Co-Directors

Professor Yvonne Birks

Professor Bryony Beresford

Research Support Manager

Miss Sally Pulleyn

Researchers

Dr Kate Baxter

Ms Kate Gridley

Dr Katie Graham

Dr Julia Hackett

Ms Jane Maddison

Dr Rachel Mann

Mrs Emese Mayhew

Dr Suzanne Mukherjee

Professor Gillian Parker

Dr Parvaneh Rabiee

Miss Lucy Stuttard

Dr Mark Wilberforce

Research Support Administrators

Mrs Teresa Frank

Ms Dawn Rowley-White

Mr Philip Boyle

Emeritus Professors

Professor Jonathan Bradshaw

Professor Caroline Glendinning

Previous Directors

Professor Jonathan Bradshaw: (1973-1987) 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.