
Joan Hunt qualified and practised as a social worker before entering academic life in 1985 as a researcher in the Socio-Legal Centre for Family Studies at the University of Bristol. She has been a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford since 1998, moving from the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in 2001 to join the Department of Social Policy and Social Work. Her research interests are in child and family law, the operation of the family justice system and the interface between law and legal institutions, families and social welfare agencies. Current and recent work covers three main areas: the work of what were previously guardians ad litem and family court welfare officers (now officers of CAFCASS); kinship care (ie the full-time substitute care of children who cannot live with their birth parents by members of their extended families) and disputes about child contact and residence following parental separation or divorce.
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