Prof. Ravinder Barn

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

• 1989 PhD (Sociology) “Children in Public Care: The impact of ‘race’ and ethnicity”, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, ESRC Studentship, University ofWarwick 1985
• B.A. (Hons) Sociology (2:1), Birmingham CityUniversity 1985 CertificateofQualificationinSocialWork(CQSW),Birmingham CityUniversity

BOOKS (n=8)

• Skivenes, M; Barn, R; Križ, K; and Pösö, T. (eds) (2015) Child welfare systems and migrant groups: International perspectives, New York: Oxford University Press. Barn, R. and Harman, V. (2014) (eds) Mothering, mixed families, and racialised boundaries, Routledge.
• Barn, R. with Ladino, C. and Rogers, B. (2006) Parenting in Multi-Racial Britain, London: NCB. Barn, R; Andrew, L. and Mantovani, N. (2005) Life After Care: A study of the experiences of young people from different ethnic groups, York: JRF.
• Barn, R. (2001) Black Youth on the Margins, York: JRF.
• Barn, R; Sinclair, R. and Ferdinand, D. (1997) Actingon Principle, An Examination of RaceandEthnicityinSocialServicesProvisiontoChildrenandFamilies,London:BAAF.
• Barn, R. (ed) (1999) Working with Black Children and Adolescents in Need, London: BAAF.
• Barn, R. (1993) Black Children in the Public Care System, London: Batsford.

Selected Peer Reviewed Papers and Book Chapters (N=120)

• Barn, R., Di Rosa, R. T., & Kallinikaki, T. (2021) Unaccompanied Minors in Greece and Italy: An Exploration of the Challenges for Social Work within Tighter Immigration and Resource Constraints in Pandemic Times. Social Sciences, 10(4), 134.
• Tonsing, J. & Barn, R. (2020) Help-seeking behaviours and practices among Fijian women who experience domestic violence: An exploration of the role of religiosity as a coping strategy, International Social Work, 1-12.
• Devasundaram, A. I. & Barn, R. (2020) Performativity of rape culture through fact and fiction: An exploration of India’s Daughter and Anatomy of Violence. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 1367877920911937.
• Barn, R; Di Rosa, R. and Argento, G. (2019) Unaccompanied minors in Sicily: Promoting conceptualisations of child well-being through children’s own subjective realities, In L. Gaitán, Y. Pechtelidis, C. Tomas, and N. Fernandes (eds) Children’s Lives in southern Europe: Contemporary challenges and risks, Edgar Edward.
• Barn, R. and Barn, R. (2019) Youth justice in the digital age: A case study of practitioners’ perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of social technology in their techno-habitat in the UK, Youth Justice, 1-21.
• Barn, R; Feilzer, M. and Hardwick, N. (2018) Black and Minority Ethnic Boys and Custody in England and Wales: Understanding Subjective Experiences through an Analysis of Official Data. Social Sciences 7, 226. pp1-16.
• Barn, R. and Powers, R. (2018) Rape Myth Acceptance Among University Students: A Comparison of India and the UK, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-22.
• Barn, R. (2018) Transracial Adoption: White American Adoptive Mothers’ Constructions of Social Capital in Raising Their Adopted Children, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41(14), 2522–2541.
• Tonsing, J. and Barn, R. (2017) Intimate Partner Violence in South Asian Communities: Exploring the Notion of ‘Shame’ to Promote Understandings of Migrant Women’s Experiences, International Social Work, 60(3), 628-639.
• Barn, R. and Kumari, V. (2015) Understanding Complainant Credibility in rape appeals: A Case study of High Court Judgments and Judges’ perspectives in India, British Journal of Criminology, 55(3), 435-453 (Among the Top 10 ‘Most Read’ Papers in the BJC, August 2015).
• Barn, R. and Tan, J.P. (2015) Foster youth and drug use: understanding risk and protective factors, Children and Youth Services Review, 56, 107-115.
• Barn, R. and Das, C. (2015) Family group conferences and cultural competence in social work. The British Journal of Social Work, 46(4), 942-959.
• Barn, B; Barn, R. and Tan, J.P. (2013) Smart Phones and Personal Data Security: An Examination of Risk-Taking and At-Risk Behaviour Among Young People, International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in IT (IJSODIT), 3(4), 43-58.
• Barn, R. (2013) ‘Doing the right thing’ – Transracial Adoption in the USA, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(8), 1273-1291
• Barn, R. and Harman, V. (eds) (2013) Mothering across racial boundaries: An introduction, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Special Issue, Advanced Access, 1-8.
• Barn, R. and Tan, J.P. (2012) Foster youth and crime: Employing general strain theory to promote understanding, Journal of Criminal Justice, 40(3), 212-220.
• Barn, R. and Kirton, D. (2012) Transracial Adoption in Britain: Politics, Ideology and Reality, Adoption and Fostering, 36(3), 25-37.
• Barn, R. (2010) Care Leavers and Social capital: Understanding and Negotiating Racial and Ethnic Identity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33(5), 832-850.
• Barn, B. S. and Barn, R. (2010) An exploration of technologies for engagement and promotion of social inclusion with young offenders. IDC 2010 Digital Technologies and Marginalized Youth Workshop.http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~hourcade/idc2010-myw/
• Barn, R. (2008) Ethnicity, Gender and Mental Health: Social Worker Perspectives, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 54(1), 69-82.
• Barn, R. (2007) ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Child Welfare: A Fine Balancing Act, Critical Commentary, British Journal of Social Work, 37(8), 1425-1434.
• Barn, R. (2006) Research and Practice Briefings: Children and Families – Improving services to meet the needs of minority ethnic children and families, DfES, 1-10. (Disseminated by DfES to ALL Local Authority Social Services Departments inEngland and Wales).
• Barn, R. and Mantovani, N. (2007) Young Mothers, and the Care System: Contextualising Risk and Vulnerability, British Journal of Social Work, 37(2): 225- 243.
• Barn, R. and Harman, V. (2006) A Contested Identity: An exploration of the social and political discourse concerning the identification of young people of inter-racial parentage, British Journal of Social Work, 36 (8): 1309-1324
• Barn, R. and Sidhu, K. (2004) Understanding the interconnections between ethnicity, gender, social class and health: Experiences of minority ethnic women in Britain, Social Work in Health Care, 39(1-2),11-27.
• Barn, R. (1999) ‘White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children, and Child Welfare’, British Journal of Social Work, 29:2, 269-284.
• Barn, R. and Sinclair, R. (1999) ‘Black Families and Children: Planning to Meet their Needs’, in Journal of Research, Policy and Planning; 17(2), 5-11.
• Barn, R. (1994) ‘Black Children in Care: Some Recent Research Findings’, Law and Practice, 3(2), 23-33.
• Barn, R. (1990) ‘Black Children in Local Authority Care: Admission Patterns’, New Community, 16, 229-246.

VISITINGAPPOINTMENTS

1996:Present visiting Professor at a number of prestigious universities including UC Berkeley, CUNY, Oxford, Cambridge, Vienna, Pune, Delhi, Lucknow, National Law University,Odisha.

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Research Interests

‘Gender, Violence, and Criminal Justice Systems’, ‘Youth Justice and Technology’, ‘Cybercrime’, ‘Indian Diaspora and the State’, and ‘International Child Welfare Systems’, and Child Well-being. My research interests span the disciplines of Criminology, Sociology, Social Policy, and Social Work.

Research Grants Awarded

Since 1986, a number of research grants awarded by statutory and voluntary bodies including the former Commission for Racial Equality, Department of Health, Economic and Social Research Council, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Canadian High Commission, Association of Chief Police Officers, Joint Information Systems Committee, Nominet Trust, Council of Europe, The European Union, Norwegian Research Council, Global Challenges Research Fund, and The British Academy. Most of these were as Principal Investigator.

Examples of Important Academic / Policy / Practice / Meditain itiatives

• Expert evidence given by Professor Barn and cited in a range of reports including on care leavers to the Prison Reform Trust Report – In care, Out of Trouble – chaired by Lord Laming in 2016; Child Welfare, Ethnicity and Adoption to Children’s Commissioner, England, 2013;House of Lords Select Committee on Child Welfare, Ethnicity and Adoption, 2012; Two European policy directive initiatives at the Council of Europe on ‘Intercultural competences and social services in Europe’, and ‘Effective child protection services’, 2009-12; and Ethnic monitoring of children looked after, Department of Health, 1997. Latter was introduced as policy by DoH in1998.
• Research and Practice Briefing: Children and Families – Improving services to meet the needs of minority ethnic children and families, DfES, 1-10 (2006) (Disseminated by DfES to ALL Local Authority Social Services Departments in England and Wales).
• Media engagement activities, for example, via BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour; BBC and Channel 4 documentaries on child and youth welfare, and multiculturalism / social inclusion; Sky News, and Guardian Panel Discussions on child welfare, ethnicity and adoption; and blog posts on social media.
• Mobile Apps for Youth Offending Teams (MAYOT) social technology (funded by the Nominet Trust) co-designed with young people and practitioners, to foster engagement and reduce youth re-offending, has been deployed in a number of youth offending services in Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, and London. The Youth Justice Board have identified this as innovative practice on their website. (2014: Present)

Reviewer of Research Grant Applications / Editorial Board Member of Learned journals

Reviewer of grant applications for Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, Big Lottery Fund, National Institute for Health Research, Department for Education, Nuffield Foundation, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, and Jacobs Foundation. Editorial Board Member for Child Indicators Research, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Adoption and Fostering, Children and Society, International Journal of Sociology of Culture, Diversity in Health and Social Care, Journal of Social Work in Health Care, Journal of Social Work and Mental Health. And reviewer for several Sociology, Criminology, Social Psychology /Social Work journals.

Examples of Important Academic / Policy / Practice / Mediation iterative

Expert evidence given by Professor Barn and cited in a range of reports including on care leavers to the Prison Reform Trust Report – In care, Out of Trouble – chaired by Lord Laming in 2016; Child Welfare, Ethnicity and Adoption to Children’s Commissioner, England, 2013;House of Lords Select Committee on Child Welfare, Ethnicity and Adoption, 2012; Two European policy directive initiatives at the Council of Europe on ‘Intercultural competences and social services in Europe’, and ‘Effective child protection services’, 2009-12; and Ethnic monitoring of children looked after, Department of Health, 1997. Latter was introduced as policy by DoH in1998. Research and Practice Briefing: Children and Families – Improving services to meet the needs of minority ethnic children and families, DfES, 1-10 (2006) (Disseminated by DfES to ALL Local Authority Social Services Departments in England and Wales). Media engagement activities, for example, via BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour; BBC and Channel 4 documentaries on child and youth welfare, and multiculturalism / social inclusion; Sky News, and Guardian Panel Discussions on child welfare, ethnicity and adoption; and blog posts on social media. Mobile Apps for Youth Offending Teams (MAYOT) social technology (funded by the Nominet Trust) co-designed with young people and practitioners, to foster engagement and reduce youth re-offending, has been deployed in a number of youth offending services in Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, and London. The Youth Justice Board have identified this as innovative practice on their website. (2014: Present)

Phd Student Supervision (Selectedlist)

• Emese Szasz – Help seeking from nongovernmental organisations in cases of human trafficking pertaining to sexual exploitation, 2019 –
• Beatrice Hayes – Children’s perceptions of the risks and benefits of social networking site use, 2017 – 2020 (now Lecturer, Royal Holloway University of London)
• Courtney Hagen – Watching and Being Watched: parents’ and children’s views on the use of family surveillance products, 2016 –
• Taryn Padmore – A study of cyber security policy and practice: Understanding the fault lines, 2016 – 2021
• Zaheer Ali – Religious Minorities in Pakistan: Understanding social identity construction, negotiation and performance, 2015 – 2021
• Utsa Mukerjee – An exploratory study of childhood and leisure among diverse ethnic groups in England, 2015 – 2020 (now Lecturer, Brunel University)
• Wangui Mackay – Race and politics in diasporic cyber spaces: A critical race theory analysis of eParticipation and Kenyans in the UK, 2014 – 2020
• Jenny Ching Khannem Tonsing – ‘A study of domestic violence against South Asian women in Hong Kong’, 2009- Reid Scholarship, Royal Holloway, University of London, awarded Dec 2013 – (now Lecturer at Appalachian State University, USA).
• Rick Hood – ‘The new integrated teams in children’s services: An examination of professional conceptualisations of interprofessional working’, SWan PhD, 2009-2013, awarded March 2013 – (now Professor at Kingston University).
• Dr Chaitali Das – ‘Social and Cultural impact of divorce on British Indian adult children in the UK’, 2005-2009, awarded Feb 2009 – (now Lecturer at FrankfurtUniversity of Applied Sciences, Germany)
• Zamri Hassan – ‘On-line community development in Malaysia: A study of thesupport networks of carers’, 2005-2009, awarded March 2009. – (now working for theMalaysianGovernment).
• Dr Vicki Harman – ‘A study of the formal and informal support networks of lone white mothers of mixed-parentage children’, 2003-2007, awarded July 2007 – (nowSenior Lecturer at the University of Surrey).
• Nadia Mantovani – ‘The voice of policy versus the voice of the lifeworld: Identity work, moral accountability and good mothering practices in narratives of Black teenaged mothers’, 2005-2009, awarded 2009, – (now Senior Research Fellow at StGeorge’s, University of London, since Jan 2008).
• Dr Leanne Peta Esterhausen – ‘When never becomes now: A Study of counter- nationalism as a response to institutionalised violence amongst Bosnian Refugees Living in London’, 2002-2006, awarded June 2006, – (now working for the HomeOffice, since 2007).