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

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

Megan Arthur
PhD student
- Global health policy

Cristina Asenjo Palma
PhD student

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

Marzia Ballardin
Subject Academic Support Officer

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

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

Richard Brodie
Teaching and Student Development Fellow

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

Eleanor Brooks
Lecturer in Health Policy

Morag Allan Campbell
Editorial Assistant, Journal of Social Policy

Tatiana Cary
PhD Student
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Governance & Democracy

Frank Castles
Emeritus Professor of Social and Public Policy

Mr Ran Chen
PhD Student

Jochen Clasen
Professor of Comparative Social Policy

Daniel Clegg
Senior Lecturer in 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

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

Dr Cleo Davies
Research & Teaching
- British politics research
- European Union Studies
- Science, knowledge and policy

Dr Niccolo Durazzi
Lecturer in Political Economy of Social Policy
- 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 candidate
- European Union Studies
- Governance of welfare states
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy

Richard Freeman
Professor of Social Science and Public Policy

Sotiria Grek
Professor of European and Global Education Governance

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

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

Mark Hellowell
Senior Lecturer

Claire Houghton
Lecturer in Social Policy and Qualitative Research

Nikos Kanellopoulos
PhD Student

Dan Kenealy
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
- British politics research
- Culture
- Governance & Democracy

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
Miss Irene Ktori
PhD Student
- Children, families and relationships
- Governance & Democracy
- Governance of welfare states

Alan Marshall
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods.

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

Saqif Mustafa
Doctoral Researcher (Public Health and Health Systems)
- Global health policy

Ingela Naumann
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Larissa Nenning
PhD title: Part-Time Work and Welfare States

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

Dr Helen Packwood
Lecturer in Social Research Methods
- Childhood & Youth
- Children, families and relationships
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement

Richard Parry
Honorary Fellow

Lindsay Paterson
Professor Emeritus of Education Policy

Dr Kaveri Qureshi
Senior Lecturer

Dr Rob Ralston
Research Fellow

Dr Philip Rathgeb
Lecturer in Social Policy

Alex Robertson
Honorary Fellow