Ann Buchanan

Ann Hermione Buchanan, MBE, FASC ( Baring, 21 May 1941 – 13 February 2022) was a British researcher, author and academic. She was Senior Research Associate in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Professor Emeritus of Social Work at Oxford University. She was also a Supernumerary Fellow of St. Hilda's College since 1994. Buchanan's research was focused on studies on children who were looked after, child protection, the impact of divorce, fathering, grandparenting, child-well-being and children at risk of exclusion. Buchanan was awarded the MBE in 2012 for services to Social Science. She was a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science. Early life and education Buchanan was born in England on 21 May 1941, and raised in Scotland, daughter of Raymond Alexander Baring and wife Margaret Fleetwood Campbell-Preston. She was sister of the 3rd, paternal niece of the 2nd and paternal granddaughter of the 1st Baring Baronets, of Nubia House.