海角黑料

• Print

Publications

icPSP members and associates publish extensively on a wide range of policy issues. Their outputs include journal articles, books, reports and policy brief.

This page provides a short selection of recent publications. A more comprehensive list for each icPSP member is available on their individual webpages.

Recent blogs

• SPICe (2021) - – Scottish Parliament Information Centre blog, summarising three briefings commissioned to Dr Simon Roberts (icPSP), May 21st
• Tyers, R. (2021) ‘ – Network for Research into Chinese Education Mobilities, February 19th
• D’Angelo, A., Manzoni, C. (2021), , Social Policy Association (SPA) Blog, January 28th
  
• Tyers, R. (2020) ‘’. The Conversation, November 10th
• Manzoni, C., D’Angelo, A. (2020). ‘’ Economics Observatory, October 12th
• D’Angelo, A. (2020). ‘’, DiscoverSociety, May 22nd

Selected academic publications

• Gregory, L. (2025): Lacking ambition.
• Gregory, L., Iafrati, S. (2025): Housing Inequality in the 21st Century. Policy Press.
• Greogry, L., Iafrati, S. (2024): Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain. Policy Press.
• Stafford, B., Roberts, S., Jas, P. (2024): Evaluating commodification and commodifying evaluation, 'Public Money and Management'. Informa UK Limited.
• Alabbas, N., Chau, R., Steel, L. (2023): The Current and Future State of Social Policy Teaching in UK Higher Education Institutions - 2023 Report
• Chau, R. (2023): Researching Inequalities, in 'Social Inequalities', pp. 163-178. SAGE.
• Gregory, L. (2023): Sexuality, 'Social Inequalities'. SAGE.
• Heneghan, M. and Hall, S. (2023): Brexit and 'missing' financial services jobs in the United Kingdom, 'Contemporary Social Science'. Informa UK Limited.
• Heneghan, M. and Hall, S. (2023): Interlocking corporate and policy networks in financial services: Paris-London relations post Brexit, 'ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography'. Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
• Roberts, S. (2023): 'Complification'? The Operation of the Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade Cooperation Agreement Two Years On, 'Pioneering Social Europe: Liber Amicorum Herwig Verschueren. Die Keure.
• Chau, R. (2022): Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe. Policy Press.
• Gregory, L. (2022): The Liberal Era and the Growth of State Welfare, 'The Students Companion to Social Policy'.
• Gregory, L. (2022): Social Policy in Britain. Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Heneghan, M. (2022): Social Policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi-pillar pension reform, 'Social Policy & Administration'. Wiley.
• Roberts, S. (2022): What room for manoeuvre? The Impact of Brexit on the Coordination of Scotland's Devolved Social Security, 'Festschrift: Walter J. Pfeil'. MANZ Verlag.
• Wikoff, N. (2022): Numeracy and Financial Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 'Numeracy'. University of South Florida Libraries.
• Chau, R. (2021): The policy measures used by the Hong Kong government to respond to the adult worker model and the male-breadwinner model, in 'Chinese families: tradition, modernisation, and change'. Emerald.
• Gardner, A. (2021): Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK's Hand Car Wash Sector, 'Base of the Pyramid Markets in Affluent Countries: Innovation and challenges to sustainability'. Routledge.
  
• Gardner, A. (2021): Free Soil, Free Produce, Free Communities, 'Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking'. Cambridge University Press.
• Iafrati, S. (2021): Out of area housing by local authorities in England: Displacement of vulnerable households in a neoliberal housing crisis, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 29(2), pp. 137-153 
• Iafrati, S. (2021): Supporting tenants with multiple and complex needs in houses in multiple occupation: The need to balance planning restrictions and housing enforcement with support, Social Policy and Society 20(1), pp. 62-73 
• Dauncey, S. (2020), ‘Disability in Contemporary China. Citizenship, Identity and Culture’. Cambridge University Press.
• Heneghan M and Hall S. (2020) The emerging geography of European financial centres: Fragmentation in the European Union and concentration in the UK? European Urban and Regional Studies 
• Roberts, S. (2020) ‘Brexit and the reform of social security coordination: The UK’s metamorphosis from rule maker to rule taker’. European Journal of Social Security. 22(2).
• Chau, C. M. and Yu, W.K. (2019) Familisation Risks, Defamilisation Risks and Older Women, Journal of Women and Aging, forthcoming.
• D’Angelo, A. (2019) Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45:12, 2213-2226
• Zilanawala, A., Sacker, A., and Kelly, Y. (2019) "Internalising and Externalising Behaviour Profiles across Childhood: The Consequences of Changes in the Family Environment." Social Science & Medicine 226: 207-16.
• Malik, A. et al. (2019), ‘I Decided Not to Go into Surgery Due to Dress Code’: A Cross-sectional Study within the UK Investigating Experiences of Female Muslim Medical Health Professionals on Bare below the Elbows (BBE) Policy and Wearing Headscarves (hijabs) in Theatre. BMJ Open 9(3)
• Tyers, R., Sweeney, S., Moon, B. (2019) Harnessing behavioural insights to encourage consumer engagement in the British energy market: results from a field trial. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 80(1), 162-176.
• Kelly, Y., Zilanawala, A., Tanton, C., Lewis, R., and Mercer, C. H. (2019) "Partnered Intimate Activities in Early Adolescence—Findings From the UK Millennium Cohort Study." Journal of Adolescent Health 65.3 (2019): 397-404.
• D’Angelo, A., and Kaye, N. (2018). Disengaged students: insights from the RESL.eu international survey. In Van Praag et. al. (Eds.) (2018) Comparative perspectives on early school leaving in the European Union. Routledge.
• D’Angelo, A., and Kofman, E. (2018). From Mobile Workers to Fellow Citizens and Back Again? The Future Status of EU Citizens in the UK. Social Policy and Society, 17(2), pp.331-343.
• Gardner, A. (2018) An idea whose time has come? Modern Slavery, Multiple Streams Approach and Multi-Layer Policy Implementation, Journal of Human Rights Practice, 10 (3), 461–481.
• Hennessey, L., Shaw, I., Adams, G.G., Okyere, S. (2018). Does ethnicity and culture affect the noncompliance of cervical cancer screening? MOJ Public Health. 7(4), 219‒227
• Tyers, R., Berchoux, T., Xiang, K., & Yao, X. Y. (2018). China-to-UK Student Migration and Pro-environmental Behaviour Change: A Social Practice Perspective. Sociological Research Online, 00(0), 1–23.
• Tyers, R. (2018) Nudging the Jetset to Offset: voluntary carbon offsetting and the limits to nudging. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 00(0) 1-20.
• Chau, C. M.; Yu, W. K.; Foster, L. and Lau, M. (2017) Defamilisation Measures and Women’s Labour Force Participation – a comparative study of twelve countries, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 33(1):73-86.
• Gardner, A. (2017). Big Change, Little Change? Punctuation, increments and multi-level institutional change for English local authorities under austerity. Local Government Studies, 43(2), 150–169. Doi:10.1080/03003930.2016.1276451
• Kerrison, G., Gillis, R., Jiwani, S., Alzahrani, Q., Kok, S., Harding, S., Shaw, I., Adams, G. (2017). The Effectiveness of Lifestyle Adaptation for the Prevention of Prediabetes in Adults: A Systematic Review. Journal of Diabetes Research. 2017, 8493145
• Roberts, S., Stafford, B. and Hill, K. (2017) ‘Diluting Substantive Equality: Why the UK Government doesn’t know if its welfare reforms promote equality’, in David Fee and Anémone Kober-Smith (eds.) Inequalities in Britain: perceptions, actions, evolutions, Bingley: Emerald, pp 151-168.
• Lowndes, V., and Gardner, A. (2016). Local governance under the Conservatives: super-austerity, devolution and the “smarter state.” Local Government Studies, 42(3), 357–375. doi:10.1080/03003930.2016.1150837
• Shaw, I., Middleton, H. (2015). Sociological Conceptions of Happiness and its Implications for Psychotherapy and Public Policy Nursing and Care. 4(3)
• Stafford, B. (2015) ‘Why are the policies and organisations seeking to help disabled people access work failing?’ in Chris Grover and Linda Piggott eds., Disabled people, work and welfare Is employment really the answer?, Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 69-86.
• Chau, C. M. and Yu W. K. (2013) Defamilisation of 22 Countries – its implications for the study of East Asian welfare regime, Social Policy and Society, 12 (3): 355-367.
• Jas, P. and Skelcher, C. (2013). Different regulatory regimes in different parts of the UK?: a comparison of narrative and practice in relation to poor performance in local government Local Government Studies.
• Jas, P. (2013). The role of interim managers in performance improvement: evidence from English local authorities Public Money and Management. 33(1), 15-22
• Perren, K., Roberts, S., Stafford, B., Hirsch, D. and Padley, M. (2012) Evaluation of the Implementation of the Equality Act 2010: Report 1 - Organisational Approaches to Equality, London: Government Equalities Office.
• Stafford, B. with others (2007) New Deal for Disabled People: Third synthesis report – key findings from the evaluation, DWP Research Report No. 430, Leeds: CDS.