Profile

Areas of expertise

• International and global social policy
• Global health policy
• Globalisation and trade
• Corporate influence on health and social policy
• Political economy of welfare states

Biography

I joined the University of York in October 2010. Prior to that I lectured at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and at Brunel University. I retain an Honorary Lectureship in Global Health at LSHTM and continue to collaborate on research projects with colleagues there. I hold a BA (Hons) in Politics and Government, MA in Political Economy, and PhD in globalisation and social policy. I have been a member of the UK Social Policy Association’s Executive Committee since 2004, and have published widely on the relationships between the global economy, international trade, transnational corporations and health and social policy.

Professional activities

• Lead Editor of Social Policy Review
• Member of the Executive Committee of the UK Social Policy Association.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Social Policy.
• Member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Global Social Policy.

Research

Recent research includes projects investigating:

• The influence of alcohol industry actors on public policy, with a focus on minimum pricing policy. This project is funded by the Alcohol Education and Research Council.
• The influence of transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) on public policy, utilising internal tobacco industry documents. As part of a collaborative project headed by Kelley Lee at LSHTM, I lead on issues concerning TTC influence on trade policy.
• Attempts to export public-private partnerships in health to developing and Eastern European countries.
• Privatisation and trade in health services

PhD supervision

I am currently supervising PhDs on trade liberalisation and health, and transnational tobacco companies and market liberalisation in South Korea.

I am interested in supervising PhDs in the following broad areas:

• Globalisation and social policy
• Trade and social policy
• Welfare impacts of the global financial crisis
• Corporate involvement in social policy

Publications

Books

Yeates, N. and Holden,C. (eds) (2009) The Global Social Policy Reader. Bristol: The Policy Press.

Journal Articles

Hawkins, B., Holden, C. and McCambridge, J. (2012) ‘Alcohol Industry Influence on U.K. Alcohol Policy: A New Research Agenda for Public Health’, Critical Public Health. Available online.

Fooks, G.J., Gilmore, A.B., Smith, K.E., Collin, J., Holden, C. and Lee, K. (2011) ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Policy Elites: An Analysis of Tobacco Industry Documents’, PLoS Medicine, 8(8), e1001076. Available online.

Holden, C. and Lee, K. (2011) ‘“A Major Lobbying Effort to Change and Unify the Excise Structure in Six Central American Countries”: How British American Tobacco Influenced Tax and Tariff Rates in the Central American Common Market’, Globalization and Health, 7: 15. Available online.

Holden, C., Lee, K., Fooks, G. and Wander, N. (2010) 'The Impact of Regional Trade Integration on Firm Organization and Strategy: British American Tobacco in the Andean Pact', Business and Politics, 12(4): Article 3. Available via BE Press.

Holden, C., Lee, K., Gilmore, A., Fooks, G. and Wander, N. (2010) ‘Trade Policy, Health and Corporate Influence: British American Tobacco and China’s Accession to the World Trade Organization’, International Journal of Health Services, 40(3): 421-441.

Holden, C. and Lee, K. (2009) ‘Corporate Power and Social Policy: The Political Economy of the Transnational Tobacco Companies’, Global Social Policy, 9(3): 328-354.

Holden, C. (2009) ‘Exporting Public-Private Partnerships in Healthcare: Export Strategy and Policy Transfer’, Policy Studies, 30(3): 313-332.

Farnsworth, K. and Holden, C. (2006) ‘The Business-Social Policy Nexus: Corporate Power and Corporate Inputs into Social Policy’, Journal of Social Policy, 35(3): 473-494.

Holden, C. (2005) ‘Privatization and Trade in Health Services: A Review of the Evidence’, International Journal of Health Services, 35(4): 675-689.

Holden, C. (2005) ‘Investigating International Health Markets: Methodological Problems and Challenges’, Social Policy & Society, 4(4): 427-435.

Holden, C. (2005) ‘Organizing Across Borders: Profit and Quality in Internationalized Providers’, International Social Work, 48(5): 643-653.

Holden, C. (2005) ‘The Internationalization of Corporate Healthcare: Extent and Emerging Trends’, Competition & Change, 9(2): 185-203.

Holden, C. (2005) ‘Social Policy and Political Economy: A Tale of (At Least) Two Disciplines’, Social Policy & Society, 4(2): 173-181.

Holden, C. (2003) ‘Actors and Motives in the Internationalization of Health Businesses’, Business and Politics, 5(3): 287-301.

Holden, C. (2003) ‘Decommodification and the Workfare State’, Political Studies Review, 1(3): 303-316.

Holden, C. (2002) ‘The Internationalization of Long Term Care Provision: Economics and Strategy’, Global Social Policy, 2(1): 47-67.

Holden, C. (2002) ‘British Government Policy and the Concentration of Ownership in Long Term Care Provision’, Ageing and Society, 22: 79-94.

Holden, C. (2001) ‘New Labour and Globalization’, Critical Social Policy, 21(4): 516-519.

Beresford, P. and Holden, C. (2000) ‘We Have Choices: Globalization and Welfare User Movements’, Disability and Society, 15(7): 973-989.

Holden, C. (1999) ‘Globalization, Social Exclusion and Labour’s New Work Ethic’, Critical Social Policy, 19(4): 529-538.

Book Chapters

Kamradt-Scott, A., Holden, C. and Lee, K. (2011) ‘The Shifting Landscape of Public Health: From International to Global Health’, in Parker, R. and Sommer, M. (Eds) Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health, London: Routledge.

 Holden, C. (2009) ‘Regulation, Accountability and Trade in Health Services’, in Mordini, E. (Ed) Ethics and Health in the Global Village: Bioethics, Globalization and Human Rights, Rome: CIC Edizioni Internazionali.

Holden, C. (2008) ‘International Trade and Welfare’, in Yeates, N. (Ed) Understanding Global Social Policy, Bristol: The Policy Press.

Holden, C. (2008) ‘Commercial Welfare’, in Alcock, P., May, M. and Rowlingson, K. (Eds) The Student’s Companion to Social Policy, Oxford: Blackwell.

Holden, C. (2004) ‘The Global Economy of Care’, in Swain, J., French, S., Barnes, C. & Thomas, C. (Eds) Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments, London: Sage / Open University.

Holden, C. (2002) ‘Globalization and Welfare: A Meso Level Analysis’, in Sykes, R., Bochel, C. & Ellison, N. (Eds) Social Policy Review 14, Bristol: The Policy Press.

Holden, C. and Beresford, P. (2002) ‘Disability and Globalization’, in Barnes, C., Barton, L. & Oliver, M. (Eds) Disability Studies Today, Cambridge: Polity Press.