Newcastle University

Introduction

Director of Postgraduate Research Training

Roles and Responsibilities

Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research);
Director of Postgraduate Research Training Programme,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences;
DPD and Exams Officer for Inter-Faculty modules for research masters and IPhD programmes

For details of the Postgraduate Research Training Programme, go here:

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hss/postgrad/training/

Current Work

Writing across Boundaries: Explorations in Research, Writing and Rhetoric in Qualitative Research, ESRC Researcher Development Initiative (with Bob Simpson, Durham University)

http://www.dur.ac.uk/writingacrossboundaries/

Postgraduate Supervision

I have supervised 15 doctoral researchers to completion, on a wide variety of subjects. I am currently supervising:

 Sarah Wright:  'A Mixed Methods Study of Medical School Admissions: Issues of Fairness and Predicting Student Performance', with Philip Bradley (Medical Education) and Robin Henderson (Mathematics and Satistics)

 Sophie Yarker: 'Urban regeneration and the consequences for transformations of local identities', with John Tomaney and Andy Pike (Economic Geography).

Esteem Indicators 

Elected Chair, Biographical perspectives on European Societies Research Network, European Sociological Association. 2004-2008.

National Teaching Fellow 2011 

Funding

Funded Research Projects
2000 Pathways to Youth Crime Reduction, Youth Justice Board, £172,000.

2000 Youth Inclusion: An Evaluative Study of the North East Region, Youth Justice Board, £143,000.

2000 Early Intervention for Young Offenders, Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council, £52,394

2000 Youth Crime Audit: City of Gateshead. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council, £5,000.

2000 Bail Support Evaluation. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council £12,000.

2002 Youth Inclusion, extension to existing project, Youth Justice Board, £71,500.

2002 Teenage pregnancy and parenting: a study of inter-generational transmission of cultural beliefs and practices, ESRC CASE studentship in collaboration with Northumberland Health Authority. Northumberland Health Authority contribution: £22,500

2002 Early Intervention for Young Offenders, Housing and Health factors, Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council, £4,467.

2003 Mentoring Young Offenders, an evaluation, South Tyneside Youth Offending Team, £7,843.

2003 Youth Inclusion, extension to existing project, Youth Justice Board, £38,500.

2004 YOT Performance Measures: The Validity of Recidivism Rates at the Local Level, commissioned by Gateshead Youth Offending Team, £3,400.

2004 EUA Doctoral Programmes Project, coordinating group for Network 3, on Quality in Doctoral Education (with Professor Ella Ritchie and Dr Stan Taylor)

Postgraduate Teaching

Masters and Research Postgraduates
LESS804 Introduction to Qualitative Methods (Module leader)
LESS805 Introduction to Quantitiative Methods (Module Leader)

Research Postgraduates
Managing a PhD (Module Leader)
Research in the Wider Context (Module leader)

• Humphrey R, Simpson B. Negotiating a 'scary gap': Doctoral candidates, 'writing up' qualitative data and the contemporary supervisory relationship. Journal of Education and Training Studies 2013, 1(1), 1-10.
• Humphrey R. Life Stories and Social Careers: Ageing and Social Life in an Ex-Mining Town. In: Goodwin, J, ed. SAGE Biographical Research. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012. In Press.
• Humphrey R, Simpson B. Writes of passage: writing up qualitative data as a threshold concept in doctoral research. Teaching in Higher Education 2012, 17(6), 735-746.
• Humphrey R, Marshall J, Leonardo L. The Impact of Research Training and Codes of Practice Procedures on Submission of Doctoral Degrees: An Exploratory Cohort Study. Higher Education Quarterly 2012, 66(1), 47-64.
• Humphrey R. The Thesis in the Social Sciences. European Universities Association - European Council for Doctoral Education News, 2010.
• Simpson B, Humphrey R. Writing across Boundaries: Reflections on the Place of Writing in Doctoral Research Training for Social Scientists. Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences 2010, 3(1), 69-91.
• Humphrey R. Pulling Structured Inequality into Higher Education: the Impact of Part-Time Working on English University Students. Higher Education Quaterly 2006, 60(3), 270-286.
• Miller R, Humphrey R, Zdravomyslova E. Biographical Research and Historical Watersheds. In: Miller, R, ed. Biographical Research Methods: Time and Biographical Research. London: Sage, 2005, pp.113-132.
• Humphrey R. Life Stories and Social Careers: Ageing and Social Life in an Ex-Mining Town. In: Mathew, D, ed. Case Study Research. Sage, 2005.
• Humphrey R, Miller R, Zdravomyslova E, ed. Biographical Research in Eastern Europe: Altered Lives and Broken Biographies. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
• Humphrey R. Biography and social exclusion in Europe experiences and life journeys. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 2003, 32(6), 781-782.
• Humphrey R, Middleton C, Finnegan R, Hemmings S, Phillips D, ed. Learning to Research: Resources for Learning and Teaching in Sociology and Social Policy. Sheffield: University of Sheffield, 2001.
• Humphrey R, McCarthy P. Recognising Difference: Providing for Postgraduate Students. Studies in Higher Education 1999, 24(3), 371-386.