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.