Eileen Munro is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Professor Munro qualified and then practised as a social worker for several years and has since gone on to gain a wide range of research experience in child protection and mental health risk assessment, as well as building professional expertise in child abuse.
She completed her PhD in The role of scientific methods in social work and undertook a study of child abuse inquiries. This work was taken up by many child protection services in several countries. She has also written and published extensively on child protection, including Learning Together to Safeguard Children, Learning to reduce risk in child protection and a co-authored report: Children’s Databases: Safety and Privacy.