Department of Social Policy and Social Work

University of Oxford

Joan Hunt

Joan Hunt
Position:
Senior Research Fellow
Telephone (+01865):
(2)80324
Email Address:
joan.hunt@spi.ox.ac.uk

Personal Info

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.

Publications

  • Lutman, E., Hunt, J. and Waterhouse, S.  (2009) 'Placement stability for children in kinship care: a long term follow up of children placed in kinship care through care proceedings'. Adoption and Fostering, 33 (3) 28-39.
  • Hunt, J. (2008) Family and Friends Care. Research and Practice Briefing Number 16. Research in Practice.
  • Hunt, J., Waterhouse, S., Lutman, E. (2008) Keeping them in the Family: children placed in kinship care through care proceedings. London, BAAF
  • Waterhouse, S., Hunt, J., Lutman, E. (2008) 'Keeping them in the family: neglected and abused children placed with family or friends carers through care proceedings'. Family Law, May.
  • Hunt, Joan (2007) Intervening in litigated contact: ideas from other jurisdictions in Maclean, M (ed): Parenting after Partnering, Onati International Series in Law and Society, Hart Publishing, 2007. pp193-218.
  • Hunt, Joan (2006) Contact with non-resident fathers after separation and divorce In Lord Justice Thorpe & R. Budden: Durable Solutions: Collected papers of the 2005 Dartington Hall Conference. Family Law
  • Hunt, Joan with Roberts, Ceridwen (2005) Intervening in litigated contact: ideas from other jurisdictions Fully referenced version.  Family Policy Briefing, 4. September 2005
  • Hunt, Joan & Roberts, Ceridwen (2004) Child contact with non-resident parents  Family Policy Briefing, 3. Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford
  • Buchanan, A and Hunt, J  (2003) 'Disputed Contact Cases in the Courts in Children and Their Families' in Bainham, A Lindley, B Richards, M & Trinder, E (eds) Contact Rights and Welfare .Oxford: Hart Publishing.
  • Hunt, Joan (2003) Researching Contact London: National Council for One Parent Families
  • Hunt, Joan (2003) Family and Friends Carers Scoping Paper prepared for the Department of Health. London: Department of Health
  • Hunt, J., Drucker, N. and Gill, B. (2003)  Understanding Variation in the Hours Guardians Spend on Care Cases Oxford Centre for Family Law and Practice Working Paper. Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford
  • Hunt, J., Head, A. and Drucker, N. (2003)  Capturing Guardian Practice Prior to CAFCASS Oxford Centre for Family Law and Practice Working Paper.Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford.
  • Hunt, Joan. (2002) Professionalising Lay Justice: the role of the court clerk in family proceedings Lord Chancellor's Department.
  • Buchanan, A., Hunt, J., Bretherton, H. & Bream, V.  (2001) Families in conflict: Perspectives of children and parents on the Family Court Welfare Service. Bristol: Policy Press
  • Buchanan, A., Hunt, J., Bretherton, H. & Bream, V.  (2001) 'Families in conflict: Perspectives of children and parents on the Family Court Welfare Service' Family Law, 31, 900-903
  • Hunt, Joan. (2001) 'Kinship Care, Child Protection and the Courts' in Broad, B Kinship Care: the placement choice for children and young people Russell House.
  • Hunt, Joan. (2000) 'Making timely decisions for Children: research on a court sample' in Buchanan, A & Hudson, B (eds) Promoting Children's Well-being: Messages from Research, Oxford University Press.
  • Hunt, Joan, Macleod, A (1999) The Best Laid Plans: Outcomes of Judicial Decisions in Child Protection Cases The Stationery Office
  • Hunt, Joan, Lawson, J (1999) Crossing the Boundaries: the views of practitioners with experience of family court welfare and guardian ad litem work on the proposal to create a unified court welfare service National Council for Family Proceedings
  • Hunt, Joan, Macleod, A & Thomas, C (1999) The Last Resort: Child Protection, the Courts and the 1989 Children Act The Stationery Office
  • Hunt, Joan (1998) 'A moving target: care proceedings as a dynamic process'  Child and Family Law Quarterly
  • This page was last updated on 08/10/2010 at 15:51

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