Dr Rachel Stuart
Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Deviance
Marie Jahoda 231
- Email: rachel.stuart@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265148
- Criminology and Criminal Justice studies
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Research area(s)
I am particularly interested in the impact of sustained institutional violence against the Gypsy/ Traveller community; innovative research methodologies; digital forms of sexual commerce; necro-politics and necroresistance; ultra-realism; zemiology and the study of social harms; intersectional criminology.
Research Interests
Traveller oral histories; research design; institutional violence; systemic violence against Traveller women; police violence against marginalised women.
I am attached to the Institute for Communities and Society.
Research grants and projects
Research Projects
Grants
Funder: NIHR
Duration: March 2024 - August 2026
Sex-worker communities and services have well-established violence prevention and support strategies but there is little evidence about which interventions work best to improve sex workers’ safety and mental health
Funder: British Academy
Duration: January 2022 - December 2022
This report presents the findings of an in-depth, qualitative study of digital poverty from the perspectives of two hyperlocal communities in the UK seaside town of Margate. Specifically, the study examined members of the Roma and Creative Diaspora.
Funder: NHIR
Duration: July 2021 - July 2022
Routes: New ways to talk about Covid-19 for better health. Focus on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities and migrant workers
Funder: Doctors of the World UK (London, GB)
Duration: October 2019 - October 2020
The UK's 'Inclusion Health' agenda, which advocates social justice approaches to health inequalities, identifies sex workers as a priority population . However, current commissioning guidelines do not fully account for sex workers' diverse needs and the structural factors that compromise their health . Sex workers report widespread stigma in health services but are rarely consulted on their development, despite growing emphasis on community involvement in health
Funder: NIHR
Duration: February 2017 - October 2020
Sex workers are at disproportionate risk of violence, sexual and emotional ill-health harms that are linked to sex work criminalisation. In the UK, indoor female sex workers are 2.6 times more likely to experience recent client violence if they have ever been arrested/in prison, irrespective of work location, migrant status and drug use
Project details
- Funder reference:NIHR156812
- Funder name:NIHR
- Title:Violence prevention and survivor support for and by sex workers: evaluation of a community-based intervention
- Description:Sex-worker communities and services have well-established violence prevention and support strategies but there is little evidence about which interventions work best to improve sex workers’ safety and mental health
- https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/swerv
- Amount:GBP 961,997.58
- Reporting Dates:31 Mar 2024 - 31 Aug 2026
- Funder name:British Academy
- Title:Digital poverty in Margate: a study of two hyperlocal communities
- Description:This report presents the findings of an in-depth, qualitative study of digital poverty from the perspectives of two hyperlocal communities in the UK seaside town of Margate. Specifically, the study examined members of the Roma and Creative Diaspora.
- https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/digital-poverty-in-margate-a-study-of-two-hyperlocal-communities/
- Amount:GBP 10,000
- Reporting Dates:31 Jan 2022 - 01 Dec 2022
- Funder name:NHIR
- Description:Routes: New ways to talk about Covid-19 for better health. Focus on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities and migrant workers
- https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4669580/1/Routes%20final%20report%20January%202023.pdf
- Amount:GBP 291,377
- Reporting Dates:01 Jul 2021 - 01 Jul 2022
2021- LEFT OUT IN THE COLD: Informing the development of a Doctors of the World service to support street sex workers to access health and social support services in London
- Doctors of the World UK (London, GB)
- Description:The UK's 'Inclusion Health' agenda, which advocates social justice approaches to health inequalities, identifies sex workers as a priority population . However, current commissioning guidelines do not fully account for sex workers' diverse needs and the structural factors that compromise their health . Sex workers report widespread stigma in health services but are rarely consulted on their development, despite growing emphasis on community involvement in health
- Amount:GBP 8,000
2020 - A Participatory Mixed Method Evaluation of How Removing Enforcement Could Affect Sex Workers' Safety, Health and Access to Services in East London
- Funder reference:15/55/58
- Funder name:NIHR
- Title:A participatory mixed-method evaluation on how removing enforcement could affect sex workers' safety, health and access to services, in East London
- Description:Sex workers are at disproportionate risk of violence, sexual and emotional ill-health harms that are linked to sex work criminalisation. In the UK, indoor female sex workers are 2.6 times more likely to experience recent client violence if they have ever been arrested/in prison, irrespective of work location, migrant status and drug use
- Amount:GBP 547,392.92