My work lies on the intersection of three intellectual traditions: recent continental philosophy (particularly Levinas, Derrida, Baudrillard and Stiegler), German Idealism (especially Kant and Hegel), and the Frankfurt School critique of culture, technology and capitalization.

My work is located in the critical tradition of social theory that began with the Frankfurt School. This tradition is ...

Pete Alcock is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and Administration in the School of Social Policy.

Dr Chris Allen is a Lecturer in Social Policy where he is also Director of Admissions and Student Recruitment for all undergraduate programmes.

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Dr Kerry Allen is a Lecturer at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. She is currently involved in a national study evaluating the contribution of micro-enterprises in social care. Kerry is a Fellow of the National Institute for Health Research School for Social Care Research, and of the Higher Education Academy. 

Kerry leads undergraduate and ...

Susie is a Research Fellow in criminology and social policy, exploring the inequalities and outcomes of women receiving different criminal justice system interventions, in the voluntary sector. 

Susie works with criminal justice involved women, sex working women and victim-survivors of violence against women, disablist hate crime and institutional violence. 

Disciplines: Criminology ...

Matthew is a lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work. He is the Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes and also the Programme Coordinator for the MA in Social Research (Social Policy) and the MA in Social Research (Social Work and Professional Practice). Matt is also a researcher in the Third Sector Research Centre.

Anita Blessing joined the Housing and Communities research groupin late 2015 for a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship that she applied for with Professor David Mullins. Their project Reinvest: Financing Affordable Housing Under Localism will run until early 2018. Partnerships with Housing Europe and the University of Amsterdam will help to connect the research to live policy debates and to ...

Ric is the Director of Community Mental Health Programmes in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, School of Social Policy.

Hilary Brown is a Senior 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. She ...

Dr. Shelley Budgeon is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology who specializes in gender and feminist theory. Her research concentrates on how various forces of social change impact on the constitution of gender relations and processes of gender identification. Contemporary gender equality discourses and their specific manifestation in ‘modernized’ state sanctioned approaches to gender issues ...

Professor Paul Burstow joined the University's School of Social Policy as a part-time Professor of Mental Health Policy.

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

Phil completed his PhD in 2016, entitled 'The Heights of Modernity: the Labour Party and the Politics of Urban Transformation, 1945-70'. His research examined the ways in which political ideology intersected with urban planning and public policy in the post-war period. He joined the University of Birmingham in 2017 as a Research Fellow within the Third Sector Research Centre. Phil is currently ...

Harriet is a senior lecturer 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.

Amanda is a Lecturer in Sociology. Her research interests include critical security studies, immigration and migration, borders and bordering, gendered and racialised dimensions of right-wing social movements, (particularly in the US), and the narrative, discourse and change in social movements.

Merv is a qualified NHS counsellor by background and has worked in mental health services management and research. He has recently returned to HSMC after a fixed term secondment to University of Cumbria (UoC). Whilst at Cumbria he was co-designer of a blended learning Health Leadership MBA, taught on the Leadership and Sustainability MBA and was convener of a range of PG health and ...

Tarsem is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work, and Programme Director for BA Years 2 and 3.  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. In his work across the institution he serves on the Board of the Valuing Teaching at Birmingham initiative, the ...

Justin entered higher education as a mature student studying an interdisciplinary social science foundation course with the Open University and then went to the University of Kent as a full time student to study for a degree in Politics and Sociology. After that he went to the University of Warwick to study for an MA in Philosophy and Social Theory followed by a PhD in Sociology.

He ...

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 HSMC’s ...

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.

Tom Disney is a Human Geographer with interests around institutional interventions into the lives of families and young people. His previous research has included exploring the everyday experience of orphanages in Russia, and family visits to prison in the UK context. He currently researches child protection practice in the UK.

John is an Emeritus Professor of Housing Studies in the School of Social Policy, Department of Social Policy and Social Work.

Dr Jo Ellins is a Senior Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre. She has over 15 years’ experience of leading applied health services research and evaluation for organisations across the public and charitable sectors. Jo’s main interests are around patients’ experiences and person-centred care, alongside which she has worked extensively on issues relating to whole ...

Angela joined TSRC in February 2011, and is currently working within TSRC’s Theory and Policy stream on a co-funded project looking at the Big Lottery Fund as a policy actor. The project is exploring different stakeholder’s perceptions of the impact of BIG on the strategic development of the third sector.

Mark is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham.

Before developing a teaching and research career in higher education Dr Farnhill was a HR practitioner and full-time trade union officer. 

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.

Harry joined the university in 2017 as Professor of Social Work. He took up his first lectureship in 1990 and has held professorial posts since 2000. He has taught and researched widely in the areas of social work and child protection, domestic abuse, fatherhood, masculinities and men's lives, mobile research methods, ethnography, and the social science of social work.

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

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, primary care, community-led and complementary health care. Dr Gale is committed to theoretically-informed empirical ...

Matthew runs the MSc in Advanced Child Protection Studies and researches child protection practice.

Twitter: @imatthewgibson 

Jon is a qualified social worker by background and Head of the School of Social Policy. 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 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Integrated Care. From 2008 ...

Anne-Marie is the Director for the Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work (Step Up) Programme, a Social Work Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, and School Head of Quality. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a qualified and HCPC registered Social Worker, having worked in a range of statutory Children and Families settings. Anne-Marie’s ...

Lisa Goodson is a lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, School of Social Policy, where she is Director of Undergraduate Social Policy Programmes, directs the postgraduate degree programme in Migration, Superdiversity and Policy and co-ordinates social policy research modules at post graduate level as well as teaching and tutoring on undergraduate modules in new ...

Lee joined the Department in September 2013 as a Lecturer in Social Policy. His principal research interests include poverty, inequality and asset-based welfare, youth policy, the mixed economy of welfare and alternative forms of welfare provision. His most recent research investigates the possibilities of complementary currencies in forming social networks and creating resilience to ill-health ...

Surinder Guru is a Lecturer on the Social Work course at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, School of Social Policy.

Kelly is a Lecturer in Social Policy based in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work. She is the co-ordinator for the Postgraduate Policy into Practice programme. Her main research interests include ageing, health/social care, migration and the third sector.

Clare's teaching is largely across the Social Policy and Criminology joint honours programme. Clare convenes three undergraduate modules including, ‘Violence in a Global Context’, ‘Criminal Justice Systems’, and the Criminology placement module, ‘Doing Justice’. She also contributes to the first year module ‘Introduction to Criminology’ and is an ...

Tina is a Lecturer and Outreach and Schools Liaison Officer 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, and our Step Up to Social Work programme.

Nathan is Marie Curie Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work at the School of Social Policy. Find out more details about Nathan's Marie Curie Fellowship.

Rachel Humphris is a Lecturer in the School of Social Policy. Her research interests lie in migration, urban diversity and qualitative methods. She is also the UK Coordinator for the European Website on Integration.

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Becky joined HSMC and TSRC in February 2017 as a Research Fellow working on a project investigating the contribution of voluntary sector organisations to mental health crisis care in England. This is a co-produced project working with co-researchers who are experts by lived experience, and in partnership with Suresearch, a service user research organisation. She has held previous research ...

Llinos Mary Jehu is a Research Fellow in the School of Social Policy. Her research is concerned with older people’s experiences of self-funding care.

Julie B Jones is a registered social worker and a Teaching Fellow on the BA and MA qualifying social work programmes. She is also an admissions tutor.

Daiga is a work and employment researcher with strong quantitative skills and extensive experience of using large and complex data sets. Her work is part of the Workforce and Quantiative research stream at the Third Sector Research Centre. The current focus for her research interest is third sector workforce, volunteering and the effects of volunteering on employability.

Ruth is a registered social worker and a Teaching Fellow for practice learning on the BA and MA qualifying social work programmes. 

Andrew lectures in Sociology. His interests lie broadly in political sociology, especially the theory and practice of democracy, although he also teaches research methods. Andrew came to Birmingham as a research fellow in 2000, and was appointed as a lecturer in 2002.

Anna in a Lecturer in Criminology. Her teaching and research interests are in prison sociology and the collateral impact of imprisonment on families of prisoners. She has researched the impact of long sentences on partners of prisoners in the UK, and her next project is on prisoners serving sentences for sex offences in a therapeutic community. She teaches Introduction to Criminology and ...

Richard Lang is Marie Curie Senior Researh Fellow and Acting Head of the Housing and Communities Research Group. In January 2015, Richard Lang returned to the Housing and Communities Research Group for a 2-year Marie Curie Fellowship, after he had already undertaken housing research at the University of Birmingham as a William Plowden Research Fellowin 2013. Since January 2014, Richard has been ...

Nick Le Mesurier is a Research Fellow at HSMC, working with Deborah Davidson (Senior Fellow HSMC) and Dr Angela Ellis Paine (TSRC) on the Community Hospitals Research Programme. Recently he worked with Jon Glasby and others on a two-year RfPB funded project to interpret and assess older people’s contributions to preventing avoidable hospital admissions. Formerly Research Associate and then ...

Will Leggett researches and teaches in the areas of political sociology and social and political theory, with a particular focus on the relationship between social change, ideology and political identities and action.

 

Laurence Lessard-Phillips is a Research Fellow who joined the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) in May 2016. Her main research interests lie in the perceptions, measurement, and dimensionality of immigrant adaptation; ethnic inequalities in education and the labour market; the transnational behaviour across immigrant generations; and social inequalities and social mobility. She is ...

Dr Joanna Long is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Policy, and Research Co-ordinator working in the Birmingham EAC in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Russell has held the Chair in Health Systems at the University of Birmingham since 2010.  He is an Honorary Professor at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney and a Fellow of Bocconi University, Milan. He was previously Director of the Centre for Health Services Management at the University of York (2005-2009) and served as a Board Director of the York ...

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

Ross is a Senior Lecturer in Health Policy and Management. His research interests look to analyse how health and social care practitioners make sense of the continuities and change associated with reform. During his time at HSMC, Ross has been involved in a variety of research projects that include comparative case studies of health system reform, the promotion of social enterprise in health and ...

Robin is Deputy Director of the Health Services Management Centre. He leads on a variety of applied research projects within health and care, with a particular focus on evaluating and learning from change initiatives. Current projects include local evaluations of new models of care programme, the national longer-term evaluation of the Integrated Care Pioneers, and the evaluation of the Building ...

Daniel is the Teaching Associate for Criminology at the University of Birmingham and is responsible for taking the seminars for the first year modules:  Introduction to Criminology and Violence in a Global Context.

John is a Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, and is currently Director of the Third Sector Research Centre.

Paul Montgomery's career is devoted to improving our understanding of what interventions are effective in tackling complex psychological, social, and health problems. His academic work spans a range of issues, and integrates the use of several high-quality methodological approaches, many of which have not been traditionally applied in the social sciences.

Paul is also Affiliate Professor at the ...

Dr Lisa Morriss is a Lecturer in Social work in the College of Social Sciences. Her research and teaching are principally concerned with mental health, stigma, motherhood, social futures, and qualitative methodologies. Dr Morriss is co-founder (with Dr Jadwiga Leigh) of the Experiencing the Social Work project. She is a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Qualitative Social Work.

David Mullins is Professor of Housing Policy and leads the Housing and Communities Research Group in IASS. He also has links with the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) and the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM) in the School of Social Policy. His research interests include the governance, management and regulation of housing, housing need and homelessness, the role of ...

Annette is a Senior Fellow at HSMC and University of Birmingham Director of The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson programme, MSc Healthcare Leadership.  Annette joined HSMC in 2014 after 12 years with the NHS and two years as an independent consultant.  Annette is an occupational psychologist and her expertise is in leadership development, OD, executive coaching, organisational change and NHS ...

Catherine Needham is Professor of 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 University’s Public Services Academy, researching new approaches to public service workforce development.

Catherine’s areas of special interest include:

• Personal ...

 

Karen joined HSMC as a Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Policy and Management in November 2013. Originally qualifying as a clinical psychologist, Karen has over thirty years’ experience in the health and social care sector, including direct service provision and commissioning. For the past ten years Karen has been involved in research, consultancy and system development for a broad ...

Louise is a Lecturer in Social Policy and a member of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM). Her research interests focus on older people and personal finance (and personal finance-related issues), including financial security, financial advice, and the regulation of consumer financial services.

Louise’s research is strongly empirical, but against a backdrop of ...

Robert M Page is a Reader in Democratic Socialism and Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work.  He is the author or editor of nineteen books and short works as well as over forty chapters in edited books.  His books include Stigma which was first published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1984 and was recently (2015)  reissued in a new edition by the ...

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. Simon is also Co-Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work.

Jenny Phillimore is Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversityand Professor of Migration and Superdiversity. She 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 ...

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

Dawn is a Social Work Lecturer and MA Programme Director, Department of Social Policy and Social Work.

Richard joined the University of Birmingham in 2013 and contributes to teaching in Social Policy (particularly in the area of comparative policy and research) as well as to research activities in the Centre for Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM)and Housing and Communities Research. He also studied and worked in the Netherlands, Japan and the USA, and continues to hold a ...

Karen is a Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, as well as being Director of Research for the College of Social Sciences and Deputy Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM).

Yvonne Sawbridge Joined HSMC in 2011 after a varied career in NHS, latterly as a Director of Nursing and Quality in South Staffs PCT. A Registered General Nurse & Health Visitor by profession, Yvonne has worked operationally and strategically in many organisations across the health system and worked as both a provider and commissioner. She is a founding member of The 'Q' Initiative, a Health ...

Jason is a Lecturer in Social Work, and Programme Director for BA Year 1. His areas of teaching and research include gender and sexuality, integrated health and social care, and children and families social work. He is chair of the international Sexuality in Social Work interest group, is on the academic board of Independent Academic Research Studies International Institute (IARS), and is a ...

Nando Sigona is a social scientist with over fifteen years research and teaching experience in migration, refugee, citizenship and ethnic studies. He joined the School of Social Policy in February 2013 as a Birmingham Fellow. Dr Sigona’s work investigates the migration and citizenship nexus. This is achieved through in-depth examinations of a range of experiences of societal membership ...

Judith is a highly experienced and widely published health services researcher and policy analyst. She took up post as Director of the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Birmingham on 1 June 2015.  This followed six years spent as Director of Policy at the Nuffield Trust, an independent charitable health research ...

Maureen is a Lecturer in Mental Health and Admissions Tutor for for the Social Work BA and MA programmes at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work. Maureen is an Accredited Coach and Member of the University of Birmingham Coaching Academy

 

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. From 2011 – 2013 he was co-Director of the educational element of the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme and the NHS Clinical Leadership Fellows programme. He ...

David Stephenson is Emeritus Professor, School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham.

Denise Tanner is a Senior 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 Programme Director for BA Social Work Year 1 and has responsibility for ...

Jerry is a Professor of Mental Health and Social Work, he is the Director of the Family Potential Research Centre and is Head of Education, School of Social Policy (until September 2016).

Siân Thomas is a Teaching Fellow on the BA and MA qualifying social work programmes.

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

Nicki is a Lecturer in the School of Social Policy. Her primary role, as a social work lecturer, enables her to combine her interests in social work, social care and social justice. Nicki is particularly interested in issues diversity, intersectionality and care ethics. Along with Nicola Gale she is currently advancing work around the development of an LGBTQ inclusive curriculumin higher ...

Tamsin Waterhouse is a Lecturer 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.

Belinda joined HSMC as a senior lecturer in 2014 and became a senior fellow in 2015 and Director of Leadership in 2016. She has a particular interest in systems leadership and evaluating systems leadership models. Her current work includes developing leadership programmes in collaboration with partners across the university and the Midlands to meet the needs of leaders throughout the UK and ...

Susanne Wessendorf is a Social Anthropologist and has been doing research on migration, transnationalism and diversity for more than 10 years. She is currently a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Institute for
Research into Superdiversity (IRiS).

Iestyn is a Reader in Health Policy and Management and Director of Research, having joined HSMC from the Department of Health Economics in 2004. He is involved in a range of research, teaching and knowledge transfer work and has a broad methodogical experience and expertise. Recent and current projects include a national study of health care decommissioning and an investigation (with Warwick ...

I am a research fellow in Third Sector Research Centre ( TSRC). My role is undertaking quantitative research on third sector topics using  TSRC’s large scale datasets on third sector organisations in Professor John Mohan’s research project.

My areas of interest are in labour market and welfare policies, cross-national comparative analysis of welfare states, quantitative ...