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Dr Tony Fitzpatrick

Description
Theories and ideologies of the welfare state. Welfare reform. New labour. Basic/Citizens Income. Environmentalism. Local exchange and trading systems. Information and communication technologies and social policy. New genetics and social policy.

Professor Bruce Stafford

Description
Policy evaluation. Social security, especially the delivery and implementation of initiatives and welfare to work policies. Disability issues, notably the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the New Deal for Disabled People.

Professor Chris Pierson

Description
Property; contemporary welfare states; social policy

Professor Ian Shaw

Description
Sociology of health. Mental health policy. Evaluation of welfare. Welfare finance. The future of welfare. Community care.

Professor Kate Wilson

Description
Social work. Child welfare, child protection (child abuse), therapeutic work with children and adolescents, foster care and adoption. Therapeutic work for couples in relationship difficulties. Mental health issues in relation to children and adolescents.

Professor Saul Becker

Description
Young carers — children who provide care, support and supervision to other family members who are ill, disabled, have mental health problems, misuse alcohol or drugs, have HIV/AIDS etc. Policy, law and political interventions and services in the UK and internationally. Adult carers (unpaid family carers). Children caring for parents with HIV/AIDS in the UK and Tanzania.

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