Dept of Social Policy and Social Science, Royal Holloway, University of
London
Academic Staff
PROFESSORS
Michael Bury BA Sus, MSc Brist
Professor of Sociology and Head of Department
Professor Michael Bury's research interests are in medical sociology,
the study of chronic illness and disability, ageing and the health and
quality of life among older people and cultural dimensions of health and
medicine. Together with Dr Mary Ann Elston, Professor Bury has recently
directed a research project concerened with the role of informal care and
friendship among terminally ill patients. With Dr Jonathan Gabe, Professor
Bury is directing a research project of disability and the experience of
asthma. This two year project is funded by the Department of Health with a
grant of £90, 000.
Gavin Drewry, BSc (Soc Sci), Soton
Professor of Public Administration
Professor
Drewry is continuing his research on public sector reform, with special
reference to the changing structure and culture of the UK Civil Service.
He is also engaged in work on ombudsman systems and has been collaborating
with professor Dawn Oliver at UCL on a book about the legal and
constitutional aspect of public sector reform.
John Edwards BSc (Soc) Bath
Professor
John Edwards' work on affirmative action and preferential treatment for
racial, ethnic and religious minorities has been acknowledged as "outstanding
scholarship in human rights" in America and has led to his
involvement in the review of fair employment legislation in Northern
Ireland. He is extending his work on minority rights and preference
treatment to minority groups in the "New Europe". He is also
continuing his work on the evaluation of economic regeneration policies
for inner cities.
Jane Tunstill BA Hull, MA Brunel, PGCE Lond, CQSW Chiswick
Professor and Director of Applied Social Studies
(New Appointment, details to follow)
George Brown OBE, BA, PhD Lond, FBA
Honorary Professor of Sociology
Professor Brown's MRC research team has for the last twenty-five years
concentrated on population studies of the aetiology and course of
affective disorders, especially depression in women. The team has extended
its work to examine the role of stress in a variety of other disorders,
including gastro-intestinal and menstrual disorders and coronary heart
disease. It is currently carrying out four major projects with MRC support
concerned with various aspects of the aetiology and course of depressive
and anxiety disorders. They are particularly concerned with the long-term
effect of experiences of neglect and abuse in childhood.
READERS
Raymond M Lee, BEd Leeds, PhD Edin
Reader in Social Policy
Dr
Lee's interests include research methodology, especially research on
sensitive topics and the use of information technology, sociology of
labour markets, sociology of religion.
John Macnicol, MA, PhD Edinburgh
Reader in Social Policy
Dr
Macnicol has just completed a detailed study of the history of old age,
retirement and pensions as social and political issues in the 20th
century. He will continue in this area by examining the nature and causes
of age discrimination. He is also engaged on research into the history of
the idea of an 'underclass' over the past one hundred years in Britain and
the USA.
Bernice Martin, BA Lond, ARCM
Emeritus Reader in Sociology
Mrs Martin's research interests are in the Sociology of Culture and
Religion. Her current research includes the economic and cultural changes
associated with the growth of protestantism in Latin America; contemporary
British youth culture; gender and popular culture; cultural and religious
change in Eastern Europe.
SENIOR LECTURERS
Ravinder Barn, BA (Soc) CNAA, PhD Warwick
Dr
Barn's research interests are in the area of race, ethnicity and social
services provision. She is currently engaged, with support from the CRE,
in exploring the circumstances of black families who come into contact
with the social services; in particular, she has documented the
disproportionate representation of African-Caribbean and mixed origin
children in the public care system.
David Denney, BSocSC Birm, MA Warwick, CQSW Warwick, PhD Kent
Dr Denney's research interests are in racism and the criminal justice
system and community care policies and practice.
Mary Ann Elston, BSc Brist, MA Essex, PhD Leeds
Dr Elston is writing up research on the social organization of biomedical
science, particularly in relation to the controversy over animal
experimentation, funded by a grant from the ESRC. She is also continuing
research on the history of women in medicine, the organization of the
medical profession and medical education.
Alan Gordon, BA (Econ) Exeter, Dip Soc Admin, PhD Brist
Dr Alan Gordon has recently completed research on local governments'
policies towards youth unemployment and training, and the employment of
graduates by small and medium sized companies. He is especially interested
in the linkages between education, training and the labour market..
Michael Saward, BA ANU, PhD Essex
Dr Saward is currently completing a volume on the theory of democracy
and is engaged in a major international project on the 'hollow state'. He
has published widely on a range of subjects, including environmental
political legitimacy. He was British Consulting Editor for the Encyclopaedia
of Democracy (1995)
LECTURERS
Monica Dowling, BA Hertfordshire/Mississippi, Cert Further and
Higher Educ Admin Barnet College, Cert Ed (FE) Middlesex, MPhil
Hertfordshire, PhD Sheffield.
(Lecturer in Evaluative Research)
Social Service Users and Carers, evaluative studies of social services'
effectiveness, community care, poverty and social work.
Colin Gibson, JP, BSc (Soc) Lond, MA Oxon, PhD Lond
Dr Gibson's interests centre on the social and legal aspects of marriage
breakdown, especially matters concerning financial support. He recently
completed an in-depth socio-legal study of marriage breakdown in England
and Wales over the last three hundred years, which has recently been
published in book form.
John Mattausch, BA Warwick, PhD Edin
Dr Mattausch is writing a history of the British in Gujarat, west India,
from 1608 to 1869. His past research concerned the history and sociology
of CND. He is also interested in issues arising from the philosophy of
social explanation.
Richard J Smith, MA, PhD Edin
Dr Smith is currently involved in a project studying the effects of the
Criminal Justice & Public Order Act on youth culture and the
regulation of the night economy. This project is funded by the ESRC. Other
research interests include: sociology of the environment, sociology of
economic life, critical theory.
TUTORS TO APPLIED SOCIAL STUDIES COURSES
Claire Wendelken, Dip Soc Stud Leeds, Dip ASS Lond, MSc Surrey
Claire Wendelken's interests are in the care of elderly people, child
abuse and neglect, and social work including residential work with
children.
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Jonathan Gabe, BSocSC Birm, PhD Birm
Dr Gabe's research interests include mental health, chronic illness, the
health professions and health policy. He is currently involved in a
project on the social meaning of asthma in young people.
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Professor Michael Bury's research interests are in medical sociology,
the study of chronic illness and disability, ageing and the health and
quality of life among older people and cultural dimensions of health and
medicine. Together with Dr Mary Ann Elston, Professor Bury has recently
directed a research project concerened with the role of informal care and
friendship among terminally ill patients. With Dr Jonathan Gabe, Professor
Bury is directing a research project of disability and the experience of
asthma. This two year project is funded by the Department of Health with a
grant of £90, 000. 
