Professor Karen Broadhurst and Dr. Yang Hu, working in partnership with a team from the University of East Anglia led by Professor Marian Brandon, have been awarded a new £411k research grant from the Nuffield Foundation. This new project will establish the first nationally representative survey of fathers in family court proceedings. The two-year project […]
Professor Karen Broadhurst and Claire Mason, from the Centre for Child and Family Justice Research at Lancaster University, have a new article in the April 2017 edition of the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. The paper“…aims to capture the full range of consequences that birth parents face, following court-ordered removal of their children […]
Professor Karen Broadhurst, Claire Mason and Dr. Stuart Bedston, from the Centre for Child and Family Justice Research at Lancaster University, set out arguments based on research from the national study of recurrent care proceedings (funded by the Nuffield Foundation), in support of a proposed amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill. The article can […]
CFJ is delighted to be supporting the Nuffield Foundation to answer the President’s questions about rising care demand Watch this space for short report from this event – how can we interrupt a looming crisis in the family courts…..
Colleagues from the Centre have been awarded a grant to host a seminar on ‘Transnational Family Justice in Migration Crises’. This event is part of the Sociological Review Research Seminar Series and has been funded by The Sociological Review Foundation. The seminar will take place at Lancaster University this summer.
The Centre for Child and Family Justice Research welcomes visiting scholar Dr Miao Chunfeng for 12 months. Chunfeng is sponsored by the Chinese Social Science Foundation.
2nd March 2017, 12.00 – 4.00 pm, Nuffield Foundation, London The purpose of the scoping study is to develop proposals for the purpose, functions and delivery options for a Family Justice Observatory that would promote a system wide approach to the generation and practical application of research evidence and administrative data relevant to family justice […]
This one-day symposium at the Farr Institute brings together scholars interested in using administrative data to improve the evidence base for family justice policy and practice. We are delighted that the Troubled Family’s Team can join us, along with a great turnout of other experts. This is an opportunity to discuss how learning from this […]
23rd February 2017, Nuffield Foundation, London Professor Judith Harwin, Professor Karen Broadhurst, Dr Bachar Alrou and Dr Stuart Bedston from the Centre for Child and Family Justice Research will join the President of the Family Division and colleagues to present new findings in rising care demand in the family courts. A Working Paper will be published […]
We are delighted and honoured that Mavis Maclean CBE (University of Oxford) has blogged about her research in the field of family mediation. Click on our blog page to read the fascinating post by Mavis.