Miss Rebecca Harris

In 2024-25, Rebecca is the module coordinator for DEMO2015 Applied Population Research Methods and RESM1001 Understanding the Social World, and is a tutor on RESM2001 Introduction to Social Data Analytics.

Rebecca has previously worked on the following modules:

• CRIM2004 - Criminological Psychology
• DEMO2008/3007 - Population Change and Reproductive Health 
• DEMO2010 - Population Change in Low and Middle Income Countries 
• RESM1001 - Understanding the Social World 
• RESM1002 - The Use of Empirical Research in Social Science 
• STAT1003 - Introduction to Quantitative Methods 
• UOSM2004 - Global Health

Rebecca has also taught induction sessions, including an Introduction to MS Office, and an Introduction to SPSS, and guest lectured on GLHE6006 - Critical Issues in Global Health: Concepts and Case Studies.

Rebecca joined the department of Social Statistics and Demography as a PhD student in 2020 after being awarded an interdisciplinary studentship from the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership.

Prior to her PhD, Rebecca completed her undergraduate degree in BSc Psychology, with her dissertation focussing on cultural understanding and experiences of recovery from mental health difficulties. She achieved a distinction in her postgraduate degree, MSc Foundations of Clinical Psychology, a course with a focus on clinical psychology and the challenges and management of mental health - both within the UK, and internationally.

Rebecca was previously the research assistant for the Leverhulme-funded project 'MaGMap: does open-source mass grave mapping and documenting protect or expose?', and the senior project administrator for the GCRF funded ReGHID project, which explores the sexual and reproductive health of women and adolescents who are migrating from Central America to Mexico and the USA.

Outside of academia, Rebecca has previously worked as an assistant psychologist and a SEN teaching assistant, and has volunteered extensively with the men’s health charity, Movember, for which she has received national recognition. She was also involved in the relaunch of the public health charity, Public Health Pathways (previously Cov360), as the Knowledge Manager and Coordinator for the Public Health Pathfinders Training Pilot. In 2022, Rebecca completed a three-month UKRI funded policy internship at the Home Office, working within the Domestic Abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls research group.