Topics of interest for our members include:
Welfare attitudes
Family and work
Children and young people
Poverty and insecurity
Old age
Cross-national comparative research
Editorial board memberships
Our members are on the editorial boards of the following journals:
- Journal of Social Policy
- Social Policy & Administration
- Sociological Research Online
- Cultural and Social History
Book series editors
Our members are editors of the following book series:
- Policy Press Book Series ‘Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy’
Board memberships
Our members are on the executive boards of the following associations:
- Social Policy Association
- Korean Association of Social Policy
- Korean Critical Social Welfare Association
Convenors of study groups
- BSA Aging Body and Society
- WFRN Economic and Public Policy
Members’ projects
- Challenges and possibilities for mobility for the 50+ population, Norwegian Research Council via Fafo, 2016-2018
- Our children’s Europe, NORFACE, 2015-2018
- Dress, masculinities and age, Leverhulme Fellowship, 2015 – 2017
- Family, the Individual, the Market or the State: Who is responsible for your welfare? Attitudes towards responsibility for welfare in Singapore and Beijing, British Academy, 2015
- Equality and Diversity Research and Projects, University of Kent, with Dr Alexander Hensby. Ongoing
- Uncertain futures: Managing late career transitions and extended working life, ESRC/MRC – ES/L002949/1, 2014-2017
- Rethinking incapacity, ESRC, 2014-2016
- Work autonomy flexibility and work-life balance, ESRC, 2014-2016
- Part-time careers in Norway – the end of normalisation?, Norwegian Research Council, PI: Heidi Nicolaisen at Fafo, 2014-2016
- Innovative Social Policies for Inclusive and Resilient Labour Markets in Europe, EU. 2013-2018
- Private Schools and Public Benefit, ESRC, 2013-2017
- Parenting across separation, Nuffield Foundation, 2013-2015
- WILCO, ‘Welfare Innovations at the Local level In favour of Cohesion’, EU 7th Framework, with Dr Jeremy Kendall and Ms Nadia Brookes, led by Radboud University Nijmegen, 2010-2013