Dr James Herbert
Dr James Herbert is a social researcher undertaking research and evaluation on the topic of cross-agency collaboration in responses to child sexual abuse, particularly the design and implementation of investigation and therapeutic support teams and addressing institutional barriers to effective collaboration.
He is currently undertaking research on addressing the barriers to therapy engagement for children that have disclosed sexual abuse and research into effective processes to support cross-agency collaboration between statutory agencies responding to abuse and neglect. Working across child protection topics, Dr Herbert also has a key interest in the translation of research evidence into policy and practice change and building the capacity of the sector to apply evaluative thinking to complex social policy issues.