Prof Michael Hill
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Visiting Professor London School of Economics and Political Science m.hill1@lse.ac.uk michael_j_hill@msn.com Telephone: n/a |
Research Interests
Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Newcastle. In addition to his Visiting Professorship at PSSRU he is also a Visiting Professor at the School of Applied Social Sciences in the University of Brighton. Earlier he was a Senior Lecturer at the School for Advanced Urban Studies in the University of Bristol, a Research Officer at the Department of Social and Administrative Studies at the University of Oxford, a Lecturer at the University of Reading and a civil servant in the National Assistance Board.
Michael has written widely on social policy and on the making and implementation of public policy (including several successful textbooks) and was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Social Policy Association in 2009.
He has varied research experience, much of his earlier work was on social security issues but this led on to work on social care issues, particularly where the two policy areas interact. He was editor of Policy and Politics from 1980 to 1983 and joint-editor of the Journal of Social Policy from 1999-2003. He was a member of the Council on Tribunals 1991 to 1997.
He was an elected member of Reading County Borough Council 1966-69 and founding honorary secretary of Reading Community Relations Council (later Reading Council for Racial Equality).
Michael continues to be very interested in the development of theory and research on the policy process and is involved in collaborations with Dr Peter Hupe of Erasmus University Rotterdam on writings on implementation and the roles of ‘street-level bureaucrats' and with Professor Frederic Varone of the University of Geneva on an update of a textbook on the policy process. He has a continuing interest in social policy development in East Asia, having been a regular visitor particularly to Taiwan (where he has a number of former students).
