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Lisa Holmes is Professor in Applied Social Science at the University of Sussex's School of Education and Social Work, specializing in child welfare systems with focus on children in care and care leavers. She holds a PhD from Loughborough University and previously directed research at Oxford's Rees Centre.
Her mixed-methods research examines:
- Relationship between needs, costs and outcomes in child services
- Use of administrative data for policy development
- Effectiveness of interventions for vulnerable children
Current projects include ReThink (MRC-funded study on care-experienced youth mental health), Children's Information Project (Nuffield Foundation), and ADR England Community Catalyst (ESRC). Publications consistently address systemic challenges in child welfare, with recent work analyzing cost-effectiveness, placement stability, and ethnic representation in research.
She chairs the International Work Group for Therapeutic Residential Care and co-founded the Children's Social Care Data User Group. Holmes teaches Contemporary Issues on the Childhood and Youth Studies MA program.
