The book contains invaluable research, including discussions on modern slavery, childcare and social justice and welfare chauvinism, as well as a chapter centred on the Grenfell Tower fire. Bringing together the insights of a diverse group of experts in social policy, this book examines critical debates in the field in order to offer an informed review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year.
Published in association with the SPA, the volume will be of interest to students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.
Ian Greener is Head of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen.
Tina Haux is Lecturer in Quantitative Social Policy and Director of the Q-step centre at the University of Kent.
Markus Ketola is Senior Lecturer in Global and International Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh.
Adrian Sinfield is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh.
Ann Marie Gray is Professor of Social Policy at Ulster University and Co-Director of ARK.
Derek Birrell is Professor of Social Administration at Ulster University.
Gary Craig is a Visiting Professor at the Law School, Newcastle University and at the University of York. He previously worked as a community development activist. He has researched and published widely in the fields of ‘poverty, ‘race’ and ethnicity and modern slavery; He co-convenes the national network Modern Slavery Research Consortium.
Catherine Needham is Professor of Public Policy and Public Management at the University of Birmingham. She is based at the Health Services Management Centre, developing research around social care and new approaches to public service workforce development.
Elke Heins is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh.
James Rees is Reader at the Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD) at the University of Wolverhampton.