Professor Ann Buchanan Ph.D, CQSW, AcSS, is Director of the Centre for Research into Parenting and Children at University of Oxford. For the last fifteen years her research at Oxford has focused on children at risk of social exclusion, including those at risk of child maltreatment. Much of her work has informed social policy and she is on the Council of the ESRC.

Apart from many peer-reviewed journal papers and research reports, her books include Children's Emotional Well-Being (Ed. With Barbara L Hudson, (2000, Oxford University press), Children Who Soil: Assessment and Treatment (John Wiley & Sons, 1992), Cycles of Child Maltreatment: Facts, Fallacies and Interventions (1996: John Wiley & sons), Parenting, Schooling and Children's Behaviour (1998, Ashgate), Partnership in Practice: the Children's Act of 1989 (Ashgate 1996).