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Social Policy: Employment & development issues
Parent category: Politics & Society
Dr Thom Brooks
Reader, Durham Law School
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44365
Associate , Department of Philosophy
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- British Idealism
- British politics
- Capabilities
- Capital Punishment
- Citizenship
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Law
- German Idealism
- Global Justice
- Hegel
- Immigration
- Jurisprudence
- Jury Trial
- Justice
- Kant
- Life in the UK test
- Plato
- Political Communication
- Political Philosophy
- Political Strategy
- Punishment
- Rawls
- Restorative Justice
- Sentencing
Prof David S. Byrne
Professor, School of Applied Social Sciences
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Specialist expertise:
- regional heritage
- economic & social change
- family, youth, race & gender issues
- health & social class
- North-East region
- poverty
- quangos
- regional economy
- regional heritage
- single regeneration budget
- social change
- urban & regional development
- urban regeneration
Professor Ray Hudson
Professor, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41852
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 40070
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Partnerships and Engagement), Vice-Chancellor's Office
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 46045
Professor, Culture-Economy-Life
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41852
Professor, Politics-State-Space
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41852
Professor, Social/Spatial Theory
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41852
Professor, Urban Worlds
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41852
Specialist expertise:
- conservation of geological sites, etc.
- environmental issues and sustainable development
- Europe/European Union
- industrial change
- industrial change and its social consequences
- industrial change and its social effects
- mining for coal & metals
- political & economic restructuring in Europe
- practice in employment law
- quarrying
- regional and urban development and regeneration
- regional development
- regional economic development
- regional economy
Prof John Mawson
Director of the Institute for Local Governance, Business School
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 49291
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 49291
Director, Institute for Local Governance
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 49291
Specialist expertise:
- Local and regional governance; the management of cities and regions; local and regional economic development; research and knowledge transfer in cities and regions; social enterprise, neighbourhood management and community engagement in public policy.
Dr Christian Schweiger
Lecturer, School of Government and International Affairs
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 47220
Specialist expertise:
- Central and Eastern Europe
- European Union
- Germany
- Globalisation
- Transatlantic Relations
- United Kingdom