Tracy Almond
A/C/107
+44 (0)7739 580548
tracy.almond@york.ac.uk

Associate Lecturer
Think Ahead Programme

• Adult sexual offending / Harmful sexual behaviour in children and young people
• Risk assessment and management in social work

Dr Roz Austin
11/A/B/027
+44 (0)1904 321986
roz.austin@york.ac.uk

Research Associate

• Voice-hearing
• Mental Health and Trauma
• Narrative therapies for mental health issues
• Illness narratives

Dr Laura Bainbridge
A/C/106
+44 (0)1904 32 1268
laura.bainbridge@york.ac.uk

• Policy transfer
• The policy process
• Violence reduction (including ‘mandatory alcohol abstinence’)

Helen Baldwin
A/B/109                      
+44 (0)1904 32 1991
helen.baldwin@york.ac.uk

• Child health and welfare
• Criminal justice
• Substance misuse

Venera Bekteshi
A/B/209a
+44 (0)1904 32 1209
venera.b@york.ac.uk

• Cancer and immigrant women
• Culture and immigration
• Stress and immigration

Professor Nina Biehal
A/B/101
+44 (0)1904 32 1284
nina.biehal@york.ac.uk 

• Family support
• Adoption; Foster care
• Family reunification

• Poverty and social exclusion
• Comparative research
• Child well-being

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

David Bulmer
A/C/107
+44 (0)1904 32 1240
david.bulmer@york.ac.uk

• Mental health
• Learning disability

Dr Kevin Caraher 
A/C/115
+44 (0)1904 32 1271
kevin.caraher@york.ac.uk  

Lecturer
Chair of the Board of Examiners
Exams Officer (Social Policy and Applied Social Science)
Programme Director (Online MA Social and Public Policy)

• Comparative social policy
• Pensions policy in East and Southeast Asia
• Political economy of welfare states

Teaching Fellow

• Public policy
• Comparative social policy
• Governance

Lecturer Practitioner in Social Work

• Children and Families Social Work
• Children’s Disability and Short Breaks

• Global political economy
• Consumer culture and behaviour
• Ethical and sustainable production and consumption

Research Fellow

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

• 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
• The Gender division of labour

• Fuel poverty
• Climate change and energy policy
• Environmental justice

• 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

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

Reader

• International social policy
• Global health policy and corporate influence
• Globalisation and trade 

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

Nicola Howard

nicola.howard@york.ac.uk

Associate Lecturer 

• Children looked after
• Care planning
• Fostering, special guardianship & adoption
• Child protection
• Safeguarding
• Court work

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

Senior Lecturer
Programme Leader: BA Social Policy and BA Applied Social Science
Erasmus Coordinator

• Social policy in small states and small island states
• Economic crisis and social policy
• Gender, employment and social policy

Lecturer in Social Work
Programme Lead for Postgraduate Social Work programmes (qualifying and non-qualifying)

• 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 Gernot Klantschnig
A/C/120
+44 (0)1904 32 1252
gernot.klantschnig@york.ac.uk

 Senior Lecturer

• International crime and drug control
• Policing
• West Africa and China

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

Acting 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
Programme Leader (MPA CASPPER) 
Chair of the Board of Studies

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

Director of Programmes for MPA in International Development
Lecturer in International Development and Global Social Policy

• Governance and policy-making processes
• Political economy of international development
• Relational and political dimensions of poverty and inequalities

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

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

Lecturer
Think Ahead Programme

Senior Researcher

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

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

Lecturer
Admissions Tutor (BA Social Policy / Applied Social Science)
Careers and Employability Co-ordinator

• Youth Justice
• Risk and Professional Decision Making
• Probation and Youth Offending Team Practices
• Gender and Crime (specifically girls and crime)

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Crime
Deputy Head of Department

• Urban renewal
• Crime prevention and community safety
• Voluntary sector

Dr Kayonda Hubert Ngamaba
A/B/030
+44 (0)1904 32 1282
kayonda.ngamaba@york.ac.uk

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

Gwyther Rees
gwyther.rees@york.ac.uk

Associate Research Fellow
 

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

Dr Enrico Reuter
A/C/115
+44 (0) 7876626870
enrico.reuter@york.ac.uk

Lecturer
Programme Director (Online MA Public Policy and Management)

• Politics of social policy
• Public service reform
• Social exclusion and vulnerability

Professor (Teaching and Scholarship)
Director of Online Programmes
Programme Director (Online MPA)
Chair, University Distance Learning Forum

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

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

Lecturer
Academic Lead - SUPA Group

• Young Carers
• Teenage Parents
• Family and Systems Theory
• Housing and Homelessness

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

• Welfare to work
• Social security and the labour market
• Qualitative methods
• Administration and delivery of benefits

Professor of Social Policy

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

Senior lecturer 
Programme Leader: All Postgraduate Research Programmes

• Sustainable development
• Social inequality
• Environmental policy

Polly Sykes
A/C/104
+44 (0)1904 32 1267
polly.sykes@york.ac.uk

• Health and disability
• Practice education

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

Lecturer in Social Work
Admissions Tutor (MA Social Work)

• Parenting
• Academic Achievement
• Racial and economic inequality

Sara Ward
A/C/104
+44 (0)1904 32 1267
sara.ward@york.ac.uk

Associate Lecturer
Placement Co-ordinator

• Mental health social work
• AMHP role and training
• Practice education
• Sexual assault of women

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

Professor of Social Work
Making Research Count Academic Lead
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

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