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Dr Kevin Caraher

BA (Surrey), MA (Durham), PhD (Durham)

  • Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
  • Programme Director - Online MA in Social and Public Policy
  • PGT Social Policy Admissions

Areas of expertise

  • Labour market vulnerability, self-employment and social policy
  • Pensions policy in East and Southeast Asia
  • The policy process
  • Comparative and international social policy

Academic Biography

My current research interests are focused on two particular themes:

1) Vulnerability and social policy reform with particular reference to self-employment and labour market policies. I am interested in the interaction between a particular conceptualisation of vulnerability and the impact on notions of citizenship and self in a range of economic settings.

2) Pensions reform and the continued role of individual savings accounts in the form of provident funds in post-colonial/developing nation states. 

I teach a variety of modules including Comparative Social Policy; Globalization and Social Policy and Policy Analysis and Process, Labour Markets, Citizenship and Welfare I have previously worked in the Departments of Sociology and Social Policy at the Universities of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne. I hold an MA and a PhD in Comparative social policy (University of Durham) with the latter exploring the interface between globalisation and domestic institutional reform in Malaysia.

Professional activities

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Social Policy, 2020-2023
  • Former co-editor, Government, Policy and Management: A Reader, 2010-2015
  • Member of the Editorial Board Social Policy and Society, 2006-2010

Kevin Caraher

Contact details

Dr Kevin Caraher
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
CL/A/120D

School for Business and Society

+44 (0)1904 32 1296
kevin.caraher@york.ac.uk

Skype: kevin.caraher