Hammond, Simon P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0473-3610, Seeley, Carys, Skevington, Paige, Speer, Emma
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8723-2999, Baker, Kayley
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1195-9155, Hiller, Rachel M., Mickleburgh, Ella, Midgley, Nick, Blackett, Rosie, Hardeman, Wendy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6498-9407, Thomas, Sarah, Shepstone, Lee, Wilson, Jon, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Cossar, Jeanette, Jordan, Peter, Sims, Erika
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7898-0331 and Wong, Geoff
(2026)
“There’s never just one type”: A mixed methods realist evaluation of Adolescent-Focused Low-Intensity Life Story Work.
British Journal of Social Work.
ISSN 0045-3102
Schofield, Gillian, Larsson, Birgit, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Young, Julie
(2024)
Making decisions about long-term foster family care as a permanence plan in England: An investigation of the implementation of the first government regulations and guidance for long-term foster care.
Adoption and Fostering, 48 (3-4).
pp. 417-435.
ISSN 0308-5759
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2024)
Maintaining children’s birth family relationships in adoption? A theory of change.
Family Law, May 2024.
pp. 575-582.
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Rimmer, Julia and Sirbu, Irina
(2023)
How do adopted adults see the significance of adoption and being a parent in their life stories? A narrative analysis of 40 life story interviews with male and female adoptees.
Children and Youth Services Review, 155.
ISSN 0190-7409
Hammond, Simon P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0473-3610, Mickleburgh, Ella, Duddy, Claire, Hiller, Rachel, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Blackett, Rosie, Williams, Kevin, Wilson, Jon and Wong, Geoff
(2023)
Improving the mental health and mental health support available to adolescents in out-of-home care via Adolescent-Focused Low-Intensity Life Story Work: A realist review.
BMJ Open, 13 (10).
ISSN 2044-6055
Hammond, Simon P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0473-3610, Duddy, Claire, Mickleburgh, Ella, Hiller, Rachel, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Williams, Kevin, Rodgers, Luke, Wilson, Jon and Wong, Geoff
(2022)
Improving the mental health and mental health support available to adolescents with social care-experience via low-intensity life story work: A realist review protocol.
BMJ Open, 12 (3).
ISSN 2044-6055
Copson, Ruth, Murphy, Anne, Cook, Laura
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9882-2365, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Sorensen, Pernille
(2022)
Relationship-based practice and digital technology in child and family social work: Learning from practice during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Developmental Child Welfare, 4 (1).
pp. 3-19.
ISSN 2516-1032
Larsson, Birgit, Schofield, Gillian, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Young, Julie, Morciano, Marcello and Lau, Yiu-Shing
(2022)
The right decisions for children in long-term foster care.
Children and Young People Now, February (2022).
pp. 31-32.
ISSN 1755-8093
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Gitsels, Lisanne and Thoburn, June
(2020)
Returning children home from care: What can be learned from local authority data?
Child & Family Social Work, 25 (3).
pp. 548-556.
ISSN 1356-7500
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Morciano, Marcello, Young, Julie and Hartley, Louise
(2020)
Exploring links between early adversities and later outcomes for children adopted from care: Implications for planning post adoption support.
Developmental Child Welfare, 2 (1).
pp. 52-71.
ISSN 2516-1032
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Gitsels, Lisanne and Thoburn, June
(2019)
Children in care: Where do children entering care at different ages end up? An analysis of local authority administrative data.
Children and Youth Services Review, 106.
ISSN 0190-7409
Collings, Susan, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Conley Wright, Amy
(2018)
Practices to improve communication between birth parents and permanent families.
Advances in Social Work & Welfare Education, 20 (2).
pp. 144-150.
ISSN 1329-0584
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2018)
Rethinking adoption and birth family contact: Is there a role for the law?
Family Law, 2018 (September).
pp. 1178-1182.
Cossar, Jeanette and Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2015)
Service user involvement in social work research: Learning from an adoption research project.
British Journal of Social Work, 45 (1).
pp. 225-240.
ISSN 0045-3102
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2013)
The mental distress of the birth relatives of adopted children: 'disease' or 'unease'? Findings from a UK study.
Health and Social Care in the Community, 21 (2).
pp. 191-199.
ISSN 1365-2524
Cossar, Jeanette and Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2013)
Making sense of siblings: connections and severances in post-adoption contact.
Child and Family Social Work, 18 (1).
pp. 67-76.
ISSN 1365-2206
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2012)
Making sense of adoption: integration and differentiation from the perspective of adopted children in middle childhood.
Children and Youth Services Review, 34.
pp. 409-416.
ISSN 0190-7409
Cossar, Jeanette and Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2010)
Supporting the birth relatives of adopted children: How accessible are services?
British Journal of Social Work, 40 (5).
1368–1386.
ISSN 0045-3102
Neil, E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2010)
The benefits and challenges of direct post-adoption contact: perspectives from adoptive parents and birth relatives.
Aloma, 27.
pp. 89-115.
Neil, E. C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2009)
Post-adoption contact and openness in adoptive parents' minds: Consequences for children's development.
British Journal of Social Work, 39 (1).
pp. 5-23.
ISSN 0045-3102
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2008)
Guest Editorial.
Adoption Quarterly, 10 (3/4).
pp. 1-2.
ISSN 1544-452X
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2008)
Supporting post adoption contact for children adopted from care: A study of social workers' attitudes.
Adoption Quarterly, 10 (3/4).
pp. 3-28.
ISSN 1544-452X
Neil, E. C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2007)
Coming to terms with the loss of a child: the feelings of birth parents and grandparents about adoption and post-adoption contact.
Adoption Quarterly, 10 (1).
pp. 1-23.
ISSN 1092-6755
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2006)
Het verlies van een kind accepteren. Hoe de biologische familie contact na de adoptie ervaat (Accepting the loss of a child to adoption: birth relatives' views of post adoption contact).
The Adoption Magazine, 9 (2).
pp. 15-16.
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2003)
Accepting the reality of adoption: birth relative's experiences of face-to-face contact.
Adoption and Fostering, 27 (2).
pp. 32-43.
ISSN 1740-469X
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2003)
Understanding other people's perspectives: tasks for adopters in open adoptions.
Adoption Quarterly, 6 (3).
pp. 3-30.
ISSN 1544-452X
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Schofield, Gillian
(2003)
Thinking about and managing contact in permanent placements: the differences and similarities between adoptive parents and foster carers.
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 8 (3).
pp. 401-418.
ISSN 1461-7021
Neil, E. C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2002)
Contact after adoption: The role of agencies in making and supporting plans.
Adoption and Fostering, 26 (1).
pp. 25-38.
ISSN 0308-5759
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Sellick, C
(2001)
A description and evaluation of a social work training programme in Moldova.
Social Work Education, 20 (5).
pp. 577-592.
ISSN 0261-5479
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2000)
The reasons why young children are placed for adoption: Findings from a recently placed sample and implications for future identity issues.
Child and Family Social Work, 5 (4).
303–316.
ISSN 1365-2206
Beek, Mary and Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2020)
Respecting children's relationships and identities in adoption.
In:
The Routledge Handbook of Adoption.
Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 76-89.
ISBN 978-1-138-36250-5
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2009)
The corresponding experiences of adoptive parents and birth relatives in open adoptions.
In:
International advances in adoption research for practice.
Wiley, Chichester.
Wrobel, G and Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2009)
Connecting research to practice.
In:
International advances in adoption research for practice.
Wiley, Chichester.
Young, J and Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2009)
Contact after adoption.
In:
The Child Placement Handbook: Research, Policy and Practice.
BAAF, London.
Howe, D and Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2004)
Conclusions: a transactional model for thinking about contact.
In:
Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care.
Wiley, London, pp. 224-254.
Howe, D and Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2004)
Introduction.
In:
Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care.
Wiley, London, pp. 1-6.
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2004)
The "Contact after adoption" Study: indirect contact and adotive parents' communication about adoption.
In:
Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care: Research, theory and practice.
BAAF, London.
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2004)
The "Contact after adoption" Study: face-to-face contact.
In:
Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care: Research, Theory and Practice.
BAAF, London, pp. 65-84.
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2004)
Contact after Adoption: A research review.
In:
Children and their families: Contacts, rights and welfare.
Hart Publishing.
Young, J and Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2004)
The 'Contact after Adoption' study: The perspective of Birth Relatives after non-voluntary Adoption.
In:
Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care: Research, Theory and Practice.
British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering, London.
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2002)
Managing face-to-face contact for young adopted children.
In:
Staying Connected: Making Contact Arrangements in Adoption.
BAAF, London.
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(1999)
The sibling relationships of adopted children and patterns of contact after adoption.
In:
We are family: Sibling relationships in placement and beyond.
BAAF, London.
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2006)
Contact with adult birth relatives after adoption: a longitudinal study of children aged under 4 at placement.
Working Paper.
Nuffield Foundation.
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Jordan, Leonie, Feast, Julia and Beek, Mary
(2025)
Improving Adoption Services for Adults – end of project report and recommendations.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.
Rimmer, Julia, Rawcliffe, Cassian and Neil, Beth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2025)
Revisit of Letter Swap Evaluation:Research Briefing.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.
Rennolds, Natasha
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8169-534X, Murphy, Anne and Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2025)
Pre-Adoption Order Disruptions in England:Learning from disruption reports 2017-2024.
UNSPECIFIED.
Feast, Julia, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Jordan, Leonie and Beek, Mary
(2025)
Adoption: Access to Information and Intermediary Services: A Practice Guide.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Rimmer, Julia, Rawcliffe, Cassian and Copson, Ruth
(2024)
Evaluation of the Letter Swap Pilot: Briefing.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Rimmer, Julia, Rawcliffe, Cassian and Copson, Ruth
(2024)
Evaluation of the Letter Swap Pilot: Final Report.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.
Murphy, Anne, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, North, Joanna and Oates, David
(2022)
Seeking connections: how adoption agencies respond to requests from intermediary agencies to support reunions between adopted adults and their birth families:Centre for Research on Children & Families Research Briefing.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA, Norwich.
Larsson, Birgit, Schofield, Gillian, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Young, Julie, Morciano, Marcello and Lau, Yiu-Shing
(2022)
Planning and supporting permanence in long-term foster care:An investigation of the implementation in England of the first regulations and guidance for long-term foster care (Department for Education 2015).
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.
Larsson, Birgit, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Morciano, Marcello and Lau, Yiu-Shing
(2022)
Reunification as a permanency route for children in care: Reunion stability and educational outcomes:Research briefing.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.
Larsson, Birgit, Schofield, Gillian, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Morciano, Marcello and Lau, Yiu-Shing
(2021)
Planning and supporting permanence in long-term foster care:An investigation of the implementation in England of the first regulations and guidance for long-term foster care as a permanence option (Department for Education 2015).
Nuffield Foundation.
Beek, Mary, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Schofield, Gillian
(2021)
Moving to Adoption:Using the UEA model to help children move from foster care to adoption.
Coram BAAF.
ISBN 9781913384104
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Copson, Ruth and Sorensen, Penny
(2020)
Contact during lockdown: How are children and their birth families keeping in touch?:Main report.
Nuffield Family Justice Observatory.
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Copson, Ruth and Sorensen, Penny
(2020)
Contact during lockdown: How are children and their birth families keeping in touch?:Briefing paper.
Nuffield Family Justice Observatory.
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Schofield, Gillian
(2018)
Moving to adoption: a practice development project:Research Briefing.
Research Briefings
.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Young, Julie and Hartley, Louise
(2018)
The Joys and Challenges of Adoptive Family Life:A Survey of Adoptive Parents in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA, Norwich.
Dance, Cherilyn, Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Rogers, Ruth
(2017)
Inter-agency Adoption and the Government’s Subsidy of the Inter-Agency Fee.
Department for Education.
ISBN 978-1-78105-747-6
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2017)
Helping birth parents in adoption. A literature review of birth parent support services, including supporting post adoption contact::An expertise for the German Research Center on Adoption (EFZA).
Deutsches Jugendinstitut.
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Ward, Emma
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7579-3215
(2015)
Contact after Adoption:A longitudinal study of post adoption contact arrangements.
Coram BAAF, London.
ISBN ISBN 978 1 910039 33 5
Neil, Beth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Ward, Emma
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7579-3215
(2014)
Contact after Adoption: A longitudinal study of adopted young people and their adoptive parents and birth relatives.
BAAF.
ISBN 9781910039137
Neil, Beth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Ward, Emma
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7579-3215
(2013)
Contact after adoption::a follow-up in late adolescence.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA, Norwich.
Clifton, John and Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498
(2013)
Success factors in adopter recruitment: Insights from adoption agency social work managers and marketing officers.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA, Norwich.
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Cossar, Jeanette, Jones, Christine, Lorgelly, Paula and Young, Julie
(2011)
Supporting direct contact after adoption.
Adoption Research Initiative (ARI)
.
BAAF, London.
ISBN 978-1-907585-05-0
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Cossar, J, Lorgelly, P and Young, J
(2010)
Helping Birth Families: Services, costs and outcomes.
British Association of Adoption and Fostering, London.
Neil, E
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498 and Wrobel, G
(2009)
International advances in adoption research for practice.
Wiley, Chichester.
Neil, Elsbeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-7498, Beek, Mary and Schofield, Gillian
(2020)
Key principles for foster carers and adopters who are helping a child to move to adoption.
Centre for Research on Children and Families, UEA.