People
Our people are the most important thing about our subject area. It takes a team of academics, professional services colleagues and PhD students working together to deliver our teaching, carry out our research and keep the department running. Together, they form a supportive community covering a range of professional expertise. You can search by name or role here, or browse below.
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Sudeepa Abeysinghe
Senior Lecturer in Global Health Policy
Professor Emeritus Michael Adler
Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies
- Governance of welfare states

Dr Emily Adrion
Senior Lecturer in Global Health Policy
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people

Dr İdil Akıncı-Pérez
Lecturer in Race and Social Policy
- Governance of welfare states
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Identities & Inequalities
- Middle East Research Group
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Nationalism and political action
- Race and decolonial thought

Hessa Khalifa Al Khalifa
PhD student, Social Policy
- Cities
- Cultural Heritage
- Governance of welfare states
- Identities & Inequalities
- Middle East Research Group

Julze Alejandre
Research Fellow in Public Engagement
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
- Science, knowledge and policy

Megan Arthur
PhD student, Social Policy
- Global health policy

Cristina Asenjo Palma
PhD student, Social Policy

Marzia Ballardin
Subject Academic Support Officer

Gulce Baskaya
PhD Student
- British politics research
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Nationalism and political action

Dr Hayley Bennett
Lecturer in Social Policy
- British politics research
- Cities
- Data & Digital
- Governance & Democracy
- Governance of welfare states
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Territorial Politics Research Group
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy

Helen Berry
PhD Student
- Childhood & Youth
- Children, families and relationships
- Health & Well-being
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Science, knowledge and policy

Dr Dhaneswar Bhoi
Recently conferred with the title of 'Honorary Fellow' by UoE and has successfully completed his Post-Doctorate in Sociology at the Centre for South Asian Studies, School of Social and Political Science, UoE, UK
- Culture
- Global health policy
- Governance of welfare states
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Race and decolonial thought
- South Asian studies
- Work & Economy

Richard Brodie
Lecturer in Social Policy

Dr Orian Brook
Chancellor's Fellow
- Culture
- Data & Digital
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Work & Economy

Dr Eleanor Brooks
Senior Lecturer in European Health Policy
- European Union Studies
- Global health policy
- Governance & Democracy

Maddi Bunker
PhD student, Social Policy
- Childhood & Youth
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Health & Well-being
- Identities & Inequalities
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods

Emily Cameron-Blake
PhD student, Social Policy

Professor Emeritus Frank Castles
Emeritus Professor of Social and Public Policy

Ran Chen
PhD student, Social Policy

Jochen Clasen
Emeritus Professor of Comparative Social Policy

Daniel Clegg
Professor of Comparative Social Policy, Head of Social Policy
- Governance of welfare states
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy

Professor Bronwen Cohen
Honorary Professor

Jeff Collin
Professor of Global Health Policy

Xiangruo Dai
PhD Student
- Identities & Inequalities

Dr Emma Davidson
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Qualitative Research Methods
- Childhood & Youth
- Children, families and relationships
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods

Dr Niccolo Durazzi
Honorary Fellow
- Governance of welfare states
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy
Jan Eichhorn
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Work & Economy

Bianca Luna Fabris
PhD student, Social Policy
- European Union Studies
- Governance of welfare states
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy

Richard Freeman
Professor of Social Science and Public Policy

Hannah Glover
PhD Student
- Childhood & Youth
- Health & Well-being
- Identities & Inequalities
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy

Dr Elke Heins
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
- British politics research
- European Union Studies
- Governance of welfare states
- Health & Well-being
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy

Dr. Mark Hellowell
Senior Lecturer
- Global health policy
- Governance & Democracy
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- International development

Dr Sarah Hill
Honorary Fellow

Claire Houghton
Lecturer in Social Policy and Qualitative Research

Nikos Kanellopoulos
PhD student, Social Policy

Dr Ben Kasstan-Dabush
Lecturer Global Health Policy
- Childhood & Youth
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Identities & Inequalities
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Public anthropology
- Religion and public action
- Religion and social movements
- Science, technology and innovation

Dr Daniel Kenealy
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
- British politics research
- Cities
- Culture
- Governance & Democracy

Dr Markus Ketola
Senior Lecturer in Global and International Social Policy
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Governance & Democracy
- Governance of welfare states
- International development
- Science, knowledge and policy

Kristina Kim
Research Fellow
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Race and decolonial thought
- Science, knowledge and policy
Irene Ktori
PhD student, Social Policy
- Children and families
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Governance of welfare states
- Methods
- Work & Economy

Zain Kurdi
PhD Student
- Childhood & Youth
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Data & Digital
- Health & Well-being
- Identities & Inequalities
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods

Dr Kathrin Lauber
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
- Global health policy
- Governance & Democracy
- Health & Well-being
- Science, knowledge and policy

Dr Lukas Lehner
Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy
- Data & Digital
- Governance of welfare states
- Methods
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy

Dr Nason Maani
Lecturer
- Global health policy
- Science, knowledge and policy

Dr Amitai Marmor
Honorary fellow
- Childhood & Youth
- Children and families
- Culture
- Social work profession and social work education
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19

Alan Marshall
Professor of Social Research on Inequality
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Methods

Clara Mascaró
PhD student, Social Policy
- Governance of welfare states
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
- Work & Economy

Saqif Mustafa
PhD student & global health consultant
- Global health policy

Professor Ingela Naumann
Honorary Professorial Fellow
- Children and families
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Governance of welfare states
- Religion and social movements
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy