Jahnine Davis is a specialist consultant and PhD researcher at Kingston University, exploring issues related to child protection and safeguarding. With Nick Marsh, another researcher, she is also joint director of Listen Up Research, a community interest company, set up to elevate the voices and experiences of marginalised young people in practice.
For more information email Hello@listenupresearch.org or see @ListenUpCIC on Twitter.
Previously, Jahnine was children’s services team manager at Barnardo’s, national chair for Barnardo’s BAME Network and a practice improvement advisor at the centre of expertise on child sexual abuse. She started her career as a youth worker for charities including SaferLondon, Groundwork and Children’s Society.
How to approach the first meeting with a young person using intersectionality and a systemic perspective to consider their overlapping lived experience of race, gender, class, sexuality, ability/disability