About the Author:
Dr Lisa Bostock Lisa is an experienced social researcher, having worked in both the academic and non-government sector to deliver policy and practice-relevant research. She has worked across housing, health and social care, within children's and adult social care and in different countries, Britain and Australia. Her specialisms include integrated working across organisational boundaries, hearing the voices and views of people who use services, applying innovative knowledge from a range of disciplines, and equipping managers and staff for new, demanding roles. Lisa is committed to ensuring that research makes a difference to outcomes for people who use services. Lisa worked at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) for 11 years. At SCIE, Lisa was programme lead for looked after children, including acting as vulnerable children theme lead for The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services (C4EO) to produce a series of publications and guides. She conducted SCIE's foundational research on a 'systems' approach to learning from mistakes in children's services, later developed as the Learning Together programme; an approach now advocated in the new DfE 'Working Together' guidance. More recently, she led a programme of work on integration, using research evidence to produce an innovative online resource that supports managers and practitioners think through the factors that promote successful joint working. Lisa has commissioned and co-authored a major review of effective supervision, identifying what works best to improve outcomes. She is currently editing a book on supervision in integrated settings. Lisa has significant expertise around the design and delivery of systematic reviews, rapid reviews, mapping and evidence scans as well qualitative research expertise. She has broadened the understanding of evidence-based practice in operational research, promoting the value of different sources of knowledge, specifically practitioner and service user knowledge as well as academic research. She has published academic papers in the following peer review journals: Children and society; Children and Youth Services Review, Health and Social Care in the Community; Journal of Integrated Care, Sociology of Health and Illness; and Social Science and Medicine. Over the past 12 months, Lisa has worked on the following projects: Child protection: Effective approaches to hub and spoke service provision: supporting child sexual exploitation services (University of Bedfordshire) Criminal justice: Improving investigative and prosecution responses to child sexual exploitation (University of Bedfordshire) Troubled families: Evaluating Think Family expansion programme (West Sussex County Council) Transitions to adulthood: Effective approaches to working with gang-involved young people aged 18-24 years (London Borough) Adult safeguarding: Self-neglect policy and practice (University of Sussex) Social work education: Evaluating new models of relationship-based social work theory and practice (University of Sussex). Education and Training Lisa has a first class degree in Sociology with Social Policy and a PhD in Applied Social Science. She is a member of the Social Research Association.
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