Dr Beverley Barnett-Jones is Nuffield Family Justice Observatory‘s Associate Director for System and Impact. She works on expanding the capacity of Nuffield Family Justice Observatory to make its evidence count on the practice front by making connections, developing conversations and fostering opportunities for innovations and activities that will unlock system change in the family justice system.
Beverley worked as a social worker for 30 years, undertaking a variety of practice and management roles in local authority and family court settings. Always committed to making research count, she has spent the last few years bringing research and evidence into the design and development of new services.
She was a member of the FDAC partnership, acting as a mentor and support to the expansion of this innovative family justice model.
Beverley led a Nuffield Family Justice Observatory project that examined how post-adoption contact could potentially be modernised, including through new digital solutions, and co-authored the Modernising post-adoption contact: findings from a recent consultation paper.
She received an MBE in June 2018 for her work with children and families.
