Natasha Carlin
Postgraduate researcher

Profile

Biography

Natasha Carlin is part of the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre having been awarded an ESRC-funded White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership 1+3 Associated Studentship at the University of York.

Natasha graduated with BA (Hons) in History and Politics from the University of Chester, where she specialised in social policy and cultural history. Most recently, Natasha Spent 3 years working in the charity sector for an anti-racist education organisation, where she worked with children and young people and trained adults in trade unions and schools. She has worked alongside communities and resident engagement projects in her work as a local councillor for the last five years. 

Natasha’s Master’s research focused on how British identity is constructed within Whiteness and protected through State powers of policing, examining the impact this has on British Ethnic Minorities. Natasha is strongly interested in the expansion of social control within the Public Sector and its impact on marginalised and racialised communities. Natasha is hoping to contribute to understandings of vulnerability and race within her PhD, with a particular focus on how vulnerability is experienced inter-generationally across caregivers and cared for. 

Research

Overview

Thesis title

Policing Prevent: examining the Prevent framework and Police led safeguarding interventions to explore how it creates racialised vulnerability in Muslim caregivers

Research topic

Exploring how Prevent creates racialised vulnerability generationally in caregiver relationships.

Research interests

• Vulnerability
• Racialisation and ethnicity in relation to policing
• Islamophobia
• Social control and its expansion 
• Surveillance Studies 
• Policy alternatives to Prevent
• Policy approaches to police abolition

Supervisors

• Dr Kate Brown
• Dr Katy Sian