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‘The lives and cultures of migrants in the Roman empire’
Supervisor: Dr April Pudsey
‘The psychological and emotional lives of soldiers in the Roman army’
Supervisors: Dr April Pudsey and Dr Jennifer Cromwell
‘Intergenerational knowledge sharing around treescapes in refugee and migrant background communities’
Supervisor: Dr Caitlin Nunn
‘Family language policy in multilingual families in Manchester’
Supervisors: Dr John Bellamy and Dr Rob Drummond
Jamie's research implements a visual and quasi-ethnography to explore the Kicking Crime into Touch rugby project as a site to explore masculinity, marginality and positive youth development of young people known to the Criminal Justice System.
"Trying for Change: An exploration of Rugby Union as a means to examine marginality, masculinity and positive youth development (PYD) amongst young people in the youth justice system."
Sport Relief commissioned rugby project Kicking Crime into Touch (KCIT). This project is a cutting edge sport project analysing how rugby is experienced by young men known to the justice system in Greater Manchester
Supervisor: Dr Deborah Jump
Publications
Crowther, J; Jump, D; Smithson, H; Kicking Crime into Touch: Rugby Union as a context for positive youth development with young people involved in the youth justice system in Sports, Power, Crime: Toward a Critical Criminology of Sport (forthcoming 2021)
‘Women of the Codex Justinianus’
Supervisor: Dr April Pudsey
‘How do children’s interaction with professionals at police interview shape their future trajectory in the justice system’ Supervisors:
Dr Deborah Jump and Professor Hannah Smithson
An interdisciplinary exploration of the language of school exclusion
Kate’s research works in collaboration with a secondary Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) to explore the language of school exclusion from the perspectives of excluded young people, their parents, PRU staff, and mainstream staff. The research draws on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis and Youth Participatory Research approaches, in order to critique taken-for-granted discourses, and to bring the voices of excluded young people to the fore.
Supervisors: Dr Rob Drummond, Professor Hannah Smithson, Dr Caitlin Nunn, Dr Stella Bullo.
AHRC, NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Award – Pathway: Linguistics.
Biography
Kate has been working with young people in Manchester for 10+ years in various settings: as a researcher with Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Young Lives, and the Royal Shakespeare Company; as a Teacher and Youth Worker in Mainstream Primary, Secondary, and (dominantly) in PRUs/Alternative Provision schools; and as a creative workshop lead for charities and universities. Nearly every role has involved working with young people who have been excluded – from school, within school, and broader areas of social life – by powerful social structures that (re)produce inequality – with the aim to counteract these effects.
Recent presentations