Our people

Research interests:

• Youth and social policy
• Teenage pregnancy and parenthood
• Qualitative research methods

Research interests:

• Disabled or chronically ill children and adolescents and their families
• Service provision and multi-agency working
• Developing methodologies for research with children

Research interests:

• Sustainable development
• Social inequality
• Environmental policy

Research interests:

• Criminal justice responses to drug use: prisons, probation and police
• Drug policy
• Stigmatisation and recovery of people who use drugs

Research interests:

• International and global social policy
• Global health policy
• Corporate influence on health and social policy

Research interests:

• Comparative social policy
• Political economy of welfare
• The policy process

Research interests:

• Self-employment, labour market policies and social protection
• Democratisation of public services
• Politics of welfare

Research interests:

• Homelessness and housing precarity
• Women's homelessness and domestic abuse
• Housing and social justice
• Housing and criminal justice 

Research interests:

• Comparative social policy analysis
• The policy making process
• Political economy of welfare

Research interests:

• The private rented sector

• Housing assistance and the welfare system

• Landlord and tenant housing behaviours

• Funeral policy

See website: https://www.cemeteryresearch.org/

Research interests:

Poverty, wealth, economic inequality, social security, tax systems

Research interests:

• Welfare reform
• Welfare conditionality and sanctions
• Gender citizenship

Research interests:

• Care and control of vulnerable people  
• The concept of vulnerability
• Vulnerability and policing 

Research interests:

• Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people
• Refugee and migrant youth
• Care leavers

Research interests:

• Labour markets, self-employment and welfare reform
• Comparative social policy
• Political economy of welfare states

Research interests:

• Political economy of welfare state
• The power and influence of business on social and public policy
• Corporate welfare

Research interests:

• housing and homelessness policy
• devolved government and local welfare systems
• LGBTQ+ and non-normative households in social policy

Research interests:

• Veterans and military welfare
• Scoping study methods
• Crime prevention and community safety

Research interests:

Current research interests and projects

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the voluntary sector

Public service management

Widening participation in education

Role of interest groups in policy development

Privatisation of public services and mixed economy of welfare

Research interests:

Currently, my core research interests are:

• Working class culture
• Politics
• Levelling Up ‘left behind’ places
• Social harm
• The Covid-19 pandemic

I am interested in supervising PhD students particularly in the areas above. If you are a student interested in undertaking a thesis in the areas above, please email me.

Research interests:

• Comparative social policy
• Gender and the welfare state
• Family policy

Research interests:

• Health and social services management and delivery
• Welfare policy
• Medical tourism

Research interests:

• Homelessness and housing exclusion
• Housing, social justice and climate justice
• Interdisciplinary research
• Comparative research

Research interests:

• Youth justice
• Risk and professional decision making
• Probation and youth offending team practices

Research interests:

• Public policy
• Comparative social policy
• Governance

Research interests:

• Victimisation
• Illicit drug use
• Administration of justice

Research interests:

• Public policy and administration
• Regulation
• Integrity policies

Research interests:

• Social protection
• Social policy in fragile states
• Global governance of social policy

Research interests:

• The healthcare experiences of children and young people with life-limiting conditions; 
• The lived experiences and support needs of autistic people and their families across the lifespan;
• The prevention of stress and burnout in healthcare staff.