Projects
Evaluation of the Police Scotland/Rape Crisis Scotland ‘Support to Report’ Pilot Advocacy Service
This research is designed to evaluate an innovative Scottish Government funded pilot project offering 24 hour on-call advocacy support to women and men reporting rape in Glasgow. A mixed-method research design will be adopted, including the tracking of rape cases, interviews with the police, advocacy workers and survivors of rape.
Gendering Activism in Populist Radical Right Parties
A comparative study of women’s and men’s participation in the Northern League (Italy) and the National Front (France). This two-year research project aims to enhance our understanding of current developments in ‘anti-immigration’ politics in contemporary Europe.
Intimate Migrations: Lesbian, gay and bisexual migrants in Scotland
Exploring how sexuality may shape intra-European migration through a focus on the lived experiences of LGB migrants who have moved to Scotland from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
Lives Sentenced: Experiences of Repeated Punishment
Investigating how people who are repeatedly punished by the criminal justice sentence interpret and give meaning to their sentences.
Offender Supervision in Europe (COSTAction 1106)
The emergence of ‘mass supervision’ of offenders (i.e. in the community) has largely escaped the attention of legal scholars and social scientists more concerned with the ‘mass incarceration’ reflected in prison growth. This Action aims to remedy this by facilitating cooperation between institutions and individuals in different European states who carry out research on offender supervision.
Quality of Engagement in Probation Practice
A multi-method study examining how probation workers understand and construct the meaning of 'quality' in one-to-one supervision: a previously neglected and yet ubiquitous aspect of penal practice.
(Re)Imagining Youth: A Comparative Sociology of Youth Leisure in Scotland and Hong Kong
Analysing youth leisure in Scotland and Hong Kong in historical and cross-cultural perspective, drawing on a qualitative, comparative case-study design. Building on landmark sociological research from the 1960s (Jephcott 1967, 1971), the study will explore socio-cultural meanings and changing experiences of youth leisure in two case-study locations, with a particular focus on themes of youth transition, leisure space and 'risky' behaviours. Approximately 150 young people aged 16-24 years will participate in the project and methods utilised will include ethnographic observations, stakeholder interviews, focus group discussions and oral history interviews with young people, visual methods (drawing and photography) and on-line interviews (utilising digital and social media).
Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State
Seeking to explore the difficult area of translation and interpretation, working in partnership with a wide variety of partners that includes Creative Scotland and the Scottish Refugee Council. International academics from Bulgaria, Arizona and Gaza will come together with those from the University of Glasgow in innovative ways to examine some of the issues that occur during interpretation and translation.
A socio-cultural exploration of the lives of polio survivors
Conducting life history interviews with British polio survivors to explore the social, cultural and psycho-emotional effects of the disease for the individual, family and communities across their lives
Understanding Gambling: Impacts and Social Networks Across the Lifecourse
A five year qualitative longitudinal study designed to explore changes in gambling and problem gambling behaviour over time, as well as the impacts of gambling on both players and those in their wider social networks.