Nikki Rutter
Biographic Data
| ID | 246691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikki Rutter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikki |
| FAMILY NAME | Rutter |
| SIGNATURE | RUTTER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7671-506X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rabbits in Headlights
The Victim and Prisoners Act 2024 has legislated the responsibility of professionals to respond when they are aware children and young people (CYP) are experiencing domestic abuse. However, CYP are often concerned about what adult responses to their help-seeking may be, frequently encountering adults who freeze, like rabbits in headlights, unclear on how to respond appropriately. Thus, CYP may engage in help-seeking at different levels, at differ…
The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms
Due to harmful narratives within child welfare and child protection services and systems, mothers in contact with these services who aim to meet the symbolic representation of the ‘ideal mother’ frequently find themselves being portrayed as the ‘bad mother’, even when their referral is ‘non-traditional’ (i.e., not specifically due to their perceived harmful actions or inactions). Through ‘ideal mother’ symbolism and narratives, there is disenfran…
Children who Cause Harm Are People Too
Introduction The purpose of this research was to work directly with children instigating child and adolescent to parent violence and abuse due to explosive and harmful impulsive, and parents experiencing such harms, to understand their help-seeking practices and experiences. Methods This work was a participatory action research project in which parents of children experiencing harm from their children, and children instigating these harms, were i…
The role of ‘friendship as method’ with child co-researchers in the primary school environment
Within social science research the complex nature of relationship-making and ‘friendship as method’ has gained enthusiasm. However, there is still a significant lack of research on ‘friendship as method’ with children and young people in participatory studies. Drawing on empirical case studies, we ask: how does ‘friendship as method’ work in research with children? The paper considers the role of vulnerability and reservations, friendship facilit…
‘Yeah, embrace your anger. Fuck them.’
In this article, we argue that a Slow Feminism, which evolves through the slow but consistent support of other women that is embedded in care, compassion and constructive challenge against patriarchal expectations, is essential for the future of feminist praxis within higher education. This work emerged from our coming together to reflect-on-action on our experiences as disabled, women, postgraduate researchers in different disciplines during the…
“It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”
Unpacking our experiences as trainee researchers navigating a global pandemic; in this research four researchers identify and interpret otherwise individual experiences through a collective lens. These shared responses are collated and understood through the multivocal method of what we term a “feminst collaborative auto-ethnography.” Relational ethics using a praxis of care, in line with feminist epistemology underpin the systematic analysis of …
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance
Working with families living with child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence raises a number of challenges which were compounded during the Covid‐19 pandemic. In this article, UK umbrella organisation ‘Respect’ is used as a case study to explore how 10 practitioners navigated social, emotional and safeguarding concerns that occurred when transitioning to remote working. Engagement with children and young people proved difficult, especially for those…
We Need to be as a Group
As a UK-based group of female postgraduate researchers, the authors explored their experiences during COVID-19 pandemic through multivocal inquiry via a feminist collaborative autoethnographic project. In this paper, we use the Listening Guide as a tool to revisit and (re)analyse data from the aforementioned project, displaying findings in the form of voice poems. In utilising the Listening Guide, we discovered that listening is less of an exerci…
Pandemic ethics
This article explores responses of 41 UK social workers to ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, utilising UK data from an international qualitative survey and follow-up interviews in 2020. Challenges ranged from weighing individual rights/needs against public health risks, to deciding whether to follow government/agency rules and guidance. Drawing on a narrative methodology to explore ethical agency, four broad types of response are i…
“I’m meant to be his comfort blanket, not a punching bag” – Ethnomimesis as an exploration of maternal child to parent violence in pre-adolescents
This is the first study to use ethno-mimesis to explore the lived experiences of mothers navigating child-to-parent violence initiated by pre-adolescent children. The current child-to-parent violence research landscape is predominantly focused upon the experiences of parents of adolescent children, identifying that violent behaviours can be used as a life-long strategy. This research uses innovative methods to explore the lived experiences of mot…
We Need to be as a Group
As a UK-based group of female postgraduate researchers, the authors explored their experiences during COVID-19 pandemic through multivocal inquiry via a feminist collaborative autoethnographic project. In this paper, we use the Listening Guide as a tool to revisit and (re)analyse data from the aforementioned project, displaying findings in the form of voice poems. In utilising the Listening Guide, we discovered that listening is less of an exerci…
Pandemic ethics
This article explores responses of 41 UK social workers to ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, utilising UK data from an international qualitative survey and follow-up interviews in 2020. Challenges ranged from weighing individual rights/needs against public health risks, to deciding whether to follow government/agency rules and guidance. Drawing on a narrative methodology to explore ethical agency, four broad types of response are i…
“I’m meant to be his comfort blanket, not a punching bag” – Ethnomimesis as an exploration of maternal child to parent violence in pre-adolescents
This is the first study to use ethno-mimesis to explore the lived experiences of mothers navigating child-to-parent violence initiated by pre-adolescent children. The current child-to-parent violence research landscape is predominantly focused upon the experiences of parents of adolescent children, identifying that violent behaviours can be used as a life-long strategy. This research uses innovative methods to explore the lived experiences of mot…
Pandemic ethics
This article explores responses of 41 UK social workers to ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, utilising UK data from an international qualitative survey and follow-up interviews in 2020. Challenges ranged from weighing individual rights/needs against public health risks, to deciding whether to follow government/agency rules and guidance. Drawing on a narrative methodology to explore ethical agency, four broad types of response are i…
“It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”
Unpacking our experiences as trainee researchers navigating a global pandemic; in this research four researchers identify and interpret otherwise individual experiences through a collective lens. These shared responses are collated and understood through the multivocal method of what we term a “feminst collaborative auto-ethnography.” Relational ethics using a praxis of care, in line with feminist epistemology underpin the systematic analysis of …
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance
Working with families living with child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence raises a number of challenges which were compounded during the Covid‐19 pandemic. In this article, UK umbrella organisation ‘Respect’ is used as a case study to explore how 10 practitioners navigated social, emotional and safeguarding concerns that occurred when transitioning to remote working. Engagement with children and young people proved difficult, especially for those…
We Need to be as a Group
As a UK-based group of female postgraduate researchers, the authors explored their experiences during COVID-19 pandemic through multivocal inquiry via a feminist collaborative autoethnographic project. In this paper, we use the Listening Guide as a tool to revisit and (re)analyse data from the aforementioned project, displaying findings in the form of voice poems. In utilising the Listening Guide, we discovered that listening is less of an exerci…
The role of ‘friendship as method’ with child co-researchers in the primary school environment
Within social science research the complex nature of relationship-making and ‘friendship as method’ has gained enthusiasm. However, there is still a significant lack of research on ‘friendship as method’ with children and young people in participatory studies. Drawing on empirical case studies, we ask: how does ‘friendship as method’ work in research with children? The paper considers the role of vulnerability and reservations, friendship facilit…
‘Yeah, embrace your anger. Fuck them.’
In this article, we argue that a Slow Feminism, which evolves through the slow but consistent support of other women that is embedded in care, compassion and constructive challenge against patriarchal expectations, is essential for the future of feminist praxis within higher education. This work emerged from our coming together to reflect-on-action on our experiences as disabled, women, postgraduate researchers in different disciplines during the…
The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms
Due to harmful narratives within child welfare and child protection services and systems, mothers in contact with these services who aim to meet the symbolic representation of the ‘ideal mother’ frequently find themselves being portrayed as the ‘bad mother’, even when their referral is ‘non-traditional’ (i.e., not specifically due to their perceived harmful actions or inactions). Through ‘ideal mother’ symbolism and narratives, there is disenfran…
Children who Cause Harm Are People Too
Introduction The purpose of this research was to work directly with children instigating child and adolescent to parent violence and abuse due to explosive and harmful impulsive, and parents experiencing such harms, to understand their help-seeking practices and experiences. Methods This work was a participatory action research project in which parents of children experiencing harm from their children, and children instigating these harms, were i…
Rabbits in Headlights
The Victim and Prisoners Act 2024 has legislated the responsibility of professionals to respond when they are aware children and young people (CYP) are experiencing domestic abuse. However, CYP are often concerned about what adult responses to their help-seeking may be, frequently encountering adults who freeze, like rabbits in headlights, unclear on how to respond appropriately. Thus, CYP may engage in help-seeking at different levels, at differ…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (5 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Autoethnography (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (3 works) · Domestic violence (3 works)