Professor Jonathan Bradshaw FBA

Social security policy; poverty and living standards; child well-being; and comparative social policy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2010
Honours
CBE
Subjects
Sociology

Summary

Jonathan Bradshaw CBE is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of York where he worked from 1968-2012. He was founding Director of the Social Policy Research Unit and served twice as Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work. His research interests are child well-being, living standards and comparative social policy. He is UK coordinator of the EU European Social Policy Network and a PI on the Children's Worlds project. He is a member of the board of the Child Poverty Action Group and Chair of their Social Policy Committee. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is an Honorary Fellow of UNICEF UK and has been a consultant to UNICEF Office for Research. He has been awarded doctorates honoris causa by the University of Turku and Bath University. His colleagues published a collection of his Selected Writings 1972-2011 in 2013.

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of York

Past appointments

University of York Professor of Social Policy, University of York;

1970 -

University of York Emeritus Professor of Social Policy

1970 -

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