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Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research
Professor John Baldock
Responsibilities
As Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research, Prof Baldock has responsibility for research, innovation and enterprise. The following department heads report to Prof Baldock:
- Acting Director of Research Services
Dr Kathy Bennett - Dean of the Graduate School
Professor Diane Houston - Director of Innovation & Enterprise
Carole Barron
Academic career
Prof Baldock is also Professor of Social Policy and a member of the research staff in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research.
His principal interests are:
- the demographic ageing of societies and its consequences and implications, particularly for social policy;
- the ways older people are provided with help and care from friends, family, the voluntary sector and the state and the differences between nations in these areas;
- the ways in which people cope with the disabilities of age, particularly the effects on one’s sense of self or identity;
- how industrial societies deal with the fact that many households seek to combine paid work with informal care for children and disabled and older adults;
- patterns of pension provision and the potential for pension reform, particularly in industrial countries.