Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
- Community-engaged and co-produced research method and ethics
- Community researchers and community researcher training
- Community-engagement pedagogy
- Parenting support and intervention approaches in the UK
- Small/medium third sector organisations
- Third-sector delivery of parenting support
- Intimate-partner violence in young people and approaches to intervention in the UK
- Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities programme
Research Projects
- Interdisciplinary Supervision: Building Cross-Disciplinary Expertise In Future Environmental Research Leaders (PI). 2023.
- Co-developing environmental and sustainability pedagogy. How can co-producing pedagogy engage, empower, and inspire diverse student bodies as collaborative environmental change makers? (PI). partnered with The Young Foundation and a team of student 'peer' researchers. 2022-23.
- Qualitative insights into the Connected Network (PI). 2023.
- From PGR to Professor: Re-Imagining a Culture of Belonging in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences (PI). Research England, Enhancing Research Culture-funded. 2022-23.
- Building Inclusive Culture in Environmental Research: A Case Study of the Cabot Master’s by Research in Global Environmental Challenges (MScR) (co-PI). Research England, Enhancing Research Culture-funded. 2021-2022.
- Co-producing new inter-disciplinary solutions: coming together to tackle climate impacts, health, and wellbeing (PI), NERC-funded. Partner: Praxis Research. 2021-2022.
- Advanced Research Methods Training: Co-Production and Community Research (PI). ESRC-funded. Delivered to academic and public audiences through National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) in 2021.
- Accrediting Community Engagement: A Bristol Approach to Service-Learning (PI). 2018-2019, Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching (BILT).
- Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement (Senior Research Associate). 2013 - 2018, ESRC/AHRC.
- Community-Based Researchers - Making Co-production Happen (PI). 2017-2018, CC Catalyst Fund
- Girls Making History.(Project Lead). 2014 - 2015, EPSRC. (High Commendation from University of Bristol Engage Awards 2014/15)
- Gender Based Violence and Displacement. (methodological consultant). 2017 - 2019, ESRC/AHRC.
- Negotiating the Regulatory Terrain, An Ethnographic Case Study of Third Sector Parenting Programme Delivery in the UK. 2014 - 2024 (PhD research), ESRC, UoB Law School.
Structured keywords and research groupings
- Families and Parenting
- Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities
- Parenting Programmes
- Co-designing family support
- Third sector organisations
- co-production
- community researchers
- BILT
- Teaching Innovation Grant
- Service-learning and community engagement
- pedagogy
- Widening particpation
- Mature students
- Cabot Institute City Futures Research
- Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research
- Cabot Institute Food Security Research
Keywords
- Community Researchers
- Co-production
- Parenting
- Participation
- Research Ethics
- Teenage Intimate-Partner Violence
- Parenting Policy
- Parenting Programmes
- Third-Sector
- Community-Engagement
- Community-university collaboration
- Service-learning
- Pedagogy
- Community Researcher Training
- Research Methods Training
- Widening Particpation
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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RtR: Returning to Research: Enabling Mature PGRs to Thrive in Environmental Research Careers
Thomas-Hughes, H. J., Norris, J. M. & Beck, A. I. J.
10/11/23 → 31/07/24
Project: Research
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From PGR to Professor: Re-Imagining a Culture of Belonging in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences
Thomas-Hughes, H. J., Beck, A. I. J. & Norris, J. M.
1/01/23 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
Research output
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The Ethics of Co-Production in Practice: Reflections
Thomas-Hughes, H. & Mcdermont, M. A., 1 Aug 2021, Sage Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry. 1 ed. SAGE Publications Ltd, Vol. 1. p. 281-295 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
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Conceptualising quality in co-produced research
Howard, M. & Thomas-Hughes, H., 2 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Qualitative Research. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Open AccessFile6 Citations (Scopus)85 Downloads (Pure) -
Interlude: Community Researchers and Community Researcher Training
Thomas-Hughes, H., 2020, Imagining Regulation Differently: Co-creating for engagement. McDermont, M., Cole, T., Newman, J. & Piccini, A. (eds.). Policy Press, p. 43-48 6 p. (Connected Communities).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
Datasets
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Isolation and Loneliness of Older People
McDermont, M. A. (Creator), Thomas-Hughes, H. J. (Creator) & Howard, M. (Creator), University of Bristol, 15 Aug 2018
DOI: 10.5523/bris.xmql2x6m5mws24mw3y8im7mwy, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/xmql2x6m5mws24mw3y8im7mwy
Dataset
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Seeing Regulation Differently
McDermont, M. A. (Creator), Thomas-Hughes, H. J. (Creator) & Howard, M. (Creator), University of Bristol, 10 Jul 2018
DOI: 10.5523/bris.1jrcyfdh5t0qq23mxc98vn4mnd, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/1jrcyfdh5t0qq23mxc98vn4mnd
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Prizes
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Highly Commended - University of Bristol Engagement Award 2014/15
Thomas-Hughes, Helen J (Recipient) & Evans, Penny (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Other distinction
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NCCPE Engage Conference 2017: Exploring Collaboration
Helen Thomas-Hughes (Invited speaker) & Jenny Barke (Speaker)
7 Dec 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Co-production, Community Researchers and Ethics: Reflections from the field.
Helen Thomas-Hughes (Chair)
1 May 2017 → 5 May 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
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C2UEXPO 2017:
Helen Thomas-Hughes (Participant)
1 May 2017 → 5 May 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference