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This book is dedicated to Professor Norman Johnson (19362017), my former colleague at the University of Portsmouth, and pioneer of the study of the Mixed Economy of Welfare.
Edward Brunsdon is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. He has taught a range of social policy, research methods and human resource management courses. His main areas of research include work-based welfare, pensions policy, executive reward and human resource management.
Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Newcastle and an Honorary Fellow of the School of School of Social Science at the University Brighton. He combines an interest in many aspects of social policy with a commitment to the study of the policy process. During much of his early career he researched on social security, employment and social care. His long-standing text The Public Policy Process has reached its seventh edition in a joint version with Frederic Varone of the University of Geneva. He is working with Zo Irving on a comparative text on social policy.
Brian Lund is a Visiting Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of Understanding Housing Policy (2017, 3rd edn, Bristol: Policy Press), Understanding State Welfare (2002, London: Sage) and Housing Politics in the United Kingdom: Power, Planning and Protest (2016, Bristol: Policy Press).
Rob Macmillan is a Principal Research Fellow at CRESR, the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University. He has been researching aspects of the third sector for over twenty years, in collaboration with other academics and researchers, policy makers and funders, and with key third sector organisations. His main research interests are around the long-term qualitative dynamics of voluntary action, the application of field theory in the third sector, the relationships between markets and the third sector, and capacity building and third sector infrastructure. He is co-editor of Voluntary Sector Review , and is currently working on two ESRC-funded projects: Change in the making: a dynamic and relational landscape of voluntary action (201620) and Discourses of voluntary action at two transformational moments of the welfare state, the 1940s and 2010s (201719).
Margaret May is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. She has taught across the span of both social policy and human resource management. Her research interests include employment policy, human resource management, work-based welfare and comparative social policy.
Robin Miller is an applied health and care researcher based at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. He has particular interest in the transformation of health care systems, the levers that are available to implement an agreed policy vision and the barriers that can prevent sustainable change. He teaches, evaluates and writes widely on integration, primary care, commissioning, and the role of the voluntary and private sectors. He has published on privatisation in the NHS (with Martin Powell) in the Journal of Social Policy and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Martin Powell is Professor of Health and Social Policy at the Health Services management Centre, University of Birmingham. His main research interest is in the British welfare state, especially the NHS. He has written or edited some 19 books, some of which have been translated into Chinese, Korean and Polish. He has written over 80 peer reviewed articles, and he is a former editor of the journal Social Policy and Administration .
James Rees has been at the Open University since early 2016, where he directs the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership at the Open University Business School. Prior to that he was at the Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Birmingham. His research interests are interdisciplinary and span themes of third sector studies, public service reform, and governance, with a particular focus on the role of third sector organisations in delivering public services and the role of leadership. Current research projects examine the social value of small voluntary organisations, the impact of reforms in probation services, and the role of the voluntary sector in mental health crisis services. He is co-editor of Voluntary Sector Review and his jointly edited collection on The Third Sector Delivering Public Services was published by Policy Press in 2016. He has published widely in Policy and Politics , the Journal of Social Policy and Social Policy and Administration , among others.
Adrian Sinfield is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh, where he has worked since 1979. He has written mainly on social security, poverty, unemployment and the social division of welfare. He has been both Chair and President of the Social Policy Association; a co-founder of the Unemployment Unit, which he chaired for its first ten years, and Vice-Chair of the Child Poverty Action Group. Publications include The Long-term Unemployed (OECD, 1968), What Unemployment Means (Martin Robertson, 1981), The Workless State (co-edited; Martin Robertson, 1981) and Comparing Tax Routes to Welfare in Denmark and the United Kingdom (co-authored; Danish National Institute for Social Research, 1996).
