Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Natasha joined as a Lecturer in Social Work at the School of Social Work in February 2023 having first started at UEA in 2018 completing a PhD with the School of Education and Lifelong Learning. Natasha has previously worked in both the voluntary and statutory sectors undertaking various roles in youth and community settings working within multi-agency partnerships including working as a Community Safety Adviser, setting up a charity working with children in local authority care and as a Chief Executive of a charity supporting voluntary organisations and community groups working with young people. She has over 15 years’ experience working at the strategic and policy level which has included 4 years as Independent Scrutiny for a Safeguarding Children Partnership and 6 years as Independent Chair of a Safeguarding Children Multi-Agency Workforce Development Group.
Her research interests include working with adolescents/young adults understanding relationships, futures, voice, participation and citizenship. With her multi-disciplinary background she is interested in safeguarding practice in a multi-agency environment. She is also interested in alternative approaches and methodologies within research in particular critical posthumanism, post-qualitative inquiry, creative and participatory methods.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 3 Finished
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Scoping Exercise: Children's Social Care research and services across East of England
National Institute for Health and Care Research
19/08/24 → 30/11/24
Project: Research
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Scoping Study for Safeguarding in Youth Justice Probation Services
Cocker, C., Larsson, B. & Rennolds, N.
1/12/23 → 31/01/25
Project: Consultancy
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Final analysis of serious case reviews for the period 2017-2019
Dickens, J., Cook, L., Cossar, J., Rennolds, N., Rimmer, J. & Sorensen, P.
1/08/21 → 30/04/22
Project: Research
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Hopeful Futures - Purposeful reimagining in care-experienced research
Fowler, N., Mitchell-Smith, Z., Rennolds, N. & Thomas, C., 10 Jan 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Evaluation of New Roads’ impact on the Police service: Research briefing
Larsson, B., Cocker, C., Hernon, J., Rennolds, N., Lavender, P., Sempe, L. & Pande, S., Dec 2023, Centre for Research on the Child and Family (CRCF).Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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Post-qualitative approach to researching temporalities: Making post-anthropocentric futures
Priyadharshini, E. & Rennolds, N., Jan 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Tales of Adult Learning, Relationships and Social Change within the National Citizen Service
Rennolds, N., 9 Mar 2023, Adult Learning and Social Change in the UK: National and Local Perspectives. Robbins, J. & Rogers, A. (eds.). London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 107-126 20 p. (Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Keeping Children Safe – A Speculative Posthuman Inquiry
Rennolds, N., Oct 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Activities
- 1 Participation in conference
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'What’ is an activist? Learning and enacting emergent youth civic engagements - paper presented at BERA 2023
Harry Dyer (Speaker), Esther Priyadharshini (Contributor), Lauren Bouttell (Contributor), Chris Millora (Contributor), Natasha Rennolds (Contributor) & Spyros Themelis (Contributor)
12 Sept 2023 → 14 Sept 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference