Reader at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

PI for 7 UKRI funding awards

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

External Examiner for the London School of Economics and Political Science

External Examiner for the University of Salford

Editor for Sage, Journal of European Social Policy, 2025-

Editor for Cambridge University, Journal of Social Policy, 2012-2024

Elected Officer UK Social Policy Assocition, 2012-2016

Office for National Statistics Accredited Researcher

ESRC Assessor College Member and Grant Assessment Panelist

ESRC Peer Review College Member

ESRC Open Research Area (ORA) Panel Member: 6th, 7th, 8th calls

New publication: Deeming, C. & Akanni, L. (2026) Evaluating the impact of the UK job retention scheme on mental health and well-being using matched difference-in-differences, Fiscal Studies, 47, 89–106, https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.70010 (UKRI Grant ES/W001187/1)

New PhD completion: Montagu, I. (2025) Values or politics? Explaining changing attitudes in England towards the welfare state and the UK’s membership of the European Union, DOI: 10.48730/j2ma-1m56 (ESRC/SGSSS Supervisor Award)

Previously Christopher has worked at the University of London, England, the Univeristy of New South Wales, Australia, and the University of Bristol, England

Visiting and honorary fellowships: Macquarie University, Australia, University of Santiago, Chile, Sciences Po, France, University of Surrey, England

Christopher holds a BSc(Hons) from the University of Bath and a PhD from the University of Bristol

Research interests in the fields of comparative social policy, global social policy and global challenges, social research methods.

I convene and teach the following core class modules:

L5327 Understanding Comparative Social Policy: Theories, Methods and Analysis, 3rd Year

L5418 Global Challenges, 4th Year

L8925 Comparative Welfare Systems, MSc

PhD, University of Bristol