Welcome to the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Research and Professional Practice Centre

The Andrew and Virginia Rudd Research and Professional Practice Centre is a newly established research centre located at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

The Rudd Centre is a research-intensive initiative that engages state-of-the-art scientific and practice-based advances to inform knowledge of how family, school and community processes influence children’s development, mental health and life chances. At its core, the centre's primary mission is to improve understanding of how evidence-based supports may be offered early to those most vulnerable and at-risk, with a particular focus on:

• adoption
• family separation
• institutionalisation
• foster-care
• caring in childhood
• maltreatment
• care system and social care
• disadvantage and inequality

While the Rudd Centre has at its core a research focus to its primary activities, it has a bottom-line practice and policy purpose to its output. Find out more information about the Rudd Centre.