Child Protection and Child Well-Being

2020 - Development of a Child Neglect Measurement Tool 

2017 - ongoing: Undocumented Children and their Emotional Health and Wellbeing. Principal Investigator: Sian Natasha Thomas

2017-18: Evaluation of DorsetCC Reinvigorating Social Care, Department for Education Innovation Fund Programme. Co-Investigator: Harry Ferguson.

2015-16: Evaluation of Leeds Innovation Project, Transforming Services and Outcomes for Children and Families Through Restorative Justice, Department for Education (c£440,000) Co-Investigator: Harry Ferguson. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/625222/Leeds_Family_Valued_-_Evaluation_report.pdf

2014-15: Evaluation of child and family social workers well-being, experience and the impact of Continuing Professional Development, Nottinghamshire County Council.

2012-13: Performing child protection: How (and where) social workers relate to children and parents on home visits and in other spaces, ESRC, (£99,900). Principle Investigator: Harry Ferguson.

Achieving for Children’s England Innovation Fund Project: Better by Design (£56,450 [£1.1million project total]). Principle Investigators: Mark Chesterman and Matthew Gibson.

‘Organisations, staff support and the dynamics and quality of social work practice: A qualitative longitudinal study of child protection work’, ESRC Standard Grant, Open Call (£677,000) Principle Investigator: Harry Ferguson, Co-applicant: Tarsem Singh Cooner

Using 360-degree immersive video case studies to improve child protection practices

Gibson, M. (forthcoming) Pride and shame in child and family social work. Bristol: Policy Press.

White, S., Wastell, D., Walsh, T. and Gibson, M. (forthcoming) Reassessing attachment theory in child welfare. Bristol: Policy Press.

Haunted Futures: the stigma of being a mother living apart from her children following state-ordered court removal. Stigma, Health, and Inequality workshop. Cardiff University. 11th-12th January 2018

Gibson, M. (2017) Social worker or social administrator? Findings from a qualitative case study of a child protection social work team. Child & Family Social Work, 22(3):1187–1196. DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12335

Haunted Futures: ghosts, motherhood and child protection. Institute of Social Futures Breakfast Briefing. October 2017

Haunted Futures: Ghosts, motherhood and child protection. British Sociological Association annual conference. University of Manchester. April 2017

Smithson, R. and Gibson, M. (2017) Less than human: a qualitative study into the experience of parents involved in the child protection system. Child & Family Social Work, 22(2):565-574. DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12270

Churchill, H. and Fawcett, B. (2016) Refocusing on Early Intervention and Family  Support’, Social Policy and Society. vol. 15 (02), pp 303-316.

Gibson, M. (2016) Constructing pride, shame, and humiliation as a mechanism of control: a case study of an English local authority child protection service. Children and Youth Services Review, 70:120-128. DOI: DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.09.016

Fawcett, B. (2014) Children and Disability: Constructions, Implications and Change, International Social Work. DOI: 10.1177/0020872813515011

Fawcett, B.  and Hanlon, M. (2009) ‘Child Sexual Abuse and Indigenous Communities in Australia: A Case Study of Non-Inclusive Government Intervention, European Journal of Social Work, Vol 12, Issue 1, pp: 87 – 100. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691450802221048

Fawcett, B., Featherstone, B. and Goddard, J. (2004) Contemporary Child Care Policy and Practice, Basingstoke, Palgrave