Julie Selwyn research
Research interests
Adoption and fostering. Child care and child protection. Permanency policy and practice and ways of improving outcomes for looked after children.
Research projects
Current
- Best practice in placing large sibling groups for adoption
- Foster carer payments and fee framework
- The Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies
Completed
- Evaluation of a new model of providing adoption services: the LBHarrow and Coram partnership (2009)
- Costs of adoption and the inter-agency fee (2009)
- Educational Support Services provided by Independent Foster Care Providers (IFPs) (2009)
- Supports and outcomes of placements in one independent fostering agency (2009)
- Pathways to permanence for children of black, Asian and mixed parentage: Dilemmas, decision making and outcomes (2008)
- Evaluation of Adoption UK ‘It’s a piece of cake?’ training programme (2007)
- Evaluation of a kinship care team (2006)
- Survey of Barnardo’s adopters and foster carers (2006)
- Recruiting Black and Mixed Parentage Adopters: Agency Policy and Practice (2004)
- Costs and outcomes in non-infant adoptions (2002)