Research Advisers
A Psychologist, Biologist and Criminologist, Prof. Browne is the Head of the Clinical Criminology Department of Birmingham University. A recognised expert on domestic violence, he has been researching family violence for 20 years and has published extensively on the subject. Together with Professor Martin Herbert, he is the co-author of the book Preventing Family Violence.
He has been Chair of the Research Committee of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (IPSCAN) and Co-Editor of Early Prediction and Prevention of Child Abuse, a book series on Child Care and Protection, and Child Abuse Review, the Journal of the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (BAPSCAN).
An international trainer and consultant on domestic violence, Luke Daniels' work with perpetrators of domestic violence at the Everyman Centre in London was the subject of a 1994 Channel 4 documentary, "Pulling the Punches". An experienced counsellor, group worker and teacher of Revaluation Co-Counselling, he has spoken widely on domestic violence at conferences, seminars, radio, TV and in the Press. His work has also been published in the book Working with Men.
Donald Dutton, Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, has over 20 years experience of domestic violence research and clinical work. His clinical therapy programmes have demonstrated success in treating male batterers. His research into the causal factors in intimate rage, violence and abusiveness has led to empirically underpinned understanding of the pathways which lead to men becoming perpetrators of domestic violence.
His writings on domestic violence include The Abusive Personality: Violence and control in intimate relationships, and he has served as an expert witness in a number of prominent legal cases of domestic violence and spousal homicide, including the O.J. Simpson case.
Director of the Center for the Study of Violence at Harvard Medical School and former medical director of the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, Dr. Gilligan was brought in as Director of Mental Health for the Massachusetts prison system because of the high suicide and murder rates within their prisons. When he left ten years later the rates of both had dropped to virtually zero.
His therapeutic, diagnostic and forensic work with violent individuals, including addressing prison riots, hostage-taking incidents, hunger strikes, terrorism, gang rapes, prison suicides and homicides, has taken place in maximum-security prisons and mental hospitals throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Current research projects include an evaluation of an experimental violence prevention programme in the jails of San Francisco for the Soros Foundation. His publications include Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes (Grosset/Putnam, New York, 1996); Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic (London: Jessica Kingsley, 1999) and Preventing Violence: An Agenda for the Coming Century (London and New York: Thames and Hudson).
Martin Knapp is Professor of Social Policy and Chair of Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics. He is also Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Centre for the Economics of Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.
Martin has been working for many years in the fields of long-term care, social care and mental health policy and practice. Current activities include economic evaluations of a wide range of treatments and other interventions for people with mental health problems; studies of the developing 'mixed economy' of social care; and long-term care expenditure projections.
Among his many publications, he was co-author of the British Medical Journal article Financial cost of social exclusion: follow-up study of antisocial children into adulthood.
A psychologist, and co-founder of the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC), Dr. Patterson works intensively on research into topics such as parent training, pathways to antisocial and violent behaviour, and genetic contributions to behaviour.
A prolific contributor to academic debate on both parent training and the origins of violence, he is particularly known for his pioneering work on the contribution of coercive family processes to child behavioural problems. He has won several distinguished scientist awards from the American Psychological association, and his longitudinal study, the Oregon Youth Study, won a Merit award from the National Institute of Mental Health for excellence in research. He has authored or co-authored Families, Living with Children, Parents and Adolescents, and Antisocial Boys.
Bruce D. Perry, M/D, Ph.D. is the Senior Fellow of The Child Trauma Academy, a not-for-profit organisation based in Houston that promotes innovations in service, research and education in child maltreatment and childhood trauma. Dr. Perry is the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing, a popular book based on his work with maltreated children; and Born for Love: Why empathy is essential - and endangered’ .
Over the last twenty years Dr. Perry has been an active teacher, clinician and researcher in children's mental health and the neurosciences holding a variety of academic positions. Dr. Perry's full biography is available here.
Professor and Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of London's Institute of Psychiatry, he is also an Honorary Director of the Medical Research Council Child Psychiatry Unit. In addition to his extensive experience in clinical practice, his research activities include protective factors in child development, developmental links between childhood and adult life, schools as social institutions, neuropsychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology.
His publications include some 30 books, 105 chapters, and over 230 scientific papers. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987 and was knighted in 1992.
Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, and lead clinician of the Traumatic Stress Service at the Maudsley Hospital, London, Dr. Zulueta is also a Clinical Lecturer in Traumatic Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry.
She is a Group Analyst and Systemic Family Therapist, presenter of many papers at conferences exploring the roots of violence and author of the book From Pain to Violence, the traumatic roots of destructiveness. She is a founding member of the International Attachment Network and a former Trustee of WAVE.
Dr. Daniel Shaw is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and Center for Social and Urban Research. He currently leads or co-directs five NIH-funded, longitudinal studies investigating the early antecedents and prevention of childhood conduct problems and substance use.
For his conceptual and empirical work on the development of young children’s conduct problems, he was awarded the Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award by APA’s Division of Developmental Psychology in 1995.
Dr. Shaw has published extensively on risk factors associated with the development and prevention of conduct problems in early childhood, and his early intervention program is currently being adopted at several locations in the United States, Europe, and Australia. As his primary work has been dedicated to tracing the early predictors of antisocial behavior and more recently, designing preventive interventions to reduce the number of early-starting children, he has a strong commitment to the goals of WAVE.
