Dr Sophia Backhaus is an Assistant Professor at the Research Institute of Child Development and Education at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Her research focuses on the effectiveness of interventions to reduce violence against children, and the measurement of physical and emotional violence perpetrated by parents. She bridges psychology, public health, and intervention research, and focuses largely on evidence syntheses (systematic reviews, traditional and individual participant data meta-analysis).Â
Sophia Backhaus' work directly impacted policy recommendations including those formulated in the WHO Parenting Intervention Guidelines.Â
Sophia Backhaus completed her doctorate in Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation as an ESRC Grand Union, Clarendon, and Wolfson Isaiah Berlin Scholar at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford.
