Julia Wardhaugh - Research

My Profile

My research interests in recent years have been focused around the regulation of urban and rural spaces. Past research projects have included the criminalization of urban and rural homelessness in Britain, and an ethnographic study of crime and deviance in an Indian village.

My current research focus is on the regulation of urban spaces in South Asia and North Africa, and specific concerns include begging and other deviant social identities and activities. Research methods adopted are qualitative and ethnographic, including unobtrusive observation of begging encounters in urban space and participant observation in locations used by those involved in begging. A major technique has been photographic documentation of these socio-spatial interactions.

Research Projects

2007 Grant Holder
Preventing Ani-social Behaviour in North West Wales: research with the Gwynedd-Mon Youth Offending Team
Funded by the Youth Justice Board

2004 Grant Holder
Regulating city spaces: begging interactions in Delhi, India.
Funded by the British Academy
Research focused on socio-spatial interactions between marginal - and often criminalized - street people, and their more 'respectable' fellow citizens.

2002 Grant Holder
Rural Self-governance and Community Justice: A Study of Panchayati Raj in Rural North India
Funded by Research Committee, University of Wales Bangor.

2002 Grant Holder
Regulating Rural Space: the Case of North Wales
Piolet project funded by the Research Centre Wales.

2000-01 Grant Holder
User perspectives on drug and alcohol issues in Conwy
Funded by National Assembly for Wales
This project involved an investigation into community and user perpsectives on drug and alcohol issues and services. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methodology was used in this study, which is based in several communities in North Wales. The research was conducted through the medium of Welsh and English, and the final report is available in both languages. The report will be used to inform policy and service provision within the drug and alcohol agencies.

Research Report

2008 Young People and Youth Justice
Preventing Anti-social Behaviour in North-west Wales / Pobl Ifanc a Chyfiawnder Ieunctid: Atal Ymddygiad Gwrthgymdeithasol yng Ngogledd Orllewin Cymru
Bangor University. Co-author: Christine Lovell. February

Grants

2007                Youth Justice Board (Gwynedd/Môn Youth Offending Team) Prevention of anti-social behaviour in Gwynedd and Anglesey(£10,000)

2004                British Academy Small Research Grant to support fieldwork in North India: The social and spatial regulation of begging in Delhi, India. (£1,296)

2003                British Academy Travel Grant to attend International Convention of Asian Scholars conference, Singapore, August 2003. Paper: ‘Community, consensus and conflict in rural India’ (£643).

2002                University of Wales, Bangor, Research Committee grant Rural Self-governance and Community Justice: A Study of Panchayati Raj in Rural North India Grant made to develop fieldwork in North India (£400)

2002                Research Centre Wales Regulating Rural Space: the Case of North Wales Grant made to prepare a research bid to Joseph Rowntree Foundation (£298).

2000-01           National Assembly for Wales Community and User Perspectives on Drug and Alcohol Services in Conwy County (₤15,000)