Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026A 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 000
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Something I worked on recently for the fabulous Turnaround Project in Belfast @qubcriminology.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 020
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Excited 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.iemedia.tenor.comtwo women are standing next to each other with their mouths open and they are saying yay !ALT: two women are standing next to each other with their mouths open and they are saying yay ! 010
Reposted by Kelly RazeyColm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · 30/11/2025How 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...link.springer.comTheorising Trauma and OffendingThis book synthesises trauma and criminological literature and augments it with the author’s own experience and research 072
Reposted by Kelly RazeyColm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · 30/12/2025www.qub.ac.uk/Research/cas...qub.ac.ukBreaking the Cycle of Youth Offending 011
Reposted by Kelly RazeyColm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Mental 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...youthendowmentfund.org.uk 042
Reposted by Kelly RazeyColm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · 12/12/2025www.madinamerica.com/2025/12/extr...madinamerica.comExtrafamilial Violence Strongly Linked to Mental Health Problems in Northern IrelandA new study in Northern Ireland shows that extrafamilial violence, such as bullying and community violence, is a powerful predictor of adult mental health problems. 032
Reposted by Kelly Razeyssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 09/12/2025This 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. 021
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 000
Reposted by Kelly RazeyColm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Challenging 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...link.springer.com“Are More ACEs Always Worse? Exploring Nonlinear Associations with Youth Behavior” - Journal of Youth and AdolescenceAlthough 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... 042
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Fabulous lunchtime presenting at the QUB ICCJ Three Minute Thesis Competition. Super excited to have placed 3rd @qubcriminology.bsky.social @slsshub.bsky.socialmedia.tenor.coma gold ribbon with the words 3rd place winner written on itALT: a gold ribbon with the words 3rd place winner written on it 000
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Received 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 030
Reposted by Kelly Razeyssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025This 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 021
Reposted by Kelly Razeyssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 01/09/2025This 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 042
Reposted by Kelly Razeyssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Our 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 021
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 07/08/2025It’s here 👏🏻 the 5th edition of the social science student journal @danielmuijs.bsky.social 031
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 28/07/2025What 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 010
Reposted by Kelly RazeyStable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Congratulations Eoin 👍👏 021
Reposted by Kelly RazeyStable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Dr 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 031
Reposted by Kelly RazeyStable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Dr 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 3/6 031
Reposted by Kelly RazeyStable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Aisling 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 4/6 031
Reposted by Kelly RazeyStable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Kelly Razey (@slsshub.bsky.social & @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social) presenting 'Amplifying Marginalised Voices: A Rapid Evidence Review of Participatory Methods Engaging Justice-Involved Youth' @ #NorthSouthCriminologyConference 031
Reposted by Kelly RazeyStable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Kylie Gill (@slsshub.bsky.social & @unioflimerick.bsky.social) presenting 'Crossing Borders: A Comparative Study of Leaving Care Policies in Ireland and Northern Ireland ' @ #NorthSouthCriminologyConference Post 6/6 041
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Really 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 032
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Great 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 022
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Excited to be at the 16th Annual North/South Criminology Conference with my colleagues from @slsshub.bsky.social #MaynoothCrimCon @qubcriminology.bsky.social 023
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025PhD 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 041
Reposted by Kelly Razeyssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025We 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.socialmedia.tenor.coma sign that says we 're hiring in orange on a white backgroundALT: a sign that says we 're hiring in orange on a white background 022
Reposted by Kelly RazeyStable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 30/05/2025SLSS 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) 011
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Pleased 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 020
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Please 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! 011
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Enjoyed 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 041
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Keynote 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 021
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Practising ahead of tomorrows PhD conference at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social #phdstudent 031
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Early 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 110
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Great afternoon introducing ALevel students to criminology @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social #AHSS #phdstudent 011
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Excited 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 051
Reposted by Kelly Razeyssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Sorry 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 #SSSJmedia.tenor.coma cat is sitting on a couch looking at a laptop .ALT: a cat is sitting on a couch looking at a laptop . 021
Reposted by Kelly RazeyStable Lives Safer Streets Hub @slsshub.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This 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 011
Reposted by Kelly RazeyShona Minson @shonaminson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Exciting 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... 0238
Kelly Razey @voicesmatter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Thought for today 🤔 #AuthoringAPhD #PatrickDunleavy #QuentinCrisp 000
Reposted by Kelly Razeyssstudentjournal.bsky.social @ssstudentjournal.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Please 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 031
Reposted by Kelly RazeyTeresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025More important research ✨📣 from our colleague Dr. Colm Walsh new data on paramilitary violence 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @qubcriminology.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNI young people still experience paramilitary-related trauma - reportThe study reveals significant levels of trauma that continue to impact all communities across generations. 012
Reposted by Kelly RazeyTeresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Qub 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 🌈 031
Reposted by Kelly RazeyTeresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Another 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....tandfonline.comTwenty-five years on the boundary between state and community: revisiting the ‘Impossibility’ of restorative justice and security informalismOnce 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... 011
Reposted by Kelly Razeyssstudentjournal.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 031