Research

The Centre offers research services and has been involved in a variety of research activity:

•  While recognising that trauma can be devastating in many ways to peoples' lives, their communities and even societies, at the CTRG our research is informed by the observation made through many studies that trauma can also be a springboard to personal and social development.  We are at the dorefront of this new area of research known as posttraumatic growth. 

• In conjunction with the Trust R & D Office, in 2002, The Centre received a grant of £40000 from The Tim Parry Jonathan Ball Trust and the Northern Ireland Office to conduct a 'Needs analysis of GB Victims of the Northern Ireland Conflict'. The Legacy Project was launched at the House of Commons on 5th November 2003.  A PDF copy is available to download below. 

• A research study was undertaken with Victim Support volunteers following the Omagh bomb and this has been analysed and is currently in the writing up and final analysis stage.

• The Centre has also collaborated with the Psychological Therapies Research Centre, University of Leeds, on the evaluation of trauma counselling services at the Southern Health and Social Services Board in Northern Ireland.

• Staff associated with the Centre have published extensively in peer review journals on the topic of trauma, and have presented at a number of national and international conferences. A full list can be viewed on our 'Publications' page.

• Workshops/abstracts have been presented at the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference in Berlin 2003, 2005 and 2007 in collaboration with the Family Trauma Centre, Belfast Health and Social Services Trust and the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims in Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Recent symposium with The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies at the 10th European Conference on Traumatic Stress (ECOTS) in Croatia.  A PDF copy is available to download below.