Dr Cait Jobson

I am a Research Fellow at Northumbria University on the The Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘The Horror of Place-Based Harms’ with Tom Disney, Angelika Strohmayer and Claire Nally within the School of Communities and Education. The project seeks to understand why certain places become associated with extra-familial harms for young people in their communities. Read more here: https://www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetrust/june-2026?p=13

I am a participatory researcher, using a participatory action research approach, I aim to centre young people’s voices in making radical social change within policy and everyday practice. My doctoral research took PAR approach to exploring domestic abuse help-seeking with 12 LGBTQ+ young co-researchers.

My previous roles include:

Doing PAR with neurodiverse young people -

Working across the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action (CSJCA) and the Centre for Neurodiversity and Development (CND) to produce and evaluate a training package for doing participatory research with neurodivergent young people.

Everybody's Business in the Contextual Safeguarding Research Programme -

Working to explore the use of Contextual Safeguarding in hospitality settings, partnering with local restaurants and safeguarding services to find new solutions and support sustained change.