Experts in Social work and domestic abuse
Dr Gill Kirkman
Assistant Professor in Social Work
Expertise: Child abuse and neglect, working with families, gender-based violence. A former social worker of 14 years, she pioneered a project that used computer games (immersive technology) to try to better understand domestic abuse among young people.
Dr Gareth Addidle
Associate Professor in Criminology
Expertise: Public management, vulnerability and policing, place leadership and vulnerability, vulnerability and police education, vulnerability and county lines, public health policing, collaborative partnership working, governance of crime and the crossovers between social and public policy.
Dr Samina Karim
Associate Professor in Social Work and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Expertise: Child protection, child abuse, research methods, anti-discriminatory practice, cultaral competency and historic abuse.