Dr Adele Irving
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Senior Lecturer (Policing)
Biography
Adele is a social scientist who works across the disciplines of sociology, criminology, and social policy. She has an established track record of co-producing research in the area of multiple disadvantages. She has worked with a wide range of marginalised groups (including vulnerable young people, people with experience of homelessness and/or addiction, those with offending histories, and sex workers) and stakeholders working in policy-orientated and practitioner roles across a range of fields. She also has a particular interest in the use of creative and participatory methodologies (such as participatory mapping, oral testimonies, auto-photography, and peer-led research) and the ways in which methodological choices shape public understandings of key social issues. As a result of these activities, she has extensive experience of bid writing, data collection, data analysis, report writing and dissemination, effective liaison with external partners and stakeholders, and the management of projects and project teams. Her publications record includes over 40 research reports and several journal articles and book chapters. Committed to knowledge exchange and capacity building both within and beyond academia, she co-founded the North East Homeless Think Tank and North East Third Sector Research Group, is a member of the Housing Studies Association Executive Committee and a Trustee of Jigsaw Recovery Project (a north- east charity that works with young people with multiple and complex needs).
Areas of Research
Homelessness, trauma, substance misuse, offending,, desistance, housing and welfare policy
Areas of Supervision
Homelessness
Trauma
Multiple disadvantages
Desistance
Youth crime and deviance / serious youth violence (county lines, Kinfe crime, gangs)
Housing and welfare policy
Multiple disadvantages, vulnerability, youth crime and deviance, the criminal justice system, research methods
Qualifications
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PhD in Criminology
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Masters in Public Administration
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BA (Hons) Criminology