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Dr Michael Cahill BA (Hons), Dip Soc Admin, DPhil

Reader in Social Policy

contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643467

Email: M.Cahill@brighton.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Social inequalities and transport policy
  • Walking: sociological and social policy perspectives
  • Social policy and 'green' perspectives

Teaching

  • Transport, Environment and Society
  • History of Social policy
  • Social policy and the environment

Profile

Michael Cahill has taught at University of Brighton since 1984, having previously worked at Universities of Ulster and York. His academic interests focus on relating social policy to everyday life in consumer society - a theme he first explored in the New Social Policy (Blackwell, 1994) and making the connections between social policy and environmental and green debates.

He has written a student text book on this topic - The Environment and Social Policy (Routledge, 2002) and edited two books both with Tony Fitzpatrick of the University of Nottingham: Environmental Issues and Social Welfare (Blackwell, 2002) and Environment and Welfare: towards a green social policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) He is currently writing a book on transport, environment and society to be published by Open University Press in 2008.

Michael's current research interests include the sociology of walking and he is part of the Sustainable Mobilities Research Group.

Other roles

  • Reviews Editor of Social Policy and Administration and a member of the editorial board of Social Policy and Society.
  • Member of the NICE Programme Development Group on Physical Activity and the Environment.
  • Visiting Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Granada teaching on the Masters in Globalisation, Migration Studies and Social Intervention.

Recent publications

Book chapters

Cahill, M. (2007) "The Green Perspective"' in Alcock, P., Erskine, A and May M (eds) The Student's Companion to Social Policy 3rd ed. Oxford: Blackwell

Cahill, M. (2007) "The Environment and Green Social Policy' in Baldock, J. Manning, N and Vickerstaff, S. (eds) Social Policy 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Journal article

Number of items: 11.

Cahill, Michael (2012) Green perspectives In: Alcock, Pete, May, Margaret and Rowlingson, Karen, eds. The student's companion to social policy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.

Cahill, Michael, Aldred, R. and Macgregor, S. (2011) Special issue Environment and Social Policy SAGE Publications.

Cahill, Michael (2011) Transport In: Fitzpatrick, Tony, ed. Understanding the Environment and Social Policy. The Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 227-244. ISBN 978 1 84742 379 5, 978 1 84742 380 1

Cahill, Michael (2010) Transport, environment and society Open University Press, Maidenhead.

Cahill, Michael (2007) Why the U-turn on sustainable transport? Capitalism, Nature and Socialism, 18 (4). pp. 90-103. ISSN 1045-5752

Cahill, Michael (2003) The environment and green social policy In: Baldock, John, Manning, Nick and Vickerstaff, Sarah, eds. Social Policy. Second Edition. Oxford University Press, UK. ISBN 0199258945

Cahill, Michael (2003) The green perspective In: Alcock, Pete, Erskine, Angus and May, Margaret, eds. The student's companion to social policy. Second Edition. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 121-126. ISBN 1405102918

Fitzpatrick, Tony and Cahill, Michael, eds. (2002) Environment and welfare: towards a green social policy Palgrave Macmillan, UK. ISBN 033391984X

Cahill, Michael (2002) Local welfare: state and society In: Fitzpatrick, Tony and Cahill, Michael, eds. Environment and welfare: towards a green social party. Palgrave Macmillan, UK, pp. 82-96. ISBN 033391984X

Cahill, Michael and Fitzpatrick, Tony, eds. (2002) Environmental issues and social welfare Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy . Blackwell Publishing, UK. ISBN 0631235523

Cahill, Michael (2001) The environment and social policy The Gildredge Social Policy Series . Routledge, UK. ISBN 095335718X

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Conference papers

Cahill, M. (2005) "Communities and the Car" HSPRC Communities & Care Conference

Cahill, M. (2004) "Social exclusion and sustainable travel in a car-owning democracy." SPA conference, Nottingham, July 2004

Cahill, M. (2004) "Citizenship and Transport" Social Policy Association Conference, University of Nottingham

Cahill, M. (2004) "Social exclusion and social policy" Department of Social Work, Comillas University, Madrid