Deputy Head of the Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University
Dr Charlotte Coleman is a Forensic Psychologist whose main research focus is the prevention of youth violent crime, working on programmes that reduce the risk of becoming a victim or an offender. Charlotte has experience of working on both large and small evaluations using a range of methodologies. For example large scale YEF funded RCTs to reduce school exclusions and to improve familial relationships through therapeutic interventions, and small scale qualitative IPE evaluations of local domestic abuse programmes aimed at reducing controlling and coercive behaviours in young people. She has extensive experience in working with the police and other agencies, undertaking activity related to violence and youth crime/behaviour. For example, she sits on the Evidence Based Policing panel for South Yorkshire Police and is involved in ongoing research with police forces and Violence Reduction Units around anti-knife crime messaging, the impact of Covid 19 on policing domestic abuse, youth organisations around crime and reducing exploitation risk and recidivism, and working with schools to evaluate interventions designed to prevent offending behaviour.
Charlotte completed her PhD in Children’s Eyewitness Testimony and therefore has theoretical and practical experience of generating reliable information from children and young people in interviews and working with vulnerable children. She also has expertise and experience in research methods and analysis, both quantitative and qualitative, and draws upon both academic and professional experience of analysing and working with data.