Staff Profile:Dr Ruth Evans

Name:

Dr Ruth Evans

Job Title:

Lecturer in Human Geography

Responsibilities:

• Disability Representative / Special Needs Advisor (Geography)
• Undergraduate Teaching: Culture and Development in Africa, Cultural Geography, Geography and the Global Economy 

Areas of Interest:

Geographies of children, youth and families including:

• Young people's care work, gender and life transitions
• Sibling care and child- and youth-headed households in East Africa
• Inheritance practices, chronic poverty and family relations
• Intergenerational caring relations in disabled families and families affected by HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK
• Childhood, care and migration in the UK
• Social exclusion/ inclusion and the participation of marginalised groups in research and policy

Research groups / Centres:

• Human Environments Research Group
• Walker Institute

Key facts:

Ruth's research focuses on caring relations, poverty and social vulnerabilities experienced by children, youth and families, particularly those affected by chronic illness, HIV and AIDS and disability. Her current research investigates inheritance practices, access to resources and family relations in Senegal (2011-12).

Ruth recently completed a study on stigma, gender and generational inequalities in asset inheritance and the intergenerational transmission of poverty in Tanzania and Uganda (with Caroline Day), funded by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre. Read more about the project and download the 2011 CPRC Working Paper.

From 2008-2010, Ruth conducted a qualitative, participatory study of young people's caring responsibilities for their siblings within child- and youth- headed households in Tanzania and Uganda, funded by the RGS-IBG and the University of Reading (2008-10). The findings are discussed in the Research Report and forthcoming articles (see publications below for more details).

Recently published articles focus on young people's caring roles and responsibilities within the family in Africa (Geography Compass, 2010), young people's life transitions and sibling care (Area, 2010), caring relations and mobilities within African migrant families in the UK (Population, Space and Place, 2009) and emotional geographies and an ethics of care within families affected by HIV and AIDS (with Felicity Thomas) (Emotions, Space and Society, 2009).

Her book (co-authored with Prof. Saul Becker, 2009, The Policy Press), Children Caring for Parents with HIV and AIDS: Global Issues and Policy Responses draws on findings from a recent ESRC study of the experiences of children caring for parents and relatives with HIV in Tanzania and the UK. For more information about the research, read the news article: Children caring for parents with HIV and AIDS or download the Stakeholder Report (PDF 1652KB) and Executive Summary (PDF 539KB).

Previous research in Tanzania explored the gendered 'street careers' of young people and the impacts of HIV and AIDS on children and families. In the UK, Ruth's research has also investigated the social exclusion/ inclusion of children and their participation in policy initiatives.

Ruth is the Co-ordinator of the Undergraduate Dissertation Prize of the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and a Fellow of the RGS-IBG.

Ruth currently supervises research students in the field of geographies of care, disability and family relationships:

• Agnes Atim: A gender analysis of the participation of people living with HIV in post-conflict development processes in northern Uganda.
• Yaw Adjei-Amoako: Mainstreaming disability and development: the challenges and opportunities in Ghana.
• Caroline Day: Growing up caring: the life transitions of young people caring for parents or relatives in Zambia.
• Gary Downing: Negotiating youth transitions and sexual identities among disabled young people.

• Gudbjörg Ottósdóttir: Care and disability in refugee families in London.

Publications:

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Number of items: 21.

2012

• Evans, R. (2012) Sibling caringscapes: time–space practices of caring within youth-headed households in Tanzania and Uganda. Geoforum. ISSN 0016-7185 doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.02.004 (In Press)

2011

• Evans, R. and Holt, L. (2011) Diverse spaces of childhood and youth: gender and other socio-cultural differences. Children's Geographies, 9 (3-4). pp. 277-284. ISSN 1473-3277 doi: 10.1080/14733285.2011.595902
• Evans, R. (2011) Young caregiving and HIV in the UK: caring relationships and mobilities in African migrant families. Population, Space and Place, 17 (4). pp. 338-360. ISSN 1544-8444 doi: 10.1002/psp.583
• Evans, R. and Day, C. (2011) Inheritance, poverty and HIV/AIDS: experiences of widows and orphaned youth heading households in Tanzania and Uganda. Working Paper. Chronic Poverty Research Centre, Manchester. pp57. ISBN 9781906433918
• Evans, R. and Atim, A. (2011) Care, disability and HIV in East Africa: diverging or interconnected concepts and practices? Third World Quarterly, 32 (8). pp. 1437-1454. ISSN 1360-2241 doi: 10.1080/01436597.2011.604517
• Evans, R. (2011) ‘We are managing our own lives...’: life transitions and care in sibling-headed households affected by AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda. Area, 43 (4). pp. 384-396. ISSN 1475-4762 doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2010.00954.x
• Evans, R. (2011) “We are managing our own lives…”: life transitions and care in sibling-headed households affected by AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda. Area, 43. ISSN 1475-4762 doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2010.00954.x (In Press)

2010

• Evans, R. (2010) Children's caring roles and responsibilities within the family in Africa. Geography Compass, 4 (10). pp. 1477-1496. ISSN 1749-8198 doi: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00386.x
• Evans, R. (2010) The experiences and priorities of young people who care for their siblings in Tanzania and Uganda. Technical Report. University of Reading, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Reading. pp26.

2009

• Evans, R. and Thomas, F. (2009) Emotional interactions and an ethic of care: caring relations in families affected by HIV and AIDS. Emotions, Space and Society, 2 (2). pp. 111-119. ISSN 1755-4586 doi: 10.1016/j.emospa.2009.08.003
• Evans, R. and Becker, S. (2009) Children caring for parents with HIV and AIDS: global issues and policy responses. The Policy Press, Bristol.

2008

• Pinnock, K. and Evans, R. (2008) Developing responsive preventative practices: key messages from children's and families' experiences of the Children's Fund. Children and Society, 22. pp. 86-98. doi: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2007.00081.x
• Evans, R. and Spicer, N. (2008) Is participation prevention? A blurring of discourses in children's preventative initiatives in the UK. Childhood-a Global Journal of Child Research, 15 (1). pp. 50-73. ISSN 0907-5682 doi: 10.1177/0907568207086835
• Coad, J. and Evans, R. (2008) Reflections on practical approaches to involving children and young people in the data analysis process. Children & Society, 22 (1). pp. 41-52. ISSN 0951-0605 doi: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2006.00062.x

2007

• Evans, R. and Becker, S. (2007) Hidden young carers: the experiences, needs and resilience of children caring for parents and relatives with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania and the UK: stakeholder report. University of Nottingham, School of Sociology and Social Policy, Nottingham.
• Evans, R. and Plumridge, G. (2007) Inclusion, social networks and resilience: strategies, practices and outcomes for disabled children and their families. Social Policy and Society, 6 (2). pp. 231-241. ISSN 1475-3073 doi: 10.1017/S1474746406003496
• Evans, R. and Pinnock, K. (2007) Promoting resilience and protective factors in the Children's Fund: supporting children and young people's pathways towards social inclusion? Journal of Children and Poverty, 13 (1). pp. 21-36. ISSN 1469-9389 doi: 10.1080/10796120601171211

2006

• Spicer, N. and Evans, R. (2006) Developing children and young people’s participation in strategic processes: the experience of the Children’s Fund Initiative. Social Policy and Society, 5 (2). pp. 177-188. ISSN 1475-3073 doi: 10.1017/S1474746405002861

2005

• Evans, R. (2005) Social networks, migration, and care in Tanzania. Journal of Children and Poverty, 11 (2). pp. 111-129. ISSN 1079-6126 doi: 10.1080/10796120500195527

2004

• Evans, R. (2004) Tanzanian childhoods: street children’s narratives of ‘home’. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 22 (1). pp. 69-92. ISSN 1469-9397 doi: 10.1080/0258900042000179616

2002

• Evans, R. (2002) Poverty, HIV, and barriers to education: street children's experiences in Tanzania. Gender and Development, 10 (3). pp. 51-62. ISSN 1364-9221 doi: 10.1080/13552070215916

This list was generated on Sat May 26 14:42:34 2012 BST.

Qualifications:

BA (Nottingham), MA and PhD (Hull).