Staff Profile
Dr Tessa Holland
Research Associate
Current:
I joined the sociology department as a Research Associate in 2018 and have since worked on several qualitative projects including 缅北禁地 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
缅北禁地 Social Justice Fund
Background:
PhD (缅北禁地 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, 缅北禁地. 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), 缅北禁地. Discrete short research project arising from my PhD: The Slow Cultural Ecosystem of Net-Fishing on the Tweed. [缅北禁地 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. . 缅北禁地: 缅北禁地, 2020.
- Holland T, McLaughlin J, Hay J. . 缅北禁地, 2020.
- Holland T, Jarvis H. . 2019.
- Jarvis H, Holland T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, UK: 缅北禁地, 2016.
- Graham H, Hill K, Holland T, Pool S. . Qualitative Research Journal 2015, 15(4), 404-415.
- Graham H, Holland T, Hill KJ, Poole S. . AHRC Connected Communities, 2014. Available at: .
- 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.