Staff profiles
Dr Sadie Parr
Phone 0114 225 4525
E-mail s.parr@shu.ac.uk
Sadie Parr is a research fellow at CRESR. Her main research interests lie broadly within the fields of family and parenting policy, crime control and community safety.
She has been involved in a number of research projects which explore the socio-political impact of the government's anti-social behaviour policy agenda and has expertise in the evaluation of family and parenting-based policy responses.
Sadie has undertaken work with a range of clients including the Scottish Government, the Home Office, the Department for Education and the Department for communities and Local Government.
Research interests
Sadie has wide ranging research interests including
- governance of incivility and public safety
- interface between crime control and broader social policies
- anti-social behaviour policy agenda
- family and parenting policies
Current research projects
Please contact me for further details about these research projects and for summaries of the findings.
2010–2013 Evaluation of Rochdale Families Projects, Rochdale MBC, Role - member of the research team.
2009–2011 Evaluation of Intensive Interventions, Department for Children, Schools and Families. Role - member of the research team.
2009 A Process Evaluation of Celtic Against Drugs and Rangers Positive Choices Programmes, Scottish Government. Role - member of the research team.
2009 Evidence Review of the Drivers of Perceptions of Anti-social Behaviour, Home Office. Role - member of the research team.
2008 Social Fragmentation in English Housing estates: A review of the evidence, Housing Corporation. Role: Project director.
2007–8 Evaluation of Wakefield Families First Project, Wakefield District Partnership. Role, Project director.
2007 Evaluation of Leeds Signpost Family Intervention Project, Leeds City Council. Role, Project director.
2007 Critical review of the evidence base on disabled people's experiences of harassment and anti social behaviour within the social housing context in Britain, Disability Rights Commission.
2004–2007 Evaluation of intensive family support projects for tenants evicted for anti-social behaviour, ODPM.
2006–2007 Current Evaluation of the Implementation and Impact of Local Antisocial Behaviour Strategies at Neighbourhood Level in Selected Scottish Local Authorities, Scottish Executive.
2005–2007 Promoting young people's positive contribution to their communities: evaluating a rewards scheme, JRF.
Selected reports (2001 onwards)
Please contact me for further details about these research projects and for summaries of the findings.
Flint, J., Batty, E., Parr, S., Platts-Fowler, D., Nixon, J. and Sanderson, D. (2011) Evaluation of Intensive Intervention Projects. London: Department for Education.
Flint, J., Jones, A. and Parr, S. (2011) An evaluation of the sanction of Housing Benefit. Research Report No 728. London: Department for Work and Pensions.
Wells, P., Dayson, C. with Batty, E., Crisp, R. and Parr. S. (2011) Social Investment and its Impact: The Evaluation of Charity Bank in the North (PDF 1.79MB). Sheffield: CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University
Parr, S., Powell, R. and Duffy, D. (2008) Social Fragmentation in English Housing Estates: A Review of the Evidence. London, Housing Corporation.
Nixon, J., Parr, S., Hunter, C., Sanderson, D. and Whittle, S. (2007) The longer-term outcomes associated with families who have worked with intensive family support projects. London, ODPM.
Hunter, C., Hodge, N., Nixon, J., Parr, S. and Willis, B. (2007) Disabled people's experiences of antisocial behaviour and harassment in social housing: a critical review. London, Disability Rights Commission.
Nixon, J., Hunter, C., Parr, S., Myers, S., Whittle, S. and Sanderson, D. (2006) Anti-Social Behaviour Intensive Family Support Projects: An evaluation of six pioneering projects. London, ODPM.
Nixon, J., Hunter, C., Parr, S., Myers, S., Whittle, S. and Sanderson, D. (2006) Interim Evaluation Of Rehabilitation Projects For Families At Risk Of Losing Their Homes As A Result Of Anti-Social Behaviour. London, ODPM.
Hunter, C., Blandy, S., Cowan, D., Nixon, J., Hitchings, E., Pantazis, C. and Parr, S. (2005) The Exercise of Judicial Discretion in Rent Arrears Cases. Department for Constitutional Affairs.
Hunter, C., Nixon, J. and Parr, S. (2004) What works for Victims and Witnesses of Anti-Social Behaviour. Home Office.
Academic publications (2001 onwards)
Parr, S (2011). Family Policy and the Governance of Anti-Social Behaviour in the UK: Women’s Experiences of Intensive Family Support, Journal of Social Policy 40(4): 717-737.
Hunter, C., Nixon, J and Parr, S (2010). 'Mother Abuse: A Matter of Youth Justice', Child Welfare or Domestic Violence, Journal of Law and Society. 37(2): 264-84.
Parr, S. (2009) The role of social housing in the 'care' and 'control' of tenants with mental health problems. Social Policy and Society, 9(1): 111-222.
Parr, S. (2009) Confronting the Reality of Anti-Social Behaviour. Theoretical Criminology, 13 (3): 363-381.
Parr, S. and Nixon, J. (2009) Family Intervention Projects: sites of subversion and resilience. In: Barnes, M. and Prior, D. (Eds), Subversive Citizens Power, Agency and Resistance in Public Services. Policy Press.
Nixon, J. and Parr, S. (2008) Family Intervention Projects and the Efficacy of Parenting Interventions, In: Blyth, M. and Soloman, E. (eds). Prevention and Youth Crime: Is early intervention working? Policy Press.
Parr, S. and Nixon, J. (2008) Rationalising Family Intervention Projects. In: Squires, P. (Ed). ASBO Nation: The Criminalisation of Nuisance. Bristol, Policy Press.
Parr, S. (2008) Family Intervention Projects: A Site of Social Work Practice. British Journal of Social Work, 39(7), 111-122.
Nixon, J. and Parr, S. (2006) Anti-Social Behaviour: Voices from the Front Line. In: Flint, J. (ed). Housing, Urban Governance and Anti-Social Behaviour: Perspectives, Policy and Practice. Bristol, Policy Press
