Dr Nina Vaswani
Senior Research Fellow
Children and Young People's Centre for Justice
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Area of Expertise
youth justice
bereavement and loss
trauma
trauma-informed practice
masculinities
participatory research
coproduction
mental health
social justice
research with children and young people
Prize And Awards
- Strathclyde Medals 2023 (Team Award)
- Recipient
- 17/11/2023
- HaSS Outstanding Impact for Policy Award
- Recipient
- 6/2019
- Criminal Justice Matters - favourite article of the past 26 years
- Recipient
- 10/2/2016
- Class Prize (best overall performance)
- Recipient
- 15/9/2015
- Class Prize (best dissertation)
- Recipient
- 15/9/2015
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Publications
- Rights Respecting Justice for Children in Conflict with the Law
- Maclean Holly, Dyer Fiona, Vaswani Nina, Haydon Deena, Galli Maria, Charles Anthony, Bateman Tim, Kilkelly Ursula
- (2024)
- What does social justice look like and why is it so elusive for criminalised young adults?
- Weaver Beth, Vaswani Nina, McCulloch Trish
- Probation Quarterly, pp. 47-53 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.54006/UFZQ6628
- Exacerbating, illuminating and hiding rights issues : COVID-19 and children in conflict with the law
- Dyer Fiona, Lightowler Claire, Vaswani Nina
- International Journal of Human Rights Vol 27, pp. 1426-1441 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2022.2060205
- Incarcerated young men, masculinity, and trauma
- Cesaroni Carla, Maycock Matthew, Vaswani Nina
- Men and Masculinities Vol 26, pp. 188-209 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X231166690
- Glasgow Youth Court : Full Report
- Brown Aaron, Vaswani Nina
- (2023)
- Disenfranchised Grief in the Disenfranchised : a Sociological Intersectional Model of the Loss, Trauma and Bereavement Experiences of Young Men in Prison
- Vaswani Nina
- (2023)
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Professional Activities
- Child Friendly Justice European Network - Academic Seminar
- Participant
- 9/4/2024
- Youth Courts in Scotland
- Speaker
- 24/11/2023
- Bereavement: prevalence, impact and the need to take action
- Speaker
- 13/10/2023
- Disenfranchised grief in the disenfranchised
- Speaker
- 3/10/2023
- Factors affecting disenfranchised grief in boys and young men
- Speaker
- 30/8/2023
- Childhood bereavement and justice
- Speaker
- 9/3/2023
Projects
- Challenging Justice Inequalities. Co-producing change with children in conflict with the law
- Vaswani, Nina (Principal Investigator) Donnelly, Michelle (Co-investigator) Porter, Robert Benjamin (Co-investigator) Taylor, Yvette (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2026
- MEN-MINDs Project: Co-producing change for better mental health for adolescent young men at the margins
- Vaswani, Nina (Principal Investigator) Sime, Daniela (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Barnardo's Missing Service
- Vaswani, Nina (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2022
- Exploring the awareness, understanding and attitudes of children, young people and their families towards Restorative Justice
- Dyer, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Vaswani, Nina (Co-investigator)
- 18-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021
- Children's reconceptualisation of 'Justice': Expectations, Experiences, and Aspirations
- Vaswani, Nina (Principal Investigator) Gillon, Fern Rebecca Louise (Co-investigator) Lightowler, Claire (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- Digital Criminal Justice Provision
- Vaswani, Nina (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2021
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Contact
Dr
Nina
Vaswani
Senior Research Fellow
Children and Young People's Centre for Justice
Email: nina.vaswani@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8751