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Christopher Deeming

Christopher Deeming is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde, with research interests in the field of Comparative and Global Social Policy. His latest works with Policy Press are Minimum Income Standards and Reference Budgets: International and Comparative Policy Perspectives (2020) and Reframing Global Social Policy: Social Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth (2019).

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The Struggle for Social Sustainability

Moral Conflicts in Global Social Policy

Edited by Christopher Deeming

Leading interdisciplinary scholars focus on the ‘social’ of social policy. This ground-breaking volume tackles pressing ‘social questions’ and critically engages with contested conceptions of ‘the social’ which are increasingly deployed by international institutions and policy makers.

Minimum Income Standards and Reference Budgets

International and Comparative Policy Perspectives

Edited by Christopher Deeming

Research into minimum income standards and reference budgets around the world is compared in this illuminating collection from leading academics in the field.

Reframing Global Social Policy

Social Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

Edited by Paul Smyth and Christopher Deeming

Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth, together with internationally renowned contributors, illustrate how the merging of ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas, together with the environmental imperative of ‘sustainability’, is forging an important new social policy framework and shaping a new global development agenda.

In Defence of Welfare 2

Edited by Liam Foster, Anne Brunton, Christopher Deeming and Tina Haux

In Defence of Welfare 2 brings together nearly fifty short pieces from a diverse range of social policy academics and commentators, policy makers and journalists that focus on developments in ‘welfare’ over the last five years of Coalition Government.