Dr Adrienne Barnett is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Brunel University London. Prior to commencing in full time academia at Brunel Law School in January 2014, Adrienne practised as a barrister in London for over 30 years, specialising in Family Law.  She teaches Family Law, Children and the Law, Land Law and socio-legal research methods.  Her specialist area of research is domestic abuse in private family law cases on which she has published widely over the past 20 years. More recently she has been researching parental alienation in England and Wales. Adrienne has undertaken qualitative and quantitative research into the implementation of Practice Direction 12J and was commissioned to prepare the literature review for the Ministry of Justice’s 2019 inquiry into risks of harm in family court proceedings, published in June 2020.  She has undertaken training for the judiciary and professionals on child arrangements and domestic abuse.