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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

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Professor Emeritus Michael Adler

Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies

  • Governance of welfare states
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Dr Emily Adrion

Senior Lecturer, Global Health Policy

  • Global health policy
  • Health & Well-being
  • Health inequalities, disability and older people
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Dr İdil Akıncı-Pérez

Lecturer in Race and Social Policy

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Kinship, bodies and relatedness
  • Middle East Research Group
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
  • Nationalism and political action
  • Race and decolonial thought
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Hessa Al Khalifa

Hessa Khalifa Al Khalifa

PhD

  • Cities
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Governance of welfare states
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Middle East Research Group
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Megan Arthur

PhD student

  • Global health policy
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Cristina Asenjo Palma

PhD student

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Majdi Ashour

PhD title: Beyond Resilience in the Times of Despair: Changes in Out of Pocket Payments in the Gaza Strip.

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Marzia Ballardin

Subject Academic Support Officer

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Fabio Battaglia

PhD title: To GDP or not to GDP? Identifying the factors promoting and inhibiting the use and impact of well-being metrics in Scotland and Italy

  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Health & Well-being
  • Science, knowledge and policy
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Dr Hayley Bennett

Lecturer in Social Policy

  • British politics research
  • Governance of welfare states
  • Methods
  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Welfare, policy and Covid-19
  • Work & Economy
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Richard Brodie

Teaching and Student Development Fellow

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Dr Orian Brook

Chancellor's Fellow

  • Cities
  • Culture
  • Data & Digital
  • Digital sociology
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Methods
  • Work & Economy
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Eleanor Brooks

Lecturer in Health Policy

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Morag Allan Campbell

Editorial Assistant, Journal of Social Policy

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Tatiana Cary

PhD Student

  • Gender Politics Research Group
  • Governance & Democracy
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Frank Castles

Emeritus Professor of Social and Public Policy

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Mr Ran Chen

PhD Student

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Jochen Clasen

Professor of Comparative Social Policy

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Daniel Clegg

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

  • Governance of welfare states
  • Welfare, policy and Covid-19
  • Work & Economy
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Professor Bronwen Cohen

Honorary Professor

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Jeff Collin

Professor of Global Health Policy

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Emma Davidson

Dr Emma Davidson

Lecturer in Social Policy and Qualitative Research Methods

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Children, families and relationships
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Methods
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Dr Cleo Davies

Dr Cleo Davies

Research & Teaching

  • British politics research
  • European Union Studies
  • Science, knowledge and policy
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Dr Niccolo Durazzi

Lecturer in Political Economy of Social Policy

  • Governance of welfare states
  • Welfare, policy and Covid-19
  • Work & Economy
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Jan Eichhorn

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

  • Elections, public opinion and parties
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Environment and energy
  • Work & Economy
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Bianca Luna Fabris

PhD candidate

  • European Union Studies
  • Governance of welfare states
  • Welfare, policy and Covid-19
  • Work & Economy
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Richard Freeman

Professor of Social Science and Public Policy

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Sotiria Grek

Professor of European and Global Education Governance

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Daniel Heap

PhD title: Institutionalising activation for sickness and disability benefit claimants in the active UK and Danish welfare states

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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
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Mark Hellowell

Senior Lecturer

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Claire Houghton

Lecturer in Social Policy and Qualitative Research

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Nikos Kanellopoulos

PhD Student

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Dan Kenealy

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy

  • British politics research
  • Culture
  • Governance & Democracy
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Markus Ketola

Dr Markus Ketola

Senior Lecturer in Global and International Social Policy

  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Governance of welfare states
  • International development
  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Welfare, policy and Covid-19
  • Work & Economy
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Miss Irene Ktori

PhD Student

  • Children, families and relationships
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Governance of welfare states
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Alan Marshall

Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods.

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Clara Mascaró

Clara Mascaró

PhD student

  • Governance of welfare states
  • Health inequalities, disability and older people
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Methods
  • Work & Economy
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Saqif Mustafa

Doctoral Researcher (Public Health and Health Systems)

  • Global health policy
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Ingela Naumann

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Larissa Nenning

Larissa Nenning

PhD title: Part-Time Work and Welfare States

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Paul Norris

Dean of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Validation, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

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Dr Helen Packwood

Lecturer in Social Research Methods

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Children, families and relationships
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Methods
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
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Richard Parry

Honorary Fellow

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Lindsay Paterson

Professor Emeritus of Education Policy

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Dr Kaveri Qureshi

Senior Lecturer

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Dr Rob Ralston

Research Fellow

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Dr Philip Rathgeb

Lecturer in Social Policy

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Alex Robertson

Honorary Fellow