| BACKGROUND
Ian Gough is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath.
He is author, co-author or editor of nine books, the most recent
being Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research,
Cambridge University Press, 2007. He is a member of the Academy
of Social Sciences and Chair of the College of Academicians.
**RECENT NEWS**
Praise for Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin
America:
‘This is the book that social policy scholars have been awaiting
a very long time. Thanks to Ian Gough, Geof Wood and their collaborators,
we now have a rigorous, comprehensive, and extraordinarily nuanced
and subtle analysis of social protection systems in the Third World.
The scholarly challenge is truly formidable, and they have met
it with courage and aplomb. Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia,
Africa and Latin America is one of those rare books that no welfare
state scholar or practitioner can ignore’. Gosta Esping-Andersen
‘This book is a path-breaking contribution to comparative theory.
The main theoretical argument is carried in ...Gough’s excellent
overview? This important book takes the whole debate about welfare
regimes forward splendidly’. Michael Hill, Social Policy and Administration
RECENT ARTICLES
(2006) ‘Autonomy or dependence -
or both? Perspectives from Bangladesh’,
with J.Devine and L.Camfield, Journal of Happiness Studies, 2006.
‘A comparative welfare regime approach to global social policy’ with Geof Wood, World Development 34(10): 1696-1712.
Forthcoming paper:
‘European welfare states: explanations and lessons for developing
countries’ in Institutions for Inclusive States, edited by A.Dani
and A.de Haan. Washington CD: World Bank
RECENT POLICY ADVICE
During 2006-07 I have been active in various forms of policy advice
abroad and at home:
- Address to Expert Group Meeting on Full
Employment and Decent Work. Division for Social Policy and
Development, UNDESA, United
Nations Headquarters in New York
- UNDP Vietnam: Address to Advisory group
meeting on reform of social protection in Vietnam, Hanoi
- Young Foundation: participating in expert
seminar on measuring wellbeing at the local level, London
- UK Equalities Review Commission: member
of steering group on measurement of human capabilities and
poverty
- Defra-SDC (Sustainable Development Commission):
participation in joint meeting on developing indicators
of wellbeing,
London
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Sept 2007: ‘Policy Regimes and Wellbeing: a Comparative Analysis’
at International Sociological Association, Research Committee
19 (Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy) Annual Conference
on Social Policy In A Globalizing World: Developing A North-South
Dialogue, University of Florence
December 2005: ‘European welfare states: explanations and lessons
for developing countries’. Presented at World Bank conference on
New Frontiers of Social Policy, Arusha, Tanzania.
RESEARCH CAREER
My research has for a long time alternated between thinking about
the nature of human welfare and studying the political economy
of welfare. These themes are represented by A Theory of Human
Need (written with Len Doyal published in 1991) and by The
Political Economy of the Welfare State (1979) and Can
the Welfare State Compete? (with Alfred Pfaller and Goran Therborn). My book of essays, Global
Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies (2000) represented a preliminary
attempt to reconcile these normative and analytical concerns.
Since 1999, this research has broadened out from the study of Europe
and the OECD to the developing world and global social policy.
First, I co-directed with Professor Geof Wood a programme on Social
Policy in Developing Contexts. This was published as Insecurity
and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Social Policy
in Development Contexts in 2004. From 2002-07 I was Deputy Director
of the ESRC Research Group
on Wellbeing in Developing Countries at Bath. The first volume was published as Wellbeing
in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research in 2007.
Department of Social Policy Sciences
Wellbeing in Developing Countries ESRC Research Group
Telephone: +44
1225 386738
Fax: +44 1225 386738
E-mail Address: i.r.gough@bath.ac.uk
Postal Address:
Department of Social and Policy Sciences,
University of Bath, Bath
BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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