Policy Studies

David Abbott, Issues for disabled children and young people and their families; making transitions to adulthood; multi-agency working; disabled children living in residential settings.

Dr Sarah Ayres, Public administration; governance; devolution and decentralisation; English regionalism; economic development.

Ms Christine Barter, Child protection; institutional abuse of children; gender; peer violence; participatory research with children and young people.

Dr Nazand Begikhani, Domestic and gender-based violence especially 'honour' crimes.

Dr Michaela Benson, Middle class; lifestyle; migration; lifestyle migration; geographic mobility; the rural; the urban.

Professor David Berridge, Child and family welfare; foster and residential care for children; children in need; adolescence; education of children in care; educational disadvantage; special education; peer violence; teenage relationships.

Professor Gary Bridge, Social theory and the city; rationality; pragmatism; time and space and the city; gentrification; class and space; neighbourhood dynamics.

Ailsa Cameron, The emergence of new organisational models within welfare services and the development of professional roles; health and social care interface; the housing contribution to community care; professional boundaries; interprofessional and interagency working; the evaluation of policy programmes; research ethics.

Professor John Carpenter, Community mental health and learning disability services; disabled children and families; family therapy and family support services; outcomes of social work and interprofessional education.

Professor Ashley Cooper, Children's health and fitness; active travel; environment and physical activity; type 2 diabetes; measurement of physical activity.

Mark Davis, Measurement of physical activity, exercise and hypertension.

Dr Kevin Doogan, Job insecurity and the 'new economy'; mobility, flexibility and industrial relations at different spatial levels from the local economy to the European Union; European integration, state and society; EU policymaking.

Daryl Dugdale, Working with fathers where risk is present; safeguarding, assessment and inter-professional training.

Dr Eldin Fahmy, Poverty and social exclusion; fuel poverty; rural poverty; area-based initiatives, social inclusion and anti-poverty policy; participation and community governance; youth, citizenship and exclusion.

Professor Elaine Farmer, Child protection; neglect; looking after sexually abused and abusing children away from home; foster care; reunification; kinship care; linking and matching in adoption.

Professor (Emeritus) Ray Forrest, Urban sociology; urban political economy; housing markets and housing policy; social policy; East Asia.

Dr John Franey, Leadership and management in local authorities; ethics in professional practice; school based multi agency group work.

Dr Geetanjali Gangoli, Gender and violence, domestic violence and forced marriage in South Asian communities in the UK; prostitution and trafficking in South Asia; domestic violence and young people's experience of violence within the home in China.

Professor Dave Gordon, Social and distributional justice; social harm; scientific measurement of poverty and social exclusion; child poverty and human rights; childhood disability; fuel poverty; crime and poverty; area-based anti-poverty measures; the causal effects of poverty on ill health; rural poverty.

Rob Green, Assessment, learning and intervention; psychological dimensions of interpersonal communication; dimensions of social and emotional development; multiagency working.

Dr Anne Haase, Psychology and intergenerational transmission of health behaviours (physical activity and eating in families and individuals); theory-based behaviour change interventions; physical activity and mental health; body image, self-presentation, eating disorders and obesity.

Carmel Hand, Inclusion and participation; special educational needs.

Dr Pauline Heslop, General health-related issues; mental health and related issues; transition from children's to adults' services; short-break services and supports; poverty and social disadvantage. Befriending and short-break services; young people with learning disabilities and transitions.

Professor Marianne Hester, Comparative and transnational research on gender and violence; perspectives on violence against women and children in the UK, Denmark and China; domestic violence perpetrators; domestic violence in same-sex relationships; child contact and domestic violence; prostitution and sexual exploitation.

Dr Misa Izuhara, Housing and urban/social change; family change and social policy; ageing and intergenerational relations; housing assets and inheritance; East Asian social policy; cross-national comparative studies.

Professor Russ Jago, Physical activity and obesity interventions in youth; measurement of physical activity and sedentary behaviour; determinants of physical activity and eating behaviour.

Professor Kelley Johnson, Rights and disability; deinstitutionalization; inclusion of people with learning disabilities in the community; sexuality and relationships; social change; bullying and people with learning disabilities; inclusive research; life history.

Dr Laura Johnson, Nutritional epidemiology; measurement of diet; child and adult cohorts.

Dr Sue Jones, Domestic abuse and violence, male and female victims and perpetrators; parents and early years groups; attractions and barriers to service use.

Dr Patricia Kennett, Comparative, cross-national social policy; globalization, governance and public policy; welfare systems and citizenship in Europe and East Asia; housing and homelessness.

Dr Anne Knight-Elliot, Frameworks for understanding team cultures and the implications for multi-agency working.

Joan Langan, Mental health law, policy and practice; risk assessment and risk management; service user involvement, particularly in risk assessment and management; mental capacity law and policy; practice issues in relation to people with compromised decision-making capacity; the impact of the Deprivation of Liberty safeguards on human rights and care practice.

Dr Rachel Lart, Drug misuse policy and services, mental health and marginalised groups, eg offenders, drug users; general health and social care policy; evidence-based policy and practice.

Dr Liz Lloyd, Ageing; health and social care policies and practices with older people; social aspects of death, dying and bereavement; policies on unpaid care; the health and well-being of carers.

Dr Patricia Lucas, Early childhood development; educational, nutritional and social interventions and outcomes for children; child disability, poverty and deprivation, and inequalities in health.

Professor Alex Marsh, Housing policy, economics and finance; theorizing the policy process; economics, organisation and management in the public sector.

Dr Melanie McCarry, Violence against women; gendered interpersonal violence; young people and interpersonal violence; forced marriage; masculinity; constructions of gender, feminist ideology and methodology; research ethics; participatory research with children and young people.

Dr Angie Page, Childhood obesity; exercise and self-esteem; measurement of physical activity; clustering of health behaviours, developmental aspects of eating and exercise behaviour.

Christina Pantazis, Social harm, crime and criminalisation; poverty, social exclusion and inequality; security and civil liberties.

Dr Demi Patsios, The health and social care of older people; long-term and community care; cross-national comparisons of ageing policy; poverty and social exclusion of older people and pensioners.

Professor Sarah Payne, Sex and gender inequalities in health, gender aspects of health care use and service delivery; gender equity in health, gender mainstreaming; poverty, social exclusion and health, particularly mental health.

Dr Dendy Platt, Social worker's assessments of children and families; children on the child protection register; social worker's decision-making working in partnership with families and social work education.

Dr Simon Sebire, Psychological factors that influence the physical activity and health behaviours of children, adolescents and adults; the development and evaluation of health behaviour intervention strategies.

Dr Julie Selwyn, Adoption and fostering; permanency policy and practice; the costs of care; sibling relationships.

Ann Singleton, International migration, asylum and human rights in the European Union; the use of migration research and statistics in European Union policy development; labour migration; international migrants in the South- West of England; trafficking of human beings; migration as crime.

Dr Jo Staines, Youth justice; the interface between the criminal justice and care systems; fostering adolescents; the criminalisation of children and childhood; restorative justice interventions.

Dr David Sweeting, Local governance; local political leadership; citizen engagement and comparative urban governance.

Dr Barbra Teater, Social work in the community and measuring the social impacts of community/community arts programmes; health and well-being in older adults; implementation and evaluation of social work theories and methods; evidence-based practice; social work education; student experiences and perspectives.

Dr William Turner, Practice and outcome evaluation in social policy; psychotherapeutic approaches in working with young people; gender identity and development in children and young people; research synthesis and systematic reviews in child mental health and child welfare programmes.

Dr Danielle Turney, Child welfare and protection; child neglect; relationship-based practice; theorising anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice in social work.

Professor Linda Ward, Learning difficulties and disability; equal opportunities; ethical issues; accessible information; advocacy; support to disabled children and their families (especially at transition); support for parents with learning disabilities and their children, human rights.

Dr Debbie Watson, Theorising social exclusion, identity and child well-being; children's social and emotional learning; assessment of performance; interprofessional working and professional identities; interpretive and creative research methods.