Vanessa Bradbury

Vanessa Bradbury is a Research Assistant with the Contextual Safeguarding Programme at the University of Bedfordshire's Safer Young Lives Research Centre, an applied research centre collaborating with practitioners, young people and families, to generate contextual approaches to safeguarding and child protection. Prior to joining the team, Vanessa completed an MA at the Institute of Development Studies. Working across various international contexts, her focus has centred largely around exploring 'well-being' in policy and practice, research ethics, decolonisation, and Indigenous rights.