Yr Athro Jonathan Scourfield

DipSW PhD

Professor

Ysgol y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol

: scourfield@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44(0) 29 2087 5402
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: 2.30 Glamorgan Building, Glamorgan Building

: Siarad Cymraeg
: Sylwebydd y cyfryngau
: Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig

Gender issues in social welfare
Distress and suicidal behaviour
Child well-being
Social work education and research capacity-building
Children s identities

Social work research at Cardiff.

Jonathan takes some time to discuss his research interests below.

News

Muslim Childhood: Religious Nurture in a European Context is published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Eleanor Nesbitt (Warwick University) has said:

'For everyone who is interested in contemporary childhood, in Islam, and in religious socialisation more generally, here is a meticulously researched and amply referenced study of the experience of Muslim children in the UK from an ethnically diverse range of families. In the context of insightful discussion of (for example) identity, the authors bring us the voices of Muslim children and their parents.'

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Jonathan Scourfield is Professor of Social Work in Cardiff School of Social Sciences, having formerly worked as a probation officer and secondary school teacher.

Main Areas of Teaching

Social science perspectives on social work
Advanced social work practice
Gender relations and society

Currently supervising doctorates on whole family interventions; direct payments for disabled people; public discourse on murder-suicide; the role of statutory social workers in suicide prevention and schools-based mental health promotion for young people.

Doctoral completions include Jeremy Dixon (lecturer at University of Bath), Steve Gethin-Jones (lecturer at University of Central Lancashire), Lee Quinney (lecturer at University of South Wales), Nina Jacob (post-doctoral fellow in Cardiff School of Social Sciences), Hannah Burgon (Director of Sirona equine-assisted learning project) and Andrew Smith (Senior therapist at Lucy Faithfull Foundation).

Professional Contribution

Member of commissioning panel for AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme $acirc; Youth$acirc; call (2009)
Member of the ESRC interim recognition panel for doctoral training in social work (2005)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Registered social worker

Updated June 2013.

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2015

Henderson, M.et al. 2015. The effect of social work use on the mental health outcomes of parents and the life satisfaction of children in Britain. Children and Youth Services Review 58, pp. 71-81. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.09.007)
Bywaters, P.et al. 2015. Exploring inequities in child welfare and child protection services: Explaining the 'inverse intervention law'. Children and Youth Services Review 57, pp. 98-105. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.07.017)
Evans, R. E., Scourfield, J. B. and Murphy, S. 2015. Pragmatic, formative process evaluations of complex interventions and why we need more of them [Editorial]. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 69(10), pp. 925-926. (10.1136/jech-2014-204806)
Burnap, P., Colombo, G. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. Machine classification and analysis of suicide-related communication on Twitter. Presented at: 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media, Cyprus, 1-4 September 2015HT '15- Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 75-84.
Scourfield, J. B. and Nasiruddin, Q. 2015. Religious adaptation of a parenting programme: process evaluation of the Family Links Islamic Values course for Muslim fathers. Child: Care, Health and Development 41(5), pp. 697-703. (10.1111/cch.12228)
Scourfield, J. B. and Evans, R. E. 2015. Why might men be more at risk of suicide after a relationship breakdown? Sociological insights. American Journal of Men's Health 9(5), pp. 380-384. (10.1177/1557988314546395)
Evans, R., Murphy, S. and Scourfield, J. 2015. Implementation of a school-based social and emotional learning intervention: understanding diffusion processes within complex systems. Prevention Science 16, pp. 754-764. (10.1007/s11121-015-0552-0)
Evans, R., Scourfield, J. and Murphy, S. 2015. The unintended consequences of targeting: young people's lived experiences of social and emotional learning interventions. British Educational Research Journal 41(3), pp. 381-397. (10.1002/berj.3155)
Holland, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. Social work: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stack, S. and Scourfield, J. 2015. Recency of divorce, depression, and suicide risk. Journal of Family Issues 36(6), pp. 695-715. (10.1177/0192513X13494824)
Scourfield, J. B., Smail, P. and Butler, D. 2015. A systemic approach to improving the engagement of fathers in child safeguarding. Child Abuse Review 24(2), pp. 129-139. (10.1002/car.2333)
Slater, T., Scourfield, J. and Greenland, K. 2015. Suicide attempts and social worker contact: secondary analysis of a general population study. British Journal of Social Work 45(1), pp. 378-394. (10.1093/bjsw/bct112)
Colombo, G. B.et al. 2015. Analysing the connectivity and communication of suicidal users on Twitter. Computer Communications 73(B), pp. 291-300. (10.1016/j.comcom.2015.07.018)
Evans, R. E.et al. 2015. Systematic review of self-harm and suicide in children and young people in the care of the state. Presented at: 28th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 16-20 June 2015. pp. 82-82.
Evans, R. E., Murphy, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. The unintended consequences of targeting: young people's lived experiences of targeted social and emotional learning interventions. Presented at: Society for Prevention Research 23rd Annual Meeting: Integrating Prevention Science and Public Policy, Washington DC, USA, 29 May 2015. pp. 82-82.

2014

John, A.et al. 2014. Suicide Information Database-Cymru: a protocol for a population-based, routinely collected data linkage study to explore risks and patterns of healthcare contact prior to suicide to identify opportunities for intervention. BMJ Open 4(11), article number: e006780. (10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006780)
John, A.et al. 2014. PRINTQUAL - A measure for assessing the quality of newspaper reporting of suicide. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 35(6), pp. 431-435. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000276)
Scourfield, J., Cheung, S. Y. and Macdonald, G. 2014. Working with fathers to improve children's well-being: Results of a survey exploring service provision and intervention approach in the UK. Children and Youth Services Review 43, pp. 40-50. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.04.009)
Jacob, N., Scourfield, J. B. and Evans, R. E. 2014. Suicide prevention via the internet. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 35(4), pp. 261-267. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000254)
Segrott, J.et al. 2014. Cultural adaptation and intervention integrity: a response to Skarstrand, Sundell and Andreasson. The European Journal of Public Health 24(3), pp. 354-355. (10.1093/eurpub/cku039)
Scourfield, J. 2014. Improving Work With Fathers to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Fathers should be engaged as allies in child abuse and neglect prevention. Child Abuse & Neglect 38(6), pp. 974-981. (10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.05.002)
Segrott, J.et al. 2014. Fidelity of implementation of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 UK in Wales UK: a mixed-method process evaluation within a randomised controlled trial. Presented at: 7th European Public Health Conference, Glasgow, Scotland,, 19-22 November 2014.
Moore, L. A. R.et al. 2014. Strengthening Families Programme (10-14UK) substance misuse prevention programme: findings from NPRI randomised trial of a proportionate universalism adaptation of an intervention for families with children aged 10-14. Presented at: 10th UKSBM Annual Scientific Meeting, Nottingham, 3-4 December 2014. pp. 1642-1647.
Scourfield, J. B. and Taylor, A. 2014. Using a book group to facilitate student learning about social work. Social Work Education 33(4), pp. 533-538. (10.1080/02615479.2013.832190)
Segrott, J.et al. 2014. Preventing substance misuse: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 UK (SFP 10-14 UK). BMC Public Health 14(1), article number: 49. (10.1186/1471-2458-14-49)
Evans, R. E., Murphy, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2014. The diffusion of social and emotional learning interventions: exploring and the role and impact of proselytism. Presented at: UKCRC Public Health Research Centres of Excellence Conference, Leeds, UK, 19-20 June 2014.

2013

Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2013. Muslim childhood: religious nurture in a European context. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jones, P.et al. 2013. Identifying probable suicide clusters in Wales using national mortality data. PLoS ONE 8(8), article number: e71713. (10.1371/journal.pone.0071713)
Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2013. Religious nurture in British Muslim families: implications for social work. International Social Work 56(3), pp. 326-342. (10.1177/0020872812474032)
Evans, R. E., Scourfield, J. B. and Murphy, S. 2013. The diffusion of social and emotional learning interventions: is belief and conviction enough?. Presented at: Society for Prevention Research 21st Annual Meeting, The Science of Prevention: Building a Comprehensive National Strategy for Well-being, San Francisco, USA, 28-31 May 2013.

2012

Maxwell, N.et al. 2012. The benefits and challenges of training child protection social workers in father engagement. Child Abuse Review 21(4), pp. 299-310. (10.1002/car.2218)
Maxwell, N.et al. 2012. Engaging fathers in child welfare services: A narrative review of recent research evidence. Child and Family Social Work 17(2), pp. 160-169. (10.1111/j.1365-2206.2012.00827.x)
Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2012. The intergenerational transmission of Islam in England and Wales: evidence from the Citizenship Survey. Sociology 46(1), pp. 91-108. (10.1177/0038038511419189)
Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2012. Sociological autopsy: an integrated approach to the study of suicide in men. Social Science & Medicine 74(4), pp. 466-473. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.01.054)
Khan, A.et al. 2012. Reflections on qualitative research with Muslim families. Fieldwork in Religion 7(1), pp. 48-69.
Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2012. Results of a training course for social workers on engaging fathers in child protection. Children and Youth Services Review 34(8), pp. 1425-1432. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.03.022)
Slater, T., Scourfield, J. B. and Sloan, L. 2012. Who is citing whom in social work? A response to Hodge, Lacasse and Benson. British Journal of Social Work 42(8), pp. 1626-1633. (10.1093/bjsw/bcs190)

2011

Scourfield, J. B., Roen, K. and McDermott, E. 2011. The non-display of authentic distress: public-private dualism in young people's discursive construction of self-harm. Sociology of Health & Illness 33(5), pp. 777-791. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01322.x)
Holliday, J.et al. 2011. Pragmatic trials of non-NHS interventions: experiences from a randomised controlled trial of the Strengthening Families 10-14 UK Programme (SFP10-14 UK). Trials 12(S 1), pp. A98. (10.1186/1745-6215-12-S1-A98)
Maxwell, N.et al. 2011. UK panel data on social work service users. British Journal of Social Work 42(1), pp. 165-184. (10.1093/bjsw/bcr051)
Fincham, B.et al. 2011. Understanding suicide: a sociological autopsy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

2010

Featherstone, B. et al. eds. 2010. Gender and child welfare in society. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

2009

Greenland, K.et al. 2009. Theoretical antecedents of distress disclosure in a community sample of young people. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 39(9), pp. 2045-2068. (10.1111/j.1559-1816.2009.00515.x)
Drakeford, M.et al. 2009. Welsh children’s views on government and participation. Childhood 16(2), pp. 247-264. (10.1177/0907568209104404)
Shiner, M.et al. 2009. When things fall apart: Gender and suicide across the life-course. Social Science & Medicine 69(5), pp. 738-746. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.06.014)
Scourfield, J. B. and Maxwell, N. 2009. Social work doctoral students in the UK: a web-based survey and search of the index to theses. British Journal of Social Work 40(2), pp. 548-566. (10.1093/bjsw/bcn165)

2008

Roen, K., Scourfield, J. B. and McDermott, E. 2008. Making sense of suicide: a discourse analysis of young people's talk about suicidal subjecthood. Social Science & Medicine 67(12), pp. 2089-2097. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.019)
Scourfield, J. B. 2008. Professional doctorate programmes in social work: the current state of provision in the UK. British Journal of Social Work 40(2), pp. 567-582. (10.1093/bjsw/bcn139)
Scourfield, J. B. 2008. Mapping the provision of professional doctorate programmes in social work: a survey of UK universities. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Fincham, B., Scourfield, J. b. and Langer, S. 2008. The impact of working with disturbing secondary data: reading suicide files in a coroner's office. Qualitative Health Research 18(6), pp. 853-862. (10.1177/1049732307308945)
Langer, S., Scourfield, J. B. and Fincham, B. 2008. Documenting the quick and the dead: a study of suicide case files in a coroner's office. The Sociological Review 56(2), pp. 293-308. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00789.x)
Scourfield, J., Roen, K. and McDermott, E. 2008. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people's experiences of distress: resilience, ambivalence and self-destructive behaviour. Health and Social Care in the Community 16(3), pp. 329-336. (10.1111/j.1365-2524.2008.00769.x)
Lambert, P.et al. 2008. The social context of school bullying: evidence from a survey of children in South Wales. Research Papers in Education 23(3), pp. 269-291. (10.1080/02671520701809866)
Scourfield, J. B., Holland, S. and Young, C. 2008. Social work in Wales since democratic devolution. Australian Social Work 61(1), pp. 42-56. (10.1080/03124070701818724)
Scourfield, J. B. and Smalley, N. 2008. Social work doctoral students in the UK. Southampton, UK: The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP). Available at: http://www.swap.ac.uk/docs/projects/rpt_jscourfield_online.pdf
Holland, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2008. Managing marginalised masculinities: men and probation. In: Tomsen, S. ed. Crime, criminal justice and masculinities. International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology - Second series Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 427-440.
McDermott, E., Roen, K. and Scourfield, J. B. 2008. Avoiding shame: young LGBT people, homophobia and self-destructive behaviours. Culture Health and Sexuality 10(8), pp. 815-829. (10.1080/13691050802380974)

2007

Maegusuku-Hewett, T.et al. 2007. Refugee children in Wales: coping and adaptation in the face of adversity. Children & Society 21(4), pp. 309-321. (10.1111/j.1099-0860.2007.00102.x)
Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2007. Young people's gendered interpretations of suicide and attempted suicide. Child & Family Social Work 12(3), pp. 248-257. (10.1111/j.1365-2206.2007.00498.x)
Featherstone, B., Rivett, M. and Scourfield, J. B. eds. 2007. Working with men in health and social care. London: SAGE Publications.
Chaney, P., Scourfield, J. B. and Thompson, A. eds. 2007. Contemporary Wales: an annual review of economic, political and social research. Vol. 19. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

2006

Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2006. The significance of place in middle childhood: qualitative research from Wales. British Journal of Sociology 57(4), pp. 577-595. (10.1111/j.1468-4446.2006.00126.x)
Dunkerley, D.et al. 2006. Children seeking asylum in Wales. Journal of Refugee Studies 19(4), pp. 488-508. (10.1093/refuge/fel019)
Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2006. Children, place and identity: nation and locality in middle childhood. Abingdon: Routledge.
Featherstone, B., Hooper, C. A. and Scourfield, J. B. 2006. Special issue on gender and child welfare [Editorial]. Critical Social Policy 26(2), pp. 291-293. (10.1177/0261018306062583)
Scourfield, J. B. 2006. Gendered organizational culture in child protection social work. Social Work 51(1), pp. 80-82.
Scourfield, J. B. 2006. The challenge of engaging fathers in the child protection process. Critical Social Policy 26(2), pp. 440-449. (10.1177/0261018306062594)
Scourfield, J. B. 2006. Placing gender in social work: the local and national dimensions of gender relations. Social Work Education 25(7), pp. 665-679. (10.1080/02615470600905861)
Scourfield, J. B. and Pithouse, A. J. 2006. Lay and professional knowledge in social work: reflections from ethnographic research on child protection. European Journal of Social Work 9(3), pp. 323-337. (10.1080/13691450600828382)
Scourfield, J. B. and Coffey, A. J. 2006. Access, ethics and the (re)construction of gender: the case of researcher as suspected 'paedophile'. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 9(1), pp. 29-40. (10.1080/13645570500436122)
Dunkerley, D.et al. 2006. The experiences of front-line staff working with children seeking asylum. In: Jones Finer, C. ed. Migration, Immigration and Social Policy. London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 81-92.
Chaney, P., Scourfield, J. B. and Thompson, A. eds. 2006. Contemporary Wales: an annual review of economic, political and social research. Vol. 18. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

2005

Dunkerley, D.et al. 2005. The experiences of frontline staff working with children seeking asylum. Social Policy and Administration 39(6), pp. 640-652. (10.1111/j.1467-9515.2005.00461.x)
Daniel, B.et al. 2005. Why gender matters for Every Child Matters. British Journal of Social Work 35(8), pp. 1343-1355. (10.1093/bjsw/bch225)
Smalley, N., Scourfield, J. B. and Greenland, K. 2005. Young people, gender and suicide: A review of research on the social context. Journal of Social Work 5(2), pp. 133-154. (10.1177/1468017305054953)
Scourfield, J. B. 2005. Suicidal Masculinities. Sociological Research Online 10(2)
Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2005. The negotiation of minority ethnic identities in virtually all-white communities: research with children and their families in the South Wales valleys. Children & Society 19(3), pp. 211-224. (10.1002/chi.831)
Scourfield, J. B. and Davies, A. 2005. Children's accounts of Wales as racialized and inclusive. Ethnicities 5(1), pp. 83-107. (10.1177/1468796805049927)
Holland, S.et al. 2005. Democratising the family and the state? The case of family group conferences in child welfare. Journal of Social Policy 34(1), pp. 59-78. (10.1017/S0047279404008268)
Hewett, T.et al. 2005. Uncertain futures: children seeking asylum in Wales. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Save the Children Wales. Available at: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/resources/online-library/uncertain-futures-children-seeking-asylum-in-wales

2004

Smalley, N. and Scourfield, J. B. 2004. The potential of research project websites. British Journal of Social Work 34(4), pp. 591-598. (10.1093/bjsw/bch068)
Holland, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2004. Liberty and respect in child protection. British Journal of Social Work 34(1), pp. 21-36. (10.1093/bjsw/bch003)
Scourfield, J., Davies, A. and Holland, S. 2004. Wales and Welshness in middle childhood. Contemporary Wales 16(1), pp. 83-100.
Smalley, N.et al. 2004. Services for suicidal young people: qualitative research on lay and professional perspectives. Youth & Policy:The Journal of Critical Analysis 83, pp. 1-18.
Chaney, P., Scourfield, J. B. and Thompson, A. eds. 2004. Contemporary Wales: an annual review of economic, political and social research. Vol. 17. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

2003

Scourfield, J. B. and Welsh, I. 2003. Risk, reflexivity and social control in child protection: new times or same old story?. Critical Social Policy 23(3), pp. 398-420. (10.1177/02610183030233005)
Scourfield, J. B. 2003. Gender and child protection. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

2002

Scourfield, J. B. and Drakeford, M. 2002. New Labour and the 'Problem of Men'. Critical Social Policy 22(4), pp. 619-640. (10.1177/02610183020220040401)
Scourfield, J. B. and Coffey, A. J. 2002. Understanding gendered practice in child protection. Qualitative Social Work 1(3), pp. 319-340. (10.1177/1473325002001003644)
Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2002. Responding to the experiences of minority ethnic children in virtually all-white communities. Child & Family Social Work 7(3), pp. 161-175. (10.1046/j.1365-2206.2002.00243.x)
Pithouse, A. J. and Scourfield, J. B. 2002. Ready for practice? The DipSW in Wales: views from the workplace on social work training. Journal of Social Work 2(1), pp. 7-27. (10.1177/146801730200200102)
Scourfield, J. and Welsh, I. 2002. New times or same old story? Risk, reflexivity and social control in child protection. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Scourfield, J. B. 2002. Reflections on gender, knowledge and values in social work. British Journal of Social Work 32(1), pp. 1-15. (10.1093/bjsw/32.1.1)

2001

Scourfield, J. and Drakeford, M. 2001. New Labour and the politics of masculinity. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Scourfield, J. B. 2001. Constructing men in child protection work. Men and Masculinities 4(1), pp. 70-89. (10.1177/1097184X01004001004)
Scourfield, J. B. 2001. Constructing women in child protection work. Child & Family Social Work 6(1), pp. 77-87. (10.1046/j.1365-2206.2001.00189.x)
Scourfield, J. 2001. Interviewing interviewers and knowing about knowledge. In: Shaw, I. and Gould, N. eds. Qualitative Research in Social Work: Method and Context. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 60-73.

2000

Scourfield, J. B. 2000. The rediscovery of child neglect. Sociological Review 48(3), pp. 365-382. (10.1111/1467-954X.00221)
Holland, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2000. Managing marginalised masculinities: men and probation. Journal of Gender Studies 9(2), pp. 199-211. (10.1080/713677981)

1999

Scourfield, J. B. and Dobash, R. P. 1999. Programmes for violent men: recent developments in the UK. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 38(2), pp. 128-143. (10.1111/1468-2311.00122)
Scourfield, J. and Drakeford, M. 1999. Boys from nowhere: finding Welsh men and putting them in their place. Contemporary Wales 12, pp. 3-17.

1998

Scourfield, J. B. 1998. Probation officers working with men. British Journal of Social Work 28(4), pp. 581-599.

Gender issues in social welfare
Distress and suicidal behaviour
Child well-being
Social work education and research capacity-building
Children's identities

Social work research at Cardiff.

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