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Dr. Justin Rogers

ACADEMIC & CONSULTANT

Advancing Child Protection Through Research and Practice

Welcome to the website of Dr. Justin Rogers — researcher, consultant, and advocate for children’s rights. My work focuses on child protection, care reform, and the development of alternative care systems that prioritise the needs and wellbeing of children.

I combine academic research with hands-on consultancy to support governments, NGOs, and international agencies. I've worked on child protection and alternative care projects with organisations such as UNICEF, Lumos, the Rees Foundation, the Spanish Government, and Children’s Aid Society Singapore.

Publications

Book Chapters

Research ethics in childhood studies (2025)

The self-inflicted death of care experienced men in custody, through a lens of loss (2025)

The development of child protection systems and practice in the Republic of Maldives (2025)

Exploring Thailand's child welfare and protection system (2025)

Reflections on a community-based participatory research project with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (2021)

Fostering and adoption (2014)

Research Reports

Sharing Their Narratives: A research project exploring children's and families' experiences of alternative care in Thailand. (2022)

Being Creative: A research project that explores the impact of arts-based peer-led support groups. (2018)

Journal Articles

Forgotten Children: The Crisis of Child Welfare and Alternative Care in Afghanistan (2025)

Way beyond the care cliff: exploring a housing and support service for care experienced people over 25 (2025)

Opportunities of Care at What Cost: Findings from a Qualitative Study Exploring Care Leavers Experiences of Residential Care Homes for Children in Thailand (2024)

Teaching asylum and immigration law in a hostile environment: online education’s role in navigating social work challenges (2024)

‘Doing family’ in adversity: Findings from a qualitative study exploring family practices in alternative care settings in Thailand (2023)

The seeds of reform; the evolution of the alternative care system in the Maldives (2023)

Twenty suicides of care experienced people in custody: A scoping review of the Ombudsman’s fatal incident reports for care experienced people who died in custodial settings between 2004 and 2020 (2022)

‘It's so much better than contact’: A qualitative study exploring children and young people's experiences of a sibling camp in the United Kingdom (2021)

Children’s experiences of alternative care in mainland Southeast Asia – A scoping review of literature (2021)

Civic Crowdfunding for Social Work Research: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies (2020)

Is the deinstitutionalisation of alternative care a ‘wicked problem’? A qualitative study exploring the perceptions of child welfare practitioners and policy actors in Thailand (2020)

Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care: What are the Lessons from Extended Care Programmes in the USA and England for Australia? (2020)

[Book Review] The Child’s World (third edition): The Essential Guide to Assessing Vulnerable Children, Young People and their Families, Jan Horwath and Dendy Platt (2019)

Mutual benefits: The lessons learned from a community based participatory research project with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and foster carers (2018)

Preserving and memorialising relationships: exploring young people’s experiences of foster care through the lens of social capital (2018)

‘Different’ and ‘Devalued’: Managing the Stigma of Foster-Care with the Benefit of Peer Support (2017)

Eco-maps and photo-elicitation: Reflections on the use of visual methods in social work research with children and young people (2017)

Memorial for Dr Beatrice Godwin (2017)

Rejecting ‘the child’, embracing ‘childhood’: Conceptual and methodological considerations for social work research with young people (2016)

Anti-Oppressive Social Work Research: Reflections on Power in the Creation of Knowledge (2012)

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