Professor Ravinder BarnProfessor of Social Policy, Royal Holloway, University of London, United KingdomEmail: r.barn@rhul.ac.ukProfilePublicationsExpertiseProfileRavinder 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. ResearchPublications 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. ExpertiseRavinder has a strong track record in policy-relevant research in relation to racial/ethnic, social and gender inequalities. She is the author/editor of eight books and over 100 journal papers or book chapters. She writes on gender, ethnicity, child and youth welfare, and criminal justice. Her research on child welfare and migrant groups; and gender-based violence is highly regarded nationally and internationally. Ravinder is a mixed-methods researcher. Her academic base is inter-disciplinary and spans social policy, sociology, social work, and criminology.