Rate My Professor Brian Jenkins

Dr. Brian Jenkins serves as a Lecturer in the School of Human Services and Social Work within Griffith Health at Griffith University, based at the Logan Campus. He completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at the University of Queensland from 2001 to 2006 and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Griffith University between 2013 and 2017. Since 2018, he has held the position of Lecturer in the School of Human Services and Social Work, contributing to teaching in human services and social work programs, including courses such as the Social Construction of Welfare. Jenkins is actively involved in higher degree research supervision and collaborates with the Griffith Criminology Institute on interdisciplinary projects.

Jenkins specializes in research on child protection systems, examining issues such as recurrence measures, racial equity in actuarial risk assessment tools like the Family Risk Evaluation, support for children of incarcerated mothers, service accessibility in prisons, and criminal justice pathways, particularly for women. His key publications include 'An evaluation of the racial equity of the actuarial Family risk evaluation tool' (2024, Children and Youth Services Review), 'Service Accessibility in Prisons Under New Public Management' (2025), 'Supporting children of incarcerated mothers: The case for a targeted policy response' (2025, Family Relations), 'Modelling criminal justice processes and pathways for women' (2024, Trends in Organized Crime), 'Do measures of child protection recurrence obscure the differences between reporting and substantiation?' (2019), and 'Educational status of children and young people in care' (2010, Children Australia). He co-authored the 'Evaluation of the Child Protection Joint Response Team Trial' (2019) for the Queensland Department of Child Safety. Jenkins participates in funded research, including a Criminology Research Grant from the Australian Institute of Criminology for evaluating interventions targeting young people at risk of criminal justice contact, alongside Associate Professor Christine Bond and others. His work as a Centre Investigator in the Transforming Corrections to Transform Lives project addresses supporting children affected by parental incarceration. Jenkins' research informs policy and public discussions on child protection practices in Queensland.