Research output per year
Research output per year
Research activity per year
Recent and ongoing projects include:
Research Assistant, International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership: Intergenerational Partnerships While Growing up on the Streets. This case study for the ICCRP will explore intergenerational trust relationships among street children and youth and adults, using secondary data analysis and novel participatory involvement in our Youth Engagement in Analysis Programme. (Sep 2022–Aug 2023).
Growing up on the Streets (legacy). Story map developed with street youth and street workers in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Street Life in the City on the Edge: Street youth recount their daily lives in Bukavu, DRC and a version of the story map in French: Vie de rue dans la ville à la frontière: Des jeunes de la rue racontent leurs vies quotidiennes à Bukavu, RDC (Jan–Mar 2022).
Researcher and Co-Investigator, Growing up on the Streets Fellowship Programme: Building Capacity and Creating Influence. Three ECR academic Fellows from Ghana, Lesotho and Zimbabwe engaged in capacity building, data analysis and co-production of academic articles at University of Dundee Jan-Mar 2020; led on NVivo qualitative analysis training and ongoing role in developing papers (Jan–May 2020). Project Extension for continuing collaboration on publications (Aug 2020–Dec 2021).
Displaced Communities, Environmental Degradation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Uganda. This project employed an innovative methodology combining qualitative and participatory methods with natural science remote sensing techniques to examine the relationships between forced migration and environmental change. (Aug 2020–Nov 2021)
Antislavery using Satellite Technology for Uganda’s Sustainability. An exploratory project into the use of new satellite image technology and how it may be used to aid efforts in anti-trafficking of people in Uganda. (Aug 2020–Mar 2021)
Growing up on the Streets (legacy) – Story map developed with street youth and street workers in Harare, Zimbabwe: In the Shadow of a Pandemic: Harare's Street Youth Experience COVID-19 (https://arcg.is/1q4WvH) (Jun–Jul 2020).
Researcher for Growing up on the Streets. Growing up on the Streets was a longitudinal, ethnographic participatory research project taking place in three African cities, co-produced with street children/youth, the research design employed a capability (rather than vulnerability) approach to their lives. (Jan 2013 – Dec 2020).
Project roles and activities have included:
January 2017 – Growing up on the Streets won the University’s Stephen Fry Public Engagement Project of the Year Award.
December 2015 – Growing up on the Streets was awarded the 2016 Market Research Society’s President’s Medal in recognition of its extraordinary contribution to impact.
October 2014 – my Masters dissertation, ‘The Implementation of a Single Scottish Police Force: The View from the Beats’ was Highly Commended by the Howard League for Penal Reform’s John Sunley Prize.
March 2014 – Distinction, Masters in Research (Applied Social Research, University of Stirling).
Jan 2020 – Dec 2021: Researcher and Co-Investigator, Growing up on the Streets fellowship programme: Building Capacity and Creating Influence.
Aug 2020–Nov 2021: Displaced Communities, Environmental Degradation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Uganda (funded by SFC/GCRF).
Aug 2020–Mar 2021: Antislavery using Satellite Technology for Uganda’s Sustainability (funded by the UK Space Agency).
2013 – 2020: Growing up in the Streets.
2016 – 2017: Youth Transitions in Protracted Crises: Refugee Youth Experiences of Transitions to Adulthood in Uganda & Jordan.
2013: ‘Review of Trafficking of Human Beings (THB) Literature and Key Themes’ (literature review) as research assistant on the ‘Stop Traffic: Unweaving the Web of Online Human Trafficking’ project, funded by Scottish Crucible and led by Dr Jonathan Mendel at the University of Dundee.
2010 – 2012: Completed three projects with Professor Nicholas Fyfe at the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, including two evaluations into the community policing model in Fife, see: ‘Police and Community Perceptions of the Operation and Impact of the Community Engagement Model in Fife’ (March 2012).
In 2010, ‘An Analysis of Independent Custody Visiting in Scotland’, commissioned by the Independent Custody Visiting Association, included semi-structured interviews with volunteer custody visitors and assessed and compared visit numbers to those detained in police cells across Scotland. Independent custody visiting then became a statutory requirement under the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Bill 2012.
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):
Master of Research, 'The Implementation of a Single Scottish Police Force: The View from the Beats
14 Sept 2011 → 14 Mar 2014
Award Date: 14 Mar 2014
Doctor of Philosophy, Love, Sex, Relationships: Expectations and Experiences of Love Relationships for Street Youth in Accra, Ghana
31 Jul 2018 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
van Blerk, L. (Creator), Shand, W. (Creator), Shanahan, P. (Creator), Hunter, J. (Creator), Gbeglo, S. (Contributor), Rubambura, T. D. (Contributor) & Chitsiku, S. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 14 Sept 2020
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-854123
Dataset
van Blerk, Lorraine (Recipient), Shand, Wayne (Recipient) & Hunter, Janine (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
van Blerk, Lorraine (Recipient), Hunter, Janine (Recipient), Shand, Wayne (Recipient) & Shanahan, Patrick (Recipient), 8 Dec 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Janine Hunter, Lorraine van Blerk & Jenny Woof
13/01/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Lorraine van Blerk, Janine Hunter & Jenny Woof
13/01/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research