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Jonathan Scourfield

Jonathan Scourfield

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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44
Citations
7141
World Ranking
4186
National Ranking
709

Overview

Jonathan Scourfield is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and has a substantial body of research primarily focused on social sciences, psychology, and health professions. Their academic contributions span several subfields including clinical psychology, general health professions, sociology and political science, safety research, and education.

Their research topics mainly cover child abuse and trauma, child welfare and adoption, homelessness and social issues, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, social work education and practice, migration, health and trauma, and suicide and self-harm studies.

The following recent papers illustrate the scope of Jonathan Scourfield's research work:

  • Contacts with primary and secondary healthcare prior to suicide: case-control whole-population-based study using person-level linked routine data in Wales, UK, 2000-2017 (2020), published in The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Untangling child welfare inequalities and the 'Inverse Intervention Law' in England (2020), published in Children and Youth Services Review
  • Intensive Family Preservation Services to prevent out-of-home placement of children: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020), published in Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Cuts both ways: Ethnicity, poverty, and the social gradient in child welfare interventions (2020), published in Children and Youth Services Review
  • Staff Wellbeing and Retention in Children's Social Work: Systematic Review of Interventions (2021), published in Research on Social Work Practice

Jonathan Scourfield has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Nell Warner, Ann John, Rebecca Cannings-John, Martin Elliott, and Rhiannon Evans.

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues with recurring contributions in:

  • The British Journal of Social Work
  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal for Population Data Science
  • Child Abuse & Neglect

Jonathan Scourfield's research integrates various strands of social sciences and health-related disciplines with a particular emphasis on topics relating to child welfare, trauma, and social work practices. Their studies often address systemic issues in social care and health services, aiming to better understand factors affecting vulnerable populations across different contexts.

Best Publications

  • Avoiding shame: young LGBT people, homophobia and self‐destructive behaviours

    Elizabeth McDermott;Katrina Roen;Jonathan Scourfield

  • Gender and Child Protection

    Jonathan Bryn Scourfield

  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people's experiences of distress: resilience, ambivalence and self-destructive behaviour

    Jonathan Scourfield;Katrina Roen;Liz McDermott

  • Engaging fathers in child welfare services: a narrative review of recent research evidence

    Nina Maxwell;Jonathan Bryn Scourfield;Brid Featherstone;Sally Holland

  • Social work, poverty, and child welfare interventions

    Kate Morris;Will Mason;Paul Bywaters;Brid Featherstone

  • Comparison of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt and suicide in children and young people in care and non-care populations: Systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence

    Rhiannon Emily Evans;James White;Ruth Turley;Thomas Slater

  • Children, Place and Identity: Nation and Locality in Middle Childhood

    Jonathan Scourfield;Bella Dicks;Mark Drakeford;Andrew James Davies

  • Analysing the connectivity and communication of suicidal users on twitter

    Gualtiero B. Colombo;Pete Burnap;Andrei Hodorog;Jonathan Scourfield

  • When things fall apart: Gender and suicide across the life-course

    Michael Shiner;Jonathan Bryn Scourfield;Ben Fincham;Susanne Langer

  • Machine Classification and Analysis of Suicide-Related Communication on Twitter

    Pete Burnap;Walter Colombo;Jonathan Scourfield

  • Sociological autopsy: An integrated approach to the study of suicide in men

    Jonathan Bryn Scourfield;Ben Fincham;Susanne Langer;Michael Shiner

  • The challenge of engaging fathers in the child protection process

    Jonathan Bryn Scourfield

  • Exploring inequities in child welfare and child protection services: Explaining the ‘inverse intervention law’

    Paul Bywaters;Geraldine Brady;Tim Sparks;Elizabeth Bos

  • Inequalities in English child protection practice under austerity: A universal challenge?

    Paul Bywaters;Geraldine Brady;Lisa Bunting;Brigid Daniel

  • Working with Men in Health and Social Care

    Brid Featherstone;Mark Rivett;Jonathan Scourfield

  • Child welfare inequalities in the four nations of the UK

    Paul Bywaters;Jonathan Scourfield;Chantel Jones;Tim Sparks

  • Recency of Divorce, Depression, and Suicide Risk:

    Steven Stack;Jonathan Bryn Scourfield

  • Multi-class machine classification of suicide-related communication on Twitter.

    Peter Burnap;Gualtiero Colombo;Rosie Amery;Andrei Hodorog

  • Risk, Reflexivity and Social Control in Child Protection: New Times or same Old Story?

    Jonathan Bryn Scourfield;Ian Welsh

  • Constructing Men in Child Protection Work

    Jonathan Bryn Scourfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Murphy
Simon Murphy Cardiff University
David R. Foxcroft
David R. Foxcroft Oxford Brookes University
Laurence Moore
Laurence Moore University of Glasgow
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Graham Moore
Graham Moore Cardiff University
Tamsin Ford
Tamsin Ford University of Cambridge
Richard M. Tolman
Richard M. Tolman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Carol Joinson
Carol Joinson University of Bristol
Steven Stack
Steven Stack Wayne State University
Paul Stallard
Paul Stallard University of Bath

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