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Jonathan Ablitt

Mr Jonathan Ablitt

Research Associate, CASCADE

School of Social Sciences

Email
AblittJ@cardiff.ac.uk
Campuses
sbarc|spark, Room 03.14, Maindy Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ

Overview

I am currently a Research Associate in the Children's Social Care Research and Development centre (CASCADE). Since January 2022 I have been working on an independent evaluation of Action for Children's Serious Organised Crime Early Intervention Service. Prior to that I worked on a Health Care Research Wales funded project co-producing a toolkit for an effective service response to improve the outcomes of young people at risk of child criminal exploitation (CCE).

My PhD research (completed in 2021) explored the situated, collaborative production of urban parks as mundane civic spaces, focusing on interactional encounters between Park Rangers and members of the public in Cardiff. This work was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Publication

2024

2021

2020

2019

Articles

Thesis

Research

Research interests

  • Working in public space
  • Service interactions
  • Ethnographic research methods
  • Language and category-use in action

Biography

Education

PhD Sociology, Cardiff University (2021)

MSc Social Science Research Methods, Distinction, Cardiff University (2016)

BScEcon Sociology and History, 2:1, Cardiff University (2015)

Honours and awards

Nominated for 'Graduate Tutor Award', Enriching Student Life Awards, Cardiff University Students Union (2018)