Peter Townsend, who sadly passed away in June 2009, had a long career researching an exceptional range of topics within the social sciences and campaigning against social inequalities.This reader brings together for the first time a collection of his most distinctive work, allowing readers to review changes and continuities over the past six decades, and reflect on social issues that have returned to the fore today. A particular feature of the volume is in tracing the links between empirical evidence and both social theory and social policy, and how those disciplines intersect. This reader will provide a teaching and learning resource for students in different disciplines of the social sciences and will also provide an insight into the development of one scientist's entire intellectual approach. We hope it will be a fitting memorial to his life and work.
Alan Walker, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, David Gordon, Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Ruth Levitas, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, Peter Phillimore, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Chris Phillipson, School of Sociology and Criminology, Keele University., Margot E. Salomon, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science and Nicola Yeates, Department of Social Policy, The Open University
David Gordon is Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research and Professor of Social Justice in the School for Policy
Studies, University of Bristol.
Ruth Levitas has been Professor of Sociology at Bristol since 2001, and a member of the Department of Sociology at Bristol since 1979.
Peter Phillimore is professor of social anthropology at Newcastle University, in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology.
Chris Phillipson has held the post of Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology, at the University of Keele since 1988. C
Margot E. Salomon is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Law Department, London School of Economics and
Political Science.
Alan Walker joined the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield in 1977 and has been a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer
and Reader in Social Policy.
Nicola Yeates is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Dublin City University.