A photo of Jenna Carr

Graduate Teaching Fellow & Postgraduate Research Student

Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology

Jenna.Carr@liverpool.ac.uk 

Biography

Jenna studied BA Criminology and Criminal Justice at Bangor University before completing an MA in Criminology and Social Policy at Liverpool John Moores University in 2021. Her MA research focused on multiagency working and its function to support victims of county lines exploitation, with a focus on how education professionals experience working in the multiagency team. Following an MA, she worked as a Caseworker with victims of county lines exploitation in the third sector.

Jenna joined the School of Law and Social Justice as a PhD researcher and Graduate Teaching Fellow in October 2022.

Research

Jenna’s PhD seeks to build upon her MA research on multiagency working and what government policy expects from staff who support victims of county lines exploitation, compared to how multiagency working functions in practice. Vulnerability as a concept frequently features in policies around county lines exploitation and United Nations’ policies on Human Trafficking, and Jenna is interested in practitioners’ perceptions of vulnerability, and how this perception differs across the multiagency team and therefore impacts the support that victims of exploitation receive.

Thesis title

Expectations versus Reality: multiagency practitioners’ perceptions of vulnerability in county lines social policy.

Supervisors

  • Dr Carly Lightowlers
  • Professor Fiona Measham

Dates of study

October 2022 – October 2026.