Roundtable: Future directions & praxis of researchers’ mental health in the field I

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Sessions

Abstract/Description

Researchers’ mental health in the field is a growing topic of discussion, from the individual (researcher) level, all the way to the highest levels of university education policy makers. Yet, the availability and intensity of support varies a lot within and between universities and countries. We agree that taking care of researchers’ mental health in the field is as important as all other ethical considerations of conducting research. However, it remains unclear what support looks like in terms of prevention, monitoring, and healing from trauma, vicarious traumatization and burnout. Building on roundtables at ASC over the last three years, in this roundtable, we focus on topics such as lessons learned from developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions for workplace trauma in rural and urban settings, empirical proposals for institutional change, best practices in holding spaces for marginalized communities and survivors of gender violence, and many more. Researchers and practitioners are invited to share their experience, the tools they use, and the policies they have created to take care of researchers’ mental health in the field.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Chairs

• Ellen Van Damme, Field Research Coaching & Widener University

• Michelle Lyttle Storrod, Widener University

Discussants

• Tina Nicola Skinner, University of Bath

• Kelly Knight, Montana State University

• Michele Bratina, West Chester University

• Catherine Cerulli, University of Rochester

Organized by a Division or external group?

Division of Feminist Criminology
Division of International Criminology