Dr Sarah Dubberley
Principal Lecturer / Professional Lead – Peripatetic, Criminal & Youth Justice
Sarah began her career within the Youth Justice arena. She was Mentor Co-ordinator for Cheshire Youth Offending Team and the Youth Federation, recruiting, training and supporting volunteers to work with young offenders across the county.
In April 2010, Sarah was awarded a PhD for a thesis that examined young people’s perception of, and engagement with, the DoE programme, and, in the case of those in secure placements, the implications of this involvement for their rehabilitation. As part of this, Sarah had direct engagement with 6 different secure establishments across England and Wales.
Sarah was a grant holder and co-investigator involved in the Welsh Assembly Government funding evaluation of homelessness services for adults leaving prison with complex needs.
Sarah has successfully supervised a number of PhD theses to completion, from Homelessness, Child Care Proceedings, Anti-Social Behaviour and Trauma informed culture within Youth Justice. A number of students are also due to submit in the next 12 months. Sarah is an experienced PhD external examiner, having examined across the UK in a range of subjects from youth justice, imprisonment and homelessness.
Sarah maintains strong links with Youth Justice, sitting on the YJB Academic Network and Liaison committee as well as the Welsh HWB Doeth Board. In 2022, Sarah was part of a team of academics who reviewed and revalidated the QAA Subject Bench Marks for Criminology, mainly participating in the employment strand.
Sarah sits on the Board of Trustees for the North Wales Women's Centre and is an elected Academic sitting on the Board of Governors at Wrexham University.
Research Projects
| Title | Role | Description | From/To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation of the Trauma and Adverse Experiences (TrACE)-informed university pilot | Evaluation Team | Everyone has a role to play in Wales becoming an ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and trauma-informed (TrACE) nation. ACE Hub Wales have developed a TrACE toolkit. It contains a range of tools to help any person, organisation, sector, or system to reflect on their current practice, and develop strategies to strengthen ACE and trauma-informed approaches. ACE Hub Wales are working with a variety of organisations across different sectors to pilot the toolkit with a view to learn, shape, and adapt it for others. At Wrexham University, we are the pilot organisation for the higher education sector across Wales and England. It is important for us to understand and learn from the approaches that we have taken so far and capture any early impacts. Communicating and sharing these will support other organisations across the wider sector with their journey as well as help us to keep the momentum going and embed TrACE-informed approaches university and system-wide. This evaluation aims to disseminate lessons learnt and a series of recommendations to guide other universities and wider communities as they develop their TrACE-informed approach. | 01/2023 - 07/2023 |
| Peer-to-peer reflective supervision to support wellbeing in relation to secondary traumatic stress/vicarious trauma amongst police employees | Co-Investigator | The research will explore the value of peer-to-peer supervision on enhancing police wellbeing. This will be achieved using qualitative one-to-one interviews with police staff based on the effectiveness of the peer-to-peer reflective model. We seek to evaluate this model within North Wales Police to aid relational culture, developed from limited research on the influence of vicarious trauma and secondary traumatic stress on police staff. | 01/2024 - 01/2025 |
Publications
| Year | Publication | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Preventing homelessness among women prison leavers in Wales, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY. [DOI] Gorden, Caroline;Lockwood, Kelly;Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Dubberley, Sarah;Hughes, Caroline;Washington-Dyer, Karen;Wilding, Mark A.;Ahmed, Anya |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2020 | Imaginary Homelessness Prevention with Prison Leavers in Wales, Social Policy and Society, 19. [DOI] Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Ahmed, Anya;Hughes, Caroline;Dubberley, Sarah;Gorden, Caroline;Washington-Dyer, Karen;Lockwood, Kelly;Wilding, Mark |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2020 | Preventing homelessness among women prison leavers in Wales, [DOI] Gorden, Caroline;Lockwood, Kelly;Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Dubberley, Sarah;Hughes, Caroline;Washington-Dyer, Karen;Wilding, Mark;Ahmed, Anya |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2019 | Rethinking Preventing Homelessness amongst Prison Leavers, [DOI] Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Hughes, Caroline;Gorden, Caroline;Dubberley, Sarah;Washington-Dyer, Karen;Ahmed, Anya;Lockwood, Kelly;Wilding, Mark |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2018 | Rethinking preventing homelessness amongst prison leavers, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROBATION, 10. [DOI] Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Hughes, Caroline;Gorden, Caro;Dubberley, Sarah;Washington-Dyer, Karen;Ahmed, Anya;Lockwood, Kelly;Wilding, Mark |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2017 | 'A place to call our own: On the geographical and social marginalisation of homeless people, [DOI] Hughes, Caroline;Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Parry, Odette;Dubberley, Sarah |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2017 | A place to call our own: perspectives on the geographical and social marginalisation of homeless people, JOURNAL OF ADULT PROTECTION, 19. [DOI] Hughes, Caroline;Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Parry, Odette;Dubberley, Sarah |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2017 | A Literature Review of Transgender People in Prison: An ‘invisible’ population in England and Wales, Gorden, Caroline;Hughes, Caroline;Astbury-Ward, Edna M;Dubberley, Sarah |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2016 | Encouraging signs: A qualitative evaluation of Review and Congratulate Panels in the Wrexham Youth Justice Team, Hughes, Caroline;Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Washington-Dyer, Karen;Dubberley, Sarah;Gorden, Caroline |
Other Publication |
| 2015 | "Dangerous conversations": a case study involving language, EQUALITY DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, 34. [DOI] Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Jones, Dawn;Parry, Odette;Dubberley, Sarah |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2015 | Wake-up call: Achieving compliance with Youth Justice Orders, PROBATION JOURNAL, 62. [DOI] Dubberley, Sarah;Jones, Iolo Madoc;Parry, Odette;Graham, Karen;Roscoe, Karen |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2015 | "Dangerous conversations”: a case study involving language, [DOI] Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Jones, Dawn;Parry, Odette;Dubberley, Sarah |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2015 | Wake up Call: Achieving Compliance with Youth Justice Orders', [DOI] Dubberley, Sarah;Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Parry, Odette;Graham, Karen;Roscoe, Karen D |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2014 | From celebrity criminal to criminal celebrity: the celebrification of sex crime in the UK, Madoc-Jones, Iolo;Gorden, Caroline;Dubberley, Sarah;Hughes, Caroline |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2014 | The Reframing of Methodology: Revisiting a PhD Study, [DOI] Dubberley, Sarah |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2012 | Homelessness in Wrexham: Contemporary patterns and profiles of homeless people with complex needs, Hughes, Caroline;Dubberley, Sarah;Anderson, Michael;Parry, Odette |
Other Publication |
| 2011 | Mending fences: reparation and the reorientation of young people in the secure estate, Dubberley, Sarah;Parry, Odette;Baker, Sally-Ann |
Other Journal |
| 2010 | A Qualitative Study of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and Young Offenders in the Secure Estate, Dubberley, Sarah |
Other Publication |
| 2010 | “Something We Don’t Normally Do”: A Qualitative Study of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in the Secure Estate, Dubberley, Sarah;Parry, Odette |
Other Journal |
Honours and Awards
| Date | Title | Awarding Body |
|---|---|---|
| 07-06-2010 | PhD | University of Wales |
Professional Associations
| Association | Function |
|---|---|
| YJB Cymru | HWB DOETH |
| North Wales Women's Centre | Board of Trustees |
| YJB | Academic Liaison Network |
Committees
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| Faculty Board | 2016 |
| Board of Governors | 2023 |
| Board of Trustee's North Wales Women's Centre | 2022 |
| Strategy and Finance | 2024 |
Education
| Institution | Qualification | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| University of Wales | PhD | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Bangor University | BA (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice | Criminology and Criminal Justice |
| Bangor University | MA Criminology and Criminal Justice | Criminology and Criminal Justice |
Programs/Modules Coordinated
| Title | Subject |
|---|---|
| Work Based Learning (Criminal Justice) | SOC576 |
| Working in Custodial and Community Settings with People Who Have Offended | SOC571 |
| Youth Justice | SOC660 |
| Contemporary Crime and Justice | SOC735 |
| Work Based Learning (Law) | LAW503 |
| Working in Community and Custodial Settings with People who have Offended | SOC571 |
| Negotiated Learning | SOC734 |
| Criminal Law | SOC575 |
| Youth Justice | SOC660 |
Recent Postgraduate Students
| Year | Name | Degree | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/05/2023 | Tegan Brierley-Sollis | PhD | Surfing the Waves of Accountable Compassion: A qualitative study of the emerging trauma-informed culture within North Wales Youth Justice Service |
| 18/12/2020 | Wayne Cronin-Wojdat | PhD | From the informal to the disciplinary: Policing ‘juvenile nuisance’ and youth anti-social behaviour since the mid 1990s: A Qualitative study of police officers’ perspectives |
| 20/02/2020 | Emma Palmer | PhD | ‘Sacrificing justice at the altar of speed’: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Implementation of the 26-Week Timetable in Care Proceedings |
| 02/10/2020 | Karen Southern | PhD | Damned if you Do, Damned if you Don’t – Using Day Care Settings for Young Children: A Qualitative Study of Service User, Service Provider and Policy Maker Accounts. |