Professor Ravinder Barn

Profile

Ravinder Barn is Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Law & Criminology. She is Director of Research, and Head of the Families and Children Research Cluster. Ravinder is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences, and served as a member of the Social Work and Social Policy sub-panel for the Research Excellence Framework 2020.

Research

Publications

• Barn, R. (2021) Conceptualising Children’s Subjective Well-Being: A Case Study of Bhambapur, Punjab, India. In Children’s Concepts of Well-being (pp. 237-251). Springer, Cham.
• 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).
• Barn, R., Di Rosa, R. T., & Argento, G. (2020). Unaccompanied minors in Sicily: promoting conceptualizations of child well-being through childrens own subjective realities. In Children's Lives in Southern Europe. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Barn, R., & Barn, B. S. (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 United Kingdom. Youth Justice, 19(3), 185-205.
• Barn, R., Feilzer, M., & 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(11), 226. 
• Barn, R. (2013) ‘Doing the right thing’: Transracial adoption in the USA. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(8), 1273-1291. 
• Barn R. (2007) ‘Race’, ethnicity and child welfare: A fine balancing act. British Journal of Social Work, 37(8), 1425-1434.
• Barn, R., & Kirton, D. (2012). Transracial adoption in Britain: politics, ideology and reality, Adoption & Fostering, 36(3-4), 25-37. 
  
  
  

Expertise