Role
Zannagh is a Research Fellow- in the Drug and Alcohol Research Unit, School of Applied Psychosocial Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth. She has an interest in opiate and alcohol abuse, co-existing mental health problems and the different treatment journeys and pathways of recovery available for this client group. Aside from occasional forays into the world of forensics and NHS research as a means to broaden her research experience, Zannagh has been with the University of Plymouth since the mid nineteen nineties.
Zannagh's background is predominately psycho-social having worked with young offenders and young drug users within mental health and forensic teams and within clinical settings / secure units. Her passion however remains with the street car culture predominately populated by young men aged 17-25 which largely stems from having an upbringing surrounded by cars and motorcycles and a father who was an early exponent of car modification or 'moddin'. From this she has developed an interest in how people travel and use varying modes of transport other than a means of merely travelling from A to B. Living in a rural part of Cornwall with her children, she retains a vicarious association with the Boy Racers across the westcountry, is an avid reader and enthusiastically cooks in a way which belies her Italian heritage and energetically gardens, more often than not accompanied by a range of chicken. She also tackles DIY in her spare time and has developed a precarious relationship with ladders over the years.
Qualifications & background
PhD The Tarmac Cowboys: an ethnographic examination of the culural world of Boy Racers
BSc (Hons) Psychology
BSc (Hons) Sociology & Criminal Justice
PG Dip Sports Psychology
PGCE Health Education & Practice
MSc Social Research
Professional membership
M
ember of NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Member of Mental Health Research Network
Member of Peninsula Public Health Network
Roles on external bodies
Teaching interests
Qualitative Methodologies
Practicalities associated with data collection and fieldwork in ethnographic studies
Staff serving as external examiners
Research interests
How people use consumption of material goods and services in the pursuit of what they perceive to be an appropriate personal identity.
Youth Subcultures
Masculinities
The Psycho-social relationship men have with cars & motorbikes
The Contemporary Cultural World of Boy Racers & Street Car Culture
The Family & Health
The Impact of Early Intervention Services in Young People with Mental Health Difficulties in Particular Those Experiencing First Episode Psychosis
Opiate & Alcohol Abuse
Psychological Therapies and their Place in the Treatment of PTSD
Mobility: Cars, Boats, Trains and Planes are More Than Modes of travel
Other research
1999: Examining the effectiveness of Government Social Inclusion policies relating to families and young children in Cornwall 1999-2005....across the disciplines of Education, Health,Social Services and the Voluntary sector.
1999:Investigating the impact of GP Referrral Programmes on the general health of communities living within the Carrick District Council catchment.
2000: Roma Gypsies; blurring the boundaries between mainstream and the travellers ways of life.
2001: Youth Offending: an alternative to prison
2005: National Evaluation of Early Intervention for Psychosis Services: DUP, Service Engagement and Outcome (National EDEN Project)
Grants & contracts
2001: Measuring the Impact of Sure Start Programmes in Cornwall; an evaluation commissioned by CCC and collaboratively executed by the Evaluation, Research & Innovation Centre, University of Plymouth. £95,000
2002: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 'Words, Actions, Pictures' Exploring Childhood Deprivation Through the Eyes of a Child, The Trellya Project, £165,000
2005: Department of Health. Multi-site Research the National Evaluation of Early Intervention for Psychosis Services, DUP, Service Engagement and Outcome (The National EDEN Project) £1.639,940
Creative practice & artistic projects
Gatsobyter.......Collaborative venture with Arts Council England, Bristol City Council and Plan9 May-June 2005 bringing participatory cutting edge art projects to socially excluded youth.
Words, Actions, Pictures; Arts-based project working with socially excluded children aged under 13 in areas of high deprivation in West Cornwall. Providing a medium through which they can bring their personal histories to a wider audience with the aim to highlight where they need support and to implement positive changes in their personal and family lives.
Publications
Hatton, Z. (2005), Gatsobyter.......an examination of the culture of the Street Car in contemporary society. Bringing participatory Cutting Edge Art to socially excluded youth. Arts Council England, Bristol City Council & Plan9
Hatton, Z (2005), The Tarmac Cowboys: PhD Lives, Guardian Education Supplement, (May 2005)
Hatton, Z. (2005), Postcards from Psychosis, MHRN, UK
Hatton, Z. (2006), Minimising Myths, Misconceptionsn and Metaphors, MHRN, UK
Hatton, Z. (2009) In Search of the Tarmac Cowboys in G.Letherby and G.Reynolds (Eds.) Gendered Journeys, Mobile Emotions, Ashgate Publishing, Surrey, UK
Hatton, Z. (2011) Playgrounds without Frontiers: Movin', Moddin', pushing the boundaries of pleasure in C.Jones,E.Barclay and R.I. Mawby (Eds.) Problems of Pleasure:Leisure, Tourism and Crime, Routledge
Reports & invited lectures
Hello to Heuristic play; academic paper Gloucestershire LEA & Community Partnership (2001)
Measuring the effectivenes of early intervention in Speech and Language Therapy with the 0-4 year olds....(Report for the National Sure Start Unit; 2003)
Ethnographical Research in Cornwall: Researching the Street Car Culture, Policy & Periphery Conference (2004)
Evaluating the impact of Toy Libraries; (Report for Sure Start 2004-5)
The Culture of the Street Car ............Academic paper for Arts Council England (2005).
The Tarmac Cowboys............Academic paper for Arts Council England (2005)
The Tarmac Cowboys.....interview for Graduate Life (the Independent Newspaper)
Evaluating the "Life Change programme" academic paper examining the impact of an innovative scheme for the training and rehabilitation of young offenders (the Home Office 2003)
Conferences organised
- Good Clinical Practice & The EU Directive (2001) Knowledge Spa, Truro
- Focus on Research & Development Conference (2006), Eden Project, Cornwall
- Managing Childhood Obesity & Improving Self Esteem (2009), Mid Cornwall Commissioning Group,
- Commissioning Health Services (2009), Cornwall PCT, The Pavillions Exhibition Centre, Wadebridge
