Dr Chris Deeming
Reader
Social Policy
Personal statement
Reader at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
PI for 7 funding UKRI funding awards
Office for National Statistics Accredited Researcher
Editor for the Journal of European Social Policy, Sage
Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Sociology, Sage
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
External Examiner for the University of Salford, Manchester
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 PhD from the University of Bristol and a BSc Hons from the University of Bath.
Prize And Awards
- Social Policy Association Award 2013
- Recipient
- 8/7/2013
- Social Policy Association Research Prize 2009
- Recipient
- 29/6/2009
- Social Policy & Administration Prize 2008
- Recipient
- 12/5/2008
Qualifications
PhD, University of Bristol
Publications
- The impacts of UK coronavirus virus job retention (furlough) scheme on mental health
- Akanni L, Deeming C, Adjei N, Wickham S, Taylor-Robinson D
- European Journal of Public Health Vol 34 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.248
- Health systems in the COVID-19 crises : comparative patterns of NHS Satisfaction and preferences for public health action in Scotland and England
- Deeming Christopher
- Social Policy and Administration Vol 58, pp. 889-911 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13015
- Comparative mainstreaming? Mapping the uses of the comparative method in social policy, sociology and political science since the 1970s
- Ferragina Emanuele, Deeming Christopher
- Journal of European Social Policy Vol 33, pp. 132-147 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287221128438
- Methodologies for comparative social policy analysis
- Ferragina Emanuele, Deeming Christopher
- Changing European Societies The Role for Social Policy Research (2022) (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802201710.00022
- Social inequality : is Scotland more Nordic than liberal?
- Deeming Christopher
- British Social Attitudes The 38th Report (2021) (2021)
- ‘Go-social’? Inclusive growth and global social governance
- Deeming Christopher
- The Struggle for Social Sustainability Moral Conflicts in Global Social Policy (2021) (2021)
Teaching
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
Research Interests
Research interests in the fields of comparative methods, global challenges and policy.
Professional Activities
- 20th Annual ESPAnet Conference: Social Policy Change between Path Dependency and Innovation, University of Vienna, Austria, 2022
- Chair
- 14/9/2022
- Unequal Security? Insecurity, Democratic Responsiveness, and Penal-Welfare Policy, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, 2022
- Invited speaker
- 8/9/2022
- Health Studies User Conference 2022, UK Data Service
- Invited speaker
- 12/7/2022
- 4th Hermann Weber Conference for the Historical Research of Communism: The Relationship between Communism and Social Policy since 1945, Berlin, Germany, 2022
- Invited speaker
- 9/6/2022
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 5/10/2021
- External Examiner for the University of Salford
- Examiner
- 1/10/2021
Projects
- Administrative Fairness and Social Security for Adults with Disabilities
- Halliday, Simon (Principal Investigator) Deeming, Chris (Co-investigator) MacIntyre, Gillian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- Changing Public Attitudes to Inequality, Poverty and Redistribution: Longitudinal Data Analysis (Studentship)
- Deeming, Chris (Principal Investigator) Curtice, John (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
- Understanding the social impacts of coronavirus under different health restrictions: Longitudinal analysis using the ONS OPN Covid-19 survey
- Deeming, Chris (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023
- Methodologies for Comparative Analysis
- Deeming, Chris (Research Co-investigator) Ferragina, Emanuele (Research Co-investigator)
- School Award - £1,552.00. The purpose of this scheme is to provide support for activities, which will promote the achievement of the School’s goals in research, knowledge exchange and pedagogy. These should include the publication of high-quality outputs, impact generation, the acquisition of external research and other funding. We also encourage the development of initiatives that help us to develop and further the work of the School in relation to the UoS Strategic Plan
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021
- A changed UK? Longitudinal data analysis collaborative project with the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen): charting changing public attitudes and political values towards the EU and welfare over three decades
- Deeming, Chris (Principal Investigator) Curtice, John (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2023
- Methodologies for Comparative Analysis
- Deeming, Chris (Research Co-investigator) Ferragina, Emanuele (Research Co-investigator)
- Grant from Sciences Po, Paris €3500
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2019