Personal statement
Melanie’s areas of expertise is on men's violence against women, children and young people including abuse in young people’s intimate relationships; domestic abuse in same sex relationships, sexual and other forms of abuse towards and by staff and students in education settings; forced marriage; gender roles and relations; participatory methods; and research ethics. She has published widely and works closely with practitioners and activitists.
In addition to teching on the undergraduate BA Social Policy and MSc Social Policy programmes, Melanie is research active. She recently completed work on the Scottish Government funded research Equally Safe in Higher Education (ESHE) and Equaly Safe in Colleges and Universities (ESCU) which created a Toolkit for tackling gender based violence on campus. This Toolkit is freely available for all Scottish higher and further education instutions. The Scottish Government and Scottish Funding Council now require all Scottish univeristies to implement the Toolkit in their efforts to tackle gender-based violence.
Research interests
Melanie is co Primary Investigator (with Anni Donaldosn and Roisin McGoldrick) on a Scottish Government funded reseaarch project implemeting the Scottish Government Violencee Against Women and Girl's policy Equally Safe in higher and further education settings.
Professional activities
- Engaging Men and Boys in the Prevention of Men’s Violence Against Women in the UK
- External Examiner
- 18/11/2019
- 3rd European Conference on Domestic Violence
- Participant
- 1/9/2019
- 3rd European Conference on Domestic Violence
- Participant
- 1/9/2019
- Young People and Domestic Abuse: The Changing Landscape
- Participant
- 1/3/2019
- Gender and Education Conference 2018
- Participant
- 9/12/2018
- Gender and Education Conference 2018
- Participant
- 9/12/2018
More professional activities
Projects
- Bullying and Harassment in the Music Industries
- McCarry, Melanie (Principal Investigator)
- £3150.00 funding secured to employ RA
- 02-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- Understanding Forced Marriage MOOC Violence against Women
- Donaldson, Anni (Principal Investigator) McCarry, Melanie (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 29-Jan-2020
- Equally Safe in Higher and Further Education
- Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator) McCarry, Melanie (Co-investigator) McGoldrick, Roisin (Co-investigator) Pilkington, Kevin (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 30-Jan-2019
- Understanding Forced Marriage in Scotland
- McCarry, Melanie (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2015 - 31-Jan-2016
- Safer Together: Impact Evaluation
- McCarry, Melanie (Principal Investigator)
- Lancashire County Council. Line management of Research Associate (Dr Yeend) (2015-2016). £10,000.00
- 01-Jan-2015 - 31-Jan-2016
- Step-up-Building the Evidence Base for Early Intervention Responses for Children Living with Domestic Abuse
- McCarry, Melanie (Co-investigator)
- Economic and Social Research Council, Step-up-Building the Evidence Base for Early Intervention Responses for Children Living with Domestic Abuse with Prof Radford (co-PI) (UCLan) and Prof Stanley (co-PI) (UCLan).(2014-2017). £230,000.00
- 01-Jan-2014 - 31-Jan-2017
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