University of Kent

Research

General Interests

Professor Jan Pahl has long-standing research interests in three areas. These are the control and allocation of money within the family, domestic violence, and health and social care. She is also editor of the Journal of Social Policy, jointly with Dr Emma Wincup.

Her research on the control and allocation of money was published as Money and Marriage (Macmillan 1989) and Invisible Money: Family Finances in the Electronic Economy (Policy Press 1999). She has a wide range of international links and welcomes contacts and collaboration with other researchers working on family finances, financial exclusion, new forms of money and related topics. Her current research is concerned with changes in the ways in which couples organise their money and with financial exclusion.  She welcomes queries from the media about these topics. .

Her research on domestic violence was published as Private Violence and Public Policy (Routledge 1985) and led on to invitations to represent the UK at international meetings organised by the United Nations and the World Health Organisation. Her work was quoted in the Grand Committee debate on the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill (see Hansard 5 February 2004). Jan Pahl's most recent publication is about domestic violence as a global social problem and was written jointly with two graduate students who completed their PhDs in the School.

Current Research Projects

Jan Pahl is currently working as a consultant to the Department of Health on the implementation of the Research Governance Framework in the field of Social Care. As part of this work she has carried out a survey of research activity in social services and has lectured and consulted extensively on the ethics of research. For further information click here.

Jan Pahl is an Academic Adviser to two on-going research projects.  They are Dr Lavinia Mitton's study of  ‘Future Financial Exclusion: a UK Policy Review', which is based at the University of Kent and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and  Dr Roy Gilbar's project on ‘the Status of the Family in Medical Decision-making', which is based at Queen Mary College, London, and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

Research Supervision

Jan Pahl would be happy to supervise postgraduate students working on the control and allocation of money in the family, or on domestic violence.

Past Research Projects

Past projects include a major study of the social services workforce, carried out when she was Director of Research at the National Institute for Social Work. Other studies, now completed, were concerned with:

• Families with a child with a learning disability
• Community care for people with mental illnesses
• Day services for elderly people
• Health care for Travellers
• Violence against social care staff

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

• Pahl, J. (2006) The cost of caring for a child with a disability, in Cash and Care: Policy Challenges in the Welfare State, edited by C. Glendinning and P. Kemp, Bristol , Policy Press.
• Pahl, J. (2005) Individualisation in couple finances: who pays for the children? Social Policy and Society, 4, 4, 381-392.
• Pahl, J., Hasanbegovic, C. and Yu, M. (2004) Globalisation and family violence, in Global Social Problems and Global Social Policy, edited by V. George and R. Page, London, Polity Press.
• Pahl, J. (2003) The family and the production of welfare, in Social Policy, edited by J. Baldock, N. Manning and S. Vickerstaff, Oxford University Press, 159 - 193.
• Pahl, J. (2001) Widening the scope of social policy: families, financial services and the impact of technology, in Risk and Citizenship: Key Issues in Welfare, edited by R. Edwards and J. Glover, London, Routledge.
• Pahl, J. (2001) Couples and their money: theory and practice in personal finances, in Social Policy Review 13, edited by R. Sykes, N. Ellison and C. Bochel, Bristol, Policy Press.
• Pahl, J. (2000) Couples and their money: patterns of accounting and accountability in the domestic economy', Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 13, 4, 502 - 517.
• Pahl, J. (2000) The gendering of spending within households, Radical Statistics, 75, 38 - 48, Autumn.
• Pahl, J. (2000) Donne e denaro nell'economica elettronica, in F. Bimbi e E. Ruspini, (eds) Poverta delle donne e transformazione dei rapporti di genere, Inchiesta, no. 128, aprile-giugno, edizioni Dedalo, Bari.
• Pahl, J. (2000) Money, households and social polarisation, in Reviewing Class Analysis, edited by R. Crompton, M. Savage, F. Devine and J. Scott, Sociological Review Monograph, 87 - 106.
• Pahl, J. and Opit, L. (2000) Patterns of exclusion in the electronic economy, in Researching Poverty, edited by J. Bradshaw and R. Sainsbury, Aldershot, Ashgate.
• Pahl, J. (2000) Violence in the social services, in The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Work, edited by M. Davies, Blackwell Publishers, 362 - 3.

Publications on Money

• Books

• Pahl, J. (1999) Invisible Money: Family Finances in the Electronic Economy, Policy Press, Bristol.
• Pahl, J. (1989) Money and Marriage, Macmillan, Basingstoke.

• Chapters in books

• Pahl, J. (2001) Widening the scope of social policy: families, financial services and the impact of technology, in Risk and Citizenship: Key Issues in Welfare, edited by R. Edwards and J. Glover, Routledge.
• Pahl, J. (2001) Couples and their money: theory and practice in personal finances, in Social Policy Review 13, edited by R. Sykes, N. Ellison and C. Bochel, Policy Press.
• Pahl, J. (2000) Money, households and social polarisation, in Reviewing Class Analysis, edited by R. Crompton, M. Savage, F. Devine and J. Scott, Sociological Review Monograph, 87 - 106.
• Pahl, J. (2000) Patterns of exclusion in the electronic economy, in Researching Poverty, edited by J. Bradshaw and R. Sainsbury, Aldershot, Ashgate.
• Pahl, J. (2000) The control and allocation of money within the family, in The New Citizenship of the Family, edited by H. Cavanna, Aldershot, Ashgate.

• Articles

• Pahl, J. (2000) Couples and their money: patterns of accounting and accountability in the domestic economy, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 13, 4, 502 - 517.
• Pahl, J. (2000) The gendering of spending within households, Radical Statistics, 75, 38 - 48, Autumn.
• Pahl, J. (2000) Donne e demaro nell'economica electronica, in Inchiesta, anno XXX, 128, 14 - 21.
• Pahl, J. (1995) His money, her money: recent research on financial organisation in marriage, Journal of Economic Psychology, 16, 3.
• Vogler, C. and Pahl, J (1994) Money, power and inequality within marriage, Sociological Review, 42, 2, 263-288.
• Vogler, C. and Pahl, J. (1993) Social and economic change and the organisation of money in marriage, Work, Employment and Society, 7, 1, 71-95.
• Pahl, J. (1990) Household spending, personal spending and the control of money in marriage, Sociology, 24, 1, 119 138.

Memberships

Together with Emma Wincup I am co-editor of the Journal of Social Policy.

I am:

• Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health (since 1991)
• Regional Representative on Research Committee 32 (Women and Society) of the International Sociological Association (since 2002)
• Trustee of Grandparents Plus (since 2004)

I am also a member of the:

• Social Policy Association
• Social Research Association
• International Sociological Association
• British Sociological Association
• International Association for Research in Economic Psychology