Kay Brady

Kay Brady

Senior Lecturer; Director of Education & Student Experience

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Criminology, Sociology and Policing

Qualifications

  • PGDip (University of Hull)
  • MRes (Lancaster University)

Summary

Kay Brady has worked in a variety of areas; in areas such as substance misuse, harm reduction and domestic abuse.

Kay joined the University of Hull in 2003 and has taught on a range of themes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her research and interests are around substance use and harm reduction, domestic abuse, homelessness and also mature students within Higher Education.

She currently sits on the Board of Directors for a large project which supports and houses victims of domestic violence.

Within the School of Criminology, Sociology & Policing Kay is the Director for Education and Student Experience.

Current PhD supervision:

Lived experiences of the homeless LGBTQ community.

Victims or Offenders: Has the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’ in the UK motivated Female University Students to Online Sex Work on OnlyFans?

A review of Crime Prevention strategies for gambling related offences looking at behavioural patterns and the cost of crime.

COMPLETED June 2023 - Dissociation as an emotion-regulation defence mechanism: an exploration of adjustment to prison life through the lens of the dissociating young male prisoner.

Kay currently teaches core research methods modules for Criminology students. She delivers an option module at Level 6 around her research of drugs and drug use.

Research interests

Drugs and drug use

Sex workers (SSWs)

Homelessness

Mature students within Higher Education

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Heroin and Crack Action Evaluation

Funder

Humberside Police

Grant

£12,000.00

Started

1 November 2020

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

The Pound in the Pocket

Funder

00 University of Hull

Grant

£3,500.00

Started

1 February 2019

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Drugs and drug use

Sex works; street sex workers

Homelessness

Mature students within Higher Education

Current PhD supervision:

Lived experiences of the homeless LGBTQ community.

Victims or Offenders: Has the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’ in the UK motivated Female University Students to Online Sex Work on OnlyFans?

A review of Crime Prevention strategies for gambling related offences looking at behavioural patterns and the cost of crime.

COMPLETED June 2023 - Dissociation as an emotion-regulation defence mechanism: an exploration of adjustment to prison life through the lens of the dissociating young male prisoner.

Charity role

Director

2011

I am a Director on the board of Hull Women's Network. This is a charitable organisation which houses vulnerable females fleeing domestic abuse in Hull and the surrounding area.

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy

2021

Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

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