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Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research

Professor John Baldock

Prof Alex Hughes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor External

Responsibilities

As Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research, Prof Baldock has responsibility for research, innovation and enterprise. The following department heads report to Prof Baldock:

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.

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