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Nikki Rutter's Outputs (21)

The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms (2025)
Journal Article
Rutter, N., Firmin, C., Garvey, D., O’Brien, K., & Owens, R. (2025). The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms. Social Sciences, 14(2), Article 97. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14020097

Due to harmful narratives within child welfare and child protection services and systems, mothers in contact with these services who aim to meet the symbolic representation of the ‘ideal mother’ frequently find themselves being portrayed as the ‘bad... Read More about The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms.

Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions to improve outcomes for parents or carers of children with anxiety and/or depression (2024)
Journal Article
Tsang, A., Dahmash, D., Bjornstad, G., Rutter, N., Nisar, A., Horne, F., & Martin, F. (2024). Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions to improve outcomes for parents or carers of children with anxiety and/or depression. BMJ Open, 27(1), Article e301218. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301218

Question: Depression and anxiety are common among children and young people and can impact on the well-being of their parents/carers. Dominant intervention approaches include parent training; however, this approach does not directly address parents’... Read More about Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions to improve outcomes for parents or carers of children with anxiety and/or depression.

‘Yeah, embrace your anger. Fuck them.’: using feminist collaborative autoethnography and an ethics of care to (re)imagine our position as disabled women in academic spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond (2024)
Journal Article
Rutter, N., Pilson, A., & Yeo, E. (2024). ‘Yeah, embrace your anger. Fuck them.’: using feminist collaborative autoethnography and an ethics of care to (re)imagine our position as disabled women in academic spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Feminist Review, 137(1), 53-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789241249629

In this article, we argue that a Slow Feminism, which evolves through the slow but consistent support of other women that is embedded in care, compassion and constructive challenge against patriarchal expectations, is essential for the future of femi... Read More about ‘Yeah, embrace your anger. Fuck them.’: using feminist collaborative autoethnography and an ethics of care to (re)imagine our position as disabled women in academic spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

An evidence-based plan for addressing the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) assessment and support crisis (2024)
Report
Alghrani, A., Ali, N., Allen, K., Bennett, H., Benger, L., Betts, J., Bradley, S., Bond, C., van den Bree, M., Brooks, R., Chawner, S., Colbert, E., Copley, C., Daniel, J., Davies, C., Eddy, L., Elshehaly, M., Groen, M., Hartley, C., Henderson, L., …Waterman, A. (2024). An evidence-based plan for addressing the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) assessment and support crisis. Child of the North and the Centre for Young Lives

Explosive and Harmful Impulses: A Subset of Child and Adolescent-to-Parent Violence and Abuse (2024)
Journal Article
Rutter, N. (2024). Explosive and Harmful Impulses: A Subset of Child and Adolescent-to-Parent Violence and Abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 39(23-24), 4722-4747. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241244470

"Filial harm" refers to harms experienced by a parent and caused by their child, with increasing umbrella terminology developing to capture all forms of harm despite differing experiences and contexts. In this paper, based on a Glaserian Grounded The... Read More about Explosive and Harmful Impulses: A Subset of Child and Adolescent-to-Parent Violence and Abuse.

An evidence-based plan for addressing the autism assessment and support crisis (2024)
Report
Rutter, N., Ali, N., Purna Basu, A., Basuc, S., Bond, C., Bryant, E. J., Chapman, E., Chauhan, A., Chawner, S. J., Day, P., Douse, E., Eddy, L., Elshehaly, M., Fayette, R., Gladstone, M., Gray-Burrows, K., Guldberg, K., Harris, S., Hartley, C., Lunn, J., …Shaw, J. (2024). An evidence-based plan for addressing the autism assessment and support crisis. N8 Research - Child of the North

The role of ‘friendship as method’ with child co-researchers in the primary school environment (2024)
Journal Article
Bennion, H., & Rutter, N. (2024). The role of ‘friendship as method’ with child co-researchers in the primary school environment. Educational Action Research, 32(5), 867-883. https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2024.2310539

Within social science research the complex nature of relationship-making and ‘friendship as method’ has gained enthusiasm. However, there is still a significant lack of research on ‘friendship as method’ with children and young people in participator... Read More about The role of ‘friendship as method’ with child co-researchers in the primary school environment.

Not afraid, to take a stand: Project report from a desk-based review of programmes designed to improve responses to young people’s experiences of abuse (2023)
Report
Westall, A., & Rutter, N. (2023). Not afraid, to take a stand: Project report from a desk-based review of programmes designed to improve responses to young people’s experiences of abuse. [No known commissioning body]

This report presents the results of a brief literature review and a comparative analysis of unique and innovative approaches to supporting children and young people disclosing domestic abuse in an effort to identify participatory, emancipatory, femin... Read More about Not afraid, to take a stand: Project report from a desk-based review of programmes designed to improve responses to young people’s experiences of abuse.

Rupture, repair, the loss and re-construction of identity: Seeking support in situations of adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse (2023)
Journal Article
Rutter, N. (2023). Rupture, repair, the loss and re-construction of identity: Seeking support in situations of adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse. Frontiers in Health Services, 3, https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2023.1139727

Family violence is associated with life-long implications including increased vulnerability to poor mental and physical health, and increased risk of repeat victimization. When children or adolescents are the ones instigating the harm, mothers experi... Read More about Rupture, repair, the loss and re-construction of identity: Seeking support in situations of adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse.

“My [Search Strategies] Keep Missing You”: A Scoping Review to Map Child-to-Parent Violence in Childhood Aggression Literature (2023)
Journal Article
Rutter, N. (2023). “My [Search Strategies] Keep Missing You”: A Scoping Review to Map Child-to-Parent Violence in Childhood Aggression Literature. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(5), Article 4176. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054176

Child-to-parent violence is often referred to as one of the most ‘under-researched’ forms of family violence. However, it is closely associated with one of the most widely researched areas of research globally: childhood aggression. How child-instiga... Read More about “My [Search Strategies] Keep Missing You”: A Scoping Review to Map Child-to-Parent Violence in Childhood Aggression Literature.

We Need to be as a Group: Using and Evaluating the Listening Guide in Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography With an Affective ‘Fifth Listen’ as a Tool to (re)construct Identities (2023)
Journal Article
Yeo, E., Pilson, A., Rutter, N., & Hasan, E. (2023). We Need to be as a Group: Using and Evaluating the Listening Guide in Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography With an Affective ‘Fifth Listen’ as a Tool to (re)construct Identities. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231180166

Primate Sex and Its Role in Pleasure, Dominance and Communication (2022)
Journal Article
Clarke, E., Bradshaw, K., Drissell, K., Kadam, P., Rutter, N., & Vaglio, S. (2022). Primate Sex and Its Role in Pleasure, Dominance and Communication. Animals, 12(23), https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12233301

Sexual intercourse in the animal kingdom functions to enable reproduction. However, we now know that several species of non-human primates regularly engage in sex outside of the times when conception is possible. In addition, homosexual and immature... Read More about Primate Sex and Its Role in Pleasure, Dominance and Communication.

Responding to Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse from a Distance: Remote Delivery of Interventions during Covid-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Rutter, N., Hall, K., & Westmarland, N. (2023). Responding to Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse from a Distance: Remote Delivery of Interventions during Covid-19. Children & Society, 37(3), 705-721. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12622

Working with families living with child and adolescent-to-parent violence raises a number of challenges which were compounded during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this article, UK umbrella organisation ‘Respect’ is used as a case study to explore how 10... Read More about Responding to Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse from a Distance: Remote Delivery of Interventions during Covid-19.

Managing violent behaviours in primary schools – A multi-agency risk assessment model (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rutter, N. (2021, December). Managing violent behaviours in primary schools – A multi-agency risk assessment model. Presented at Imagining Better Education 2020, Durham, England

Awareness of childhood violence is growing globally. It is estimated that almost a quarter of teachers are assaulted by their pupils each week in the UK, with many of these children identified as having social, emotional, and mental health needs. The... Read More about Managing violent behaviours in primary schools – A multi-agency risk assessment model.

A letter to my co-researchers (2021)
Journal Article
Rutter, N. (2021). A letter to my co-researchers. Entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography, 4(2), 16-18

This paper, presented as a love letter to co-researchers, is a reflection on the utilisation of various diary-based methods to represent the day-to-day lived experiences of parents (co-researchers) living with child-parent violence initiated by 4–11-... Read More about A letter to my co-researchers.

Pandemic ethics: Rethinking rights, responsibilities and roles in social work (2021)
Journal Article
Banks, S., & Rutter, N. (2021). Pandemic ethics: Rethinking rights, responsibilities and roles in social work. The British Journal of Social Work, 52(6), 3460 - 3479. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab253

This article explores responses of 41 UK social workers to ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, utilising UK data from an international qualitative survey and follow-up interviews in 2020. Challenges ranged from weighing individual rights... Read More about Pandemic ethics: Rethinking rights, responsibilities and roles in social work.

International Delphi study of specialist practitioner and expert parents views: Child-parent violence initiated by children aged under 12 (2021)
Report
Rutter, N. (2021). International Delphi study of specialist practitioner and expert parents views: Child-parent violence initiated by children aged under 12. [No known commissioning body]

The purpose of this present study was to examine current consensus regarding understandings and perceptions of practice in relation to child-parent violence when the behaviour is initiated in pre-adolescent children. This is a component of a larger p... Read More about International Delphi study of specialist practitioner and expert parents views: Child-parent violence initiated by children aged under 12.

“It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises (2021)
Journal Article
Rutter, N., Hasan, E., Pilson, A., & Yeo, E. (2023). “It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211019595

Unpacking our experiences as trainee researchers navigating a global pandemic; in this research four researchers identify and interpret otherwise individual experiences through a collective lens. These shared responses are collated and understood thr... Read More about “It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises.