Profile

Areas of expertise

• Comparative Social Policy
• Political Economy of Welfare
• Comparative Methods
• The Policy Process

Biography

Having joined the Department in 2003, I have had the good fortune of experiencing it as an undergraduate, a taught masters student, a research student and now, a member of academic staff. Prior to taking up the post of Teaching Fellow in Comparative Social Policy, I worked as a Postgraduate who Teaches (PwT) within the Department while working on my PhD thesis: a mixed methods approach to understanding and utilising the competition state thesis.

Awards

During my time as a PwT I was awarded the SAGE prize for best graduate paper at the Joint University Council’s 2008 Public Administration Committee (PAC), as well as a Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Award for my work on undergraduate and postgraduate modules.

Research

Research interests

• The shift from welfare states to competition states
• The use of qualitative, quantitative, and fuzzy-set methods for use in comparative analysis
• Comparative and International Social Policy
• The role of housing markets in entrenching the competition state

Publications

Recent publications

Lunt, N. and Horsfall, D. (2011) 'How medical value travel impacts upon national health systems', Chapter prepared for The Encyclopaedia of Health Economics, A.J. Culyer (ed), Elsevier.

Lunt, N. and Horsfall, D. (2012 in press) 'New Zealand: Sickness and Invalid's Benefit'. In Lindsay, C. and Houston, D. (eds), Disability Benefits and Employment Policy: Fit for Work, Fit for Purpose?, Palgrave Macmillan.

Horsfall, D. (2009) 'From competition state to competition states?' Policy Studies, 2010, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp57-76. Available online via Routledge/ Taylor and Francis. Doi: 10.1080/01442870902899863.