Public Policy and Governance

Anthony Kevins is an award-winning political scientist who studies the interplay between public opinion, policy-making processes, and government legislation. His research on the political determinants of workfare policy reforms was awarded the 2024 Socio-Economic Review Best Article Prize, while his study on the impact of claims about welfare state generosity on public opinion received the 2019 Harrison Prize for the best paper published in Political Studies. His most recent research project, examining the UK public’s social care reform preferences under conditions of scarcity, is funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant. 

Caroline Kennedy-Pipe is a leading expert in the study of war. In 2024, she was awarded the Professional Association Award by the British International Studies Association (BISA) for her distinguished contributions to International Studies. Her latest research on Arctic and High North geopolitics, urban warfare, and terrorism continues to make a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary war. She is a regular adviser to NATO, the UK Ministry of Defence and the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee, amongst others.

Duncan Depledge is leading research with funding from the ESRC that aims to further understanding of the implications of climate change and the global energy transition for the future character of military operations and war. Duncan has been engaged as a subject matter expert by NATO, the UK Ministry of Defence, and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.  He has served as an expert witness to several UK Parliamentary Select Committees and as a Special Adviser to the House of Commons Defence Committee.

Professor Justin Waring has led a programme of research partly funded by the Health Foundation and the National Institute of Health and Care Research that advances a decentred analysis on contemporary public governance. Collaborating with Professor Mark Bevir (Department of Political Science, University California, Berkeley), this has involved a series of focused enquiries on the challenges of governance in health policy, public health, policy networks, co-production and public professionalism. This work has resulted a number of collaborative outputs included: Bevir and Waring, Decentring Health Policy (Routledge, 2019), Bevir and Waring, Decentring Health and Care Networks (Palgrave, 2020), Bevir, Needham and Waring (2019) ‘Inside Co-production: ruling, resistance and practice’, Social Policy and Society

Dermot Hodson is Professor of Political Economy and Digital Technologies at Loughborough University London. A former economist at the European Commission, he has published extensively on European integration, EU governance and topics in European political economy such as the disruptive potential of FinTech. Dermot Hodson is Principal-Investigator for Banking on Europe, a three-year projected funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council on how the EU became a sovereign-style borrower and he is author of Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It (Yale University Press, 2023). His work has appeared in the Guardian, the Irish Times, Politico Europe and the Washington Post.