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Rachael Vaughan
Engagement Manager - Children and Young People, CASCADE
- VaughanR5@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29225 10945
- sbarc|spark, Room 03.14, Maindy Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ
- Welsh speaking
Overview
I work as the Engagement Manager for Children, young people, parents and carers at CASCADE, the Children’s Social Care Research and Development centre.
I provide advice, guidance, and support to involve children, young people, parents and carers within the Centre’s research portfolio. I manage the Public Involvement team, lead our Public Involvement groups at CASCADE and work across a range of projects. Our core groups include the strategic Involvement Board and our established research advisory groups CASCADE Voices and CASCADE Parents Research Advisory group.
Publication
2024
- Warner, N. et al. 2024. Parental risk factors and children entering out-of-home care: The effects of cumulative risk and parent's sex. Children and Youth Services Review 160, article number: 107548. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107548)
2023
- Mannay, D., Vaughan, R., Boffey, M. and Wooders, C. 2023. 'A little bit of advice': Working creatively with children and their foster carers to explore how they would like to share their experiences. In: Kara, H. ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Creative Research Methods. Bloomsbury Handbooks London: Bloomsbury, pp. 251-261.
- Stabler, L. et al. 2023. ‘I probably wouldn’t want to talk about anything too personal’: A qualitative exploration of how issues of privacy, confidentiality and surveillance in the home impact on access and engagement with online services and spaces for care-experienced young people. Adoption & Fostering 47(3), pp. 277-294. (10.1177/03085759231203019)
2022
- Mannay, D. et al. 2022. The strengths and challenges of online services and interventions to support the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced children and young people: A study exploring the views of young people, carers, and social care professionals in Wales during the Coronavirus pandemic. Project Report. Cardiff: The Fostering Network in Wales.
2021
- Boffey, M., Mannay, D., Vaughan, R. and Wooders, C. 2021. The Fostering Communities programme - Walking tall: stage two evaluation. Project Report. Cardiff: The Fostering Network in Wales.
- Roberts, L., Rees, A., Mannay, D., Bayfield, H., Corliss, C., Diaz, C. and Vaughan, R. 2021. Corporate parenting in a pandemic: Considering the delivery and receipt of support to care leavers in Wales during Covid-19. Children and Youth Services Review 128, article number: 106155. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106155)
- Roberts, L., Mannay, D., Rees, A., Bayfield, H., Corliss, C., Diaz, C. and Vaughan, R. 2021. ‘It’s been a massive struggle’: Exploring the experiences of young people leaving care during COVID-19. Young 29(4S), pp. S81-S99. (10.1177/11033088211025949)
- Boffey, M., Mannay, D., Vaughan, R. and Wooders, C. 2021. The Fostering Communities programme - walking tall: stage one evaluation. Project Report. Cardiff: The Fostering Network in Wales.
2020
- Roberts, L., Rees, A., Bayfield, H., Corliss, C., Diaz, C., Mannay, D. and Vaughan, R. 2020. Young people leaving care, practitioners and the coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic: experiences, support, and lessons for the future. Project Report. CASCADE/Cardiff University.
Articles
- Warner, N. et al. 2024. Parental risk factors and children entering out-of-home care: The effects of cumulative risk and parent's sex. Children and Youth Services Review 160, article number: 107548. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107548)
- Stabler, L. et al. 2023. ‘I probably wouldn’t want to talk about anything too personal’: A qualitative exploration of how issues of privacy, confidentiality and surveillance in the home impact on access and engagement with online services and spaces for care-experienced young people. Adoption & Fostering 47(3), pp. 277-294. (10.1177/03085759231203019)
- Roberts, L., Rees, A., Mannay, D., Bayfield, H., Corliss, C., Diaz, C. and Vaughan, R. 2021. Corporate parenting in a pandemic: Considering the delivery and receipt of support to care leavers in Wales during Covid-19. Children and Youth Services Review 128, article number: 106155. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106155)
- Roberts, L., Mannay, D., Rees, A., Bayfield, H., Corliss, C., Diaz, C. and Vaughan, R. 2021. ‘It’s been a massive struggle’: Exploring the experiences of young people leaving care during COVID-19. Young 29(4S), pp. S81-S99. (10.1177/11033088211025949)
Book sections
- Mannay, D., Vaughan, R., Boffey, M. and Wooders, C. 2023. 'A little bit of advice': Working creatively with children and their foster carers to explore how they would like to share their experiences. In: Kara, H. ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Creative Research Methods. Bloomsbury Handbooks London: Bloomsbury, pp. 251-261.
Monographs
- Mannay, D. et al. 2022. The strengths and challenges of online services and interventions to support the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced children and young people: A study exploring the views of young people, carers, and social care professionals in Wales during the Coronavirus pandemic. Project Report. Cardiff: The Fostering Network in Wales.
- Boffey, M., Mannay, D., Vaughan, R. and Wooders, C. 2021. The Fostering Communities programme - Walking tall: stage two evaluation. Project Report. Cardiff: The Fostering Network in Wales.
- Boffey, M., Mannay, D., Vaughan, R. and Wooders, C. 2021. The Fostering Communities programme - walking tall: stage one evaluation. Project Report. Cardiff: The Fostering Network in Wales.
- Roberts, L., Rees, A., Bayfield, H., Corliss, C., Diaz, C., Mannay, D. and Vaughan, R. 2020. Young people leaving care, practitioners and the coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic: experiences, support, and lessons for the future. Project Report. CASCADE/Cardiff University.
- Boffey, M., Mannay, D., Vaughan, R. and Wooders, C. 2021. The Fostering Communities programme - Walking tall: stage two evaluation. Project Report. Cardiff: The Fostering Network in Wales.
- Roberts, L., Rees, A., Mannay, D., Bayfield, H., Corliss, C., Diaz, C. and Vaughan, R. 2021. Corporate parenting in a pandemic: Considering the delivery and receipt of support to care leavers in Wales during Covid-19. Children and Youth Services Review 128, article number: 106155. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106155)
- Roberts, L., Mannay, D., Rees, A., Bayfield, H., Corliss, C., Diaz, C. and Vaughan, R. 2021. ‘It’s been a massive struggle’: Exploring the experiences of young people leaving care during COVID-19. Young 29(4S), pp. S81-S99. (10.1177/11033088211025949)
- Boffey, M., Mannay, D., Vaughan, R. and Wooders, C. 2021. The Fostering Communities programme - walking tall: stage one evaluation. Project Report. Cardiff: The Fostering Network in Wales.
- Roberts, L., Rees, A., Bayfield, H., Corliss, C., Diaz, C., Mannay, D. and Vaughan, R. 2020. Young people leaving care, practitioners and the coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic: experiences, support, and lessons for the future. Project Report. CASCADE/Cardiff University.
Research
I work across a range of projects at CASCADE and wider - supporting public involvement and working creatively with children, young people and parents.
Selected Current Projects:
HCRW Infrastructure Grant, 2019 – 2022/2024
Leading on the development of our Public Involvement plans across CASCADE, focusing on key priority areas children; young people; parents with experience of children’s social care; wider parents and carers.
UKRI / TRIUMPH Network, 2020-2021
Co-production or adaptation of online interventions for foster care: Promoting the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced children and young people. Specific support for peer researcher opportunity and interviews with young people. (with Evans, R. Mannay, D. Stabler, L.)
ESRC IAA 2021- 2022
Supporting Parents in and Leaving Care: #MessagesToCorporateParents. Co-production of good practice charter involving care experienced young people, policy makers, professionals and academics (with Roberts, L. and Mannay, D.)
Biography
Career
Engagement Manager, Cardiff University, CASCADE (2021- present )
Child, Young Person and Carer Engagement officer, Cardiff University, CASCADE (2018 - 2021 )
Develpment Officer, Voices From Care Cymru (2016 -2018)
Volunteer Executive, Prince's Trust Cymru (2013 -2016)
Education
MSc Social Science, Cardiff University (2017 - 2020 part time)
BSc (Hons) Natural Science - Maths and Chemistry, University of Birmingham (2004-2007)