Katie Tyrrell

Katie has experience of teaching research methods to undergraduate level students, and has contributed towards the Social Science Research Skills and Secondary Data Analysis modules at the University of Suffolk. Katie has also delivered CPD sessions to health practitioner students around writing for publication, and facilitated staff training workshops around delivering focus groups and interviewing vulnerable groups. Katie also has experience of supervising masters level students.

Katie’s current research interests lie within applied social sciences, including a broad range of topics related to social justice and social policy, particularly in the context of higher education. She is interested in the everyday interactions between people, technology and society, young people’s digital intimacies and technology-facilitated sexual and domestic violence. Her current and previous research and evaluation projects involve the investigation of inequality of opportunity in education, student mental health and wellbeing, youth justice, unemployment and social action, digital civility and online abuse in university ecologies.

Katie has engaged in multiple evaluation projects, including, for example, evaluations of rehabilitative youth offending programmes, training programmes for professionals working alongside children who are victims of online abuse and interventions to reduce inequality of opportunity in education. Katie has an interest in research which utilises co-production and creative methodologies to facilitate meaningful participation.  

Journal articles:

Sampson, K., Priestley, M., Dodd, A. L., Broglia, E., Wykes, T., Robotham, D., Tyrrell, K., Ortega Vega, M,. & Byrom, N. C. (2022). Key questions: research priorities for student mental health. BJPsych Open, 8(3), e90. 

Buck, E. & Tyrrell, K. (2022) Block and blend: a mixed method investigation into the impact of a pilot block teaching and blended learning approach upon student outcomes and experience, Journal of Further and Higher Education. 

Jackman, P, Sanderson, R, Haughey, T, Brett, C, White, N, Zile, A, Tyrrell, K & Byrom, N (2021). The impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK for doctoral and early career researchers. Higher Education. 

Dodd, A. L., Priestley, M., Tyrrell, K., Cygan, S., Newell, C., & Byrom, N. C. (2021). University student well-being in the United Kingdom: a scoping review of its conceptualisation and measurement. Journal of Mental Health, 1-13. 

Bond, E., & Tyrrell, K. (2018). Understanding revenge pornography: A national survey of police officers and staff in England and Wales. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-16. 

James, S., Bell, O. A., Nazli, M. A., Pearce, R. E., Spencer, J., Tyrrell, K., ... & Gurney, K. (2017). Target-distractor synchrony affects performance in a novel motor task for studying action selection. PloS one, 12(5).  

Book chapters and research reports:

Tyrrell, K., Phippen, A., Bond, E. (2024). Systemic Responses to Online Abuse on Campus. In: Adisa, O., Bond, E. (eds) Tackling Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence. Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Tyrrell, K. (2023)  Youth social action: shaping communities, driving change. In: Critical perspectives on research with children: reflexivity, methodology, and researcher identity. Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781529216776

Tyrrell, K., Snee, H. (Ed.), (2022). How to Research With Children Online [How to Guide]. SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online.

Adisa, O, Maitra, D, Allen, K, Tyrrell, K and Barbin, A (2022) H.O.P.E Cross-Cultural Training Evaluation. Project Report. Centre for Abuse Research, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Collis-Phillips, L., & Tyrrell, K. (2021). University, is it for me? Experiences of Black, Asian and Eastern European Students and Young People in Ipswich. University of Suffolk, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Richards, S, Fish, J & Tyrrell, K (2021) Bereavement support and training in Suffolk primary schools. Ipswich, Suffolk.

Tyrrell, K., & Collis-Phillips, L. (2020). CoronaCollections: Suffolk Young Peoples Experiences of COVID-19 and the transition back to education. University of Suffolk, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Allen, K, Adisa, O and Tyrrell, K (2020) Evaluation of Suffolk’s Domestic Abuse Champions Project. Project Report. Centre for Abuse Research, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, Suffolk. 

Tyrrell, K (2020) Suffolk Family Carers: Evaluating support available for young carers across primary schools in Suffolk. Ipswich: University of Suffolk.

Strudwick, R. Tyrrell, K, Tocca, A, Hayre, C. (2019) An evaluation of the Dementia Together Service provided by Sue Ryder, Ipswich, Suffolk.  

Tyrrell, K. (2019). Young peoples’ perceptions of provision and opportunities in Suffolk. Ipswich: University of Suffolk. 

Tyrrell, K (2018) Youth Engagement: Exploring methods of engagement and feedback on the Ipswich Opportunity Area delivery plan with young people. Ipswich: University of Suffolk. 

Phippen, A. Bond, E & Tyrrell, K (2018) Online Peer on Peer Abuse: A National Survey of Teachers and Safeguarding Leads in England and Scotland. Ipswich: University of Suffolk. 

Tyrrell, K & V, Rawlings (2018) Life Transitions: Well-being and Physical Activity. An evaluation of physical activity interventions in Ipswich and Stowmarket. Ipswich: University of Suffolk. 

Tyrrell, K.; Bond, E. Manning, M and Dogaru, C. (2017) Diversion, Prevention and Youth Justice: a model of integrated decision making: An evaluation of the Suffolk Youth Offending Service Diversion Programme. Ipswich: University of Suffolk.  

Bond, E. and Tyrrell, K. (2017) Findings from the online survey with professionals in Bedfordshire for MCF. Ipswich: University of Suffolk.

Tyrrell, K. and Bond, E. (2017) Well-being and online vulnerability for children aged 10-13 in Suffolk. Findings from three years of Suffolk Cybersurvey 2014-2016. Extension work for Better Policing Collaboration contract (ID: 2013-050) in support of the development of a multi-agency e-safety crime prevention (MESCP) initiative in Suffolk. Ipswich: University of Suffolk.

Cardoso, D., Tyrrell, K., Mancias Guerra, C., & Rikhraj, S. (2017). Chlorpromazine versus lithium for people with schizophrenia. The Cochrane Library.  

Published Abstracts and Conference Presentations:

Tyrrell, K (2022) Technology-mediated intimacy and abuse: What do we know from the perspectives of students in UK higher education?, (Re)Connecting on Gender-Based Violence, The University of Liverpool.

Tyrrell, K; Priestly, M. (2022) Measuring Student Well-being and Identifying Student Priorities. SMaRteN Showcase, Kings College London. 

Tyrrell, K. (2019) 'Transitions and Healthy Ageing: Evaluating the impact of exercise initiatives upon well-being and physical activity levels'. Tommy Flowers Conference, BT Adastral Park, Suffolk. 

Tyrrell, K; Phippen, A (2019) ‘Why assuming students are ‘Digital Natives’ fails to safeguard them at university’, Students in Changing Higher Education Landscapes, University of Surrey,

Tyrrell, K; Phippen, A, & Bond, E (2019) Round Table event at Office for Students’ to discuss ‘what works’ in tackling hate crime and online harassment affecting students, London.

Tyrrell, K & Bond, E (2019). ‘Growing up: from online safety to digital civility and digital wellbeing?’ Digital Differences: A Safer Internet for Whom? University of Suffolk, Ipswich.

Tyrrell, K, Strudwick, R & Page, A (2018) ‘Evaluation of the Dementia Together Service’, Health & Wellbeing Research Showcase, OneLife Suffolk, Leeds Beckett University with the University of Suffolk.

Tyrrell K & Marshall, J (2018) ‘Evaluation of the Dementia Together Service: Preliminary findings’, Movement and Memories: Exploring Perceptions of Dementia. ESRC Festival of Social Science, University of Suffolk, Ipswich.

Tyrrell, K (2018) ‘Evaluating professional needs for training in responding to disclosure of online sexual abuse in Kent’. Marie Collins Foundation Conference, Kent. 

Tyrrell, K & V, Rawlings (2018) 'Young people and Digital Wellbeing: Findings from a study with young people engaging in the National Citizen Service (NCS)' at A Child's World Conference 2018: New Shoes, New Directions, Aberystwyth, Wales. 

Tyrrell, K. (2017) 'Youth unemployment: Addressing real needs through social enterprise' at Looking for New Horizons: The Circular Economy, ICESBA, Bucharest, Romania.

 

Katie was a founding member of the Suffolk Institute for Social and Economic Research (now Institute of Social Justice and Crime), which has generated a six figure sum total in research funding, since its inception in 2018.

Katie has also worked with various statutory and non-statutory organisations, NGOs and charities to evaluate interventions and programmes, including local organisations such as Suffolk County Council, Suffolk Youth Offending Service, Suffolk Constabulary, Diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, Volunteering Matters, Inspire Suffolk and 4YP, and national organisations, such as Internet Matters, South West Grid for Learning, The Marie Collins Foundation (MCF), the Revenge Porn Helpline, the Office for Students and Universities UK.   

Office for Students (OfS) Safeguarding and Welfare Expert Advisory Panel (2019 - Current)

Office for Students (OfS) Mental Health Advisory Panel (2019 - Current)

Student Mental Health Research Network (SMaRteN) Research Prioritisation Exercise Steering Group (2019- Current)

Suffolk Young People's Health Project (4YP), Trustee. (2019 - Current)

Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS) (2016 - Current)

 

BBC Look East (2019) 'Young People's Provision in Suffolk' 

BBC Radio 5 Live (2019) 'Image-Based Sexual Abuse' 

BBC Look East (2018) 'Police Responses to Revenge Pornography'

Katie is working with the Director of Learning and Teaching and other academic and professional colleagues on the research and evaluation of the institutional OfS Access and Participation Plan 25-29. 

Katie worked alongside the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, the People and Organisational Development department and other Professional Services teams to develop Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion practices at the University of Suffolk, including our first successful institutional submission to the Athena Swan Charter. 

Katie worked alongside the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research to develop the institutional submission to the REF 2021 and support the early preparation for REF2029.

Katie also worked with colleagues across the Research Directorate to lead and develop the national Together for Transformation: Research for a Changing World Conference.