Professor Nicola Madge

Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology
School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
Penrhyn Road

Honorary Professor

[email protected]

About

I am an honorary professor in the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences at Kingston University. I have worked at Brunel University, the National Children's Bureau, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, the London School of Economics, the Thomas Coram Research Unit, and the Institute of Psychiatry. I am a chartered psychologist and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Research has been a central feature of my career. I have led large-scale projects in areas such as youth and religion, deliberate self-harm among young people, health in childhood, and social disadvantage.

Recently, I changed direction with the publication of Sixty Somethings. The lives of women who remember the Sixties, based on interviews with 69 older women born during the post-war baby boom, complemented by the publication of a book of poems entitled The Everyday Lives of Older Women in their Prime. My most recent book, Lockdown Life. The Pandemic Experience for Older Diarists, is based on an analysis of the 'lockdown diaries' completed by 68 men and women over the age of 70 for six months from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Further details on these latest publications are provided on my website, found at www.nicolamadge.co.uk.

Qualifications

BA (Hons)
MSc (Distinction)
PhD

Domains

Widely published, I am the author of many academic papers, chapters and books based on my research. Among these are:

Books

Madge, N. (2025) Lockdown Life. The Pandemic Experience for Older Diarists. Bristol: Policy Press.
Madge, N. and Hoggart, P. (2020) Sixty Somethings. The lives of women who remember the Sixties. London: Quartet Books.
Madge, N., Hemming, P.J. and Stenson, K. (2014) Youth On Religion. The development, negotiation and impact of faith and non-faith identity. London: Routledge.
Madge, N. and Barker, J. (2007) Risk & Childhood. London: RSA Risk Commission.
Madge, N. (2006) Children These Days. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Datta, J., Ryder, N. and Madge, N. (2006) Meeting medical needs in mainstream education. London: NCB.
Madge, N. and Franklin, A. (2003) Change, challenge and school nursing. London: NCB.
Madge, N. (2001) Understanding Difference: the meaning of ethnicity for young lives. London: NCB.
Franklin, A. and Madge, N. (2000) In Our View. Children, teenagers and parents talk about services for young people. London: NCB.
Madge, N. with others (2000) 9 to 13: The Forgotten Years? London: NCB.
Madge, N. (1997) Abuse and Survival: A Fact File. London: Prince's Trust - Action.
Madge, N. (1994) Children and Residential Care in Europe. London: NCB.
Madge, N. et al (1993) The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study: A 10-year follow-up. Supplement to Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, July.
Madge, N. (Ed) (1983) Families At Risk. London: Heinemann.
Madge, N. and Fassam, M. (1982) Ask the Children. Experiences of physical disability in the school years. Batsford.
Brown, M. and Madge, N. (1982) Despite the Welfare State. London: Heinemann.
Rutter, M. and Madge, N. (1976) Cycles of Disadvantage. London: Heinemann.

Chapters in books

Madge, N. and Hemming, P.J. (2025) ‘Using a survey to investigate the role of religion in young people’s lives’ in Woodhead, L., Cadman, L. and Graham, N. (Eds) (2025) Messy Methods in Researching Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Madge, N. and Willmott, N. (2007). Children’s views and experiences of parenting. JRF. 32pp
Madge, N. (1996) 'Current child protection issues in Europe' in Pantelakis, S. and Nakou, S. (Eds)The Child in the World of Tomorrow: The Next Generation. Pergamon. pp 413-423.
Madge, N. and Attridge, K. (1996) 'Children and Families' in Munday, B. and Ely, P. (Eds) Social Care in Europe. Harvester Wheatsheaf. pp 126-161.
Madge, N. (1995) ‘Short-term and long-term outcomes in extrafamilial care’, in Colton, M.J. et al (Eds) The Art and Science of Child Care. Arena. pp 85-102.
Marmot, M. and Madge, N. (1987) 'An epidemiological perspective on stress and health' in Kasl, S.V. and Cooper, C.L. (Eds) Stress and Health: Issues in Research Methodology. Wiley. pp 3-26.
Madge, N. and Tizard, J. (1980) 'Intelligence' in Rutter, M. (Ed.) Developmental Psychiatry. Heinemann Medical Books. pp 245-265.

Articles in refereed journals

Hemming, P.J. and Madge, N. (2017) Young People, Non-Religion and Citizenship: Insights from the Youth On Religion Study, Young 26 (3), pp 1-18.
Madge, N. and Hemming, P.J. (2017) Young British religious ‘nones’: findings from the Youth On Religion study, Journal of Youth Studies 30 (7), pp 872-888.
Guerreiro, D.F., Sampaio, D., Figueira, M.L. and Madge, N (2015: listed on PubMed ahead of print version) Self-harm in adolescents: a self-report survey from schools in Lisbon, Portugal, Archives of Suicide Research.
Madge, N., Hemming, P.J., Goodman, A., Goodman, S., Kingston, S., Stenson, K. and Webster, C. (2012) Conducting Large-Scale Surveys in Secondary Schools: The Case of the Youth On Religion (YOR) Project, Children and Society 26 (6), pp 417- 429.
Madge, N., Hawton, K., McMahon, EM., Corcoran, P., De Leo, D., de Wilde, EJ., Fekete, S., van Heeringen, K., Ystgaard, M. and Arensman, E. (2011) Psychological characteristics, stressful life events and deliberate self-harm: findings from the Child & Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) Study, Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 20 (10), pp 499- 508.
Hemming, P.J. and Madge, N. (2011) Researching Children, Youth and Religion: Identity, Complexity and Agency, Childhood, 19(1), pp 38-51.
Christie, D., Romano, G., Barnes, J. and Madge, N. (2011) Exploring views on satisfaction in life in young children with chronic illness: An innovative approach to the collection of self-report data from children under 11, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 17(1), pp 5-15.
Harwin, J. and Madge, N. (2010) The concept of significant harm in law and practice, Journal of Children's Services 5 (2), pp 73- 83.
Madge, N. (2009) Risk in childhood: actuarial or experiential. Sociology Compass 3(5), pp 824-835.
Ystgaard, M., Arensman, E., Hawton, K., Madge, N., van Heeringen, K., Hewitt, A., de Wilde, E.J., De Leo, D. and Fekete, S. (2009). Deliberate self harm in adolescents: comparison between those who receive help following self harm and those who do not. Journal of Adolescence, 32(3), pp 747-752.
Scoliers, G., van Heeringen, K., Portsky, G., Madge, N., Hawton, K., de Wilde, E.J., Ystgaard, M., Arensman, E., De Leo, D. and Fekete, S. (2008). Reasons for Adolescent Deliberate Self-Harm: a Cry of Pain and/or a Cry for Help? Findings from the Child & Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) Study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 20 November epublication ahead of print.
Madge, N., Hewitt, A., Hawton, K., de Wilde, E.J., Corcoran, P., Fekete, S., van Heeringen, K., De Leo, D. and Ystgaard, M. (2008). Deliberate self-harm within an international community sample of young people: findings from the Child & Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) Study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 49(6), pp 667-677.
Madge, N., Foreman, D. and Baksh, F. (2008). Starving in the midst of plenty? An audit of the current and potential capacity of child and adolescent mental health service delivery in primary care. Clinical Child Psychiatry and Psychology, vol. 13(3), pp 463-478.
Rossow I, Ystgaard M, Hawton K, Madge N, van Heeringen K, de Wilde EJ, DeLeo D, Fekete S, Morey C. (2007) Cross-national comparisons of the association between alcohol consumption and deliberate self-harm in adolescents. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, vol. 37(6), pp 605-15.
Carolyn McMillan, C., Honeyford, R., Datta, J., Madge, N. and Bradley, C. (2004) ‘The development of a new measure of quality of life for young people with diabetes mellitus: the ADDQoL-Teen’, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, vol. 2, no 61, 14pp.
Madge, N. (1999) ‘Youth suicide in an international context’, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 8, pp 283-291.
Madge, N. and Harvey, J.G. (1999) ‘Suicide among the young - the size of the problem’, Journal of Adolescence, vol. 22, pp 145-155.
Miller, D., Madge, N. et al (1993) 'Pertussis immunisation and serious acute neurological illnesses in children', British Medical Journal, vol. 307, no 6913, pp 1171-1176.
Madge, N. and Marmot, M. (1987) 'Psychosocial factors and health', The Quarterly Journal of Social Affairs, vol. 3, pp 81-134.
Madge, N. (1983) 'Unemployment and its effects on children', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 24, pp 311-319.
Madge, N. (1982) 'Growing up in the inner city', Royal Society of Health Journal, vol. 102, pp 261-265.
Madge, N. (1976) ‘Context and the expressed ethnic preferences of pupils of infant school age’. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 17, pp 337-344.