Professor of Child and Family Social Work, University of Oxford | Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town
Advocate
Professor Lucie Cluver is the Advocate Lead of the Global Parenting Initiative. She has been a Professor of Child and Family Social Work at the University of Oxford since 2015, and Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town since 2009. All her work is policy-focused and her child and adolescent research in partnership with African institutions has won various awards for its policy impact in Africa. Some of the awards include; the European Union Horizon 2020 Impact Award,UK Economic and Social Research Council Outstanding International Impact Prize in 2017, and Philip Leverhulme Prize 2015.
She is a technical advisor to major international initiatives such as PEPFAR, UNICEF, UNAIDS, the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, and the WHO. She is particularly interested in child abuse prevention, and in how we can effectively incorporate the prevention of childhood sexual abuse into mainstream parenting programmes. With Dr Jamie Lachman, Lucie co-led the COVID-19 Playful Parenting Emergency Response project, and has recently led the Ukraine Parenting Emergency Response project. She is one of the founders and developers of Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) and is the Principal Investigator of the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub, with the goal of accelerating achievement for Africa’s adolescents across the SDGs.
Professor Cluver holds a DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Social Policy from the University of Oxford (First Class), an MSc in Social Work from the University of Oxford (Distinction) and an MA in Classics from the University of Cambridge (First Class, Distinction).
