Staff profile

I joined the department as a PhD student in October 2021 and am now a Career Development Fellow. I completed my ESRC-funded PhD in 2024, exploring the experiences of help-seeking for domestic abuse with young LGBTQ+ people. We took a Participatory Action Research approach to plan, implement and undertake analysis on this project led by young people on what issues they deem important. Participatory principles guide my research values and practice. I continue to volunteer as a youth worker with LGBT Youth Scotland, supporting the Trans Youth and Voices Unheard (domestic abuse) Commissions. My recent research projects have focused on producing a scoping review into participatory research with neurodivergent young people, working across the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action (CSJCA) and the Centre for Neurodiversity and Development (CND), and collaborated with McDonald's to explore the use of Contextual Safeguarding in hospitality settings, partnering with local restaurants and safeguarding services to find new solutions and support sustained change.  

I have published on issues relating to sex and relationships education, professional responses to children’s help-seeking practices, and participatory action research methodology. My research interests look at gender and sexualities, domestic violence and abuse, and participatory methodologies, mainly aiming to centre young people’s voices in making radical social change within policy and everyday practice.

 

Research Groups

• Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse
• Centre for Social Justice and Community Action
• Centre for Neurodiversity and Development

• Young People
• Gender and Sexualities
• Domestic Violence and Abuse
• Participatory Methodologies

Chapter in book

• Participatory Action Research With LGBTQ+ Co-researchers
  
  Jobson, C. (2025). Participatory Action Research With LGBTQ+ Co-researchers. In A. Brett & C. Lee (Eds.), The Guide to LGBTQ+ Research (pp. 197-203). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83549-966-520251024

Journal Article

• The Balancing Act: Reflections From Three Projects on Negotiating Participation and Protection in Doing Research With Children and Young People on Violence and Abuse
  
  Rabe, J., Jobson, C., & Cairns, L. O. (2025). The Balancing Act: Reflections From Three Projects on Negotiating Participation and Protection in Doing Research With Children and Young People on Violence and Abuse. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251323626
• Rabbits in Headlights: Professional Responses to Children’s Help-Seeking Practices When They Are Victims of Domestic abuse
  
  Jobson, C., Rutter, N., & Phillips, J. (2025). Rabbits in Headlights: Professional Responses to Children’s Help-Seeking Practices When They Are Victims of Domestic abuse. The British Journal of Criminology, azaf029. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaf029

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• LGBTQ+ Inclusive Relationships and Sex Education Briefing Paper.
  
  Jobson, C. (2022). LGBTQ+ Inclusive Relationships and Sex Education Briefing Paper.

Report

• “We are all educating our children” – parent/carer perspectives on RSE in primary schools
  
  Jobson, C. (2023). “We are all educating our children” – parent/carer perspectives on RSE in primary schools. Coram Life Education.