Miss Kathryn Sharratt

Kathryn joined the University of Huddersfield’s Applied Criminology Centre (ACC) in 2009. In 2007 Kathryn graduated from Coventry University with a first class honours degree in BSc Psychology and an MSc in Forensic Psychology and spent 18 months at the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) as a Measuring the Quality of Prison Life (MQPL) Research Assistant. Since joining the ACC Kathryn has been involved in a number of projects including an evaluation of the Youth Justice Board’s ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ programme and the EU Seventh Framework funded study ‘Children of Prisoners, Interventions and Mitigations to Strengthen Mental Health’ (COPING).

Interests

• Experiences of imprisonment
• Offender rehabilitation and resettlement
• Desistance from crime

Selected research projects

• Children of Prisoners, Interventions and Mitigations to Strengthen Mental Health (COPING)
• An Evaluation of the Youth Justice Board’s Preventing Violent Extremism Programme
• Evaluating Measures to Improve Personal Safety at Train Stations
• Building an Evidence Base of Alcohol Supply Points
• Residential Design and Crime

Publications (in press)

• Manby, M., Monchuk, L. and Sharratt, K. (in press) The importance of maintaining family ties during imprisonment – Perspectives of those involved in HMP New Hall’s Family Support Project.

2012

Robertson, O., Sharratt, K., Pascaru, G., Bieganski, J., Kearney, H., Sommerland, N., Jones, A., Raikes, B., Urban, M. and Cheung, R. (2012) ‘Stakeholder Perspectives on the Needs of Children of Prisoners in Europe’ Scientific Annals of the Ioan Cuza University Iasi: Social Work Series , 5 (2), pp. 98-114. ISSN 2065-3131

Sharratt, K (2012) ‘A European Study of Children’s Resilience to Parental Imprisonment’. In: 12th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology Criminology in the 21st Century: a Necessary Balance Between Freedom and Security, 12th - 15th September 2012, Bilbao, Spain

Batley , R., Rogerson, M., Johnson , D., Chintakayala , P., Nellthorp , J., Wardman , M., Hirschfield, A., Newton, A., Shires , J., Monchuk, L., Armitage, R. and Sharratt, K. (2012) Evaluating measures to improve personal security and the value of their benefits Rail Safety and Standards Board

Hirschfield, A., Christmann, K., Wilcox, A., Rogerson, M. and Sharratt, K. (2012) Process Evaluation of Preventing Violent Extremism Programmes for Young People Youth Justice Board

2011

Sharratt, K. and Ward, L. (2011) ‘Children of Prisoners, Interventions and Mitigations to Strengthen Mental Health (COPING)’. In: Action for Prisoners Families Conference : What's new in Research and Evaluation, 19th May 2011, Cambridge University Institute of Criminology

2010

Newton, A., Hirschfield, A., Sharratt, K. and Rogerson, M. (2010) Building an evidence base on alcohol supply points: A pilot project to generate intelligence for managing areas with licensed premises Alcohol Education Research Council

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), November 2011

Kathryn is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and currently teaches on the following modules:

• HFB1032 Skills for Criminologists
• HIB1011 Research Processes and Methods for Criminology
• HHB1038 Criminology Final Year Project