Multiple Exclusion Research Group

The Multiple Exclusion Research Group brings together research, policy and practice with an aim of creating opportunities to develop innovative research and new interdisciplinary and cross-setting collaborations.

The Group provides a forum for academic researchers, early career researchers, postgraduates across disciplines such as social work, sociology, social policy, health and social care, youth work and youth justice, politics and allied health to collaborate.

We will increase understanding of how academics and civil society organisations can work more collaboratively for mutual benefit through meeting face to face in workshops/seminars; increased understanding will lead to co-creation and co-production of impact in research projects, with stakeholder engagement embedded from the very outset of designing research and writing proposals through to publication, dissemination and impact.

The Research Group aims to provide collaborative opportunities to:

• identify research questions and issues that need exploration
• advance innovative understanding of forms of exclusion such as Multiple and Complex Needs, Severe and Multiple Disadvantage and research inclusive practices and policy that can help to overcome some of these challenges
• develop novel participatory art-based methodological approaches
• encourage ongoing reflection on participatory and inclusive research practices
• knowledge exchange and policy analysis
• inform teaching practice, contributing to existing modules, courses and PGR Programmes, consider the development of specialist modules
• attract doctoral candidates
• share research opportunities in the field of social exclusion and disadvantage
• build a reputation for excellence in research in this field

The Research Group provides a supportive space in which to discuss research, at no matter what stage. We are keen to raise the profile of research around issues of multiple exclusion within the university and to provide a platform to showcase existing research. A number of doctoral research studies are linked to the Research Group, we welcome doctoral candidates to join as associates. We appreciate ideas for research, evaluation and doctoral studies. We encourage publication of journal articles, book chapters, blogs and thought pieces that engage publicly and aim to influence the direction of policy and practice in this field.

The Multiple Exclusion Group brings together colleagues from a range of disciplines who are interested in diverse aspects of intersecting multiple exclusion. Represented disciplines include: social work, social policy, sociology, public health, education, politics and international relations, criminology, mental health, oral history. Colleagues have a range of experience of publishing in journals, professional publications, research income generation from research councils, charities, third and private sector sources. A range of career pathways and roles are also represented, including experienced academics, early career researchers, doctoral candidates.

We also facilitate seminars, conferences, presentations and training events, which are open to all. We are keen to develop projects in collaboration with our networks, practitioners and users of our research.

• Pam Alldred
• Amy Allen
• Jess Arnold
• Sarah Askin
• Adam Barnard
• Angie Bartoli
• Tim Buescher
• Simon Cauvain
• Bailey Foster
• Carolin Hess
• Pete Murphy
• Penny Siebert
• Helen Woods

Associated Doctoral Candidates:

• Mohammed Sanusi Adams (Social Work, Care and Community, NTU) - Intersectionality of Poverty and Ethnicity in Child Welfare Inequality in England: A Participatory Action Research and Oral History Approach
• Kyesha Davies (Social Work, Care and Community, NTU) - Small Steps, Big Changes and Co-Production
• Ayodele Dalgety-Dean (Social Work, Care and Community, NTU) - Suicide Prevention: Learning from Sociocultural Perspectives to Create a Sustainable Prevention Response in Guyana
• Carolin Hess (King's College London, PhD, Social Work, Care and Community, NTU Research Fellow) - Investigating Intersectional Constraints and Facilitators in Access to Social Care and Support for Women Who Face Housing Exclusion and Multiple Disadvantages.
• Ray Radnell (Social Work, Care and Community, NTU) - An interdisciplinary study into the experience and impact of being a Neurodivergent Systemic Social Worker within Children’s Services (Statutory Local Authority). Exploring creative practice as reflection
• Jess Smith (Social Work, Care and Community, NTU) - The Role of Employment-related support within services for people facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage

The Multiple Intersecting Social Exclusions Research Group is part of the Centre for Policy, Citizenship and Society, and works in collaboration with other research groups in the School of Social Sciences.

The research group is collaborating with:

• Carers Council
• Child Poverty Action Group
• Framwork Housing 'Changing Futures' Programme evaluation
• Middle Street Resource Centre - 50 Years of Middle Street Resource Centre
• The Oral History Society
• RIP: SARS Disabled Young Researcher Collective
• St Ann's Advice Centre
• University of Nottingham and Framework Co(l)Lab PhD project
• University of Exeter
• University of Sheffield
• University of Bergen
• Yale University
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• Stockholm University
• University of Central Lancashire
• European Health Histories COST Action