Dr Adam Whitworth
Professor
Work, Employment and Organisation
Personal statement
Professor Adam Whitworth is an expert in the design and analysis of employment support interventions to support people to move into, stay in and progress in employment. He has particular expertise in issues around work-health, Supported Employment and IPS in population groups beyond severe mental health, quasi-market forms and effects, local integration, and policy analysis. He has published over 50 peer reviewed articles, book chapters and policy reports.
An applied scholar by nature, his work combines theoretical and empirical analysis and relates to key priorities and challenges amongst policy stakeholders and programmes. He has supported the design and mobilisation of large scale employment interventions in central and regional government in the UK context, including the world's largest IPS trial.
He serves on the Editorial Board of Social Policy & Administration and is a member of the Social Policy Association. Prior to joining Strathclyde in 2021 he worked at the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford. He holds an undergraduate degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (First Class), MSc and DPhil in Comparative Social Policy all from the University of Oxford.
Qualifications
DPhil (2007) University of Oxford: 'Work, care and social inclusion: lone motherhood under New Labour'
MSc Comparative Social Policy (2003) University of Oxford
MA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economics (First Class) (2001) St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Publications
- Activation, work and well‐being : theory, evidence and policy implications
- Whitworth Adam
- Social Policy and Administration (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13120
- Individual Placement and Support (IPS) beyond severe mental health : an overview review and meta-analysis of evidence around vocational outcomes
- Whitworth Adam, Baxter Susan, Cullingworth Jane, Clowes Mark
- Preventive Medicine Reports Vol 43 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2024.102786
- Understanding interventions and outcomes in supported employment and individual placement support : A qualitative evidence synthesis
- Baxter Susan, Cullingworth Jane, Whitworth Adam, Runswick-Cole Katherine, Clowes Mark
- Disability and Health Journal Vol 17 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2024.101579
- Homopositivity across Europe : predictors, pathways, and moderators
- Whitworth Adam, Moretti Angelo
- Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol 52, pp. 945-955 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02531-8
- Spatial creaming and parking? The case of the UK Work Programme
- Whitworth A
- Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy Vol 14, pp. 135-152 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-020-09349-0
- Estimating the uncertainty of a small area estimator based on a microsimulation approach
- Moretti Angelo, Whitworth Adam
- Sociological Methods and Research (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124120986199
Research Interests
Research Interests:
- employment support policy
- labour market activation
- quasi-market forms and effects
- policy design and governance
- Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
- work and health
- labour market precarity
- socio-spatial inequality
- comparative social policy
- policy evaluation
- small area estimation
Projects
- Research Excellence Award: Future Shifts: Growing Good Work Opportunities for People with Learning Disabilities and Autism Known to Adult Social Care Services
- Whitworth, Adam (Academic) Strokosch, Kirsty (Academic)
- 01-Jan-2025
- Lived experience for impact: enabling work-orientated service systems change and mutual value co-creation through the lived experience of working age adults with learning disabilities and autism
- Strokosch, Kirsty (Principal Investigator) MacIntyre, Gillian (Co-investigator) Whitworth, Adam (Co-investigator)
- Project runs from 1/10/25 - 31/07/26
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- WISHES: Workplace Intervention for Sustainable Health and Employment Support (Work & Health Programme)
- Whitworth, Adam (Principal Investigator) Figus, Gioele (Co-investigator) Findlay, Patricia (Co-investigator) Lindsay, Colin (Co-investigator) McIntyre, Stuart (Co-investigator) Remnant, Jennifer (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2028
- West London Alliance IPS in Primary Care, Social Care and Further Education Pathways Evaluation - Part 2
- Whitworth, Adam (Principal Investigator) Cullen, Anne Marie (Co-investigator) Vian, Jessica Enara (Co-investigator)
- Combined KE 4409 and KE 4410
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Evaluating North Wales Supported Employment Model for people with learning difficulties
- Whitworth, Adam (Principal Investigator) Cullen, Anne Marie (Co-investigator) Vian, Jessica Enara (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- WHERC: Building towards a vision of Work-Health Expert Research Collaboration/Centre (WHDA-01-01)
- Whitworth, Adam (Principal Investigator) Findlay, Patricia (Co-investigator) Lindsay, Colin (Co-investigator) Smith, Kat (Co-investigator) Megiddo, Itamar (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
Contact
Dr
Adam
Whitworth
Professor
Work, Employment and Organisation
Email: adam.whitworth@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 553 6064