Research Fellow

I joined the Contextual Safeguarding team in May 2020. As a practitioner I specialised in working with families affected by sexual abuse from 2007 – 2020.

While working for The Lucy Faithfull Foundation I completed my Professional Doctorate.

My research explored the impact on children when their father was arrested for downloading indecent images of children.

I work across the two Contextual Scale Up projects – supporting and capturing the process of embedding Contextual Safeguarding systems in both in London and National test sites. I also play a co-ordinating role in ensuring the Contextual Safeguarding short course and training content reflects the programme’s latest research findings.

Qualifications

• Professional Doctorate - University of Bedfordshire
• BA Hons Sociology - Anglia Ruskin University
• BA Hons Community and Criminal Justice – DeMontfort University

Other References

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Teaching Expertise

• Guest Lecture for Step Up Students
• Contextual Safeguarding short-course

Research Interests

• Contextual Safeguarding
• Harmful sexual behaviour
• Children of sex offenders
• Abuse in organisations

Projects

• Contextual Safeguarding London scale up
• Contextual Safeguarding National scale up

Publications

• Thornhill, L. (2019) Beyond Referrals: Levers for Addressing Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Schools by the International Centre, University of Bedfordshire, 2019. Child Abuse Review, Volume 28, Issue 6 DOI: 10.1002/car.2582
• Bailey A., Squire T., Thornhill L. (2018) The Lucy Faithfull Foundation: Twenty-Five Years of Child Protection and Preventing Child Sexual Abuse. In: Lievesley R., Hocken K., Elliott H., Winder B., Blagden N., Banyard P. (eds) Sexual Crime and Prevention. Sexual Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland
• Thornhill, L (2018) 'How would a child see it? Exploring the impact when a father is arrested for downloading Indecent Images of Children (IIOC)'. In NOTA News March/April 2018. No 84
• Saint, L. (2014) 'The inform young people programme' in Hackett,S. (ed) (2014) Children and Young People with Harmful Sexual Behaviours, Dartington: Research in Practice

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)7856335590
E: lisamarie.thornhill@beds.ac.uk