Professor Ann Buchanan
About
Professor Buchanan is the former director of the Centre for Research into Parenting and Children. Before entering academic life in 1990, she spent ten years working as a child psychiatric social worker. She researches how to promote wellbeing in children, especially those at risk of social exclusion. Much of her research has a social policy impact. Recently, she has given keynote addresses in China (2010), Malaysia (2015) USA (2016), Athens (2017) and Korea (2018). In the past year she has led workshops on evidence-based interventions in Madrid, Malta and Latvia for the European Social Network. She currently under from Palgrave Macmillan to edit, together with Anna Rotkirch, a book on Brothers and sisters: sibling relationships over the lifecourse to be published in 2020.
Expertise
- The emotional well-being of children
- Effects of divorce on children
- Fathers and fathering and grandparenting
- Sibling relationships
- Children at risk of social exclusion
- Child welfare services in post-Soviet economies
- Evidence-based social interventions with children and families
- Child protection
Selected publications
- Sohn, Byoungduk & Buchanan, Ann & Heo, Kay H. & Lee, Jane J., 2019. Explanatory effects of young childhood caregiving environment, child’s pro-social behavior, and child self-regulation skills on adolescent problem behavior, Children and Youth Services Re
- Buchanan, A. & Rotkirch, A. (2019) the role of Grandparents in the twenty-first century. Abingdon: Routledge
- Twenty-first century grandparents. Global perspective on changing roles and consequences. 2018 Contemporary Social science 13,2,131-144
- Grandfathers: global perspectives. UK: (2016) Palgrave Macmillan
- Fertility Rates and Population Decline: No Time for Children? (2013) Palgrave Macmillan
- Risk and Protective Factors in Child Development and the Development of Resilience Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2014, 2, 244-249
Media experience
Professor Buchanan has considerable experience of working with the media.