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Nikki Rutter

@rutternik.bsky.social

Explorer Barbie | Placement fairy 🧚‍♂️ Associate Professor in Sociology - Durham University| Researching children, mothers & harm

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Nikki Rutter@rutternik.bsky.social · 3w ago

New post at Holes in the Wall! The award winning Dr. Anu Adebogun shares her doctoral research on Black mothers experiences of child to parent abuse. This work fills a huge gap in the existing literature & has implications for practice holesinthewall.co.uk/2026/07/16/r...

Reframing Child to Parent Abuse: What Black Mothers’ Experiences Reveal

By Dr Anu Adebogun Child to Parent Abuse (CPA) remains one of the most stigmatised and least understood forms of family harm. There is little empirical exploration of how this hidden harm is percei…

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Nikki Rutter@rutternik.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We've been running a theme on motherhood over at Holes in the Wall recently. Our final post on this theme is looking at the impact of education; when it works and when it doesn't... holesinthewall.co.uk/2025/12/08/t... #HITW #CPV #CAPVA #AVITH #CCVAB

The right support

For the final part of our series on motherhood, we have a submission from ‘Kelly’, who found herself “rock bottom” in 2023… “We now have a situation in which staff fee…

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Helen Bonnick@helenbonnick.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Today on Woman’s Hour (30.45 - 41.20) a conversation about #CAPVA with @rutternik.bsky.social and martha hampson from @actionforchildren.bsky.social. Nikki says this is very much a social problem, not a family problem. We must ensure families feel heard. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Woman's Hour - Post childbirth and sex, Juliet Stevenson, Ruby Tui - BBC Sounds

Post having a baby - how do you navigate being a mother, partner and sexual being?

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The Howard League@thehowardleague.bsky.social · last yr.

"Pregnant prisoners ‘forced to wear handcuffs in labour’". A shocking insight into the realities face by some women in prison: www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...

Exclusive: Pregnant prisoners ‘forced to wear handcuffs in labour’

The ministry of Justice is urgently looking into concerns raised by Channel 4 News that women at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey have been shackled and restrained while in labour - at times by male prison o...

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Nikki Rutter@rutternik.bsky.social · last yr.

Really enjoyed writing this article with @carlenefirmin.bsky.social Kate O'brien, Rachael Owens and Donna Garvey on the systemic problems with child welfare systems, problematising mothers, no matter how 'good' they are.

Durham Research Online@drodurham.bsky.social · last yr.

The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms By Sociology academics @rutternik.bsky.social , C Firmin, K O'Brien & R Owens, with D Garvey: www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14... One author has a lived-experience perspective to bring to the article

Dr Sean Creaney@sfcreaney.bsky.social · 2y ago

‘Young people are more likely to perform worse at school and be involved in crime due to “austerity-induced” youth club closures over the last 14 years, a report has found’ www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...

Youth club closures increase crime rate and exam failure among young people, report finds - CYP Now

Young people are more likely to perform worse at school and be involved in crime due to “austerity-induced” youth club closures over the last 14 years, a report has found.

cypnow.co.uk