Professor Broad PhD is Visiting Professor in London South Bank University’s Weeks
Centre for Social and Policy Research. He has previously been a lecturer at the London
School of Economics and Political Science, Director of the Children and Family Research
Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester and Director of Research and Evaluation at
the National Children’s Bureau, London. He has undertaken and published research into
young people’s social welfare since 1984, and children in and leaving the care system,
including kinship care, since 1990, presented conference papers in the US, Europe and
UK about kinship care, and written an international review of kinship care.