Jonathan Blagbrough, Phd Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Supporting The Freedom Fund in developing its programme of work on child domestic work in sub-Saharan Africa, including through scoping, mapping and programmatic support (Ethiopia). I also moderate a quarterly Freedom Fund-supported Global Peer Learning Group on Child Domestic Work.

London, United Kingdom

Children Unite is working with LSHTM over the next 18 months to identify ethical challenges and practices in co-produced research with youth about young people in risk situations (such as those who are working, trafficked, and/or living outside of family care). The plan is to prepare piloted guidance on conducting safe, ethical and collaborative research, as well as to show how co-production methods can empower young people.

London, United Kingdom

As Co-Founder and Programme Director at Children Unite, I work with local partner organisations in Africa, Asia and the Americas, as well as internationally, to protect child domestic workers and other groups of vulnerable children from abuse and exploitation and to promote their rights. Through Children Unite, I have provided technical support to organisations including CHADET in Ethiopia (through ChildHope, 2014) and the Global March Against Child Labour (2013).

London, United Kingdom

I co-lead work our work on Children on the Move at Family for Every Child and am the focal point for research.

London, United Kingdom

Providing expertise on child exploitation issues through research, project design, monitoring and evaluation, policy development and training for international agencies, local organisations, research institutions and grant-makers, including most recently with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2019) and Family for Every Child (2018/19).Alongside studying for a PhD, I co-led international research with Helen Veitch on caring for boys affected by sexual violence for Family for Every Child. Prior to this I undertook a number of project evaluations, including in Ghana on hazardous child labour on cocoa farms and in Nepal on the reintegration of child domestic workers, alongside project assessment work for Comic Relief. Bangladesh was a focus in 2014, with evaluation work on child labour in shoe production and dry fish processing, as well as compiling a global good practice report on children's work for World Vision. A particular highlight in 2013 was authoring ILO's 2013 global report on child domestic work, as well as supporting SOS Children's Villages International in their learning about family strengthening across Africa.

Assisting in governance of, and providing strategic direction to, GoodWeave - which works to end child labour in the rug industry and to offer educational opportunities to children in South Asia. I have also been advising on the development of child protection and remediation policies for the GoodWeave network.

I am currently leading research teams in Nepal and Tanzania to explore the lived experience of girls and young women in exploitative domestic work and/or in marriage situations, and the links between them.

My research is focused on children serving children: exploring relations between child domestic workers and the children they serve in Tanzania.

University Of Hull

My 2008 sabbatical at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) gave me the opportunity to reflect on and write about child labour and the issues that most concern me. During this time I wrote ‘They Respect Their Animals More’: Voices of child domestic workers (Anti-Slavery International and WISE, 2008), which has been the inspiration for a number of subsequent academic articles.

London

At Save the Children I was involved in developing policy and providing technical assistance on child protection/exploitation issues to SC UK’s country programmes.

Developing policy and advocacy relating to child labour and child exploitation issues and supporting Save the Children UK’s country programmes

Managed programme of work, budget and staff on child labour, including planning, developing and implementing the organisation’s child labour strategy and projects.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Human Geography

Thesis title: Children Serving Children: Exploring relations between child domestic workers and the children of employing families.

Llm, International, European And Comparative Law, Distinction

Ba, Sociology, Honours

Education record