Professor Judith Harwin
Professor in Socio-Legal StudiesResearch Overview
I have over thirty years of experience in conducting socio-legal research in national and international contexts, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the ESRC, the DfE, the EU and Unicef. I joined Lancaster University in 2016 on a 60% contract and am based in the Law School where I hold a Chair in socio-legal studies. I helped set up the interdisciplinary Centre for Child and Family Justice Research and I co-direct the Centre with Professor Karen Broadhurst, Sociology.
Parental substance misuse, domestic abuse and offending: perspectives on the interface between care proceedings and the criminal justice system
01/06/2024 → 30/09/2025
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DSI: Improving the experience of care proceedings: An application to the DfE on behalf of the Public Law Working Group on care proceedings reform
01/04/2023 → 31/03/2024
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IAA: Developing a collaborative research framework for special guardianship
01/11/2022 → 31/01/2023
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Investigating the impact of family drug and alcohol courts (FDACs) on parental offending: a data linkage study
01/10/2022 → 30/09/2025
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Parental Experiences of Supervision Orders
01/11/2020 → 31/03/2021
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DSI: Establishment of a Data Platform and Analytics Service for the Family Justice Observatory and the provision of research and results to the FJO and general public.
01/01/2019 → 30/04/2024
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Visualising Data in Children's Social Care
01/11/2017 → 31/08/2018
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- Centre for Child and Family Justice Research