born: Liverpool, UK, 28th August 1958

current positions: Director: Dartington Social Research Unit, UK and Faculty Associate Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago

other roles: Visiting Professor Universities of Bath and Exeter; Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy: Warren House

qualifications: B.A. (Hons) Sociology (1980); Ph.D. Social Psychology (1988)

other service: Editor of Journal of Children's Services; Executive Editor of Prevention Action; Member of the Child Protection, Family Law and Justice Committee of the Nuffield Foundation; Trustee for ChildHope UK; Expert Faculty, ISPCAN; Board Member CIESPI Brazil; Reviewer for Adoption and Fostering; Journal of Adolescence; Journal of Child and Family Social Work; Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry; Developmental Psychology; British Journal of Social Work; Representing Children

previous positions: Lecturer, City of Birmingham Polytechnic; Senior Research Fellow, School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol

other service (completed): Trustee, Michael Sieff Foundation; Member of the Youth Justice Board Panel on Secure Estate; Member of the South-West NHS Executive Research and Development Executive Committee on the Interface between Personal Social Services and Health; Friend of RPS/Rainer Foundation; Evaluator for Oak Foundation, Geneva; Expert Evidence in UK High Court (Family Division)

publications: To date 139 publications including 13 books, 7 practice tools to help implement research findings, 39 chapters in books, 18 published research monographs, 27 articles in refereed journals, 25 articles in professional journals and 12 unpublished research monographs; Editor of three book series - Living Away from Home: Studies in Residential Care, John Wiley and Sons, (with Davies, C., Archer, L. and Hicks, L.), Dartington Social Research Series, Ashgate Publishing, (with Mount K.), International Library of Child Development and Children in Need, Ashgate

organisational development: Founder: Dartington-i (England, Spain and US); Research in Practice; DeMo; Warren House Press; Centre for Social Policy; Warren House Group at Dartington