Professor Jonathan Scourfield

DipSW PhD

2025

• Corten, C. et al. 2025. Numbers and demographic characteristics of UK social work students over time. Social Work Education (10.1080/02615479.2025.2531855)
• Hodges, H. R. et al. 2025. Why social work needs to embrace data linkage research. Journal of Children's Services 20 (1), pp.1-9. (10.1108/JCS-12-2023-0063)
• Lugg-Widger, F. et al. 2025. Use of linked administrative adult social care data for research: a scoping review of existing UK studies. The British Journal of Social Work 55 (1), pp.437-452. (10.1093/bjsw/bcae151)
• Opoku, R. et al., 2025. Factors associated with childhood out-of-home care entry and re-entry in high income countries: A systematic review of reviews. Children and Youth Services Review 177 108467. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108467)
• Schroeder, E. et al., 2025. Family VOICE: family group conferencing for children and families: implementation, context and cost-effectiveness [Abstract]. Presented at: 2nd North American Conference on Integrated Care Calgary, Canada 15-17 October 2024. Vol. 25.Vol. 178. (10.5334/ijic.NACIC24178)
• Scourfield, J. , Wood, S. and Meindl, M. 2025. The international evidence on Family Group Conferences. In: Sanders, M. , Westlake, D. and Hirneis, V. eds. Experimental Methods and Children's Social Care. The Contribution of Randomised Controlled Trials. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. , pp.29-42. (10.4337/9781035327157.00011)
• Warner, N. et al. 2025. What linked data can tell us about the increasing numbers of children entering public care. Child & Family Social Work (10.1111/cfs.70026)
• Warner, N. et al. 2025. The inter-relationship between parental problems and ethnic background: How do they impact on entry into local authority care?. The British Journal of Social Work 55 (3) bcae201. (10.1093/bjsw/bcae201)
• Worthington, J. and Scourfield, J. 2025. The impact of political stance on UK newspaper coverage of child and family social work. The British Journal of Social Work 55 (1), pp.493-511. (10.1093/bjsw/bcae154)

2024

• Bennett, S. et al., 2024. Establishing research priorities for investigating male suicide risk and recovery: A modified Delphi study with lived-experience experts.. Psychology of Men & Masculinities 25 (1), pp.85-98. (10.1037/men0000448)
• Elliott, M. , Smith, P. and Scourfield, J. 2024. The visibility of a socio-economic dimension in day-to-day child and family social work practice in Wales. The British Journal of Social Work 54 (7), pp.3391-3409. bcae098. (10.1093/bjsw/bcae098)
• Jing, Y. et al. 2024. Ethnic disproportionality in the child welfare system: a Welsh linked administrative data study for 2011–2020. The British Journal of Social Work 54 (8), pp.3568-3589. (10.1093/bjsw/bcae117)
• Lee, S. C. et al., 2024. Understanding suicide clusters through exploring self-harm behaviors. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 45 (3), pp.180-186. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000930)
• Lowthian, E. et al. 2024. Receipt of social services intervention in childhood, educational attainment and emergency hospital admissions: longitudinal analyses of national administrative health, social care, and education data in Wales, UK. BMC Public Health 24 2912. (10.1186/s12889-024-20204-6)
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2024. Improving children's services engagement of fathers in child protection: logic model for an organisational development and staff training intervention. International Journal on Child Maltreatment 7 , pp.607-614. (10.1007/s42448-024-00206-y)
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2024. Family group conferencing for children and families: Evaluation of implementation, context and effectiveness (Family VOICE). Study protocol. PLoS ONE 19 (6) e0300834. (10.1371/journal.pone.0300834)
• Warner, N. et al. 2024. Parental risk factors and children entering out-of-home care: The effects of cumulative risk and parent's sex. Children and Youth Services Review 160 107548. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107548)
• Willis, S. and Scourfield, J. 2024. Examining systematic review terminology and quality assessment in reviews of children's social care interventions. Presented at: European Association for Health Information and Libraries Riga, Latvia 11-14 June 2024.
• Wood, S. et al. 2024. Family group conference provision in UK local authorities and associations with children looked after rates. The British Journal of Social Work 54 (5), pp.2045-2066. (10.1093/bjsw/bcae019)

2023

• Anthony, R. et al. 2023. Adversity profiles of children receiving care and support from social services: A Latent-class analysis of school-aged children in Wales. Child: Care, Health and Development 49 (5), pp.889-897. (10.1111/cch.13097)
• Hodges, H. and Scourfield, J. 2023. Why are there higher rates of children looked after in Wales?. Journal of Children's Services 18 (3/4), pp.165-179. (10.1108/JCS-02-2022-0007)
• Jing, Y. et al. 2023. Trends in ethnic inequality in child welfare interventions in Wales, 2010-2021. Presented at: ADR UK Conference 2023: Public Data for Resilience and Inclusion Birmingham, UK 14-16 November 2023. Vol. 8.Vol. 2. , pp.121. (10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2336)
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2023. Retention in statutory social work from fast-track child and family programmes. Journal of Social Work 23 (6), pp.1022-1042. (10.1177/14680173231194432)
• Taussig, H. N. et al., 2023. “I'm glad that I was given a second chance to live”: The buffering impact of turning points in the lives of young people with foster care experience. International Journal on Child Maltreatment 6 , pp.233-254. (10.1007/s42448-022-00129-6)

2022

• Allnatt, G. et al., 2022. Use of linked administrative children’s social care data for research: a scoping review of existing UK studies. British Journal of Social Work 52 (7) bcac049. (10.1093/bjsw/bcac049)
• Allnatt, G. et al., 2022. Data resource profile: children looked after administrative records in Wales. International Journal of Population Data Science 1 (1)(10.23889/ijpds.v7i1.1752)
• Corliss, C. et al. 2022. The views of local authorities in England on how to prevent children being in care. Child Care in Practice 28 (4), pp.576-592. (10.1080/13575279.2021.1975648)
• Evans, R. et al. 2022. Contesting constructs and interrogating research methods: re-analysis of qualitative data from a hospital-based case study of self-harm management and prevention practices. Health 26 (1), pp.27-46. (10.1177/13634593211038522)
• John, A. et al., 2022. Understanding suicide clusters through exploring self-harm: semi-structured interviews with individuals presenting with near-fatal self-harm during a suicide cluster. Social Science & Medicine 292 114566. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114566)
• Lee, A. et al., 2022. Data resource: children receiving care and support and children in need, administrative records in Wales. International Journal of Population Data Science 7 (1) 08. (10.23889/ijpds.v7i1.1694)
• Roberts, L. , Scourfield, J. and Taussig, H. 2022. Insights into turning points from the perspective of young people with out-of-home care experience: events, impact and facilitators of change. Developmental Child Welfare 4 (4), pp.72-76. (10.1177/25161032221118910)
• Scourfield, J. and Warner, J. 2022. Knowing where the shoe pinches: three Labour ministers reflect on their experiences in social work and politics. Critical and Radical Social Work 10 (3), pp.484-490. (10.1332/204986021X16521772186589so)
• Segrott, J. et al. 2022. Effectiveness of the strengthening families programme in the UK at preventing substance misuse in 10-14 year-olds: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 12 (2) e049647. (10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049647)
• Turley, R. et al., 2022. Staff wellbeing and retention in children's social work: systematic review of interventions. Research on Social Work Practice 32 (3), pp.281-309. (10.1177/10497315211052639)
• Wood, S. et al. 2022. How might changes to family income affect the likelihood of children being in out-of-home care? Evidence from a realist and qualitative rapid evidence assessment of interventions. Children and Youth Services Review 143 106685. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106685)
• Wood, S. et al. 2022. A UK-wide survey of family group conference provision. Project Report.Cardiff: CASCADE.

2021

• El-Banna, A. et al., 2021. Systematic review of economic evaluations of children's social care interventions. Children and Youth Services Review 121 105864. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105864)
• MacDonald, S. et al. 2021. Theorising health professionals’ prevention and management practices with children and young people experiencing self-harm: a qualitative hospital-based case study. Sociology of Health and Illness 43 (1), pp.201-219. (10.1111/1467-9566.13211)
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2021. Social work fast-track programmes: Retention and progression. Final report. Project Report.[Online].Department for Education, UK. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-work-fast-track-programmes-tracking-study.
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2021. Are child welfare intervention rates higher or lower in areas targeted for enhanced early years services?. Child Abuse Review 30 (4), pp.306-317. (10.1002/car.2696)
• Stabler, L. et al. 2021. A scoping review of system-level mechanisms to prevent children being in out-of-home care. British Journal of Social Work 52 (5), pp.2515-2536. bcab213. (10.1093/bjsw/bcab213)
• Webb, C. et al., 2021. Income inequality and child welfare interventions in England and Wales. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75 , pp.251-257. (10.1136/jech-2020-214501)
• Willis, S. et al. 2021. Use of systematic review terminology and methodological quality in children’s social care. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work 18 (6), pp.667-688. (10.1080/26408066.2021.1938827)

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)
• Bywaters, P. et al., 2020. Child welfare inequalities in the four nations of the UK. Journal of Social Work 20 (2), pp.193-215. (10.1177/1468017318793479)
• Channon, S. et al. 2020. Qualitative process evaluation of the Fostering Changes program for foster carers as part of the Confidence in Care randomized controlled trial. Child Abuse and Neglect 109 104768. (10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104768)
• John, A. et al., 2020. Contacts with primary and secondary healthcare prior to suicide: case-control whole-population-based study using person-level linked routine data in Wales, UK, 2000-2017. British Journal of Psychiatry 217 (6), pp.717-724. (10.1192/bjp.2020.137)
• Marchant, A. et al., 2020. A content analysis and comparison of two peaks of newspaper reporting during a suicide cluster to examine implications for imitation, suggestion and prevention. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 41 (5), pp.398-406. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000655)
• Mason, W. et al., 2020. Toward full integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in case study research: insights from investigating child welfare inequalities. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 14 (2), pp.164-183. (10.1177/1558689819857972)
• Moody, G. et al. 2020. A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of the fostering changes programme. Child Abuse and Neglect 108 104646. (10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104646)
• 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/.
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2020. Are youth suicide memorial sites on Facebook different from those for other sudden deaths?. Death Studies 44 (12), pp.793-801. (10.1080/07481187.2019.1614109)
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2020. Social work fast track programmes: tracking retention and progression - interim report.
• Turley, R. et al. 2020. Promoting the retention, mental health and wellbeing of child and family social workers: a systematic review of Workforce interventions. Project Report.[Online].London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC_Systematic-Review-of-Workforce-Interventions_July-2020.pdf.
• Webb, C. et al., 2020. Cuts both ways: ethnicity, poverty, and the social gradient in child welfare interventions. Children and Youth Services Review 117 105299. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105299)
• Webb, C. et al., 2020. Untangling child welfare inequalities and the ‘Inverse Intervention Law’ in England. Children and Youth Services Review 111 104849. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104849)
• Zhang, M. L. et al., 2020. Social work contact in a UK cohort study: under-reporting, predictors of contact and the emotional and behavioural problems of children. Children and Youth Services Review 115 105071. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105071)

2019

• Brand, S. et al. 2019. Mapping the evidence about what works to safely reduce the entry of children and young people into statutory care: a systematic scoping review protocol. BMJ Open 9 (8) e026967. (10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026967)
• Brand, S. et al. 2019. How family budget change interventions affect children being in care: a rapid evidence assessment. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff, Wales: What Works for Children's Social Care. Available at: http://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC_Family_Budget_Change_rapid_evidence_assessment_Full_Report_Aug2019.pdf.
• Bywaters, P. et al., 2019. Paradoxical evidence on ethnic inequities in child welfare: towards a research agenda. Children and Youth Services Review 96 , pp.145-154. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.11.042)
• Evans, R. et al. 2019. Adolescent self-harm prevention and intervention in secondary schools: A survey of staff in England and Wales. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 24 (3), pp.230-238. (10.1111/camh.12308)
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2019. The number and characteristics of newspaper and Twitter reports on suicides and road traffic deaths in young people. Archives of Suicide Research 23 (3), pp.507-522. (10.1080/13811118.2018.1479321)
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2019. Overview of administrative data on children's social care in England. Project Report.[Online].London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WWCSC_Overview_of_administrative_data_Oct_2019.pdf.
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2019. Evaluation of a fast-track postgraduate social work program in England using simulated practice. Research on Social Work Practice 29 (4), pp.363-374. (10.1177/1049731517735575)

2018

• Addis, S. et al. 2018. Reducing the need for children to enter into care: a survey of approaches used by local authorities in England. Project Report.[Online].London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Reducing_the_number_of_children_in_statutory_care_a_survey_of_local_authorities.pdf.
• Brand, S. et al. 2018. Mapping the evidence about what works to safely reduce the number of children and young people in statutory care: A systematic scoping review. Technical Report.
• Bywaters, P. et al., 2018. Inequalities in English child protection practice under austerity: a universal challenge?. Child & Family Social Work 23 (1), pp.53-61. (10.1111/cfs.12383)
• Elliott, M. , Staples, E. and Scourfield, J. 2018. The characteristics of children and young people in residential care in Wales. Child Care in Practice 24 (3), pp.317-330. (10.1080/13575279.2017.1319798)
• Maxwell, N. et al. 2018. The pre-training characteristics of Frontline participants and mainstream social work students. British Journal of Social Work 48 (2), pp.487-504. (10.1093/bjsw/bcx042)
• Moody, G. et al. 2018. Evaluating the long-term impact of the Fostering Changes training programme for foster carers in Wales, the Confidence in Care trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 19 34. (10.1186/s13063-017-2424-3)
• Morris, K. et al., 2018. Social work, deprivation and child welfare interventions. Child and Family Social Work 23 (3), pp.364-372. (10.1111/cfs.12423)
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2018. A profile of UK doctoral candidates in social work and social care. British Journal of Social Work 8 (48), pp.2313-2331. (10.1093/bjsw/bcy008)
• Wijedasa, D. , Warner, N. and Scourfield, J. 2018. Exploratory analyses of the rates of children looked after in English local authorities (2012-2017). Technical Report.
• Zhang, M. et al. 2018. Comparing fathers and mothers who have social work contact: A research note. Social Work Research 42 (2), pp.131-136. (10.1093/swr/svx027)

2017

• Burnap, P. et al. 2017. Multi-class machine classification of suicide-related communication on Twitter. Online Social Networks and Media 2 , pp.32-44. (10.1016/j.osnem.2017.08.001)
• Elliott, M. and Scourfield, J. 2017. Identifying and understanding inequalities in child welfare intervention rates. Project Report.[Online].Child Welfare Inequalities Project. Available at: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-directories/current-projects/2014/child-welfare-inequality-uk/cwip-project-outputs/.
• Evans, R. et al. 2017. Understanding the diffusion of non-evidence-based health interventions: the role of experiential evidence. Health Education Journal 76 (4), pp.411-422. (10.1177/0017896916688711)
• Evans, R. et al. 2017. Comparison of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt and suicide in children and young people in care and non-care populations: systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence. Children and Youth Services Review 82 , pp.122-129. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.09.020)
• Jacob, N. , Evans, R. E. and Scourfield, J. B. 2017. The influence of online images on self-harm: A qualitative study of young people aged 16-24. Journal of Adolescence 60 , pp.140-147. (10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.08.001)
• John, A. et al., 2017. Newspaper reporting on a cluster of suicides in the UK. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 38 (1), pp.17-25. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000410)
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2017. Learning to be a Muslim. In: Strhan, A. , Parker, S. G. and Ridgely, S. B. eds. The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood. London: Bloomsbury Academic. , pp.123-130.
• Segrott, J. et al. 2017. An application of Extended Normalisation Process Theory in a randomised controlled trial of a complex social intervention: process evaluation of the Strengthening Families Programme (10-14) in Wales, UK. SSM - Population Health 3 , pp.255-265. (10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.01.002)
• Sharland, E. et al., 2017. Assembling life history narratives from quantitative longitudinal panel data: what's the story for families using social work?. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 20 , pp.667-679. (10.1080/13645579.2017.1279915)
• Teater, B. et al., 2017. Making social work count: A curriculum innovation to teach quantitative research methods and statistical analysis to undergraduate social work students in the United Kingdom. Journal of Teaching in Social Work 37 (5)(10.1080/08841233.2017.1381216)
• Warden, R. , Scourfield, J. B. and Huxley, P. 2017. Islamic social work in the UK: the service user experience. British Journal of Social Work 47 (3), pp.737-754. bcw006. (10.1093/bjsw/bcw006)
• Zhang, M. L. et al. 2017. Predicting the recipients of social work support, and its impact on emotional and behavioural problems in early childhood. Child and Family Social Work 22 (2), pp.772-781. (10.1111/cfs.12294)

2016

• Evans, R. et al. 2016. GW4 Children and young people's self-harm and suicide research collaboration. Report.. Project Report.[Online].GW4. Available at: http://decipher.uk.net/report-launch-gw4-children-young-peoples-self-harm-suicide-research-collaboration/.
• Evans, R. E. , Scourfield, J. B. and Moore, G. 2016. Gender, relationship breakdown, and suicide risk: a review of research in western countries. Journal of Family Issues 37 (16), pp.2239-2264. (10.1177/0192513X14562608)
• Henderson, M. et al. 2016. The outcomes of educational welfare officer contact in England. British Educational Research Journal 42 (3), pp.399-416. (10.1002/berj.3212)
• Henderson, M. et al. 2016. The effects of social service contact on teenagers in England. Research on Social Work Practice 26 (4), pp.386-398. (10.1177/1049731514557363)
• Henderson, M. et al. 2016. Predictors of social service contact among teenagers in England. British Journal of Social Work 46 (6), pp.1485-1501. (10.1093/bjsw/bcv081)
• Maxwell, N. et al. 2016. Independent evaluation of the Frontline pilot: Research report. Project Report.[Online].Department for Education. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontline-pilot-independent-evaluation.
• Scourfield, J. et al. 2016. Working with fathers of at-risk children: Insights from a qualitative process evaluation of an intensive group-based intervention. Children and Youth Services Review 69 , pp.259-267. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.08.021)
• Scourfield, J. B. et al. 2016. The response in Twitter to an assisted suicide in a television soap opera. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 37 (5), pp.392-395. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000377)
• Scourfield, J. B. et al. 2016. The association between characteristics of fathering in infancy and depressive symptoms in adolescence: a UK birth cohort study. Child Abuse & Neglect 58 , pp.119-128. (10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.06.013)
• Scourfield, J. B. and Lewinson, E. 2016. Engaging black fathers in child protection services. In: Bernard, C. and Harris, P. eds. Safeguarding Black Children: Good Practice in Child Protection. Jessica Kingsley. , pp.165-176.
• Teater, B. et al. 2016. Quantitative research methods for social work: making social work count. Palgrave.

2015

• 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 2015. HT '15- Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media. Association for Computing Machinery. , pp.75-84.
• 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)
• 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. , 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)
• 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.
• 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)
• 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)
• Holland, S. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. Social work: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 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)
• 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. , 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)
• 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)

2014

• 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.
• 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)
• 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) 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)
• 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. 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)
• 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)
• 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) 49. (10.1186/1471-2458-14-49)
• 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)
• 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.

2013

• 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.
• Jones, P. et al., 2013. Identifying probable suicide clusters in Wales using national mortality data. PLoS ONE 8 (8) e71713. (10.1371/journal.pone.0071713)
• Scourfield, J. B. et al. 2013. Muslim childhood: religious nurture in a European context. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 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)

2012

• Khan, A. et al. 2012. Reflections on qualitative research with Muslim families. Fieldwork in Religion 7 (1), pp.48-69.
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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. 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

• Fincham, B. et al., 2011. Understanding suicide:  a sociological autopsy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• 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)
• 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)

2009

• Drakeford, M. et al. 2009. Welsh children’s views on government and participation. Childhood 16 (2), pp.247-264. (10.1177/0907568209104404)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

2008

• 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)
• 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.
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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. 2008. Men's mental health. The Irish Social Worker Summer
• 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)
• Scourfield, J. B. 2008. Mapping the provision of professional doctorate programmes in social work: a survey of UK universities. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• 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. , 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.

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)

2006

• 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.
• Dunkerley, D. et al., 2006. Children seeking asylum in Wales. Journal of Refugee Studies 19 (4), pp.488-508. (10.1093/refuge/fel019)
• 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. 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. 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. 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)
• Scourfield, J. B. et al. 2006. Children, place and identity: nation and locality in middle childhood. Abingdon: Routledge.
• 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)
• 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)

2005

• 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)
• 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)
• 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.
• 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)
• Scourfield, J. B. 2005. Suicidal Masculinities. Sociological Research Online 10 (2)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

2004

• 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. 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)
• 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.

2003

• Scourfield, J. B. 2003. Gender and child protection. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• 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)

2002

• 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)
• 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. 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. 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)

2001

• 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.
• 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)

2000

• 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)
• Scourfield, J. B. 2000. The rediscovery of child neglect. Sociological Review 48 (3), pp.365-382. (10.1111/1467-954X.00221)

1999

• Scourfield, J. 1999. The construction of gender in child protection work. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
• Scourfield, J. and Drakeford, M. 1999. Boys from nowhere: finding Welsh men and putting them in their place. Contemporary Wales 12 , pp.3-17.
• 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)

1998

• Pithouse, A. , Evans, J. and Scourfield, J. 1998. Standards for accreditation in home care: setting the agenda for induction and staff training. Journal of Integrated Care 6 (6), pp.256-262. (10.1108/14769018199800052)
• Pithouse, A. and Scourfield, J. 1998. Engaging with the market; preparing for accreditation: Domiciliary care and the independent sector. Research, Policy and Planning 16 (3), pp.9-15.
• Scourfield, J. B. 1998. Probation officers working with men. British Journal of Social Work 28 (4), pp.581-599.

1997

• Pithouse, A. and Scourfield, J. 1997. Setting standards in home care accreditation: views from the field. Journal of Social Service Research 4 , pp.13-25.

1995

• Scourfield, J. 1995. Changing Men: UK agencies working with men who are violent towards their women partners.