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Dr Tina Skinner gained her PhD from the University of Sheffield in 1998; she then became a Lecturer in Criminology first at the University of Teesside and then the University of Leicester. She was appointed Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bath in 2002, and Associate Professor in 2012. She is one of the founders of the Criminology BSc at the University of Bath; a founder of the Special Interest Group on Disability, Work, Family and Care within the Work and Families Researcher Network (USA); and a founding member of the Researcher Wellbeing Strategic Change Group.

She has been asked to give evidence, speak and provide training at/through numerous international and national forums, on her areas of expertees: i) researcher wellbeing and emotionally challenging topics, ii) the intersection of dis-ability and gender and how this impacts on employment and wellbeing, and iii) gender-based violence. This includes at the Office of the Ombudsperson for Academic Ethics and Procedures in Lithuania, the UK House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee, the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Labour Party Conference,  the Violence Against Women and Girls Researcher Network, and the Council of Europe.

 

i) Researcher Wellbeing and Emotionally Challenging Topics

This area of research and policy/practice innovation brings together Tina’s experience of researching highly sensitive, emotionally challenging topics with her deep understanding of employment and wellbeing as well as her long-established skills in research and people management. Tina leads the Researcher Wellbeing Project (funded by the UKRI Research England Research Culture Fund) and GW4RWELL (the Great Western 4 Researcher Wellbeing Evidence and Learning Lab). A key output of the Researcher Wellbeing Project is a project report and guidance/resources, including a Researcher Wellbeing Plan Template, guidance on what to do if a researcher or participant gets distressed, and guidance on risk assessment linked to emotionally challenging research. These can be accessed free on the webpage. She is also a founding member of the Researcher Wellbeing Strategic Change Group.

Tina provides training on researcher wellbeing and emotionally challenging topics. If you are interested in attending the training or commissioning bespoke training for your university, institution or team, please contact Alison Borgelin on [email protected].

 

ii) The intersection of dis-ability and gender and how this impact on employment and wellbeing

As a disabled and neurodiverse person, Tina has also undertaken leading studies on the intersection of dis-ability and gender, and the impacts on work and wellbeing. Her research includes qualitative work on dis-ability, work, and the impacts of motherhood (Skinner, 2011 and 2013; Skinner and MacGill, 2015); and large-scale quantitative work on the economic wellbeing of disabled men and women (Kim, Parish and Skinner, 2019), and gender, dis-ability and employment (Kim, Skinner and Parish, 2020). The key findings of the latter two studies are that whilst the dis-ability employment gap may be reducing between disabled and non-disabled people, the gap in economic wellbeing is widening, and disabled women continue to be the most marginalized. She is currently working with Prof Matt Dickson on an analysis of the effects of becoming disabled on work, wages and wellbeing. This is the largest of its kind in the UK, spanning 1991 to 2018.

 

iii) Gender-based violence

Tina has undertaken Home Office funded projects on: young survivors’ experiences in the criminal justice system, including an evaluation of a SARCs (Sexual Assault Referral Centres); Independent Domestic Violence Advisors; and healthy relationship education with young people. She also edited the book Researching Gender Violence which brought together work of the British Sociological Association’s Violence Against Women Study Group. With Dr Olivia Smith she has published on court responses to rape victim-survivors; and with Dr Jade Bloomfield-Utting she has undertaken research on friends/family/partner responses to victim-survivors’ disclosures. She also worked with GW4 colleagues to help develop a strategic response to gender-based violence at university.

 

Awarded:

  • ‘Personal Tutor of the Year’ (2009)
  • ‘Merit Award’ for the excellence of her lecturing, dissertation supervision and tutoring (2010)
  • ‘Higher Merit Award’ primarily for her supervision of PhD students (2011)
  • 'Outstanding Contribution Award' for leadership and management (2012)
  • 'Recognising Excellence Team Award' for working to enhance researcher wellbeing for PhD students across the South West Doctorial Training Partnership (2021)
  • 'Recognising Excellence Individual Award' for innovation in undergraduate assessment (2021)
  • 'Outstanding Contribution Award' for contributions to researcher wellbeing (2022)
  • 'Doctoral Recognition Award' (2023)
  • 'Excellence in Doctorial Supervision Prize' (2023)
  • 'Recognising Excellence Award' for work on Researcher Wellbeing and Emotionally Challenging Topics (2024)

 

Nominated and shortlisted for

  • ‘Innovation in Learning and Teaching Award’ (2020)
  • ‘Leadership in Learning and Teaching Award’ (2016)
  • ‘Excellence in Doctoral Supervision’ (2016)

 

 

Willing to supervise doctoral students

Dr Tina Skinner primarily supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students in areas of research:

  • Researcher wellbeing and emotionally challenging topics
  • Sexual violence (policing, courts, ISVAs, SARCs, university responses; victim-survivors experiances of services/disclosure; education for young people; procedural justice, kaleidoscopic justice
  • Domestic abuse, sexual violence and health relationship education for students and young people
  • Identity and mothering
  • Dis-ability, employment and wellbeing

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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