We have signed an agreement with Durham Constabulary and the Durham Police and Crime Commissioner to work together for the benefit of local communities.

Read about how colleagues incorporate Disability Inclusion, Rights, and Justice into their research and teaching, in the Department of Sociology.

Postgraduate students from the Department of Sociology have been recognised for their outstanding work on their placement with the Durham Police and Crime Commissioner’s Office.

Our researchers have worked with community support workers to explore the drivers behind foodbank use and offer alternative solutions to support vulnerable people. 

New webpages have been created to present findings and resources from a series of participatory research projects. Since 2019, Dr Alison Jobe from Durham University (Department of Sociology) and Dr Helen Williams from the University of Sunderland have carried out this research, in collaboration with third sector organisations and learning disabled / autistic survivors of sexual violence.

As part of Global Week, colleagues within the Department of Sociology delivered the below webinar:

Calling all Sociology Students!

UK Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has praised Durham research aimed at addressing serious violence, during a visit to the University.

A new book, co-authored by Dr Lucy Baldwin, an Honorary Fellow in our Department of Sociology, is calling on the UK justice system to stop sending pregnant women to prison, or risk further tragedies for mothers and babies.

On Friday 24 November, the Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA) held a special event with around 60 people in attendance, including the Vice-Chancellor and Warden, at Collingwood College to showcase the breadth of the Centre’s work over the last 10 years.

Dr Nicole Renehan from our Department of Sociology, together with project partners Professor Sandra Walklate (Liverpool University) and Dr Charlotte Barlow (University of Central Lancashire) discuss whether Clare’s Law, otherwise known as the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme, is working and if it is fit for purpose.

A new research report has raised concerns that policing efforts targeting 'county lines' drug operations in the UK rely on discriminatory assumptions about minority groups and contribute to the criminalisation of minoritised communities.