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Kelly Razey

@voicesmatter.bsky.social
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Researching justice through listening, participation, and lived experience. Interested in how decisions are made and how they are experienced. All views my own ☺️

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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New editor in coming …
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Great opportunity to be had…
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
A key aim of my PhD is involving children and young people in research as much as possible. Using participatory methods & peer-led analysis (PTE), they helped shape the research. Not without limits, but a step towards reflecting lived experience. @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Something I worked on recently for the fabulous Turnaround Project in Belfast @qubcriminology.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Excited to share that I am one of the lucky people to have been awarded a justice fellowship by CORD-partnership www.maynoothuniversity.ie/cord-partner... @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie
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Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
How can we better explain why so many in the criminal justice system have trauma backgrounds (& why so many with trauma backgrounds aren’t)? In my new book I theorise the link between adversity, trauma & violent offending, proposing a deprivation framework: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Theorising Trauma and Offending
This book synthesises trauma and criminological literature and augments it with the author’s own experience and research
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Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Breaking the Cycle of Youth Offending
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Take a look 👀
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Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Mental health and experience of violence: sobering insights from @youthendowmentfund.org.uk , including impact of exposure and system-level challenges addressing MH needs. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Extrafamilial Violence Strongly Linked to Mental Health Problems in Northern Ireland
A new study in Northern Ireland shows that extrafamilial violence, such as bullying and community violence, is a powerful predictor of adult mental health problems.
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ssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This weeks featured essay is that of UG student Stella Lee. Stella was a first year student when she took the step to contact us to get her essay published @ssesw.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social blogs.qub.ac.uk/sssj/undergr... Submissions are open for the 6th edition of the journal.
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
@bsky.app Received an amazing email this morning. My first ever article as the sole author has been published www.youthandpolicy.org/about-us/ @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social
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Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Challenging the orthodoxy of ACE dose-response effect among justice involved youth: “Results revealed curvilinear associations for several outcomes, including recidivism and internalizing symptoms, with diminishing effects at higher ACE levels.” link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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“Are More ACEs Always Worse? Exploring Nonlinear Associations with Youth Behavior” - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Although it is assumed that more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are associated with worse health and social problems, there is a lack of research testing alternative forms of the ACEs-outcome re...
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Fabulous lunchtime presenting at the QUB ICCJ Three Minute Thesis Competition. Super excited to have placed 3rd @qubcriminology.bsky.social @slsshub.bsky.social
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Received an amazing from QUB Centre for Educational Development. I have won the Teaching Award in the Individual Category. Absolutely thrilled to be the recipient of this award & look forward to the award celebration in December @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social
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ssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This weeks featured essay is that of 3rd Year Criminology & Sociology UG Zoe Humphries. Her essay is entitled 'Does imprisonment promote rehabilitation & reduce reoffending: A Critical Analysis.' Read it in full here blogs.qub.ac.uk/sssj/ @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #SSSJ
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ssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
This weeks featured essay is that of 3rd year Sociology undergraduate Emma Flowers. Their essay is entitled Critical Theory vs Structural Functionalism: A Critical Evaluation blogs.qub.ac.uk/sssj/critica... @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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ssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Our published undergraduate students essays our now live on our webpage blogs.qub.ac.uk/sssj/journal... The first student to be featured is Akanksha Chauhan with their Briefing Paper on The Impact of Overcrowding on Prison Rehabilitation & Staff Safety in NI @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #SSSJ
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It’s here 👏🏻 the 5th edition of the social science student journal @danielmuijs.bsky.social
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
What do people do to help get out of a writing slump? I have lots I need to be writing but when I sit down to start tapping away at the keyboard I just can’t seem to get going? Not the usual state of affairs for me as normally can tap away to my hearts content! #phdlife
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Stable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Congratulations Eoin 👍👏
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This was such an informative session.
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Stable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Dr Antoinette Keaney Bell (@slsshub.bsky.social & @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social) presenting 'Hidden Harm - Exploring the use of Geographical Information System geostatistical analysis to identify where Child Criminal Exploitation might cluster' @ #NorthSouthCriminologyConference
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Stable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Dr Orlaith Rice (@slsshub.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social) presenting 'Gendered Pathways to Justice Contact: Young People in the Justice System in Northern Ireland' @ #NorthSouthCriminologyConference Post 3/6
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Stable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Aisling Reidy (@slsshub.bsky.social & @unioflimerick.bsky.social) presenting ''No Wrong Door’: Exploring Service Delivery and Complexity through the Voices of Young People, Parents, and Frontline Professionals' @ #NorthSouthCriminologyConference Post 4/6
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Stable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Kelly Razey (@slsshub.bsky.social & @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social) presenting 'Amplifying Marginalised Voices: A Rapid Evidence Review of Participatory Methods Engaging Justice-Involved Youth' @ #NorthSouthCriminologyConference
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Stable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Kylie Gill (@slsshub.bsky.social & @unioflimerick.bsky.social) presenting 'Crossing Borders: A Comparative Study of Leaving Care Policies in Ireland and Northern Ireland ' @ #NorthSouthCriminologyConference Post 6/6
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Really enjoyed presenting at the North/South Crim Conference yesterday! I get so nervous and it most definitely isn’t one of my favourite things to do but the people who attended really made me feel at ease. Such a great day @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social #maynoothcrimcon
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Great morning session on Young Adulthood & the Justice System #MaynoothCrimCon Informative presentations by our own hub colleague Kylie Gill, as well as presentations from Alison Coyne UCD and Siobhan Buckley UU @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Excited to be at the 16th Annual North/South Criminology Conference with my colleagues from @slsshub.bsky.social #MaynoothCrimCon @qubcriminology.bsky.social
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
PhD Training Day ahead of the North/South Criminology Conference at Maynooth University where I will be presenting my paper #MaynoothCrimCon @qubcriminology.bsky.social @slsshub.bsky.social
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ssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We are on the look out for our next PGT Editor in Chief! If you are a current PhD student in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen's University and interested in volunteering, email sssj@qub.ac.uk @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @childrensrightsqub.bsky.social
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Stable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
SLSS Hub's Principal Investigators Dr Catherine Naughton (RoI) & Dr Colm Walsh (NI) were invited to present at the ministerial meeting 'Advancement of North-South Criminal Justice Cooperation' in Government Buildings this week. In attendance were Ministers Jim O'Callaghan (RoI) & Naomi Long (NI)
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Pleased to have passed my annual progress review this morning. Such an amazing panel, who were genuinely interested in my research and methodology. Really has given me a confidence boost @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social #phdstudent
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Please get behind this. It is barbaric that in this day and age this is deemed a suitable way forward! STOP the use of PAVA spray on children!
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Enjoyed presenting my research methodology to a roomful of welcoming and friendly scholars at the @cambridgeup.bsky.social Institute of Criminology, PhD 2 day conference @qubcriminology.bsky.social @slsshub.bsky.social
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Keynote speaker Professor Shadd Maruna at the PhD conference at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge @slsshub.bsky.social @shaddmaruna.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Practising ahead of tomorrows PhD conference at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social #phdstudent
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Early flight this morning! Heading to the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge to present on my methodology @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social #phdstudent
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Great afternoon introducing ALevel students to criminology @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social #AHSS #phdstudent
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Excited to be presenting on my research’s methodology at the PhD conference - Criminology in an Interdisciplinary Age at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge on 28th -29th April @slsshub.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social
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ssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Sorry we have been quiet of late, we are working away in the background reviewing all the UG and PGT entries and getting the journal ready for publication @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #SSESW #SSSJ
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Stable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This months Reading Club will look at Paradoxes of Collaborative Governance: Investigating the Real-life Dynamics of Multi-agency Collaborations using a Quasi-experimental Action-research Approach by Maurits Waardenburg, Martijn Groenleer, Jorrit de Jong & Bas Keijser
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Shona Minson @shonaminson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Exciting to see our paper on international women's problem solving courts in the Prison Service Journal. Co-authored this with @rutharmstrong.bsky.social and two @oxfordcrim.bsky.social graduate researchers @arkluge.bsky.social and @iuliavatau.bsky.social👏 www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/prison-servi...
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Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thought for today 🤔 #AuthoringAPhD #PatrickDunleavy #QuentinCrisp
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ssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Please welcome Megan to our team. Megan is one of our new PGT peer reviewers. She is currently study a Masters in Research at SSESW 👏 @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #sssj
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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
More important research ✨📣 from our colleague Dr. Colm Walsh new data on paramilitary violence 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @qubcriminology.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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NI young people still experience paramilitary-related trauma - report
The study reveals significant levels of trauma that continue to impact all communities across generations.
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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Qub SSESW students met today to discuss gender equity within the school - as part of Athena Swan action- they had 🍕🍕🍕 and fun ! look at the pictures 🌈
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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Another great research publication from our colleagues John Topping, Allely Albert and Richard Marty 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽check it out @qubcriminology.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Twenty-five years on the boundary between state and community: revisiting the ‘Impossibility’ of restorative justice and security informalism
Once considered ‘impossible’, community-based restorative justice (CBRJ) in Northern Ireland has commanded attention and criticism in equal measure for over twenty-five years. While a necessary foc...
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ssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
📢 Announcement 📢 Due to the overwhelming response and the incredible number of entries, the Social Science Student Journal is no longer accepting new submissions from UG and PGT students. We are truly grateful for the enthusiasm & support from all contributors. @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #SSSJ
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