Dr Jan Ewing
BA (Hons), MJur, PhD
Director of Studies for Law (Part IA and Part IB) and College Assistant Professor
Dr Ewing is an Assistant Professor in Law and Fellow of Homerton College. She is Deputy Director of the Cambridge Family Law Centre. She is also an invited member of the Family Solutions Group set up by The Honourable Mr Justice Stephen Cobb in 2020 to consider what can be done to improve the experience of children and families before an application is made to the family court.
Dr Ewing’s research interests are in children’s rights, particularly the exercise of those rights when parents settle out of court following separation. She is also interested in understanding what makes intimate relationships flourish over time. A former family law solicitor, she has been a Research Fellow on a number of empirical research projects, including Mapping Paths to Family Justice the evaluation of the DWP-funded 'Mediation in Mind' project and the HeaRT Project, which considered the mental health and wellbeing benefits of child-inclusive mediation.
Dr Ewing supervises Family Law and Land Law. She lectures on empirical research methods on the Research Training and Development Programme for first year PhD students. She is also Deputy Director of Cambridge Family Law Centre (CFL).
Dr Ewing is the co-author of Mapping Paths to Family Justice: Resolving Family Disputes in Neo-Liberal Times, which was awarded the Hart-SLSA Book Prize in 2018.
Books
Barlow A and Ewing J. (2024). Children’s Voices, Family Disputes and Child-Inclusive Mediation: The Right to be Heard, Bristol University Press.
Barlow A, Hunter R, Smithson J and Ewing J. (2017). Mapping Paths to Family Justice: Resolving Family Justice in Neoliberal Times, Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Chapters
Barlow A and Ewing J. (forthcoming). ‘A Review of Children’s Rights when Parents Live Apart’ in C. Bendall and R Parveen (eds.) Family Law Reform Now: Proposals and Critique, Oxford: Hart Bloomsbury.
Barlow A, Hunter R. and Ewing J. (2024). ‘Mapping paths to family justice: resolving family disputes involving children in neoliberal times’ in A. Kaldal, T. Mattsson and A. Hellner (eds.) Children’s health, custody conflicts, and alternative dispute resolution, Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children's Rights, Brill.
Hunter R, Barlow A, Smithson J and Ewing J. (2017). ‘Access to What? LASPO and Mediation in A. Flynn and J. Hodgson (eds.) Access to Justice and Legal Aid: Comparative Perspectives on Unmet Legal Need, Oxford: Hart Bloomsbury.
Hunter, R, Barlow A, Smithson J and Ewing J. (2015). ‘Paths to Justice: in divorce cases in England and Wales’ in M. Maclean et al. (eds.) Delivering Family Justice in the 21st Century, Oxford: Hart Bloomsbury: 145-162.
Articles
Benham-Clarke S, Ewing J, Barlow A and Newlove-Delgado T. (2022). Learning how relationships work: a thematic analysis of young people and relationship professionals’ perspectives on relationships and relationship education. BMC Public Health 22:2332.
Blake S, Janssens A, Ewing J and Barlow A. (2021). Reflections on Joint and Individual Interviews with Couples: a Multi-Level Interview Mode. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20.
Ewing J. (2021). ”What About Me?” – do we have the ‘right’ approach to support for children when parents separate? Family Law 1287.
Ewing J, Barlow A., Janssens A and Blake S. (2020). Working out relationships: research, education and the quest for lasting love, Child and Family Law Quarterly, vol. 32(4): 331- 354.
Janssens A, Blake S, Allwood M, Ewing J and Barlow A. (2019). Identifying Education Programmes for Relationship Skills among 11 to 18 year-olds: a Systematic Review. Journal of Sex Education, 20:5, 494-516.
Hunter R, Barlow A, Smithson J and Ewing J. (2018). Law, Discretion, Gender and Justice in out-of-court financial settlements. Australian Journal of Family Law, 32.
Smithson J, Barlow A, Hunter R and Ewing J. (2017). The Moral Order in Family Mediation: Negotiating Competing Values. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 35(2), 173-196.
Smithson J, Barlow A., Hunter R and Ewing J. (2015). The "child's best interests" as an argumentative resource in family mediation sessions. Discourse Studies, vol. 17 (4): 1-15.
Ewing J, Hunter R, Barlow A and Smithson J. (2015). Children's voices: Centre-stage or side-lined in out-of-court dispute resolution in England and Wales? Child and Family Law Quarterly, vol. 27(1): 43-61.
Briefing papers and reports
Barlow A, Ewing J, Newlove-Delgado T and Benham-Clarke S. (2022). Transforming relationships and relationship transitions with and for the next generation: The Healthy Relationship Education (HeaRE) and Healthy Relationship Transitions (HeaRT) Project Report and Key Findings.
Report of the Family Solutions Group. (2020). “What about me?” Reframing Support for Families following Parental Separation: judiciary.uk/FamilySolutionsGroupReport.pdf.
Barlow A and Ewing J. (2020). An Evaluation of ‘Mediation in Mind’: Final Report – June 2020, University of Exeter.
Barlow A, Ewing J, Janssens A and Blake S. (2018). The Shackleton Relationships Project: Report on Key Findings, University of Exeter.
Barlow A, Ewing J, Hunter R and Smithson J. (2017). Creating Paths to Family Justice: Briefing Paper and Report on Key Findings, University of Exeter.
Barlow A, Hunter R, Smithson J and Ewing J. (2014). Mapping Paths to Family Justice: Briefing Paper and Report on Key Findings, University of Exeter.
