Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Strathclyde University

Reviews Editor for the Journal of Social Policy published by Cambridge University Press

National Expert Advisory Board member for the Journal of Sociology published by Sage

Previously Christopher has worked at the University of London, London, UK, the Univeristy of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK and has held recent visiting fellowships at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and the University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile, the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Sciences Po, Paris, France.

Christopher holds a PhD from the University of Bristol.

Research interests in the field of Comparative Social Policy and Global Social Policy, topics include welfare regimes, social investment, inclusive growth, sustainability, global poverty and inequality, living standards, health and well-being, social attitudes and policy making, including issues to do with the implementation and evaluation of social programmes.

I convene and teach on the following core Social Policy modules:

L5216 The Making of Social Policy, 2nd Year

L5327 Understanding Comparative Social Policy, 3rd Year

L5418 Global Challenges (Global Social Policy), 4th Year

L5975 Approches to Welfare: Past, Present and Future, MSc

I am Director of Internationalisation in the School of Social Work & Social Policy, and Programme Director of our new MSc prgramme, International Social Welfare   https://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/postgraduatetaught/internationalsocialwelfare/ 

PhD, University of Bristol