Lucie Cluver

Lucie Cluver is Professor of Child and Family Social Work at the University of Oxford, where she became the University's youngest ever female full Professor in 2015. She is jointly Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town since 2009. Lucie's work started as a social worker in the townships of her home country of South Africa. Her research focuses on improving lives of children and adolescents through evidence for governments and decisionmakers. Lucie has published 290+ papers, including in The Lancet, Nature and Science. She is a scientific advisor to UNICEF, the WHO, PEPFAR and the World Bank. Lucie was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2025 for services to children's wellbeing and to global public health. Other awards include the European Union Public Engagement in Research Award (2024), Fellowship of the Academy of Social Science (2023); the International AIDS Society Children's Prize (2022) the UK Research and Innovation Impact Award (2021), the European Union Horizon Impact Award (2019), and the Economic and Social Research Council Outstanding Global Impact Prize (2017).