Victoria Jupp-Kina

Academic qualifications

• PhD Durham University, UK ‘Participant or Protagonist? The impact of the personal on children and young people’s participation’
  
• MA Social Research Methods (Social Work) Durham University, UK
• MA Applied Social Studies / Diploma in Social Work Durham University, UK.

Profile

My areas of interest centre on the development and effective implementation of participation and participatory practices within both national and international social work. I completed my PhD in May 2010 having undertaken a Participatory Action Research project with NGOs in São Paulo, Brazil. Working alongside social welfare practitioners to develop and implement participatory practices with children and young people, we explored the personal as well as professional challenges of putting theory into practice. Through combining a wide range of participatory methods, including photography, diagramming, drama and interactive games with reflective interviews and discussion we worked to identify some of the main personal and institutional challenges for the development of participatory practice. As a result of this research, emotions and emotionality emerged as a central research theme and I plan to develop further research to explore the impact of emotions on participatory practice through an internationally comparative study between Brazil and the UK.

Admin responsibilities

• MA Social Work
  Research Methods Coordinator, Social Work Division
• BA Social Work
  Module Leader:  Groups and Communities, Asylum and Immigration
• Practice Seminar Leader

Teaching responsibilities

MA Children, Youth and International Development

Teaching includes

• Global Agendas on Young People, Rights and Participation
• Applied Learning for Children, Youth and International Development

Research interests

• International social work
• Participatory Action Research
• Participatory processes with children and young people
• The impact of the emotions on social work practice
• Empowerment and relations of power within social work
• The practice of participation in differing socio-economic and historical contexts

Research centres

• Centre for Human Geography (CHG)

Membership and affiliation

General Social Care Council: Registered Social Worker

Professional activities or recognition

Independent Consultant: Participatory Practice – evaluation and development

Conferences

• Jupp Kina, V. (2010) Participante ou Protagonista? O impacto do indivíduo no processo de participação com crianças e adolescentes. Paper presented to the Social Movements Research Group, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, São Paulo.
• Jupp Kina, V. (2010) Should participation start from where ‘they’ are? The role of emotions in children and young people’s participation. Paper presented at the American Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
• Jupp Kina, V. (2010) Embodied, emotional and affective geographies of participation Invited panel discussant, American Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
• Jupp, V. (2009) Unfair expectations: the role of participation in challenging inequality Paper at the Latin American Studies Association International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Paper presented in Portuguese).
• Jupp, V. (2009) Participation and Institutional Democracy: an action research project exploring child and youth participation in São Paulo, Brazil Paper presented at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas USA.
• Jupp, V. (2009) Participation and Institutional Democracy: an action research project exploring child and youth participation in São Paulo, Brazil Paper presented at Ustinov Postgraduate Seminar, Durham University UK.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) Jupp Kina, V., What we say and what we do: reflexivity, emotions and power in children and young people’s participation, Children's Geographies 10 (2) : 201- 218

(2012) Jupp Kina, V., Participant or Protagonist? A critical analysis of children and young people’s participation in São Paulo, Brazil, International Social Work 55 (3) : 320- 336

(2011) Jupp Kina, V., Participatory practice: community-based action for transformative change, Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography 18 (4) : 576- 578