International Health Humanities Network Membership

Joined the University of Nottingham in 1995 as Professor of Social Policy and Sociology. He was Head of the School of Sociology, 1996-2001, non-executive director of the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, 2000-2007, and director of the Institute of Mental Health since 2006. He has conducted research in the field of mental health since 1973. He has also worked extensively on issues of social change in Eastern Europe, including social movements, and on employment, poverty and health in Russia.

Over 140 publications including 30 books or editions, most recently Una cultura dell’inchiesta: Prove della ricerca e communità terapeutiche, 2007,Giovanni Fioriti Editore; Global Social Policy, 2008, Sage (special issue on mental health); Health and Healthcare in the New Russia, 2009, Ashgate; International Encyclopaedia of Social Policy, 2010, Rouledge (3 vols); Social Policy, 2011, Oxford university Press.  He has been on the boards of Sociological Research Online, Global Social Policy, Therapeutic Communities, and Mental Health Review. He has been an editor of the Social Policy Review.

Has directed research funded by ESRC, NIHR, DH, British Academy, EU (INTAS), UK National Lottery, Department for International Development, Commonwealth Dept. Health (Australia).

Has also been a consultant to UNICEF, UNDP, Rowntree Foundation, UK Foreign Office, DH, Fiat, Land Rover, for work on Russia and Eastern Europe, China, Brazil, and India. In 2007 was elected an Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.