Jonathan Bradshaw

Jonathan Bradshaw is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of York. He joined the University in 1967 and was the founding Director of the Social Policy Research Unit from 1973 to 1987. He served two terms as Head of Department from 1988-1994 and 2003-2007. He also served as Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences from 1994-1998. He was president of the Foundation for International studies in Social Security from 1999-2003. He was appointed Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in 1996, Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for services to child poverty and Fellow of the British Academy in 2010. In 2011 he was made Doctor of the University of Turku, Finland (honoris causa) and of the University of Bath (honoris causa) in 2015. He is a Board member of the Child Poverty Action Group and Chair of their Policy Committee.

He is still engaged in research and writing. He is the UK co-ordinator of the European Social Policy Network and co PI on the Children's Worlds project.

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Qualifications

• BSS
• MA, University of Dublin
• DPhil, University of York

Current / recently completed research

European Social Policy Network2014 - 2018

The European Social Policy Network (ESPN) was established in July 2014 on the initiative of the European Commission to provide high quality and timely independent information, advice, analysis and expertise on social policy issues in the European Union and neighbouring countries.

Children's WorldsJanuary 2016 - December 2018

International comparative school based survey of eight, ten and twelve year old children’s subjective well-being in 2017

Children's WorldsJanuary 2016 - December 2018

International comparative school based survey of eight, ten and twelve year old children’s subjective well-being in 2017.

External roles

• Professor of Social Policy (part-time) - School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
• Fellow - British Academy
• Academician - Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
• Honorary degree from University of Turku
• Honorary Research Fellow - South African Human Sciences Research Council
• Honorary Fellow - UNICEF UK
• Honorary Visiting Professor - University of Oxford
• Consultant - UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti
• Member - Research Committee of the International Social Security Association (ISSA)
• Trustee & Chair of Policy Committee - Child Poverty Action Group
• Editorial board member - Child Indicators Research
• Editorial board member - International Social Security Review