Ruth is a researcher with an interest in the interplay between the environment and person centred factors and how they influence mental health and behaviour. She has recently been involved in the Computerised Life Events Assessment Record (CLEAR) project, creating a new online system that can be used to measure life events contextually as well as capture measures of mental health, social support and demographics.
Part of the centre for abuse and trauma studies
Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6197-9975
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
Other outputs
Ward, Jennifer and Spence, Ruth (2022) Criminal court sentencing: the case for specialist ‘young adult’ courts. British Journal of Criminology . ISSN 0007-0955 (Published online first)
Davies, Kari and Spence, Ruth and Cummings, Emma and Cross, Maria and Horvath, Miranda A. H. (2022) Understanding sexual violence and factors related to police outcomes. Frontiers in Psychology , 13 . pp. 1-13. ISSN 1664-1078
Spence, Ruth and Kagan, Lisa and Nunn, Stephen and Bailey-Rodriguez, Deborah and Fisher, Helen L. and Hosang, Georgina M. and Bifulco, Antonia (2022) The moderation effect of secure attachment on the relationship between positive events and wellbeing. PsyCh Journal , 11 (4). pp. 541-549. ISSN 2046-0260
Spence, Ruth and Horvath, Miranda A. H. and Dalton, Charlotte T. and Davies, Kari (2022) Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on reporting of rape, serious sexual offences, and domestic abuse in one English police force. Journal of Gender-Based Violence . ISSN 2398-6808 (Published online first)
Bifulco, Antonia and Jacobs, Catherine and Oskis, Andrea and Bunn, Amanda and Spence, Ruth (2021) The child attachment style interview (Child-ASI) and depression: preliminary findings. Educational and Child Psychology , 38 (1). pp. 62-74. ISSN 0267-1611
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