People

Dr Kate Andersen
A/C/113
+44 (0)1904 32 1984
kate.andersen@york.ac.uk

Research Associate

• Welfare reform
• Welfare conditionality and sanctions
• Gender and citizenship

Dr Kate Baxter
A/B/009
+44 (0)1904 32 1966
kate.baxter@york.ac.uk

Senior Research Fellow

• People who pay for their social care (self-funders)
• Social care in later life
• Service improvement and innovation

Professor Bryony Beresford
A/B/110
+44 (0)1904 32 1960
bryony.beresford@york.ac.uk

Co-Director of SPRU

• Disabled or chronically ill children and adolescents and their families
• Service provision and multi-agency working
• Developing methodologies for research with children
• Children's experiences of illness and disability

Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Social Sciences

Deputy Director NIHR School for Social Care Research

Co-Director of SPRU

• Adult social care
• Funding of Adult social care
• Dementia

• Homelessness and housing exclusion
• Social enterprise service models
• Service evaluation

Senior Lecturer
Programme Leader Social and Public Policy and Social Research
Chair of the Board of Studies (Criminology)

• Vulnerable young people
• The concept of 'vulnerability'
• The sex industry

Dr Kevin Caraher 
A/B/126
+44 (0)1904 32 1296
kevin.caraher@york.ac.uk  

Lecturer
Programme Director (Online MA Social and Public Policy)
PGT Social Policy Admissions

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

Dr Beth Casey
A/C/115
+44 (0)1904 32 1264
beth.casey@york.ac.uk

Research Associate

• Social work and child neglect
• Gender and child neglect
• Evaluation of social intervention

Teaching Fellow
PGT Social Policy Admissions 
International Liaison

• Public policy
• Comparative social policy
• Governance

Dr Kelly Devenney
A/C/112
+44 (0)1904 32 1260
kelly.devenney@york.ac.uk

Lecturer in Social Work
Programme Leader in Social Work (including MSocW, MASW, MRes and CISW)

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

Research Fellow

• Outcomes for children and adolescents in and on the edges of care
• Leaving care
• Innovative approaches to working with vulnerable young people

Research Associate

• Measurement development
• Implementation science
• Assessment of measurement properties
• Service design

Professor of Social Policy
Knowledge Exchange and Impact Lead

• Social citizenship
• Social inclusion/exclusion
• International migration and welfare 

Professor Nick Ellison
A/C/226
+44 (0)1904 32 1265
nick.ellison@york.ac.uk 

• Contemporary UK social policy
• The nature and impact of 'globalisation' and the changing politics of welfare in developed welfare regimes
• Citizenship in theory and practice

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

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

Deputy Head of Department
Senior Lecturer

• Victimisation
• Illicit drug use
• Administration of justice

Dr Katherine Graham
A/C/016
+44 (0)1904 32 1205
katie.graham@york.ac.uk

• Adult safeguarding
• Personalisation
• Social care workforce

Kate Gridley
A/B/103
+44 (0)1904 32 1988
kate.gridley@york.ac.uk

• People with dementia and their carers
• Research methods involving people with dementia
• Social care self-funders

Dr Julia Hackett
A/B/107
+44 (0)1904 32 1977
julia.hackett@york.ac.uk

• Bereavement support for families who have lost a child
• Supporting families of children and young people with life-shortening conditions
• Illness trajectories and service transitions

• Youth and adult offending
• Social work and criminal justice
• Risk assessment and management 

Dr Cheyann Heap
A/C/115
+44 (0)1904 32 1975
cheyann.heap@york.ac.uk

• Clinical psychology and mental health
• Dementia (personhood and positive approaches)
• Charity, international development and volunteering

Reader
Chair of the Exceptional Circumstances Committee
Chair of the Research Excellence Framework Committee

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

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

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

Reader
Director of Teaching
Chair of Department Teaching Committee

• International, global and comparative social policy
• Austerity and welfare state change
• Gender, work and social policy

Research Associate

• Adult social care
• Mental health
• Older people, dementia, long-term conditions, self-funders

Lecturer in Social Work

• Mental health law, policy and practice
• Social work with young people
• The policy-practice relationship

• Child well-being
• Social exclusion
• Use of evidence in social policy 

Dr Eppie Leishman
A/B/116
+44 (0)1904 32 1473 
+44 (0)7384 239 012
eppie.leishman@york.ac.uk

Research Associate

• Health inequalities
• Housing and home
• Online research methods

Dr Lyndsay M Lindley
A/B/026
+44 (0)1904 32 1286
lyndsay.lindley@york.ac.uk

• Research involving older people with cognitive impairment
• Conversation Analysis
• Ethnography

Professor Charlie Lloyd
A/C/211
+44 (0)1904 32 1912
charlie.lloyd@york.ac.uk

Professor of Social Policy and Criminal Justice
Director of the Graduate School

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

• Online learning communities
• Information age and policy

Professor of Social Policy 
Chair of Departmental Research Committee

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

Dr Sophie Mackinder
A/B/122
+44 (0) 1904 32 1272
sophie.mackinder@york.ac.uk

Lecturer in Global Social Policy and International Development
Programme Leader Comparative and International Social and Public Policy

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

Jane Maddison
A/B/105
+44 (0)1904 32 1989
jane.maddison@york.ac.uk

Research Associate

• Using people's experiences of adult social care to guide service improvements 
• Innovation in adult social care
• Qualitative research methods

Lecturer in Social Work
Postgraduate Admissions Tutor Social Work 

• Mental health social work practice
• Practice education in social work

Dr Nicola Moran
A/C/220
+44 (0)1904 32 1246
+44 (0)7384 239017
nicola.moran@york.ac.uk

Lecturer
Think Ahead Programme
Senior Researcher
Deputy Chair of the Ethics Committee

• Youth mental health
• Policing and mental health
• Budgets – outcomes for service users and informal carers
• International long-term care policies

Dr Suzanne Mukherjee
A/B/137
+44 (0)1904 32 1972
suzanne.mukherjee@york.ac.uk

Research Associate

• Psychosocial interventions to support people living with a chronic illness
  or disability
• Prevention of stress and burnout in health service staff
• Service provision for adults with autism
• Methods for involving hard-to-reach groups
  in research

Dr Louise Newbould
A/B/026
+44 (0)1904 32 1962
louise.newbould@york.ac.uk

Research Associate

• Long-term conditions
• Older adults
• Mental health

Dr Kayonda Hubert Ngamaba
A/C/115
+44 (0)1904 32 1282
kayonda.ngamaba@york.ac.uk

Research Associate

• Long-term mental health conditions 
• Social interventions in the community and prisons 
• Quantitative and Qualitative research

Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe
A/C/208
+44 (0)1904 32 1991
ruth.naughton-doe@york.ac.uk

Research Associate

• Carers, mental health carers and young carers 
• Loneliness and isolation
• Co-production of research and social care services

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Crime

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

Dr Gareth O'Rourke

+44 (0)1904 32 1985
gareth.orourke@york.ac.uk

Home Instead Research Fellow

• Older people's experience of using health and social care services
• Personalisation in policy and in practice
• Supporting older carers

Research Associate

• Prisons
• Policing
• Third sector agencies in the CJS

Dr Ruth Patrick
A/C/114
+44 (0)1904 32 1256
ruth.patrick@york.ac.uk

• Poverty, social security and welfare reform
• Welfare conditionality, sanctions and welfare-to-work
• Participatory approaches

Professor Nicholas Pleace
A/B/130
+44 (0)1904 32 1479
nicholas.pleace@york.ac.uk

• Interdisciplinary research
• Comparative research
• Housing and social justice

Deborah Quilgars
A/B/117
+44 (0)1904 32 1482
deborah.quilgars@york.ac.uk

• Housing, risk and safety nets, homelessness and support services
• Young people
• European perspectives

Dr Gwyther Rees
gwyther.rees@york.ac.uk

Associate Research Fellow
 

• Child well-being
• Child maltreatment
• Looked-after children

Dr Enrico Reuter
A/C/120
+44 (0)1904 32 1252
enrico.reuter@york.ac.uk

Lecturer in Public and Social Policy
Programme Leader - MA programmes in Public Policy, Administration and Management
Project Lead for Online Transition

• Labour markets and employment policies, in particular self-employment
• Politics of social policy and democratic theory
• Public management and public service reform

Dr Natalie Richardson
A/B/109
+44 (0)1904 32 1992
natalie.richardson@york.ac.uk 

Research Associate

• Qualitative and ethnographic research methods
• Palliative care work
• Relationships at the end of life

Professor of Teaching and Scholarship

• Public management
• The management of change
• Organisational learning
• Project management

Edward Robson
A/C/011
+44 (0)1904 32 1243
edward.robson@york.ac.uk

Lecturer in Social Work            Admissions Tutor 
Academic Lead - SUPA Group

• Young Carers
• Teenage Parents
• Family and Systems Theory

Senior Lecturer
Chair of the Board of Studies

• Comparative and International social policy
• Social research methods
• Employment, pensions and family

• Private renting
• Housing benefit
• The contribution of the voluntary sector to the alleviation of homelessness

Professor of Social Policy       
Senior Admissions Tutor (including PGR admissions)

• Comparative child support policy
• Family policy
• Non-resident fathers

Reader in Social Policy
Chair of the Board of Examiners
Programme Leader: All Postgraduate Research Programmes

• Sustainable development
• Social inequality
• Environmental policy

Research Fellow

• Supporting families of children with disabilities
• Providing support services for carers
• Encouraging change in health behaviours
• Workforce development in the NHS

Polly Sykes
A/C/106
+44 (0)1904 32 1267
polly.sykes@york.ac.uk

• Practice education
• Learning disabilities including transitions
• Palliative care

Dr Jenny Threlfall
A/C/015
+44 (0)1904 32 1253
jenny.threlfall@york.ac.uk

Lecturer in Social Work

• Parenting
• Academic Achievement
• Racial and economic inequality

Dr Slobodan Tomic
A/B/119
+44 (0) 1904 32 1485
slobodan.tomic@york.ac.uk

Lecturer in Public Management
Programme Director (Masters of Public Administration MPA online)

• Public Policy and Administration
• Regulation
• Integrity Policies

Dr Rachel Vipond
A/C/108
+44 (0)1904 32 1226
rachel.vipond@york.ac.uk

Lecturer
Programme Leader Criminal Justice

• Youth Justice
• Risk and Professional Decision Making
• Probation and Youth Offending Team Practices

Dr Alison Wallace
A/B/123
+44 (0)1904 32 1487
alison.wallace@york.ac.uk

Research Fellow

• Sustainable homeownership
• Low cost homeownership
• Housing markets

Professor Martin Webber
A/C/004
+44 (0)1904 32 1203
+44 (0)7384 239 018
martin.webber@york.ac.uk

Professor of Social Work
Director of the International Centre for Mental Health Social Research                  

• Mental health social work 
• Development and evaluation of social interventions
• Social capital and social inclusion

Dr Aniela Wenham
A/C/105
+44 (0)1904 32 1236
aniela.wenham@york.ac.uk

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

Dr Mark Wilberforce
A/B/029
+44 (0)1904 32 1297
mark.wilberforce@york.ac.uk

• Social care in later life
• Social work and mental health
• Measurement and psychometrics

Angela Chapman
Student Services Coordinator
Think Ahead Coordinator
A/C/009
+44 (0)1904 32 1276
angela.chapman@york.ac.uk

Nicola Moody
Research Facilitator
A/B/003
+44 (0)1904 32 1476
nicola.moody@york.ac.uk

Rachel Parker 
Student Support Administrator - Online Programmes, ECA, Visa Compliance and BoS
A/C/007
+44 (0)1904 32 1234
rachel.parker@york.ac.uk

Sally Pulleyn
Research Support Manager
A/B/031
+44 (0)1904 32 1951
sally.pulleyn@york.ac.uk

Dawn Rowley-White
Research Support Administrator
Editorial Assistant - Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy
A/B/001
+44 (0)1904 32 1280
dawn.rowley-white@york.ac.uk