Dr Melanie McCarry
Senior Lecturer
Social Policy
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.
Prize And Awards
- Principal’s Special Award
- Recipient
- 2021
- Strathclyde Medal Award
- Recipient
- 28/9/2018
Qualifications
- 2011-2012 Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Bristol.
- Oct 00-Oct 03 Ph.D. School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Thesis: The Connection between Domestic Violence and Masculinity: What Young People Think. Funded: University of Bristol Scholarship
- Oct 99-Sept 00 M.Phil. (Distinction) Dept. of History with an Emphasis on the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow. Thesis: Medical and Social Attitudes Towards Women and Alcohol, 1875-1914. Funded: Wellcome Trust.
- Oct 96-July 99 B.A.(Hons) (First Class) Sociology and Social Policy, Glasgow Caledonian University. Dissertation: Sexual Violence against Women and Girls in Glasgow.
Publications
- To warn or not to warn? Trigger warnings in arts, humanities and social sciences in UK HE
- Boyle Karen, McCarry Melanie, House Melody
- Journal of Gender-Based Violence (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2025D000000081
- Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK
- Westmarland Nicole, McCarry Melanie
- Policing and Society, pp. 1-12 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2462742
- Trigger warnings in the classroom
- McCarry Melanie, Boyle Karen, House Melody
- Trigger Warnings in the Classroom, Dissemination event (2023)
- Trigger warnings in the classroom
- McCarry Melanie, Boyle Karen, House Melody
- Trigger Warnings in the Classroom, Online Dissemination event (2023)
- Developing a trauma informed curricula : 'Trigger Warnings' in research and teachings on gender-based violence
- McCarry Melanie, Boyle Karen, House Melody
- ‘Developing a Trauma Informed Curricula: ‘Trigger Warnings’ in research and teachings on gender-based violence’ (2023)
- Needle spiking and the legacy of not believing women
- McCarry Melanie, Westmarland N
- European Conference on Domestic Violence 2023 (2023)
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
- To Warn or not to Warn: Trigger Warnings in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- Organiser
- 14/12/2023
- To Warn or not to Warn: Trigger Warnings in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- Organiser
- 13/12/2023
- 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
- Social Work And Social Policy (Subject) (Organisational unit)
- Advisor
- 24/6/2019
Projects
- Cultures of Collaborative Research in a Socially Progressive Technological University / R230557-208
- McCarry, Melanie (Co-investigator)
- 16-Jan-2024 - 15-Jan-2025
- Trigger Warnings?: Towards a trauma-informed curriculum in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- Boyle, Karen (Principal Investigator) McCarry, Melanie (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 29-Jan-2023
- 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
Contact
Dr
Melanie
McCarry
Senior Lecturer
Social Policy
Email: melanie.mccarry@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted