Mr Stephen Endelman Mr Stephen Endelman was appointed as a Senior Fellow of Wave Trust in 2018. He wrote and directed a poignant and creative film about child sexual abuse which won a prize at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. Expand Stephen Endelman was appointed as a Senior Fellow of Wave Trust in 2018. He wrote and directed a poignant and creative film about child sexual abuse. Based on a true event in Stephen Endelman's life, 'A Boy, A Man and a Kite' is a short movie about the relationship between unresolved childhood traumas and adult life. The film won an award at The Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. Stephen is an acclaimed writer, producer and composer who has worked for both the USA and UK film industries. Since 2015, Stephen has been a part-time teacher of composition at The Guildhall School of Music in London.
Professor Edward Melhuish Professor Edward Melhuish is Professor of Human Development at Birkbeck. As a former, long-serving WAVE trustee, he is now an expert adviser & Senior Fellow of WAVE Trust. Expand Edward Melhuish is Professor of Human Development at Birkbeck, University of London and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London. Professor Melhuish is an internationally recognised expert in the study of child development and childcare and has extensive experience with longitudinal studies. He was a Principal Investigator of studies of day care and family life in the 1980s, which had considerable influence on sections of the 1989 Children Act. He has also conducted research on child development, parenting and childcare in several European countries, on behalf of the European Commission. Professor Melhuish has acted as a consultant for design for children, children's organisations (e.g. UNESCO), government departments (e.g. DfES, DoH, EU Commission, European Parliament) and film, television and radio companies. In addition, he has frequently contributed to the media on children's issues, including newspaper, radio and television programmes.
Professor Sir Harry Burns Sir Harry Burns, formerly Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, is a Senior Fellow of WAVE Trust. Expand Sir Harry Burns is Strathclyde’s Professor of Global Health. He also has a leadership position within the International Prevention Research Institute (IPRI). Dr Burns graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1974. He trained in surgery and was appointed Honorary Consultant Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow in 1984. Working with patients in the East end of Glasgow gave him an insight into the complex inter-relationships between socioeconomic status and illness. He completed a Masters Degree in Public Health in 1990. In 1994, he became Greater Glasgow’s Public Health Director. He was later a national leader in cancer prevention and care. From 2005 until 2014, Dr Burns served as Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, where his responsibilities included public health policy. He gave strong priority to early childhood, including co-chairing the Scottish Government’s Early Years Task Force. He was knighted in 2011. Of 70/30 he says: 'I do not view 70/30 as either wishful thinking or an unachievable goal. On the contrary, reducing child maltreatment by 70% in the next fifteen years is the minimum acceptable outcome in responding to this unacceptable (and profoundly costly) harm to our youngest children. Our actions as a society must prove that we really do find all child abuse, neglect and toxic childhood environments intolerable . . . by no longer tolerating them. Complementing my academic work, my affiliation with WAVE will help me keep taking actions that increase health, promote wellbeing and really give every child the kind of brilliant start in life we wish for our own children.'
Dr Daniel Shaw Dr Daniel Shaw is a research adviser to WAVE Trust and Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Expand Dr. Daniel Shaw is currently 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 anti-social behavior and more recently, designing preventive interventions to reduce the number of early-starting children, he has a strong commitment to WAVE's goals.
Sir Michael Rutter Sir Michael Rutter is a research adviser to WAVE Trust and Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of London's Institute of Psychiatry. Expand Sir Michael Rutter is Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of London's Institute of Psychiatry, as well as 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.
Dr Bruce Perry Dr Bruce Perry, M/D, Ph.D. is a research adviser to WAVE Trust. He is the Senior Fellow of The Child Trauma Academy, Houston. Expand 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. For over 25 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.
Dr Martin Knapp Dr Martin Knapp is a research adviser to WAVE Trust, and Professor of Social Policy and Chair of Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics. Expand 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.
Dr James Gilligan M.D. Dr James Gilligan M.D. is a research adviser to WAVE Trust and Director of the Center for the Study of Violence at Harvard Medical School. Expand 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 10 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, have 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).
Dr Donald Dutton Dr Donald Dutton is a research adviser to WAVE Trust. He has over 20 years experience of domestic violence research and clinical work. Expand 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.
Dr Kevin Browne Dr Kevin Browne is a research adviser to WAVE Trust. He is a recognised expert on domestic violence and is co-author of Preventing Family Violence. Expand Prof. Kevin Browne is Director of the Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Nottingham 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).
Sir Paul Ennals CBE Sir Paul Ennals was a trustee of WAVE Trust from September 2012 to September 2015 and is now an expert adviser to the management team. Expand Sir Paul Ennals was a trustee of WAVE Trust from September 2012 to September 2015, and is now an expert adviser to the management team. He was previously the Chief Executive of the National Children's Bureau, having previously been Director of Education and Employment for the RNIB. He was Vice-Chairman of the government's National Advisory Group on Special Educational Needs from 1997 to 2001, Chairman of the Council for Disabled Children from 1993–1998 and Founder Chairman of the Special Educational Consortium. He was knighted in the 2009 Birthday Honours.