POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
IN THE UK
Volume 1 The nature and
extent of the problem
Edited by Esther Dermott and Gill Main
First published in Great Britain in 2018 by
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Contents
Esther Dermott
David Gordon
Eldin Fahmy
Demi Patsios
Esther Dermott and Christina Pantazis
Saffron Karlsen and Christina Pantazis
Gill Main and Jonathan Bradshaw
Esther Dermott and Marco Pomati
Pauline Heslop and Eric Emerson
Mike Tomlinson
Nick Bailey and Maria Gannon
Gill Main
List of tables and figures
Tables
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Notes on contributors
Nick Bailey is Professor of Urban Studies based in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He has published in the fields of housing and urban policy, as well as in poverty, and has advised national and local government on the analysis of poverty and social exclusion.
Jonathan Bradshaw, CBE FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of York. His research is focused on child poverty, child benefits and comparative social policy and he is a Trustee of the Child Poverty Action Group and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Esther Dermott is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. Her research examines the culture, practices and policies associated with contemporary parenthood, including interrogating how good parenting is related to poverty and inequality. She is Co-editor of the Policy Press book series on Children and Families.
Eric Emerson is Professor of Disability Population Health at the University of Sydney and Emeritus Professor of Disability and Health Research at Lancaster University. He has written widely about the well-being of people with disabilities and was founding Co-director of Englands specialist Public Health Observatory on learning disability.
Eldin Fahmy is a Senior Lecturer in the School for Policy Studies at Bristol University and Head of the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice. His current research focuses on poverty and social exclusion in the UK and understanding the social impacts of UK climate change policies.
Maria Gannon is a Research Associate in Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her current research focuses on the impact of local authority funding cuts on vulnerable groups. She has experience in estimating hidden or hard-to-reach populations and has applied modelling techniques to provide estimates of problem drug use for Scotland, England and Northern Ireland.
David Gordon is Professor of Social Justice and Head of the Bristol Poverty Institute at the University of Bristol. He was the Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK project. He has acted as an external expert for the European Union and United Nations on poverty measurement.
Pauline Heslop is based at the University of Bristols Norah Fry Centre for Disability Studies where she is Professor of Intellectual Disabilities Studies. She is currently the Programme Lead for the national Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme.
Saffron Karlsen is based at the Centre for Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol where she is a Senior Lecturer in Social Research. Her work explores the different ways in which ethnicity has meaning and relevance in peoples lives, both as a form of potential group affiliation and as a driver of socioeconomic, health and other inequalities.
Gill Main is a University Academic Fellow in Young People and Precarity at the University of Leeds. Her research interests include child and youth poverty, social exclusion, and well-being. She is Co-editor of the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice.
Christina Pantazis is Reader in Zemiology in the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. Her research interests include poverty, social exclusion and inequalities, and crime, social harm, and criminalisation.
Demi Patsios is a Senior Research Fellow in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. He has maintained a primary interest in the effects of an ageing population on policy development and on the capacity of the health and welfare systems to respond to these needs.
Marco Pomati is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. His recent research focuses on the measurement of poverty and the impact of poverty on parents.
Mike Tomlinson is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Queens University Belfast. His main research interests lie in the causes and consequences of economic and social marginalisation for communities, families and children. He focuses particularly on Northern Ireland and has published on child poverty, suicide, austerity and the measurement of well-being.
Acknowledgements
The PSE-UK research project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) from 2010 to 2014 and we thank the ESRC panel for choosing to support the UKs largest ever research project on poverty, social exclusion and living standards, and offering their support throughout.
The research project was a major collaboration between the University of Bristol (lead), Heriot-Watt University, the Open University, Queens University Belfast, the University of Glasgow and the University of York. The research project involved not only those who are contributing authors to this volume but many other colleagues involved in research and dissemination. David Gordon was the Principal Investigator. Nick Bailey, Jonathan Bradshaw, Glen Bramley, Mary Daly, Esther Dermott, Eldin Fahmy, Pauline Helsop, Paddy Hillyard, Ruth Levitas, Joanna Mack, Christina Pantazis, Demi Patsios, Simon Pemberton, Sarah Payne, and Mike Tomlinson were Co-Investigators on the project.
