Pete is Director of the Third Sector Research Centre and Professor of Social Policy and Administration. Pete is also Director of the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre.

Dr Chris Allen is a Lecturer in Social Policy. He is based in the Institute of Applied Social Studies, School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham where he is the Acting Director of Undergraduate Social Policy Programmes and Programme Lead on the Policy, Politics & Economics (PPE) programme.

Since joining the Institute in June 2009 Chris has featured in ...

Dr Kerry Allen is a Research Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. Her current projects include a study of third sector prevention activities for older people and research into improving safety at the interface between hospital services and children’s social care. Kerry is a Fellow of the National Institute for Health Research School for Social ...

Dr Lindsey Appleyard is a Research Fellow at the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM) in the Institute of Applied Social Studies, School of Social Policy.

Ric is the Director of Community Mental Health Programmes at the Institute of Applied Social Studies, School of Social Policy.

Hilary Brown is a Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. She joined the department in August 2008 following a ten year career in the NHS and a second career in journalism and PR in the private sector. Hilary is involved in a range of teaching activities including taking a lead role for student welfare and international students within the department. ...

Dr Edward Brunsdon is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Policy and an Associate Member of the Centre for Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM) in the Institute of Applied Social Studies, School of Social Policy.

Mark Chesterman is Director of PQ Programmes and leads the PQ children and families programme.

Harriet is Director of Doctoral Research in the School of Social Policy and lectures in social research and social policy.  She provides support to postgraduate taught students on research ethics and supervises taught course dissertations and doctoral research.

Stuart Connor is a lecturer in Social Policy.

Tarsem is a Social Work Lecturer and Associate Director at the Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health (CEIMH).  In 2011 Tarsem was awarded a Birmingham University Teaching Fellowship in recognition of his wide ranging and significant interventions in learning and teaching across the institution. He is also on the Board of the Valuing Teaching at Birmingham ...

Deborah’s is a Senior Fellow, Organisational Development (OD) and Leadership at the Health Services Management Centre.  Specialising in OD and developmental evaluations in the public sector, Deborah is involved in working alongside a culturally diverse range of individuals, groups, teams, and inter-agency systems to realise citizen and service user outcomes. Deborah leads ...

Ann is Emeritus Professor of Social Work and Mental Health and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health (CEIMH) from 2005-2010.

Helen is a Senior Lecturer in Health Care Policy and Management at HSMC and Director of the Public Service Academy. Helen heads the health and social care partnerships programme at HSMC and is Director of the MSc in Managing Integration for Health and Wellbeing. Helen is also Co-Editor of the Journal of Integrated Care.

As Director of the Public Service Academy (PSA) ...

John is Professor of Housing Studies in the School of Social Policy, Institute of Applied Social Studies.

Kathryn Farrow is a qualified social worker.

Barbara carries out research in the areas of adults, communities, mental health, older people and disability. She also focuses on participatory action research and forms of analysis drawn from postmodern feminism.

Joy joined the School of Social Policy as the Service User and Carer Co-ordinator within the Social Work Programmes in October 2007.

Tim has been involved in health services evaluations since 1991. Tim’s main areas of interest include the governance of health and social care services; leadership and identity and organisational culture (particularly the governance of ‘safety’).

Tim’s main areas of interest include:

• The governance of health and ...

Nicola Gale, MA, PhD, is a health sociologist, with a track record in both single-discipline sociological research and interdisciplinary health research where she has brought her sociological perspective and skills to projects in fields of health services research, public health and primary care. Dr Gale is committed to theoretically-informed empirical work and to ensuring that findings ...

Matthew is a Teaching Fellow on the Postqualifying social work programmes, Institute of Applied Social Studies, School of Social Policy. He joined the University in August 2011.

Jon is a qualified social worker by background and Director of the University of Birmingham’s Health Services Management Centre. Specialising in joint work between health and social care, Jon is involved in regular policy analysis and advice. He is the author of a series of leading textbooks on health and social services, sits on the advisory board of The Policy Press, and is ...

Anne-Marie is a Lecturer in Social Work within the Institute of Applied Social Studies. She is a qualified and HCPC registered Social Worker, and has worked in a range of statutory Children & Families settings. Her practice and research interests include children and young people involved in the youth justice system, specifically children in custodial contexts.

Lisa Goodson is a lecturer in IASS, School of Social Policy, where she directs the postgraduate degree programme in Migration and Social Policy and co-ordinates social policy research modules at post graduate level as well as teaching and tutoring on undergraduate modules in new migration. Lisa has been at the forefront of research exploring the experiences and consequences of migration in the UK ...

Surinder Guru is a Lecturer on the Social Work course at the Institute of Applied Social Studies, School of Social Policy.

Tina is a Lecturer and Admissions Tutor for the undergraduate social policy degree programmes.  She has a particular commitment to the University's widening participation programmes and facilitating the inclusion of a diverse range of students within higher education, through a range of Outreach activities.

Rachel Hek is a lecturer on the Social Work team at the University of Birmingham and also Head of Qualifying Practice Learning for the MA and BA Social Work courses.  She also manages a bank of independent Practice Tutors and Practice Educators.  Rachel is responsible for creating new practice learning opportunities for students and for liaising with, recruiting and training Practice ...

Gary Hickman is a registered social worker and as Director of the social work programmes, provides operational and strategic leadership for both the BA and MA courses.

Nathan is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work and at the School of Social Policy, Institute of Applied Social Studies. As Director of Education in the School he provides strategic support for all teaching and learning programmes.

Ricky Joseph is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM) in the Institute of Applied Social Studies.

Rosemary is part of the teaching group on the qualifying social work programmes for the BA and MA in Social Work. She is a qualified social worker and has worked in generic and specialist teams for older people in the statutory sector. Rosemary has a particular interest in service user and carer involvement in social work education and has strategic responsibility for their involvement in the ...

Rob is leading the design, coordination and delivery of Real Times, a programme of longitudinal qualitative research with third sector organisations, which is planned to run throughout the life of TSRC. 

Rob is also undertaking a literature review of research on the voluntary and community sector, focusing on: organisational ...

Russell holds the Chair in Health Systems at the University of Birmingham. He also holds the following positions: Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Visiting Professor in the Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Visiting Fellow, Bocconi University, Milan and is a honorary Senior Lecturer in the ...

Bob is part of the Social Policy Undergraduate Teaching Group where he teaches Social Inclusion and Comparative Social Policy and has an input to other modules

Dr Margaret May is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Policy and an Associate Member of the Centre for Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM) in the Institute of Applied Social Studies, School of Social Policy.

Angus is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham.

Ross is a Lecturer at HSMC. He joined in 2008 after completing his doctoral research studying service improvement tools and techniques at the University of Manchester. Since arriving, his research interests have reflected being involved in a variety of projects analysing the reform of health and social care. These include understanding the nature and impact of ‘quasi’ ...

As well as being a Senior Fellow at HSMC, he is the Health & Social Care Delivery Lead within the Third Sector Research Centre and a Fellow of the School for Social Care Research. His research interests build on his practical experiences in the field, and centre on commissioning and management of integrated services, the role and impact of the Third Sector, and personalisation. He is ...

Domenico joined the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) in September 2009 and is working on quantitative analysis, cutting across several research programmes. His focus is on the economic impact of third sector organisations in the UK.

His key priorities are to:

• Review the literature on the economics of the third sector;

David Mullins is Professor of Housing Policy and leads the Service Delivery and Housing streams in the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include the governance, management and regulation of housing, housing need and homelessness, the role of third sector, hybrid organisations and social enterprises in public service delivery. He is ...

Catherine Needham is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Management. She is part based at the Health Services Management Centre, developing research around social care and policy innovation. She is also part based in the Public Services Academy, leading development on graduate public management programmes across the College of Social Sciences.

Pat Niner is a housing researcher with a wide range of experience of different topics and research methods. Her recent specialisms are the accommodation needs of Gypsies and Travellers, and housing benefit reforms. She is continuing to work on ad hoc projects after formal retirement from the University of Birmingham in 2008.

Robert is a Reader in Democratic Socialism and Social Policy at the Institute of Applied Social Studies and has been a teacher of Social Policy for over thirty years. 

Alison Paris is Director of Professional Practice Development in the Institute of Applied Social Studies. She is also Head of Student Development and Support for the School of Social Policy and is a Welfare Tutor within the Institute.

She provides operational and strategic leadership for the Leadership and Management and Practice Education programmes for qualified ...

Simon is a Birmingham Fellow currently researching aspects of social harm caused by states and corporations, as well as social structures, in particular the harms caused by inequality.

Jenny Phillimore has researched widely in the fields of migration and superdiversity. Over the past decade she has managed teams of researchers focusing on access to health, education, employment, training, and housing integration with a particular focus on integration and organisational change in the UK and EU. Jenny co-directs the New Migration and Social Policy MA programme, sits on the ...

Martin joined HSMC in February 2007. He specialises in health policy, especially New Labour; choice and consumerism; decentralization; partnership; history of health care before the NHS and social policy, especially historical and geographical dimensions, citizenship, equity, theories of welfare state development.

James joined TSRC in February 2011 and works on the Service Deliverystream focusing on the delivery of public services by the third sector. Recent research has been on partnership working, the role of the third sector in the Work Programme, and the commissioning of public services. His other research interests are in urban and regional governance, economic development and ...

Dawn is a Lecturer and Admissions Tutor for the Social Work Programme, Institute of Applied Social Studies.

Liz is a part-time lecturer in Social Policy and coordinator of the Post Graduate Policy into Practice programmes.

Karen is a Professor of Social Policy in the Institute of Applied Social Studies as well as being Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM).

Yvonne Sawbridge Joined HSMC after a varied career in NHS, latterly as a Director in a PCT. She is also Co- Vice Chair of the NHS Alliance- a national organisation linking primary care clinicians, managers and organisations together. She is a founding member of their “Nurses in Commissioning” network. A Registered General Nurse & Health Visitor by profession, Yvonne has ...

Nando Sigona is a sociologist with over ten years research and teaching experience in migration, refugee and ethnic studies. He joined the School of Social Policy in February 2013 as a Birmingham Fellow. Dr Sigona’s work investigates the interplay between forms and modes of contemporary membership, migration governance (both immigration and emigration), and the politics of ...

Maureen is an Associate Director for the Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health (CEIMH) and is also Welfare Tutor for the Social Work and Post-qualifying programmes at the Institute of Applied Social Studies.

Iain specialises in teaching, consultancy and research around management and leadership development in the NHS; service evaluation and improvement; clinical engagement in management and regulation of health care.

Andri is working on several research programmes within TSRC, including its core qualitative longitudinal research project and the Below the radar work stream. Andri will also be developing the research programme for the Black Minority Ethnic work stream.

Andri’s particular interest in Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) is on their engagement with government ...

Basia is a Reader in Communities and Justice within the School of Social Policy, and she is also Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer.

David Stephenson is Head of the School of Social Policy and Head of the Institute of Applied Social Studies.

Denise Tanner is a Lecturer on BA and MA Social Work courses.  Her areas of teaching and research interest include community care policy and practice; social work with older people; social work skills; social perspectives of mental distress; and service user involvement in education and research. She is Assessment Tutor for MA Social Work course and has responsibility for teaching and ...

Rebecca joined TSRC in April 2009 and is working on several research programmes, including Real Times, its core qualitative longitudinal research project, and the Theory and Policy work stream.

Rebecca’ s research interests include: the meaning of work in its various forms; work outside the labour market, such as voluntary and informal ...

Simon Teasdale is a research fellow at the ESRC / Office for Civil Society / Barrow Cadbury Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC). Within TSRC Simon is primarily involved with a stream of work exploring the distinctive (or otherwise) contribution of social enterprise.

Jerry is a Senior Lecturer on the Social Work programme, and Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes, School of Social Policy, Institute of Applied Social Studies.

Sue has practice interests in housing debt, social security and anti-poverty measures.

Nicki is a Lecturer at the School of Social Policy, Institute of Applied Social Studies.  Her role now, as a social work lecturer, enables her to combine her interests in social work, social care and social justice.

Tamsin Waterhouse is a Teaching Fellow on the Post Qualifying Social Work programmes. She is also the Director of the (Advanced) Certificate in Mental Health and Deafness. She is a registered Social Worker, and joined the University in 2012.

Sue is Professor of Social Work for Children and Families in the School of Social Policy, Institute of Applied Social Studies. She is also an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Iestyn has, until recently, been Director of Academic Programmes at HSMC. This role involves overseeing HSMC's postgraduate programmes and the office which administers these programmes. He is currently Associate Editor for two International, refereed journals and secretary of the International Society on Priorities in Health Care.

Iestyn specialises in: