Staff profile

I am a social and cultural geographer working in the area of extra-familial harm in adolescence. As a member of the Contextual Safeguarding team I work across two projects. I manage the National Scale-Up of Contextual Safeguarding approaches in five child and family social care departments across England and Wales. Utilising embedded research methodologies, I work with practitioners to develop new approaches to addressing extra-familial harm including child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, harmful sexual behaviour and youth violence. Secondly, I work on the ESRC funded Innovate Project exploring how services are addressing extra-familial risks experienced by young people outside of the family home, building new knowledge about the processes of innovation in social care.

Prior to joining Durham I worked in the Safer Young Lives Research Centre at the University of Bedfordshire. In this role I managed the education strand of Contextual Safeguarding on the Beyond Referrals project working with schools to identify enablers and barriers to addressing harmful sexual behaviour in schools. Prior to joining the SYLRC I worked within the voluntary sector to advocate on issues of human trafficking, labour rights and exploitation. In 2015 I completed my PhD in Human Geography at Newcastle University where my research focused on the experiences of migrant women in Singapore.

I have a particular interest in understanding the relationship between space and place to young people’s experiences of harm. Additionally in utilising embedded and action-orientated approaches to research I am passionate about the importance of applied research approaches, working with practitioners to develop new approaches to addressing systemic and structural harm and facilitate systems change. My recent research has explored the role of embedded research and the relationships of trust and surveillance in children’s social care. I am a Consultant for the Council of International Schools and a Member 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

• Lloyd, J. & Fritz, D. (2017). The role of detached youth work in preventing and identifying sexual harm.

Journal Article

• Lloyd, Jenny, Manister, Molly & Wroe, Lauren (2023). Social care responses to children who experience criminal exploitation and violence: the conditions for a welfare response. The British Journal of Social Work
• Lloyd, Jenny & Walker, Joanne (2023). How Schools are Addressing Harmful Sexual Behaviour: findings of 14 School Audits. British Journal of Educational Studies
• Lloyd, Jenny & Bradbury, Vanessa (2022). Zero tolerance to sexual harm in schools – from broken rules to broken systems. Journal of Sexual Aggression 1.
• Lloyd, J. (2021). Life in a lanyard: developing an ethics of embedded research methods in children’s social care. Journal of Children's Services
• Wroe, L.E. & Lloyd, J. (2020). Watching over or working with? Understanding social work innovation in response to extra-familial harm. Social Sciences 9(4).
• Lloyd, J., Walker, J. & Firmin, C. (2020). Keeping children safe? Advancing social care assessments to address harmful sexual behaviour in schools. Child and Family Social Work 25(4): 751-760.
• Lloyd, J. (2020). Abuse through sexual image sharing in schools: Response and responsibility. Gender and Education 32(6): 784-802.
• 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.
• Disney, T. & Lloyd, J. (2020). Towards geographies of child protection. Geography Compass 14(12).
• 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.
• 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.
• Lloyd, J. (2019). From who … to where? A geographical approach to peer-on-peer sexual abuse. Children's Geographies
• Cranston, S. & Lloyd, J. (2019). Bursting the Bubble: Spatialising Safety for Privileged Migrant Women in Singapore. Antipode 51(2): 478-496.
• Lloyd, J. (2019). Response and interventions into harmful sexual behaviour in schools. Child Abuse and Neglect 94.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lloyd, J. & Hopkins, P. (2015). Using interviews to research body size: Methodological and ethical considerations. Area 47(3): 305-310.
• 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.