Rosie Turner
Rosie is a Research Director in the Crime, Justice and Security team at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) where she is the lead in Youth Violence and Child Criminal Exploitation. Her research interests focus on amplifying the voices of individuals from marginalised communities, with particular attention to the intersecting effects of gender, race, and class disparities, ensuring these perspectives are heard and integrated in policy and practice. In this capacity, Rosie leads the evaluation of the Ministry of Justice's Turnaround Programme, which supports children on the cusp of entering the criminal justice system and oversees NatCen’s contribution to the Whole Systems Approach to the National Drug Strategy for the Home Office.
Before joining NatCen, Rosie managed significant government social projects with young and often vulnerable populations on education, employment, welfare, and skills for Ipsos. This included the Department for Work and Pensions' Youth Offer, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s Youth Investment Fund (Phase 1), and the Department for Education’s 16-19 Tuition Fund.
In addition to Rosie’s academic background, in which she specialised in the development of refugee identity in Britain, Rosie has wide-ranging qualitative and quantitative research experience, working for clients such as Focus2030 and Generation Equality Forum on large-scale multi-country projects about public attitudes and perceptions of gender equality, as well as more narrowly focused qualitative research on the effects of poverty on education and the effect of Covid-19 on young people’s learning.
Rosie is keen to reach and research underrepresented youth communities impacted by youth violence and child criminal exploitation by using more nuanced and deliberative mixed-method research techniques. Her aim is to understand and build relationships which hold potential benefits for the demographic groups being researched, as well as the researcher.
To get in touch, please contact: rosie.turner@natcen.ac.uk.