Staff profile

I am a social and cultural geographer working in the area of harm to young people in their communities. This can include harm between young people like sexual harassment and violence at school, serious violence and the use of weapons, and young people that are criminally exploited.

I'm an embedded researcher. This means that I spend time in organisations to understand how they work and what needs to change to improve how safeguarding systems work with young people. A lot of my work has focussed on being embedded in children's social care but I now work in schools and with voluntary and community sector organisations. My work focusses on preventing and addressing inter-personal violence to young people but I am particularly interested in how systems designed to keep young people safe can also inflict harm. My most recent work has looked at zero-tolerance and school exclusion. 

My work is focussed on ensuring children's rights and welfare are upheld and am critical of approaches to safeguarding that promote behaviourist and individual approaches to harm. I believe that change can happen and to do this we need to make safer environments and communities that value and listen to young people. 

As a member of the Contextual Safeguarding leadership team and lead for education my research has focussed on a range of projects focussed on 'extra-familial harm' including: designing children's social care systems to work in contexts beyond the home via the  National Scale-Up project, addressing harmful sexual behaviour in schools as part of the Beyond Referrals project, and most recently looking at the education experienciences of young people impacted by extra-familial harm as part of the 'In the name of safeguarding' project. 

I particularly care about turning academic research into resources and learning that can help professionals and practitioners. I manage the Contextual Safeguarding website and frequently work with policy makers and organisations including the Department for Education, Ofsted and Chair a sub-group of the International Taskforce for Child Protection. 

 

Follow me on Twitter: @jennyalloyd

• Extra-familial harm
• Peer-on-peer abuse
• Harmful sexual behaviour
• Sexual violence in schools
• Ethics in child protection research and practice
• Space and place
• Embedded methodologies
• Social Care

Authored book

• Lefevre, M., Huegler, N., Lloyd, J., Owens, R., Damman, J., Ruch, G., & Firmin, C. (2024). Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447371250

Chapter in book

• Lloyd, J., & Owens, R. (2023). Developing outcomes measurements in Contextual Safeguarding: explorations of theory and practice. In C. Firmin, & J. Lloyd (Eds.), Contextual Safeguarding (147-159). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447366454.012
• Wroe, L., Lloyd, J., & Manister, M. (2023). From peers and parks to patriarchy and poverty: inequalities in young people’s experiences of extra-familial harm and the child protection system. In C. Firmin, & J. Lloyd (Eds.), Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter (17-29). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447366454-007
• Manister, M., Wroe, L., & Adams Elias, C. (2023). Identifying and responding to structural and system drivers of extra-familial harm using a Contextual Safeguarding approach. In C. Firmin, & J. Lloyd (Eds.), Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter (30-43). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447366454-008
• Lloyd, J., & Fritz, D. (2017). The role of detached youth work in preventing and identifying sexual harm. In H. Beckett, & J. Pearce (Eds.), Understanding and Responding to Child Sexual Exploitation (83-94). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315231945

Edited book

• Firmin, C., & Lloyd, J. (Eds.). (2023). Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447366454

Journal Article

• Owens, R., & Lloyd, J. (2023). From behaviour-based to ecological: Multi-agency partnership responses to extra-familial harm. Journal of Social Work, 23(4), 741–760. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173231162553
• Lloyd, J., Hickle, K., Owens, R., & Peace, D. (2023). Relationship‐based practice and contextual safeguarding: Approaches to working with young people experiencing extra‐familial risk and harm. Children & Society, 38(4), 1113-1129. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12787
• Lloyd, J., & Walker, J. (2023). How Schools are Addressing Harmful Sexual Behaviour: findings of 14 School Audits. British Journal of Educational Studies, 71(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2023.2178634
• Lloyd, J., & Bradbury, V. (2023). Zero tolerance to sexual harm in schools – from broken rules to broken systems. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 29(2), 226-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2022.2057605
• Lloyd, J. (2022). From who … to where? A geographical approach to peer-on-peer sexual abuse. Children's Geographies, 20(5), 509-522. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2019.1582753
• Firmin, C., & Lloyd, J. (2022). Green Lights and Red Flags: The (Im)Possibilities of Contextual Safeguarding Responses to Extra-Familial Harm in the UK. Social Sciences, 11(7), Article 303. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11070303
• Lloyd, J. (2021). Life in a lanyard: developing an ethics of embedded research methods in children’s social care. Journal of Children's Services, 16(4), 318-331. https://doi.org/10.1108/jcs-12-2019-0047
• Wroe, L., & Lloyd, J. (2020). Watching over or working with? Understanding social work innovation in response to extra-familial harm. Social Sciences, 9(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9040037
• Lloyd, J. (2020). “Sometimes the whole map is red”: applying geographical assessment methods to safeguard adolescents from harm in communities. Safer Communities, 19(1), 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1108/sc-06-2019-0018
• Disney, T., & Lloyd, J. (2020). Towards geographies of child protection. Geography Compass, 14(12), https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12545
• Lloyd, J., Walker, J., & Firmin, C. (2020). Keeping children safe? Advancing social care assessments to address harmful sexual behaviour in schools. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12751
• Lloyd, J. (2020). Abuse through sexual image sharing in schools: Response and responsibility. Gender and Education, 32(6), 784-802. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2018.1513456
• Lloyd, J., & Firmin, C. (2020). No Further Action: Contextualising Social Care Decisions for Children Victimised in Extra-Familial Settings. Youth Justice, 20(1-2), 79-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225419893789
• Lloyd, J. (2019). ‘You’re not big, you’re just in Asia’: Expatriate embodiment and emotional experiences of size in Singapore§ [‘Tu n’es pas grosse, tu es tout simplement en Asie’: incarnation de l’expatriée et expériences émotionnelles de la taille à Singapour]. Social and Cultural Geography, 20(6), 806-825. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1384047
• Lloyd, J. (2019). Response and interventions into harmful sexual behaviour in schools. Child Abuse and Neglect, 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104037
• Cranston, S., & Lloyd, J. (2019). Bursting the Bubble: Spatialising Safety for Privileged Migrant Women in Singapore. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 51(2), 478-496. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12433
• Firmin, C., Lloyd, J., & Walker, J. (2019). Beyond referrals: levers for addressing harmful sexual behaviours between students at school in England. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(10), 1229-1249. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2019.1659442
• Bos, D., Finlay, R., Hopkins, P., Lloyd, J., & Richardson, M. (2017). Reflections on the ESRC internship scheme for postgraduates. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 41(1), 106-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2016.1260099
• Lloyd, J., & Hopkins, P. (2015). Using interviews to research body size: Methodological and ethical considerations. Area, 47(3), 305-310. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12199
• Lloyd, J. (2014). Bodies over borders: The sized body and geographies of transnationalism [Cuerpos sobre fronteras: El cuerpo medido y las geografías del transnacionalismo]. Gender, Place and Culture, 21(1), 123-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2013.791253