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
- 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
- Policy geographies revisited
- Whitworth Adam
- People, Place and Policy Vol 14, pp. 249-261 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2020.9828744744
- Programme form and service user well-being : linking theory and evidence
- Whitworth Adam, Carter Eleanor
- Social Policy and Administration Vol 54, pp. 844-858 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12582
- Development and evaluation of an optimal composite estimator in spatial microsimulation small area estimation
- Moretti Angelo, Whitworth Adam
- Geographical Analysis Vol 52, pp. 351-370 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/gean.12219
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
- Developing Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) resources KE project
- Whitworth, Adam (Principal Investigator)
- Collaborative KE project with BASE to develop a set of SEQF fidelity resources to help Supported Employment providers to deliver the model to high fidelity and quality.
- 03-Jan-2023 - 26-Jan-2024
- IAA Supporting supported employment
- Whitworth, Adam (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Supported Employment beyond severe mental health
- Whitworth, Adam (Principal Investigator)
- Two year NIHR funded research into supported employment models of employment support beyond severe mental health
- 04-Jan-2022 - 29-Jan-2024
- Supported Employment beyond severe mental health
- Whitworth, Adam (Principal Investigator)
- Two year NIHR funded research into Supported Employment models of employment support for population groups beyond severe mental health.
- 04-Jan-2022 - 29-Jan-2024
- IPS Beyond SMI: Maximising Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Beyond Severe Mental Illness (SMI)
- Whitworth, Adam (Principal Investigator)
- 03-Jan-2022 - 02-Jan-2024
- Evaluation of WDP's Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Into Work Service
- Whitworth, Adam (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2022
Contact
Dr
Adam
Whitworth
Professor
Work, Employment and Organisation
Email: adam.whitworth@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 553 6064