National recognition for University of York academic
Posted on 26 July 2010
Professor Jonathan Bradshaw, of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, was the founding Director of the University’s Social Policy Research Unit in 1973 and is one of York’s longest serving members of staff.
He is a specialist on social security policy, poverty and family policy. He undertook the first surveys in Britain of lone parent families and non- resident fathers. He has published a number of comparative studies of family benefits, social assistance and child support. Recently his research has focussed on child well-being.
He was co author of the report of a survey by the Children's Society on child subjective well-being in 2009. He is currently working on a project for the European Commission on the measurement of extreme poverty.
Professor Bradshaw has served two terms as Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work and was President of the Foundation for International Studies in Social Security 1999-2003. He was appointed Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in 1996 and Commander of the British Empire, in 2005, for services to child poverty.
The British Academy is the UK’s national body for the humanities and social sciences. The Academy is composed of Fellows who are elected in recognition of their distinction as scholars.
Notes to editors:
- More information about Professor Jonathan Bradshaw at www.york.ac.uk/depts/spsw/staff/bradshaw.html
- More information about the British Academy at www.britac.ac.uk
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