Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby FBA

Risk and uncertainty; social policy and state welfare, especially theoretical and normative approaches; cross-national comparative work in Europe and East Asia; public attitudes to inequality, social justice and social policy

Elected 2009

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2009
Sections: Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website: https://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/academic/t-v/taylor-gooby-peter.html

Professor Taylor-Gooby's research interests include the theory and politics of the welfare state, public attitudes to welfare and comparative social policy in Europe, Korea and China. He directs the NORFACE Our Children's Europe project, (using democratic forums), and participates in the EU Inspires and the ESRC The Effects of Private and Quasi-Private Schooling projects. He has directed some 40 projects for ESRC, the EU and a number of government and private sector agencies. These include the ESRC Social Contexts and Responses to Risk and Economic Beliefs and Behaviour and the EU WRAMSOC programmes. He has published 32 academic books and more than 300 articles and chapters, and is now publishing two novels. He chaired the British Academy New Paradigms in Public Policy programme (2010/2011), the REF2014 and RAE2008 Social Work and Social Policy and Administration panels and is a Founding Academician at the Academy of Social Sciences and, previously, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Sociology and Social Policy section. He participated in the Prime Minister's No 10 'progressive consensus' Round Table and advised the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit between 2009 and 2010. In 2018 he was awarded the University of Kent Prize for Advanced Research.

Current post

Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent; Director of the NORFACE Welfare State Futures (WelfSoc) Project

Publications

The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It

Peter Taylor-Gooby - Published in 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan

Reframing Social Citizenship

Peter Taylor-Gooby - Published in 2008 by Oxford University Press

Risk in Social Science

Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby and Jens Zinn - Published in 2006 by Oxford University Press

Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe

Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby - Published in 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan

New Risks, New Welfare

Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby - Published in 2004 by Oxford University Press

Making a European Welfare State?

Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby - Published in 2004 by Wiley Blackwell

Risk, Trust and Welfare

Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby - Published in 2000 by Palgrave Macmillan

What is social policy?

Nine Fellows of the British Academy respond to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Current post

Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent; Director of the NORFACE Welfare State Futures (WelfSoc) Project

Publications