phd public policy king's college london

The Faculty

The Centre for the Study of Governance and Society brings together faculty from within the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London and leading universities around the world to advance crucial debates on governance.

Mark Pennington

Mark Pennington is Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy, Head of the Department …

Mark Pennington is Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy, Head of the Department and Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society.

Mark works at the intersection of philosophy, politics and economics and is particularly interested in the application of non-ideal theorising in both political and economic theory, as exemplified in his development of the ‘robust political economy’ paradigm.

Mark is currently working on major research project ‘The Ideal of Self Governance’, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Inspired by the research agenda of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, this project applies the robust political economy perspective to examine both the positive and normative case for governance arrangements that lie ‘beyond markets and states’.

Samuel DeCanio

Dr. Samuel DeCanio FRGS is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Economy. His research examines general theoretical questions …

Dr. Samuel DeCanio FRGS is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Economy. His research examines general theoretical questions about how knowledge interacts with social, economic, and political institutions, and specific historical questions about the creation of modern bureaucratic states.  He has published articles in the  American Journal of Political Science ,  Critical Review, Journal of Politics ,  Party Politics, Social Philosophy and Policy,  and  Studies in American Political Development .  His first book,  Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State  (Yale University Press, 2015), examines democratic control over the creation of the American regulatory state in the late 19 th  century.  His current book manuscript,  Politics, Markets, and War: How Conflict and Ignorance Shape the Modern World  (advanced contract with Yale University Press), examines how knowledge and ignorance influence economic markets, democratic politics, and the causes of war among states.

He has received grants from the British Academy, the Hill Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the Raheem Sterling Foundation, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Oxford Russia Fund.  In 2023 Dr. DeCanio was awarded the Thesiger-Oman International Fellowship from the Royal Geographical Society for his research into British travel writers and the Bedouin of the Middle East.  Dr. DeCanio is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he co-directs (with Dr. Michael Bankole) the Raheem Sterling Scholarship Program at King’s College London, and is the Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society.  Prior to arriving at King’s he was an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Yale University where he was also a resident fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

Bryan Cheang

Bryan Cheang is the Assistant Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance & Society. He received his PhD …

Bryan Cheang is the Assistant Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance & Society. He received his PhD and MA in Political Economy from King’s College London and is a graduate of the National University of Singapore. His research interests are in the political economy of development and applied economic policy, and his dissertation re-evaluated the nature and merits of the East Asian developmental state tradition.

He is broadly interested in questions surrounding state-market relations, comparative political economy and particularly, the challenges of successful industrial policy interventions. Bryan also brings with him his policy experience from the Singapore civil service.

Research Fellows

Kaveh pourvand.

Kaveh is a political theorist. His research covers contemporary liberal thought, collective political agency, the ideal/non-ideal theory distinction within political philosophy, …

Kaveh is a political theorist. His research covers contemporary liberal thought, collective political agency, the ideal/non-ideal theory distinction within political philosophy, and distributive justice. He is also a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona. He has previously taught at King’s College London and gained his PhD from the London School of Economics. His work is forthcoming or has been published in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy , The Journal of Social Philosophy , and Social Philosophy and Policy .

Pablo Paniagua

Dr. Pablo Paniagua is an economist and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society. …

Dr. Pablo Paniagua is an economist and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society. He is also a Senior Researcher at Fundación Para el Progreso and an Affiliated Scholar at the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his M.Sc. in Economics and Finance from Milan Polytechnic and his Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of London.

His research focuses on governance and institutional analysis. He has authored over 20 articles, essays, and books dealing with various aspects of the political economy of money and banking and the governance of social dilemmas. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Institutional Economics , Journal of Evolutionary Economics , and Economy and Society , among several others.

Shelby Grossman

Shelby Grossman is a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Political Science …

Shelby Grossman is a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. Her primary research interests are in online disinformation, political economy of development, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Her research has been published or is forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, Studies in Comparative and International Development, World Development, and World Politics. Her book, “The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: How the State Shapes Private Governance” was published by the Economics, Choice, and Society Series with Cambridge University Press. Shelby earned her PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2016.

Kaetana Numa

Kaetana Numa completed her PhD in Political Economy at King’s College London in spring 2021. Her PhD research focused on …

Kaetana Numa completed her PhD in Political Economy at King’s College London in spring 2021. Her PhD research focused on the theory of fiscal illusion, as she undertook a large-scale randomised survey experiment to investigate how the provision of personalised fiscal information affects fiscal preferences in the UK.

She is currently working on publishing her findings regarding the extent of fiscal illusion, as well as the wider implications of fiscal misperception on the democratic development and fiscal governance. She is also interested in the economic and political development of communist and transition countries.

Prior to her PhD research, Kaetana worked at a Lithuanian think tank for almost a decade where she headed a fiscal policy unit and maintained an active presence both in the political arena and the media.

Kaetana graduated with a BA in Economics and International Relations (Cum Laude) from Tufts University, and also holds an MA in Religious Studies from Vilnius University.

Mark Bevir is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for British Studies at UC Berkeley. He is …

Mark Bevir is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for British Studies at UC Berkeley. He is also a Professor in Political Economy at King’s College, London, and Professor of Governance at United Nations University (MERIT).

Mark is a theorist in the social and policy sciences and generally works in the area of the philosophy of social science and intellectual history to develop and critique theories and policies.

He also collaborates with empirical researchers, using interpretive and critical theories to study Britain in a global context. He has also recently focused on governance and governmentality after neoliberalism and is currently exploring democratic innovation, social inclusion, and multiculturalism.

Vera Kichanova

Vera Kichanova is an urban economist exploring the future of market-based urban development. She completed her PhD dissertation in Political …

Vera Kichanova is an urban economist exploring the future of market-based urban development. She completed her PhD dissertation in Political Economy at King’s College London in 2022. Titled Cities as Firms: The Coasian Case for Private Urban Development , her thesis analyses real-life examples of private cities from Honduras to India, looking for economic and legal conditions that make them possible, desirable, and profitable.

In parallel to her academic research, Vera works at Zaha Hadid Architects and at the Free Cities Foundation. Previously, she worked with Atlas Network (US), the London School of Economics (UK), and a number of Eastern European free-market think tanks. At the age of 20, Vera was elected to the Municipal Council in Moscow as an independent non-partisan candidate. After the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, she moved to Kyiv to run an educational media portal covering post-Soviet countries.

Vera’s articles — focused on bridging the gap between urban planning theory and classical liberal thought — were published by The Telegraph , Forbes , The Wall Street Journal , Spiegel , CapX and FEE.org , among others. She is a commentator on land-use policies for the Adam Smith Institute, the 2013 Democracy Award winner , and a Mont Pèlerin Society member. Vera holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Oxford and a BA in Journalism from Moscow State University.

Featured Faculty

Robert reamer.

Robert Reamer is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy. He received his PhD from the Department of Political …

Robert Reamer is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago in 2018.  Before coming to King’s College London, he spent two years as a Social Sciences Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago and two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College.

Poornima Paidipaty

Poornima Paidipaty is a Lecturer in Comparative Political Economy at King’s College London.  Her work explores the changing history of …

Poornima Paidipaty is a Lecturer in Comparative Political Economy at King’s College London.  Her work explores the changing history of social and economic inequality, with a particular focus on South Asia. She is currently undertaking a major new research project examining the role of data in economic governance in postcolonial India.  She was previously an LSE Fellow in Inequalities.

Pavel Kuchar

Pavel Kuchar is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. Prior to joining King’s, he worked …

Pavel Kuchar is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. Prior to joining King’s, he worked at the University of Bristol, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, or the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China).

Looking into the role of institutional infrastructures in facilitating the functioning of markets, Pavel’s research has been focused on the political economy of entrepreneurship, economics of institutions, and the history of economics. In 2019, Pavel’s co-authored paper “ Lachmann and Shackle: On the Joint Production of Interpretation Instruments ” won the Warren Samuels Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. He also co-edited of a volume on  Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons  published by Cambridge University Press (2021).

Pavel is a member of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research ( WINIR ), and the History of Economic Thought Society ( THETS ). His writings can be accessed through his  website .

Robin Douglass

Robin Douglass joined the Department of Political Economy in 2012 and he is now Senior Lecturer in Political Theory. He …

Robin Douglass joined the Department of Political Economy in 2012 and he is now Senior Lecturer in Political Theory. He previously studied at the Universities of York and Exeter. His expertise is in the history of modern political thought and he is especially interested in assessing how interpretations of historical thinkers continue to influence and structure debates in contemporary political philosophy. He is the author of Rousseau and Hobbes: Nature, Free Will, and the Passions (Oxford University Press, 2015) and has published widely on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political thought, as well as co-editing a forthcoming volume on Hobbes on Politics and Religion (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Robin’s most recent work examines Bernard Mandeville’s impact on eighteenth-century debates about sociability and commercial society, while future plans include a monograph on Mandeville’s political philosophy. Robin is a co-founder and current President of the European Hobbes Society , serves on the board of the Rousseau Association , and is co-editor of the European Journal of Political Theory .

Peter John is Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He is known …

Peter John is Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He is known for his work on agenda-setting, local politics, behavioral interventions, and randomized controlled trials.

He is author of Analyzing Public Policy (2012), which reviews the main theories of public policy and the policy process. He is interested in how best to involve citizens in public policy and management, often deploying behavioural interventions. He tests many of these interventions with randomized controlled trials. Some of these trials appeared in Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour (Bloomsbury, 2011). Practical issues with the design of experiments are covered in Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy (Routledge, 2017). Experiments are also used to examine the impact of social media and politics in Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action (Princeton University Press, 2015), with Helen Margetts, Scott Hale and Taha Yasseri.

A more general approach to the use of the tools of government to achieve policy change is contained in his Making Policy Work (Routledge, 2011). His most recent book is How Far to Nudge: Assessing Behavioural Public Policy (Edward Elgar).

Paul Lewis is Reader in Economics and Public Policy. He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford. Prior …

Paul Lewis is Reader in Economics and Public Policy. He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford. Prior to moving to King’s, he was a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Politics, and the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Emmanuel and Selwyn Colleges. He is a retained supervisor in economics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and a member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group. He was a Visiting Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Shackle Scholar at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, in the Easter Term 2013. He won the 2016 Society for the Development of Austrian Economics for the Best Essay in Austrian Economics, for his paper on “The Emergence of ‘Emergence’ in the Work of F.A. Hayek: An Historical Analysis”.

Christel Koop

Dr Christel Koop is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy. Her research interests include delegation theory, arm’s length governance, regulation and …

Dr Christel Koop is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy. Her research interests include delegation theory, arm’s length governance, regulation and regulatory agencies, democratic accountability and legitimacy, and institutional theory.

Christel holds a BA and MPhil degree in political science from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and obtained her PhD degree in political and social sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Before joining the department, she was Fellow in Public Policy and Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also co-organiser of the inter-university London Public Policy Seminars.

Christel’s research addresses questions related to the insulation of policy-making from politics and the electoral process, both at the national and the European level. Her work has focused on the determinants of arm’s length governance as well as on its implications for politics, policy outcomes, and democratic accountability and legitimacy.

Gabriel Leon

Dr Gabriel Leon is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. His research focuses …

Dr Gabriel Leon is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. His research focuses on conflict, civil-military relations, institutional development and economic history. Gabriel’s current work examines the causes of riots, how riots spread, and the social and political consequences they have. He also works on gentrification (with a focus on London), the political development of England in the medieval period, and on how the military and popular protest can drive political change.

Before joining King’s, Gabriel was the Bevil Mabey Fellow in Economics at St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. He studied applied mathematics at Harvard (BA) and economics at Oxford (DPhil/PhD). Between his degrees, he worked as an associate consultant in the NYC offices of Bain & Company.

Personal website: https://gabrieljleon.wordpress.com/

Anja Shortland

Anja Shortland is a Reader in Political Economy and has worked at the King’s Department of Political Economy since 2013. …

Anja Shortland is a Reader in Political Economy and has worked at the King’s Department of Political Economy since 2013. She studied Engineering at Oxford and has a PhD in International Relations from LSE. Anja works on the economics of crime and violence, usually with an interdisciplinary approach. Anja’s current research examines the governance of criminal markets. She is particularly interested in the governance of tricky and opaque transactions between legal entities and extra-legal groups such as protection contracts, the trade in hostages, maritime piracy, and stolen art. Her work contrasts the highly effective, polycentric governance architecture created by insurers to stabilize and order these markets with problematic government participation in the economic underworld- e.g. the ransoming of hostages from terrorist groups . Anja has consulted widely on Somali piracy , including for the World Bank. She is currently writing a book on Kidnap for Ransom for Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2018).

John Meadowcroft

John Meadowcroft is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. His research …

John Meadowcroft is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. His research focuses on the threats to free societies – societies in which individual liberty is protected and valued – in the light of the historical evidence that free societies are far less stable than is often assumed. He is presently pursuing this research via ethnographic research into UK far right organisations with his research collaborator Elizabeth Morrow. This involves attending demonstrations held by far right groups around the UK and interviewing participants.

In the past John’s research has focused more on theories of liberty and power, on the ethics and limits of markets, on the generation and destruction of social capital, and on evaluation of economic and political solutions to social problems, notably in healthcare. He is the author of The Ethics of the Market (Palgrave, 2005), co-author with Mark Pennington of Rescuing Social Capital from Social Democracy (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007), and author of an intellectual biography of the founder of public choice theory, James M. Buchanan (Continuum, 2011/Bloomsbury, 2013).

Personal website: https://johnmeadowcroft.net

Paul Sagar read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford before taking an MA in Intellectual History and the History of Political …

Paul Sagar read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford before taking an MA in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought from the University of London. He completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge, where from 2014-2018 he was Junior Research Fellow in Politics at King’s College.

Paul Sagar works in the history of political thought and contemporary political theory. His recent monograph,  The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the State from Hobbes to Smith , explores Enlightenment accounts of the foundations of modern politics, whilst also addressing contemporary issues regarding how to conceive of the state, and what that means for normative political theory today. He has also published a number of studies on topics such as: the political writings of Bernard Williams, so-called ‘realist’ approaches to political philosophy, the nature of liberty under conditions of modernity, and the idea of immortality. Paul is currently in the early stages of two major new projects. The first is a monograph study of Adam Smith’s political philosophy as rooted in his conceptions of history and commercial society. The second is an exploration of the idea of the enemy in the history of political thought.

As well as his academic writings, Paul also writes for more popular audiences. His work has appeared in  The Guardian ,  The Times Literary Supplement ,  Aeon.co , and  The Political Quarterly.  See his  personal website  for details.

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Public Policy Research

Entry requirements.

Masters degree with at least a Merit including a dissertation mark of no less than 65% (UK marking scheme).

Months of entry

Course content.

We are the only dedicated Department of Political Economy in the UK. Situated within the broader Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy, we see the understanding that Politics and Economics are inextricably linked as being central to fully comprehending public policy issues. Undertaking a PhD in Public Policy with us places you within a unique institution in which you will be part of a vibrant and growing set of world-leading scholars, who are committed to understanding the intertwining of politics and economics and applying those insights to solving local, national and global policy problems.

We have an open an inclusive research culture that encourages debate between the contesting theories, approaches and ideologies. Our vision of what political economy is lends itself to an interdisciplinary approach, and there is a wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches used across the department. This provides a stimulating environment for PhD research that fosters open-minded and critical scholarship.

Qualification, course duration and attendance options

• Campus-based learning is available for this qualification

Course contact details

Policy Institute at King's

• King's College London
• Social Science & Public Policy
• Email [email protected]
• Website http://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute

22 Kingsway , Virginia Woolf Building

United Kingdom

Organisation profile

The Policy Institute at King’s College London works to solve society’s challenges with evidence and expertise. We combine the rigour of academia with the agility of a consultancy and the connectedness of a think tank.

Our research draws on many disciplines and methods, making use of the skills, expertise and resources of not only the institute, but the university and its wider network too. The institute’s current research programme spans six areas:

• The value of evidence
• Defence and security policy
• Health systems and delivery
• Communities and opportunity
• Cities, growth and innovation
• Trust, facts and democracy

This research is supported through communications, impact and engagement activities. The institute has a strong track record of engaging with the media to promote research findings and stimulate public debate, generating coverage in outlets including the Guardian , the Times , the Independent , the Daily Telegraph , and the Financial Times , and across broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.

The Policy Institute’s work is enhanced by its network of visiting fellows and professors, including current and former civil servants, politicians, journalists, writers and researchers, who give their time and expertise to the institute and wider King’s community. They are a valuable resource, providing expert advice on research projects, opening up their networks to maximise the impact of our work and strengthening the relationship between academia, policy and practice.

The Policy Institute also provides space for several initiatives and organisations from within and outside King’s that share an interest in ensuring that evidence and expertise inform policy and practice. They make up the institute's Policy Park, which includes the following organisations: the NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit , the UK in a Changing Europe , the Global Institute for Women's Leadership , the Strand Group,  the Pensions Policy Institute , the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute , the Citizens Convention on UK Democracy, and What Works: Social Mobility & Student Success .

The Policy Institute is led by Professor Bobby Duffy . Prior to joining King's, Bobby was Managing Director of Public Affairs for Ipsos MORI, which is a team of around 230 researchers in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Brussels, and Global Director of the Ipsos Social Research Institute, across around 30 countries.

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• Dementia Nursing and Health Professions 100%
• Social Work Social Sciences 67%
• Research Psychology 67%
• Older People Nursing and Health Professions 60%
• Service Industries Social Sciences 60%
• Practice Social Sciences 59%
• Health Psychology 54%
• Support Social Sciences 53%

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

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Domenica Avila

• Policy Institute at King's - Research Associate

Person: Research

Mary Baginsky

• NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce
• Policy Institute at King's - Reader

Person: Member, Academic

Alan Bancroft

• Strand Group

Person: Master of Philosophy

Research output

• 39166 Citations
• 1019 Article
• 173 Commissioned report
• 68 Other contribution
• 55 Book/Film/Article review
• 55 Editorial
• 43 Review article
• 22 Meeting abstract
• 18 Literature review
• 18 Conference paper
• 16 Comment/debate
• 9 Web publication/site
• 5 Confidential report
• 3 Other chapter contribution
• 3 Short survey
• 2 Poster abstract
• 2 Working paper
• 1 Anthology
• 1 Scholarly edition
• 1 Meeting Abstract

Research output per year

Addressing multiple exclusion homelessness in social work education in England: Gaps, innovative practice and resources

Research output : Book/Report › Report › peer-review

A study about making the most of Care Quality Commission data (Predicting and detecting abuse in registered care homes and supported living for people with a learning disability and autistic people): Easy Read Summary Report

Research output : Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review

Burberry Inspire: Student Impact Evaluation

Research output : Book/Report › Report

• 1 Curtailed
• 2 Not started
• 271 Finished

Projects per year

Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit (HSCWRU) 2024-2028

Boaz, A. , Harris, R. , Kessler, I. , Kharicha, K. , Rafferty, A. M. & Samsi, K.

NIHR National Institute For Health & Care Research

1/01/2024 → 31/12/2028

Project : Research

Breaking Down Barriers: Unveiling the Hidden Challenges to Achieving True Gender Equality in STEM Education and Leadership in Kenya

Ajwang, F. & Mendes Borges, A.

British Council

18/12/2023 → 31/01/2025

Lancet Psychiatry Commission: Lived Experience in Mental Health Research

Sweeney, A. & Lawson, G.

Wellcome Trust

1/11/2023 → 31/10/2026

• 84 Participation in conference
• 70 Oral presentation
• 56 Publication peer-review
• 52 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
• 37 Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
• 30 Editorial activity
• 30 Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
• 23 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
• 19 Invited talk
• 16 Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
• 10 Types of External academic engagement - Membership of external research organisation
• 7 Types of Business and Community - Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation
• 4 Consultancy
• 4 Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively
• 4 Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
• 4 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
• 2 Types of Business and Community - Other
• 2 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement
• 1 Examination
• 1 Membership of network
• 1 Types of Business and Community - CPD delivery/organisation of courses for externals (in kind)
• 1 Types of External academic engagement - Hosting an academic visitor
• 1 Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk
• 1 Visiting an external academic institution

Activities per year

Advancing Interdisciplinary Collaborations

M Briggs (Speaker) & Mary Baginsky (Speaker)

Activity : Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

MRS Independent Living / Making Room Stakeholder Event

Nicole Steils (Invited speaker)

How do innovations spread? What we can learn from Shared Lives schemes and the role of Shared Lives Plus?

Carl Purcell (Contributor)

Activity : Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

Student theses

Change and continuity in quality of life in dementia.

Supervisor: Price, J. M. (Supervisor) & Banerjee, S. S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring homecare for people living with dementia using an ethnographic approach

Supervisor: Cooper, C. (External person) (Supervisor), Manthorpe, J. (Supervisor) & Rapaport, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Exploring the experiences of intimate toileting care and the impact on the family dyad relationship for people with dementia and their cohabiting family carer

Supervisor: Drennan, V. (External person) (Supervisor) & Hatzidimitriadou, E. (External person) (Supervisor)

2016 Award for Excellence

Manthorpe, Jill (Recipient), 2016

Prize : Prize (including medals and awards)

AcSS Fellowship

Manthorpe, Jill (Recipient), 2014

Prize : Fellowship awarded competitively

Award - author of Highly Commended paper of the year 2016

Manthorpe, Jill (Recipient), 2015

• Older People 33%

Public Trust in Expertise in the Context of Climate Change and COVID-19 (PERITIA)

Duffy, B. , Hewlett, K. , Paturyan, Y., Benson, R. , Wright, J. , Stoneman, P. , Hall, S., Baghramian, M. & Amirkhanian, A., GESIS, Jan 2023

DOI : 10.7802/2487 , https://doi.org/10.7802/2487

Attitudes to inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Hewlett, K. , Hesketh, R. , Duffy, B. & Benson, R. , figshare, 16 Jan 2024

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Public Policy MA

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Course Summary

Tuition fees, entry requirements, similar courses at different universities, key information data source : idp connect, qualification type.

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Public Administration Policy Studies

Course type

The Public Policy MA is a multi-disciplinary course that covers policy making and analysis, comparative public policy, public sector economics, governance and public management. You will focus on the critical issues and key developments relating to public policy, such as governance, globalisation and policy evaluation. This course will equip you with the analytical and critical skills relevant for understanding the challenges of public policy and its implementation.

Course detail

The Public Policy MA course provides a unique opportunity to study politics, policy and social issues in a range of non-UK settings. The course offers you flexibility with the choice to study either full or part-time. You will explore a range of required modules such as The Policy Process and Comparative Public Policy. You will also study a range of optional modules allowing you to create a unique study plan that reflects your interests. The study programme is made up of optional and required modules. The course requires modules totalling 180 credits, 60 of these credits will come from a dissertation of around 10,000 words.

Teaching and assessment

We will use a delivery method that will ensure students have a rich, exciting experience from the start. Face to face teaching will be complemented and supported with innovative technology so that students also experience elements of digital learning and assessment. We use lectures, seminars and group tutorials to deliver most of the modules on the course. You will also be expected to undertake a significant amount of independent study. The primary method of assessment for this course is a combination of written examinations and coursework. Typically, a 15-credit module will comprise of assessments, essays and a written examination. Grades awarded for each module will reflect your attendance and lecture participation. The assessment of the dissertation module will be by a 1,000-word research proposal (10 per cent) and a 10,000-word dissertation (90 per cent).

Career prospects

UK fees Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

International fees Course fees for EU and international students

Students should have a relevant UK honours degree of 2:1 standard; applicants with degree/professional qualification and at least three years experience in government or NGO service may also be eligible. In order to meet the academic entry requirements for this programme you should have a minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree with a final mark of at least 60% or above in the UK marking scheme. If you are still studying you should be achieving an average of at least 60% or above in the UK marking scheme.

MA Public Policy and Public Management

University of east anglia uea, msc public policy and management, soas university of london, msc global public policy (online), msc in public policy and management (distance learning), doctor of professional studies (dprof) by public works, middlesex university.

Innovation and Public Policy MPhil/PhD

London, Bloomsbury

The programme aims to develop the next generation of world-leading interdisciplinary scholars in economic and public policy, the economics of innovation and innovation policy and its governance. A key goal of the programme is to prompt doctoral researchers to blend and synthesise different disciplinary tools to offer truly interdisciplinary analysis on how public and economic policy and innovation can be harnessed to tackle global challenges.

UK tuition fees (2024/25)

Overseas tuition fees (2024/25), programme starts, applications accepted.

• Entry requirements

A minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard, in a relevant subject, is essential. Exceptionally: where applicants have other suitable research or professional experience, they may be admitted without a Master's degree; or where applicants have a lower second-class UK Honours Bachelor's degree (2:2) (or equivalent) they must possess a relevant Master's degree to be admitted. We expect any successful application to include a sufficiently strong and convincing proposal, and those holding a Master's degree are typically well prepared to provide one. Relevant work experience is highly desirable.

The English language level for this programme is: Level 4

UCL Pre-Master's and Pre-sessional English courses are for international students who are aiming to study for a postgraduate degree at UCL. The courses will develop your academic English and academic skills required to succeed at postgraduate level.

Further information can be found on our English language requirements page.

Equivalent qualifications

Country-specific information, including details of when UCL representatives are visiting your part of the world, can be obtained from the International Students website .

International applicants can find out the equivalent qualification for their country by selecting from the list below. Please note that the equivalency will correspond to the broad UK degree classification stated on this page (e.g. upper second-class). Where a specific overall percentage is required in the UK qualification, the international equivalency will be higher than that stated below. Please contact Graduate Admissions should you require further advice.

About this degree

Our MPhil/PhD programme is centred on fostering path-breaking research into ways to understand public value and public purpose in the context of innovation and public policies supporting innovation and public and economic policy. It brings together economists, philosophers, political scientists, designers, architects, anthropologists, and natural scientists. The PhD involves independent research over a 3-4 year period for full time students, with mandatory research methods training in the first year. Students will be supervised by a minimum of two supervisors, the primary supervisor being at IIPP. The supervisors will have regular meetings with you to update on progress and provide feedback on written work and guidance on relevant literature, research design and methods. The subsidiary may be at IIPP or another department at UCL. Important feedback will also be provided by peers within the department and we encourage students to present papers at conferences.

Who this course is for

Students should normally have a Masters degree in a relevant topic and have some experience of independent research. They should be highly self-motivated and have a passionate interest in the topic they wish to examine. Although IIPP is policy-oriented institute, PhDs remain primarily academic exercises about contributing new knowledge to an area of research.

What this course will give you

The UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) leads the debate about the direction of economic growth and governments' use of mission-oriented policies to confront the world's most urgent challenges: from climate change to inequality and the problems facing aging societies. Our research uses multidisciplinary perspectives to rethink economics and economic policy and the ways in which innovation leads to transformative change. Our main focus is on new approaches to policy across a range of spheres, including innovation policy, industrial policy, digital innovation in public and private sectors, environmental policy and macroeconomic and financial policy. We also focus on the development of capabilities and capacities needed within public institutions, and new forms of collaborations between actors in both private and public spheres, to drive innovation across society-wide missions. The programme includes research skills training provision including a Research Methods series, regular PhDs seminars for peers to present new work and invited speaker research seminar series.

The foundation of your career

Graduates from the programme will possess a unique analytical skill set in public policy, organisational and institutional innovation, new models of innovation policy (mission-oriented innovation), and dynamic capabilities in the public sector. Many public sector organisations, policy think tanks and other policy analysis organisations, NGOs and large private organisations are looking for employees who are well versed and skilled in new ways of justifying, evaluating and implementing public policies.

Employability

This research degree programme aims to develop the next generation of world-leading interdisciplinary scholars in innovation theory, public policy, economics of innovation, innovation policy and its governance.

IIPP is committed to influencing public engagement on key strategic issues facing 21st century economies. Our partnership programme is called the Mission-Oriented Innovation Network or MOIN, which means ‘hello’ in many Northern European languages. The acronym reflects the peer-based learning that will allow global policy-makers to share their experiences around strategic priority setting, organisational innovation and dynamic evaluation tools – with the goal of empowering the pursuit of public-value- driven innovations. For more information and to get involved with the network, visit our Partnership page.

Teaching and learning

Initially, you will be registered for the MPhil degree. If you wish to proceed to a PhD, you will be required to pass an 'Upgrade' assessment. The purpose of the upgrade is to assess your progress and ability to complete your PhD programme to a good standard and in a reasonable time frame. It is expected that a full-time student will attempt upgrade within 18 months of registration.

The programme includes research skills training provision including a Research Methods series, regular PhDs seminars for peers to present new work and invited speaker research seminar series.

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) consists of a piece of supervised research, normally undertaken over a period of three years full-time. Assessment is by means of a thesis, which should demonstrate your capacity to pursue original research based upon a good understanding of the research techniques and concepts appropriate to the discipline.

Depending on your research area and level of research, the amount of times you meet with your supervisor is agreed upon consultation with your primary supervisor.

Research areas and structure

Our research programme is driven by three cross-cutting themes: innovation, public value and inclusive growth. Our current streams explore the following areas:

Public value and public purpose

Governance and digital transformation

The state's role in technological revolutions

Green economy for sustainable growth

Mission-oriented innovation policy

Patient finance, state investment banks and public finance

Rethinking health innovation

Risks and rewards

Space partnerships for mutualistic innovation eco-systems

Research environment

The UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) leads a debate about the direction of economic growth and governments’ use of mission-oriented policies to confront the world’s most urgent challenges: from climate change to inequality and the problems facing ageing societies. Our work feeds into policies on innovation, financial reform, institutional change and sustainable development. 

The MPhil/PhD programme is chaired by Dr Josh Ryan-Collins, Associate Professor in Economics and Finance as Graduate Tutor. As our research focuses on real world impact, to address some of the most pressing problems facing human societies worldwide, we expect you carry out independent research and create an original and cross-disciplinary thesis on a topic developed with support from supervisors.

The IIPP is directed by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, author of the highly acclaimed The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, and The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies , with IIPP PhD student Rosie Collington. 

The length of registration for the research degree programmes is normally 4 years for full-time and 5 years for part-time. You will normally register initially for the MPhil degree with the expectation of transfer to PhD after successful completion of an 'upgrade' assessment, typically at the end of your first year and no later than eighteen months from registration (full-time). 

Primarily, you will conduct independent research, with guidance and supervision. The programme places great emphasis on a close one-to-one working relationship between you and your supervisor. Additionally, your supervisor may suggest that you enrol in, or audit, additional taught modules. The auditing of taught modules is not a formal part of your MPhil/PhD programme, and so is not formally assessed.

The length of registration for the research degree programmes is normally 3 years for full-time and 5 years for part-time. You will normally register initially for the MPhil degree with the expectation of transfer to PhD after successful completion of an 'upgrade' assessment, typically at the end of your first year and no later than thirty months from registration (part-time). 

The programme includes research skills training provision: a Doctoral Seminar series and a Research Methods series addressing methodological and ethical challenges.

Accessibility

Details of the accessibility of UCL buildings can be obtained from AccessAble accessable.co.uk . Further information can also be obtained from the UCL Student Support and Wellbeing team .

Fees and funding

Fees for this course.

The tuition fees shown are for the year indicated above. Fees for subsequent years may increase or otherwise vary. Where the programme is offered on a flexible/modular basis, fees are charged pro-rata to the appropriate full-time Master's fee taken in an academic session. Further information on fee status, fee increases and the fee schedule can be viewed on the UCL Students website: ucl.ac.uk/students/fees .

Additional costs

As a research student, your additional costs may include expenses such as books, conference attendance and field research, in the UK or overseas.

The Built Environment Faculty Office provides financial support to students through the Bartlett Student Conference Fund, Bartlett Doctoral Initiative Fund, Bartlett External Training Fund and Bartlett Extenuating Circumstances Fund. However, please note that these funds are limited and available through competition. 

For more information on additional costs for prospective students please go to our estimated cost of essential expenditure at Accommodation and living costs .

Funding your studies

UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

Any additional funding available from the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and the Built Environment Faculty Office are advertised on the respective websites.

For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at UCL, including funding relevant to your nationality, please visit the Scholarships and Funding website .

The first step is to complete this  expression of interest form . This form asks candidates to provide a CV and provides a template to enter information about the proposed research. In the case of a positive assessment, the candidate will likely be asked to have an interview with members of faculty or to further develop the proposal. It is not unusual for the proposal to go through multiple rounds of revision before the candidate is invited to move forward. However, in some cases, the candidate is encouraged to submit a formal application right away.

Please note that you may submit applications for a maximum of two graduate programmes (or one application for the Law LLM) in any application cycle.

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Dual degree with King's College London

Two-Year Dual-Degree

Programme in French and English

France & United Kingdom

King's College London and Sciences Po have expanded their historic partnership by initiating a joint Graduate Programme in International Affairs. This programme allows participating students to obtain in two years of studies with a year each in Paris and London, both a Master's degree offered by the Paris School of International Affairs of Sciences Po (PSIA) and a Master's degree offered by one of a number of schools and departments within the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College London.

Spanning a wide range of disciplines and bilingual teaching (in French and English), this selective programme will allow students to customise their training at both universities, and also to benefit from the numerous opportunities, networks and services offered on both sides of the Channel.

Programme of studies

With this collaboration, King's and Sciences Po are inaugurating a new and flexible dual degree which bridges seven programmes on the Sciences Po side with over 30 degree programmes on the King's side. As a result, students can design their own path of study from the many potential degree combinations in international affairs in both Paris and London.

This dual degree program is aimed at graduate students planning careers in diplomacy and other areas of social and public policy at the national, European and global level. 

Year 1 at Sciences Po

During the first year of the Dual Degree, students may join any one of the  seven Master's programs  offered by the Paris School of International Affairs.

Students will take 60 credits at Sciences Po. 

For more information on the Dual Degree structure at PSIA please  visit the website .

Year 2 at King's College London

The second year runs from October until September of the following year. 

Students will enrol in degree programs offered at King's College London within the following schools and departments (to be confirmed by King's) :

Russia 

• MSc Russian and Eurasian Politics & Economics

Department of Political Economy

• MA Politics and Economics of the Middle East 
• MA Political Economy
• MA Public Policy

Department of European & International Studies

• MA European Studies
• MA International Political Economy

Department of War Studies

• MA Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies
• MA Conflict, Security & Development
• MA Intelligence & International Security
• MA International Conflict Studies
• MA International Peace & Security
• MA International Relations
• MA Terrorism, Security & Society
• MA Strategic Communications
• MA National Security
• MA War Studies
• MSc China and Globalisation 
• MSc Emerging Economies and International Development  
• MSc Leadership and Development    
• MSc Political Economy of Emerging Markets  
• MSc Global Leadership and Peacebuilding
• MSc Global Affairs
• MA Development Studies

Application process

Candidates to the dual degree apply through Sciences Po’s website .

An estimated maximum of 25 students is expected to be admitted and enrolled per academic year. Prospective students must meet admission criteria for the chosen Master's programmes at both schools. 

Eligibility

The dual degree is open to all candidates worldwide.

Applicants do not have to be already enrolled at Sciences Po or King's to apply for the dual degree. 

Tuition fees

Students must pay the tuition fees applicable in their host institution (Sciences Po for Year 1 and King's for Year 2).

For further information, please visit the following links:

• Sciences Po for Year 1
• King's College for Year 2

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24 April 2024

Dr Sabrina Bajwah wins European Association for Palliative Care Clinical Impact Award 2024

The award is given to a clinician who has demonstrated excellence in promoting palliative care through clinical practice, public advocacy, policy or education

Dr Sabrina Bajwah has won the Clinical Impact Award in the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) Researcher Awards 2024.

The awards acknowledge individuals who have made significant contributions to research and clinical practice in palliative care, with the Clinical Impact Award given to a clinician demonstrating excellence in promoting palliative care.

Dr Sabrina Bajwah has worked as a Consultant in Palliative Medicine at King’s College Hospital for the last 10 years, returning to full-time clinical work during the Covid pandemic.

Dr Bajwah’s clinical work has raised awareness of the palliative care needs of respiratory patients. For example, at the height of the first wave of the pandemic, she led an international group of multi-disciplinary experts from across Europe to produce urgent evidence-based clinical palliative care guidance which underwent fast-track publication in the European Respiratory Journal. This improved evidence-based knowledge of palliative care and reduced patient suffering across Europe.

Her work to reduce patient suffering has led to important research into the needs of those from ethnically diverse groups, inspiring others to deliver equitable care and challenge structural racism. Dr Bajwah acknowledged the lack of information for vulnerable non-English speaking patients admitted to hospital during the first wave of the Covid pandemic. She worked with the European Lung Foundation and approached translation companies to produce translations of information factsheets for patients and families in 24 languages, within four weeks. These are now used routinely in clinical care nationally and internationally. The English factsheets have nearly 5,000 downloads, with other languages at nearly 8,000.

Her research has been influential in driving forward improvement in patient clinical care, both nationally and internationally; it has been cited in three National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) policies, UK Parliament health policy, German health policy and World Health Organisation policies.

I am delighted to be receiving this prestigious award. I have a vision of equitable end of life care for all and this drives forward both my clinical and academic work. I feel honoured that the clinical impact of my work has been recognised by the EAPC. Dr Sabrina Bajwah, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care and Honorary Consultant Palliative Medicine, King’s College NHS Foundation Trust

Find out more about the EAPC Researcher Awards 2024 . 

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Dr Sabrina Bajwah MBChB MRCGP MSc MA PhD FRCP

Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Palliative Care

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