Mrs Zoe Bezeczky

(she/her)

2025

• Mathur, V. et al. 2025. Basic income for care leavers in Wales pilot evaluation: second annual report, 2024 to 2025. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/statistics-and-research/2025-03/basic-income-for-care-leavers-in-wales-pilot-evaluation-second-annual-report-2024-to-2025_0.pdf.
• Roberts, L. et al. 2025. Innovative and ambitious or unrealistic and risky? Initial professional perspectives on the Basic Income for Care Leavers in Wales pilot. The British Journal of Social Work bcaf124. (10.1093/bjsw/bcaf124)
• Wilkins, D. et al. 2025. Implementing Schwartz Rounds in children’s social care: enablers and barriers. Journal of Social Work 25 (1), pp.61-82. (10.1177/14680173241278249)

2024

• Holland, S. et al. 2024. Basic income for care leavers in Wales pilot evaluation: annual report, 2023 to 2024.
• Rees, A. , Waits, C. and Bezeczky, Z. 2024. Final report. Together a chance: Evaluation of the social workers for Mother in Prison pilot project, 2021-2023. Project Report.Cardiff, Wales: CASCADE Research Centre.
• Rees, A. et al. 2024. Social work across boundaries: Findings from an evaluation of a service supporting mothers in prison. Evaluation of the Together a Chance pilot project 2021-23. Presented at: 13th European Conference for Social Work Research Vilnius, Lithuania 17-19 April 2024.
• Waits, C. , Rees, A. and Bezeczky, Z. 2024. Insights from prison research with mothers: Does a prison-based social worker help where there are child welfare concerns?. Presented at: CASCADE 10 Year Anniversary Event Cardiff, UK 23 May 2024.
• Westlake, D. et al. 2024. The basic income for care leavers in Wales pilot evaluation: Protocol of a quasi-experimental evaluation. PLoS ONE 19 (10) e0303837. (10.1371/journal.pone.0303837)

2023

• Jones, R. et al. 2023. How did levels of psychological distress and perceptions of workplace support among children’s social work staff change during the Covid-19 pandemic?. British Journal of Social Work 53 (1), pp.405-424. (10.1093/bjsw/bcac126)
• Maxwell, N. et al. 2023. Serious Organised Crime Early Intervention Service Evaluation. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: CASCADE. Available at: https://cascadewales.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/06/SOCEIS-Evaluation-2023.pdf.
• Rees, A. , Waits, C. and Bezeczky, Z. 2023. Together a chance. Evaluation of the Social Worker for Mothers in Prison pilot project, 2021-2023 : Second interim report. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff Univeristy. Available at: https://cascadewales.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/06/Together-a-Chance-Evaluation-Y2-Interim-Report-22-June-.pdf.

2022

• Bezeczky, Z. and Wilkins, D. 2022. Repeat missing child reports: Prevalence, timing, and risk factors. Children and Youth Services Review 136 106454. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106454)
• Jones, R. K. et al., 2022. How did levels of psychological distress and perceptions of workplace support amongst children’s social work staff change during the Covid-19 pandemic?. The British Journal of Social Work 53 (1), pp.405–424. (10.1093/bjsw/bcac126)
• Maxwell, N. et al. 2022. Serious Organised Crime Early Intervention Service: Interim Evaluation Report. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: CASCADE. Available at: https://cascadewales.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/10/Serious-Organised-Crime-Early-Intervention-Service-Evaluation-Report.pdf.

2021

• Wilkins, D. et al. 2021. A randomised controlled trial of Schwartz Rounds: An intervention to reduce psychological distress for staff in children's services.

2020

• Bezeczky, Z. et al. 2020. Intensive family preservaton services to prevent out-of-home placement of children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Child Abuse and Neglect 102 104394. (10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104394)
• Ford, K. et al., 2020. Understanding the outcome of police safeguarding notifications to social services in South Wales. Police Journal 93 (2), pp.87-108. (10.1177/0032258X19836144)
• Kalebic, N. et al. 2020. Social workers' perspectives on people parenting while patients in a secure hospital. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology 31 (3), pp.364-384. (10.1080/14789949.2020.1746822)
• Nurmatov, U. et al. 2020. Impact of shared decision-making family meetings on children's out-of-home care, family empowerment and satisfaction: a systematic review. Project Report.[Online].London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://foundations.org.uk/our-work/publications/impact-of-shared-decision-making-family-meetings-on-childrens-out-of-home-care-family-empowerment-and-satisfaction/.
• O'Connor, S. et al., 2020. Adjustment to short-term imprisonment under low prison staffing. BJPsych Bulletin 44 (4), pp.139-144. (10.1192/bjb.2020.2)
• Taylor, P. J. et al. 2020. A randomised controlled trial of a Group psychological intervention to increase locus of control for alcohol consumption among Alcohol-Misusing Short-term (male) Prisoners (GASP). Addiction 115 (10), pp.1844-1854. (10.1111/add.15006)
• Wilkins, D. , Thompson, S. and Bezeczky, Z. 2020. Child and family social work during the COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid review of the evidence in relation to remote leadership. Project Report.[Online].London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC_Rapid_Review_Remote_Leadership_June_2020.pdf.
• Wilkins, D. , Thompson, S. and Bezeczky, Z. 2020. Child and family social work during the COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid review of the evidence in relation to social work practice, natural disasters and pandemics. Project Report.[Online].London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC_Natural-Disasters-Rapid-Review_Aug-2020.pdf.

2019

• Ford, K. et al., 2019. Understanding the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in a male offender population in Wales: The prisoner ACE survey.

2018

• Argent, S. E. et al. 2018. A period prevalence study of being a parent in a secure psychiatric hospital and a description of the parents, the children and the impact of admission on parent-child contact. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 85 (99), pp.85-99. (10.1002/cbm.2046)
• Bezeczky, Z. et al. 2018. United Kingdom (Wales). Strengthening resilience through the early intervention and prevention: breaking the generational cycle of crime project. In: Ziglio, E. ed. Health 2020 Priority Area Four: Creating Supportive Environments and Resilient Communities. A Compendium of Inspirational Examples. World Health Organization. , pp.134-144.

2017

• Ford, K. et al., 2017. Adverse childhood experiences: breaking the generational cycle of crime turning understanding into action: summary report. Project Report.Public Health Wales.

2016

• Moriarty, Y. et al. 2016. Contextual and personal factors impact on intervention delivery in the GASP (Groups for Alcohol-misusing Short-term Prisoners) trial. Presented at: 12th UKSBM Annual Scientific Meeting: Complex interventions in a complex world: applications of Behavioural Medicine Cardiff, UK 1-2 December 2016.
• Powell, G. et al. 2016. Bayesian models of individual differences: combining autistic traits and sensory thresholds to predict motion perception. Psychological Science 27 (12), pp.1562-1572. (10.1177/0956797616665351)