Staff Profile

Current:

I joined the sociology department as a Research Associate in 2018 and have since worked on several qualitative projects including Newcastle University Pathway to Impact and Impact Case Studies.

Girl-Kind: Celebrating the potential and exploring the challenges of being a girl in the North East

Faculty Impact Fund, Social Justice Fund and ESRC Impact Acceleration Award: ES/M500513/1

What are the differences Investing in Children make to young people and practitioners?

Faculty Impact Fund

The West End Refugee Service at 20 (1999-2019): Building Sanctuary in Complex Times

Newcastle Social Justice Fund

Background:

PhD (Newcastle University 2018)
Navigating Slow, ‘fast’ and crafted knowledges: knowing through Cittaslow

A Collaborative Doctoral Award funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

MSc (Durham University 2012)

Before entering post-graduate studies I was a practicing jeweller / maker working with precious and non-precious materials.  Experience of working with embodied skills informs my research interest in knowledge-systems that are held, refined and passed on through practice. 

Research interest

I am currently exploring interdisciplinary research questions drawing on geographical, anthropological, and practice-based enquiry - with particular reference to the status and credentialisation of knowledge held in practice.

Previous research roles

2017: External Consultant, Northumbria University. Designing and conducting confidential research to support a departmental Athena SWAN application

2016: Research Assistant, Newcastle University. Conducting qualitative interviews across the North East exploring how work values are passed between generations for CUPESSE (Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship). [European Commission FP7 613257 €5m project]

2015-16: Co-I (with Helen Jarvis), Newcastle University. Discrete short research project arising from my PhD: The Slow Cultural Ecosystem of Net-Fishing on the Tweed. [Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal £4k project]

2014: Invited Delegate/Observer, at the Cittaslow International Assembly in the Netherlands: AHRC RTS Grant

Additional RC funded research partnerships

2014-15: AHRC Connected Communities workshop series: Studio. Legacy enquiry on the role of artists in Connected Community projects

2014: AHRC Connected Communities public event: Ways of Knowing in Collaborative and Participatory Research. I led a workshop, working with materials as a distinctive form of embodied knowing

2013-14: AHRC Connected Communities workshop series: Ways of Knowing. Exploring different registers, values and subjectivities of collaborative research.

2012: AHRC Connected Communities follow-on project: Tackling ethical issues and dilemmas in community-based participatory research: a practical resource

2012: AHRC Connected Communities Summit, Manchester. Attending to co-facilitate a workshop: Tackling ethical issues in community based participatory research

2011: AHRC Connected Communities workshop series: Community Based Participatory Research Group: Ethics and Outcomes. Outcomes include: AHRC report, ‘Community-based Participatory Research: Ethical Challenges’

• Holland T, McBride A, Ralph S, Winkler-Reid S. Hearing Girls’ Voices: Girl-Kind NE 2017-20. Newcastle: Newcastle University, 2020.
• Holland T, McLaughlin J, Hay J. Working with Investing in Children: What difference does it make?. Newcastle University, 2020.
• Holland T, Jarvis H. Navigating Cittaslow. 2019.
• Jarvis H, Holland T. Salmon fishing on the Tweed: past, present, future. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Newcastle University, 2016.
• Graham H, Hill K, Holland T, Pool S. When the workshop is working: The role of artists in collaborative research with young people and communities. Qualitative Research Journal 2015, 15(4), 404-415.
• Graham H, Holland T, Hill KJ, Poole S. Ways of Knowing ‘Zine report. AHRC Connected Communities, 2014. Available at: https://waysofknowingresearch.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/ways-of-knowing-zine-1/.
• Banks S, Armstrong A, Carter K, Graham H, Hayward P, Henry A, Holland T, Holmes C, Lee A, McNulty A, Moore N, Nayling N, Stokoe A, Strachan A. Everyday ethics in community-based particpatory research. Contemporary Social Science 2013, 8(3), 263-277.
• Banks S, Armstrong A, Carter K, Holland T, McNulty A, Moore N, Lee A, Holmes C, Graham H, Henry A, Strachan A, Nayling N, Stokoe A, Hayward P. Community–based participatory research: a guide to ethical principles and practice. Centre for Social Justice and Community Action, Durham University and National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, 2012.