CYWS
Funder: Brunel University of London: Research and Development Office Innovation Voucher
Duration: October 2025 - March 2025
The Service Children's Champion (SCC) role at North Yorkshire Council (NYC), established in 2012, is the only appointment of this type in the country. The aim of this project is to work in collaboration with the SCC to evaluate their unique programme of activities designed and implemented to support children from armed forces families and those working with them. It will provide the data to illustrate the crucial impact of the role and: 1. Support a business case for future funding through the council to make it a sustainable and permanent role at NYC. 2. Inform the development of the programme, tools and processes. 3. Offer other councils’ ideas to support the work they are mandated to undertake for the children from armed forces families. 4. Create a blueprint for the SCC role and evidence for the rationale for the introduction of SCC role in other councils.
Funder: Forces in Mind Trust
Duration: September 2025 - August 2027
The Next Steps project is essential to address current knowledge gaps by exploring the experiences of children and young people before, during and after their parent/guardian transitions out of the Armed Forces community. This project will explore the areas that they indicate need consideration, and the generated knowledge will be used to identify good practice that currently exists in supporting them as well as the further development that is needed. It starts from the premise that this is a heterogeneous group from a diversity of backgrounds and experiences, both positive and negative, and with expertise about their own lives. By directly involving children and young people in the design of the research and process, the study will provide a rich, authentic, detailed and nuanced understanding of the unique opportunities and challenges they experience at this particular transition point in the serving parent’s/guardian’s career and their family life.
Funder: The Della Fish Foundation
Duration: August 2025 - January 2026
This research project foregrounds the significance of doctors getting to the heart of patient stories to inform wise decision-making. In this project ‘getting to the heart of patient stories’ means listening and responding wisely (with compassion and analytical rigour). We will run a one-day research workshop with medical educators involved in postgraduate education. In the workshop we will explore and develop participants’ knowledge, skills and expertise in educating foundation doctors in narrative inquiry, recognising its crucial role in praxis and phronesis. Narrative inquiry is an established methodological activity and, in this project, refers to the process of interpreting the stories told to doctors by patients and the stories told by others about each patient (e.g. family and other healthcare providers).
Funder: Brunel University of London (Research England) - Mid-Career Funding
Duration: March 2025 - June 2025
This request for funding is to facilitate the completion of a literature review in the area of ‘children from armed forces families’ where there is currently very little research. The report from our project entitled ‘‘Grown Up’ Children from Armed Forces Families’ will be published in January 2025 and this funding will facilitate the key next steps in preparation for REF outputs and impact work. The proposed literature review will provide the foundation for journal articles, a grant funding application to upscale the pilot project that has led to the report, and other dissemination activities. The money will be used to employ a suitably qualified post-doc to complete the literature review to support the presentation of the findings of the data already collected.
Funder: Brunel University of London and Research England
Duration: February 2025 - June 2025
This funding is to facilitate the completion of a literature review in the area of ‘children from armed forces families’ where there is currently very little research
Funder: Global Lives Interdisciplinary Research Centre
Duration: January 2021 - August 2021
This project is exploring the experiences of 'grown up' children from military families who are 'missing' from the current profile of research about the military community.
Funder: Access and Participation Fund
Duration: June 2020 - September 2020
Funder: Access and Participation Fund
Duration: September 2019 - March 2020
Funder: Brunel University London: Research Seminar Series Award
Duration: October 2018 - May 2019
Seminar Series
Funder: Access and Student Success Fund
Duration: February 2017 - September 2017
Funder: European Commission
Duration: March 2016 - February 2018
Funder: ESRC
Duration: January 2011 - March 2013