Professor Ravinder Barn, Ph.D. (Warwick); BA (Hons), CQSW (UCE, B’ham)

Ravinder Barn is Professor of social policy and social work at Royal Holloway, University of London. She joined Royal Holloway in 1990. Prior to this, she held a tenured post at Middlesex University from 1988-1990. Her research interests are ‘Race’, ethnicity, and welfare – more specifically ‘Children in the public care system’; ‘Fostering and adoption’; ‘Care leavers’; ‘Adolescent well-being’; ‘Ethnicity, gender and health and social care; ‘Parenting in diverse communities’; ‘the youth justice system’; and ‘Equal opportunities policies’.
Ravinder's research has been funded by a number of key external bodies including the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), Department of Health (DoH), the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), and the Canadian High Commission. She has also conducted evaluative research for Local Authority Social Services Departments, and independent health and social care projects.
Email: r.barn@rhul.ac.uk

 Selected recent publications (since 2000)

	Barn, R. (2006) British Indian Diaspora in transition, in B. Maharaj, K. L. Narayan, and D.Sangha (eds) Indian Diaspora: Retrospect and Prospect, Sage, forthcoming.
	Barn, R. (2006) Parenting in Multi-Racial Britain, London: NCB.
	Barn, R. (2006) Research and Practice Briefings: Children and Families - Improving services to meet the needs of minority ethnic children and families, DfES.
	Barn, R. and Mantovani, N. (2006) Young Mothers, and the Care System: Contextualising Risk and Vulnerability, British Journal of Social Work, Advance Access, 1-19.
	Barn, R; Andrew, L. and Mantovani, N. (2005) Life After Care: A study of the experiences of young people from different ethnic groups, York: JRF/The Policy Press. (a summary and the full publication of the above are downloadable from the JRF website) .
	Barn, R. and Harman, V. (2005) A Contested Identity: An exploration of the social and political discourse concerning the identification of young people of inter-racial parentage, British Journal of Social Work, Advance Access in press, 1-16.
	Barn, R. and Sidhu, K. (2004) Understanding the interconnections between ethnicity, gender, social class and health: Experiences of minority ethnic women in Britain, Social Work in Health Care, 39(1-2), 11-27.
	Harman, V. and Barn, R. (2004) Exploring the discourse concerning white mothers of mixed-parentage children, in T. Okitikpi (ed) Working with Children of Mixed-Race (Interracial) Relationships, London: JKP.
	Barn, R (2003) Foreword in K. Clarke, Welfare Research into Marginal Communities in Finland: Insider Perspectives on Health and Social Care, University of Tampere Press.
	Barn, R. (2002) 'Parenting in a 'foreign' climate: the experiences of Bangladeshi mothers in multi-racial Britain', in Social Work in Europe, 9(3), 28-38.
	Barn, R. and Sidhu, K. (2002) 'Dealing with Difference: Professional Conceptualisations of Health and Social Care Needs of Bangladeshi women in London', Journal of Social Work Research and Evaluation, 3(2), 145-158.
	Barn, R. (2002) 'The Caribbean Family and the Child Welfare System in Britain', in H. Goulboune and M.Chamberlain (eds), Caribbean Family and Living Arrangements in Britain and the Trans-Atlantic World, Macmillan.
	Barn, R. (2002) 'Ethnicity and Child Welfare', in B. Mason and A. Sawyerr, Exploring the Unsaid: Risk and Creativity in Working Cross-Culturally, London: Karnac.
	Barn, R. with Denney, D; and Ellis, T. (2002) 'Race Diversity and Criminal Justice in Canada', High Commission of Canada
	Barn, R; Lee, M. and Loewenthal, K. (2001) Multi-Agency Preventative Project: A Study of the Views and Experiences of Bangladeshi Adolescent Boys', London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
	Barn, R. (2001) Black Youth on the Margins (JRF/YPS)

 

Current Research Studies

	Parenting and family life among South Asian groups in Toronto, Canada - with the University of Toronto..
	Parenting and family life among diverse cultural groups in Delhi, with the University of Delhi.
	An exploratory study of ethnicity, young people and mental health: Views and experiences of risk and protective factors.