Prof Peter Taylor-Gooby OBE

Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent

Peter Taylor-Gooby, FBA, AcSS, FRSA, OBE is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent. He chairs the British Academy New Paradigms in Public Policy programme and the HEFCE REF2014 Social Work and Social Policy Panel. Recent books include: New Paradigms in Public Policy, Reframing Social Citizenship, Risk in Social Science (with Jens Zinn), Ideas and the Welfare State and New Risks, New Welfare. Current research, supported by a Leverhulme Fellowship, by ESRC and by the EU, examines the damage current restructuring is doing to the welfare state.