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FRACTURE:
Adventures of a Broken Body
Ann Oakley is a writer and a sociologist. She has worked in university research for many years and has written both fiction and non-fiction. She is best known for her work on sex and gender, housework, childbirth and feminist social science, and more recently for her work on evidence-based public policy and methodologies of research and evaluation. She is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Institute of Education, University of London, and until January 2005 was Director of the Social Science Research Unit (SSRU) at the Institute, where she also headed the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating (EPPI) Centre. In January 2005 she moved to a part-time post in order to spend more time writing fiction. She remains Founding Director of SSRU and the EPPI-Centre. She also holds honorary appointments as a Professor in Social Sciences at the Institute of Child Health in London and as a Fellow at Somerville College in Oxford.