Dr Kimberley Ross
Deputy Head
Biography
Kim is a researcher and senior lecturer in the Division for Social and Political Science. Her interests include public social science, harm reduction and health risk behaviors and the development of creative research methods. In addition to teaching and research, Kim is the Division's PGR Tutor and is also Deputy Chair for the Social and Political Science Research Ethics Committee.
Teaching and Supervision
Kim specialises in interdisciplinary teaching within the social sciences. In particular, Kim's teaching focuses on the role that social scientists should have within wider society and the role that social science should have in challenging harms and injustice. Kim is module leader for the following modules: SO6312 - Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Criminology SO6313 - Risk and Harm Reduction In addition to the above, Kim also provides guest lectures across a number of Sociology and Criminology modules based up her research interests as well as supervising undergraduate dissertations.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Kim is part of the Social Justice Chester research group and has been collaboratively working with other academics in the Division for Social and Political Science to develop participatory and co-produced research to address issues pertaining to social injustices. Recent projects undertaken by Social Justice Chester include developing a framework for co-production that is now being piloted across local community organisations, a review of participatory approaches at West Cheshire Foodbank and a public research exhibition that was co-produced with West Cheshire Poverty Truth Commission which explored the lived experience of poverty. Kim has broad research interests in the area of risk behaviours and harms experienced within vulnerable populations, as well as expertise in the development of creative qualitative research methods, such as draw and write and photograph elicitation. Kim is currently supervising two PGR students: • Beth White (MPhil/PhD) – Participatory research exploring representations of resistance and protest in young adult fiction. • Roxy Birdsall (DProf) – Experiences of working-class councillors.