Dr Jan Ewing

Jan joined Exeter Law School in 2014 as a Research Associate on the Mapping Paths to Family Justice project, from the University of Kent where she had been the Research Associate on the Mapping Project since 2011. She worked with Anne Barlow as a Research Fellow on the follow-up project, Creating Paths to Family Justice and was then a Research Fellow on the Shackleton Relationships Project where she followed up couples married for 10 years whom she had previously three times over the first four years of marriage to examine what drives thriving marriages and what leads to the erosion of marital satisfaction. She is currently seconded part-time to the relationship support charity, OnePlusOne, as the ESRC IAA funded ‘Healthy Relationships Knowledge Exchange Fellow’, following up the couples 15 years after marriage. She is also a Research Fellow on 'The HeaRT Project' investigating transitions into and out of a range of relationships. She leads on the phase of the project considering experiences of child-inclusive mediation to look at the potential role of the process in promoting mental health and wellbeing benefits for young people following parental separation.

Jan is a member of the Family Solutions Group which works to promote a holistic, supportive and humane response to parental separation with safety and children's voices at the centre of decision-making. She was a family law solicitor, including at partnership level, in a career spanning 20 years.