and their families in professional football academies”

Students, 2021-22, Children Youth and Families, Newcastle University

Tania Alahendra: “Intersectionality and Everyday Peace in Sri Lanka”

Students, 2022-23, Conflict Security and Justice, Durham University

Phevos Simeonidis: “Frozen assets: Posthumous politics and the governance of bodies discovered on the Greece-Turkey border”

Students, 2023-24, Conflict Security and Justice, Durham University

Laura Cretney: “Tribal Diasporas: Neopatrimonialism, Conflict and Migration in Yemen”

Students, 2019-20, Durham University, Language Based Area Studies

Charles Hierons: “Beyond Islamist Movements: Religion and Power in Dynamic Socio-Political Fields”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Language Based Area Studies

Lydia Mckeown: “The Experience of Loneliness during Adolescence when a Parent has Cancer”

Students, 2022-23, Psychology, Queen's University Belfast

Ciarán Canning: “Improving Delay of Gratification in Children: A Role for Episodic Future Thinking?”

Students, 2021-22, Psychology, Queen's University Belfast

Ben Rosher

Students, 2019-20, Queen's University Belfast, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Rachel Kurtz: “A transdisciplinary Perspective on Embodied Learning to Enhance Educational Outcomes and Physical and Mental Health”

Students, 2019-20, Durham University, Education

Laura Chambers: “Bridging the Gap Between Language Impairment and Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties in Adolescents: Developing an Effective School Based Intervention to Address the Dual Deficit”

Students, 2020-21, Linguistics, Newcastle University

Will Lloyd: “An Ethnographic Study of Trail Running, Feminism and Development in Nepal”

Students, 2020-21, Anthropology, Durham University

Dale Pankhurst: “States and “Pro-Government” Militias (PGMs): Delegation, Deniability, Acquiescence or Antagonism? Explaining Variation in State-PGM Relationships in the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and Colombia”

Students, 2020-21, Politics and International Relations, Queen's University Belfast

Linda Arrighi: “Interactive Effects of Sex Hormones, Psychosocial Stress and Self-Efficacy on Cognitive Sex Differences”

Students, 2020-21, Durham University, Psychology

Evie Heard: “Education in ASEAN: A Children’s Rights Analysis”

Students, 2020-21, Children Youth and Families, Queen's University Belfast

Alan McKinstry: “Criminalised victims: Recognising, understanding, and challenging modern slavery and child criminal exploitation amongst young people from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Belfast”

Students, 2021-22, Children Youth and Families, Queen's University Belfast

Daniel Jones: “Geographies of Impulse: A Study of Individuals with Tourettes Syndrome and the Embodied Experience of Public Space”

Students, 2020-21, Human Geography, Newcastle University

Oscar Daniel: “Towards Gender Inclusive Healthcare: Improving Transgender Healthcare Education Amongst Medical Students”

Students, 2020-21, Newcastle University, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Suzanne Butler: “Women’s ‘Stories’: The emotional consequences of poverty in childhood and the shaping of women’s lives”

Students, 2022-23, Newcastle University, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Elle McWilliam: “Exploring the Relationship between Auditory, Written and Multi-Modality Comprehension at Discourse Level”

Students, 2020-21, Linguistics, Newcastle University

Jack Simmonds: “The Young LGBT+ Lived Experience and Relationship with the Police Service in Greater Manchester”

Students, 2020-21, Children Youth and Families, Durham University

Emma Maslin: “Commuting to Class: An Ethnography of Commuting Students’ Experience of Higher Education”

Students, 2020-21, Durham University, Education

Jo Baker: “Seeing Phonological Disorders More Clearly: Understanding the Impact of Phonological Awareness Intervention on the Speech Sound System of Children with Consistent Phonological Disorder”

Students, 2020-21, Linguistics, Newcastle University

Carlo Ceglia: “Out of the Blue: The Republic of Seychelles and the Evolving Financial-Institutional Architecture around Ocean Spaces”

Students, 2020-21, Durham University, Human Geography

Thomas Lian-Hoare: “Sino-Central Asian relations within the framework of wider regional relations”

Students, 2020-21, Conflict Security and Justice, Newcastle University

Kyle Richmond: “Market Structure, Innovation, and Britain’s Relative Economic Decline”

Students, 2020-21, Economic and Social History, Queen's University Belfast

Constantin Torve: “Valleys of Fear: Mapping Irish Secret Societies between Agrarian and Industrial Unrest, 1840-1880”

Students, 2022-23, Economic and Social History, Queen's University Belfast

Parisa Diba: “The Dark Side of Enhancement: An Examination of Crime and Harm in Offline and Online Image-Enhancement Markets”

Students, 2020-21, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work, Teesside University

Jane Wardle: “The Road to Resilience: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Stigma and Empowerment in Single and Divorced Mothers in Turkey”

Students, 2020-21, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work, Teesside University

Fleur Riley: “Young female prisoners: exploring trust in a traumatised population”

Students, 2020-21, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work, Teesside University

Lynne Cairns: “Risk and Protection? The Lived Experience of Young Men with Harmful Sexual Behaviours: Towards a Contextual Understanding”

Students, 2020-21, Children Youth and Families, Durham University

Emily Wray: “‘Culturephilia’ for Whom and Where? Questioning the ‘Curing Qualities’ of Culture in a ‘Post-Troubles’ City: An Analysis of Derry/Londonderry”

Students, 2020-21, Environmental Planning, Queen's University Belfast

Angela Long: “The Role of Community Pharmacy in the Management of Age-Related Musculoskeletal Conditions”

Students, 2020-21, Northumbria University, Psychology

Ioulia Barakou: “Self-regulation and physical activity behaviour in individuals who are experiencing fatigue symptoms: designing a tailored intervention to promote physical activity through optimizing activity pacing”

Students, 2021-22, Health Well-being and Society, Northumbria University

Charlie Pearson: “Applying Critical Security Theory to Military Rescue Operations in Times of Humanitarian Crisis: How EU Irregular Migration Policy Has Transformed in the Modern Political Sphere”

Students, 2020-21, Politics and International Relations, Queen's University Belfast

Courtney Neal: “Does Food Insecurity Affect Food-Related Cognition?”

Students, 2020-21, Newcastle University, Psychology

Harriet Broadfoot: “Towards Communities of Compassion: Exploring What Affords a Compassion Enabling Environment in Early Childhood Education”

Students, 2020-21, Durham University, Education

Charalampos (Harris) Paraskevopoulos: “Migrants at Work: How Legal Status and Regional Geography Affect Migrant Labour Market Experiences in the UK”

Students, 2020-21, Newcastle University, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Cait Jobson: “Domestic Violence and Abuse Help-seeking for LGBTQ+ Young people: A Participatory Approach”

Students, 2020-21, Children Youth and Families, Durham University

Janelle Rabe: “Step up, Speak Out: A participatory action research project on young people’s views of sexual violence and its prevention”

Students, 2021-22, Children Youth and Families, Durham University

Esther Outram: “Why is no one talking about Disability? An Investigation into Grammar Schools and the disabling barriers experienced by dyslexic pupils”

Students, 2021-22, Children Youth and Families, Durham University

Emma Hodgson: “Understanding young people’s online sexual behaviour, nature, cases, context and consequences.”

Students, 2023-24, Children Youth and Families, Durham University

Joanne Walker-McGowan: “Working with rather than for partner organisations: re-defining the role of youth work in safeguarding young people from extra-familial harm.”

Students, 2023-24, Children Youth and Families, Durham University

Ben Main: Features of precarious housing

Students, 2020-21, Durham University, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Peter Mason: “Misreading Masculinity? An Exploration of How Perceptions of Masculinity Might Influence Boys’ Underperformance in Reading”

Students, 2020-21, Durham University, Education

Luke Green: “The Financialised University in the Neoliberal City? A Comparative Study of University Real Estate Investment Strategies in Edinburgh and Manchester, UK”

Students, 2020-21, Human Geography, Newcastle University

Aislinn Fanning: “Achieving Equality: Anti-Discrimination Law in Northern Ireland after Brexit”

Students, 2020-21, Law and Society, Queen's University Belfast

Diana Ortega: “Women narrating justice: The value of women’s storytelling in response to gender violence during Mexico’s war on drugs”

Students, 2021-22, Law and Society, Queen's University Belfast

Alison McDonald: “Examining the Implementation and Experiences of Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes”

Students, 2020-21, Queen's University Belfast, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Heather Proctor: “The Role of the Arts and Political Memory in Forming Mixed Ethnic Identity”

Students, 2020-21, Media & Society, Newcastle University

Amy Robson: “Beyond Extinction: Climate Activisms and the (Re)Making of Futures”

Students, 2020-21, Durham University, Human Geography

Christopher Little: “Populism and the British Far-Right: The Psycho-Discursive Construction of Tommy Robinson as Anti-Establishment, Working-Class ‘Hero’”

Students, 2020-21, Media & Society, Newcastle University

Colin Leonard: “Young People’s Pandemic Rights and Responsibilities”

Students, 2020-21, Queen's University Belfast, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work

Brett Cherry: “In Search of a Just Transition to Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Adaptation: A Nexus for Social Justice in the North of Tyne”

Students, 2020-21, Human Geography, Newcastle University

Alex Hibberts: “The Sustainability of Settlement and Exploitation of Liminal Environments in the North Sea Region, c. 1150-1400”

Students, 2020-21, Durham University, Economic and Social History

Jordan Leinster: “Analysing the Legal Implications of Cross-Border Data Collection and Usage Within Connected and Autonomous Vehicles on the Island of Ireland: Selling Safety for Privacy?”

Students, 2020-21, Law and Society, Queen's University Belfast

Rhys Proud: “Looking into the Eyes of a Friend: Evidence from Autism”

Students, 2020-21, Durham University, Psychology

Anas Almassri: Capabilities for Peace? A Critical Realist Study of International Scholarships Impact in Palestine.

Students, 2021-22, Durham University, Education

Frida Citlati Jaime Franco: “Critical intercultural education for social transformation through intercultural responsibility in a context of decoloniality and internationalisation”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Education

Laura McGuire: “Community Gardening and Social Prescription: An Ethnographic Exploration”

Students, 2020-21, Durham University, Health Well-being and Society

Yvonne Moynihan: “Exploring the Experiences of Migrant Pupils in Different School Types in Northern Ireland”

Students, 2020-21, Education, Queen's University Belfast

Nathaniel McGrory: “Trading as ‘Voice’: How Ought Market Actions be Understood as Investor Stewardship within the UK Corporate Governance Regime?”

Students, 2020-21, Law and Society, Queen's University Belfast

Jessica Miller: “Food Redistribution and Responsibility”

Students, 2020-21, Environmental Planning, Newcastle University

Natasha Black: “A study of work in relation to refugees and asylum seekers in Northern Ireland”

Students, 2020-21, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work, Ulster University

Jessica Spratt: “Drug Consumption Amongst Members of LGBTQ Communities in Northern Ireland”

Students, 2022-23, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work, Ulster University

Tobias Niblock: “Exploring Young People’s Involvement in Drug Markets in Northern Ireland”

Students, 2022-23, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work, Ulster University

Orla Kerrigan: “The Unspoken Conflict? The Impact and Legacy of Sexual Violence during the Northern Irish Troubles”

Students, 2023-24, Sociology Social Policy and Social Work, Ulster University

Chung Yen Cheng: “Reorienting Western Theories of Atmospheres: A case study of Feng Shui practices in Taiwan and Northeast England”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Human Geography

Caitlin Mackinlay: “Queering Carcerality: Exploring queer experiences of UK prisons”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Human Geography

Aisling Madden: “Exploring the Role of Urban Density in Social Housing through Graphic Anthropology in Belfast, UK”

Students, 2023-24, Environmental Planning, Queen's University Belfast

Brightman Makoni: “The production and policing of new categories of migrants: Zimbabwean migrant families and the UK Health and Care Worker Visa Scheme”

Students, 2023-24, Newcastle University, Social Policy & Social Work, Sociology

Rhys McKendry: “Explaining Inequality via Trade and Productivity: The Case of the UK”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Management Business and Economics

James McLeod: “A mixed methods study of the factors that influence engagement in physical activity for autistic adolescents”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Psychology

Rosalyn Millar: “Coercive Control: Understanding and Experiences in a Post-Bill Environment”

Students, 2023-24, Psychology and Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast

Esther Regina Neira Castro: “Health and Stigma of Migrant Women in the Colombo-Venezuelan Border”

Students, 2023-24, Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast

Siew Ying Shee: “New technologies of the volumetric city: The politics, practices, and possibilities of urban drone use in Singapore”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Human Geography

Ashleigh Regan: “Welsh-Medium Education: Exploring the attitudes, beliefs and experiences of parents and pupils from non-Welsh speaking households”

Students, 2023-24, Education, Newcastle University

Charlie Roberts: “Monetising homophobic discourse: hate speech, derogatory language, and the hetero-masculine male body on OnlyFans.”

Students, 2023-24, Media & Society, Newcastle University

Melissa Schorah: “Individual differences in temporal predictions in speech: word segmentation and conversational turn-taking”

Students, 2023-24, Linguistics, Newcastle University

Renzo Szkwarok: “Radical hope beyond hospitality and tolerance: embracing pro-migrant futures out of the UK’s hostile environment”

Students, 2023-24, Human Geography, Newcastle University

Helen Watt: “In the Name of God: Examining how religious belief and practice influences villent behaviours within NRMs through the study of politically violent groups”

Students, 2023-24, Conflict, Queen's University Belfast, Security & Justice

Mengyu Wu: “The Governance of Industrial Heritage-Led Regeneration: The Case of Chengdu, China”

Students, 2023-24, Environmental Planning, Queen's University Belfast

Karina Dyliaeva: “Does assessment legitimise ableist supremacy in higher education? A participatory investigation of assessment experiences of students with disabilities”

Students, 2023-24, Education, Queen's University Belfast

Rosemary Coleran: “An exploration into the role of not-for-profit NGO schools in Cambodian primary education.”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Education

Chi-Chi Shi: “Climate change and carceral border regimes”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Human Geography

Yasmin Zhuang-Mackie: “The medicalisation of race and culture: Inequalities and organ donation in the UK”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Health, Wellbeing & Society

Connor Malcolm: “Exploring the role of social ties for well-being in adolescent children from serving military families”

Students, 2023-24, Health Well-being and Society, Northumbria University

Joanna Li: “Tracking vanishing foods: a comparative study of the strategy and dynamics of a ‘Chinese’ diasporic identity in the UK”

Students, 2023-24, Environmental Planning, Newcastle University

Lydia Millar: “The Environment-Conflict Nexus: The Weaknesses of the Transitional Justice Regime and its Consequences for Conflict-Induced Environmental Harm”

Students, 2023-24, Law & Society, Queen's University Belfast

Cécile Blouin: “Open Doors? Cross-border itineraries of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia, Ecuador & Peru”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Geography

Tom Bradshaw: “A critique into the way policymakers have managed the economy over the past century”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Education

Fran Cavanagh: “Left behind? Investigating the relationship between social exclusion, a proposed triad of populist radical right attitudes and the rejection of perceived out-groups”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Psychology

Nicole Devlin: “Intergenerational trauma, identity, and well-being: How the trauma of the Troubles conflict has impacted social identities in Northern Ireland.”

Students, 2023-24, Psychology, Queen's University Belfast

Lucy Jameson: “Collective Creation: Disabled Innovation and the British Post Office.”

Students, 2023-24, Durham University, Social and Economic History

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