Co-Directors

Professor Yvonne Birks

Professor Bryony Beresford

Unit Manager

Miss Sally Pulleyn

Researchers

Dr Fiona Aspinal

Dr Kate Baxter

Dr Edmund Coleman-Fountain

Ms Kate Gridley

Dr Emily Heavey

Dr Katie Graham

Mrs Ann Hopton

Dr Annie Irvine

Dr Eleni Kampanellou

Ms Jane Maddison

Dr Rachel Mann

Dr Suzanne Mukherjee

Ms Karen Overend

Professor Gillian Parker

Dr Parvaneh Rabiee

Ms Gemma Spiers

Miss Lucy Stuttard

Research Support Administrators

Mrs Teresa Frank

Ms Dawn Rowley

Ms Karen Astill

Mr Philip Boyle

Ms Bronagh Hannon

Emeritus Professors

Professor Jonathan Bradshaw

Professor Caroline Glendinning

Previous Directors

Professor Jonathan Bradshaw: (1963-1987) now leading SPRU’s Child and Family Welfare workstream

Professor Sally Baldwin (1987-2002)

Professor Peter Kemp (2002-2006) now Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Oxford

Professor Gillian Parker (2007-2014) now directing a number of projects in SPRU on old age and dementia

Professor Roy Sainsbury (2014-2016) now based in the Department’s Research and Teaching Unit and contributing to the Department’s work on welfare and employment.