Claire Fox

Claire Fox is a Reader in Educational Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is committed to conducting applied social psychological research, which has both theoretical and practical implications. She is particularly interested in the problems of school bullying, teenage relationship abuse, school transition and children's humour. A collaboration with Prof David Gadd (University of Manchester) resulted in a major ESRC award to examine the question of how to prevent more boys from becoming perpetrators of domestic violence in later life (2010-2013). As part of this project, Claire led on the evaluation of a domestic abuse prevention education programme - ‘Relationships without Fear’. At the same time, they led a European wide project supported by a substantial grant under the Daphne III call, which involved the team working with six partners across Europe. The research findings from these two projects are presented in the book 'Young Men and Domestic Abuse' (2015). Claire recently completed a project with West Midlands Police to evaluate the Mentors in Violence Prevention Programme and another with New Vic Borderlines to evaluate the 'Love Hurts?' play shown in secondary schools in Staffordshire. A current project with the Proud Trust is examining school bullying and mental health problems of LGBTQ+ youth and the role of school contextual factors.