Dr Paul Bridgen

Associate Professor in Social Policy

Dr Paul Bridgen is Associate Professor in Social Policy within Sociology at the University of Southampton.

Much of my most recent work has been on pension policy and politics. I also have longstanding interests in the more general politics of policy-making.

Paul Bridgen (Senior Lecturer in Social Policy) joined the Division in September 1998. He took a BA (Hons) in History at the University of Birmingham and then gained an MSc in Politics at the London School of Economics. In 2001, he was awarded a PhD by the University of London for a thesis on the early British Labour Party's development of a foreign policy.

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Research interests

Much of my most recent work has been on pension policy and politics. Between 2003 and 2006, I was the joint academic coordinator (with Traute Meyer) of a European Union-funded six-country research project on pensions and social inclusion. This project assessed the distributive implications of recent reforms in European pension systems on the basis of micro-simulations of pension outcomes from both the public and private sector for a range of vulnerable citizens. This work has resulted in the publication of a book (edited with Traute Meyer), Private Pensions versus Social Inclusion? (Edward Elgar) and a number of published and submitted papers. Building on this research, I am currently researching occupational pension developments in Britain and Germany as part of the Anglo-German Foundation’s Creating Sustainable Growth in Europe research initiative. This aims to establish new insights on the under-researched area of private social-policy making. I also have longstanding interests in the more general politics of policy-making.

Work in progress

Accepted for publication in West European Politics, 2009: Paul Bridgen and Traute Meyer: The politics of occupational pension reform in Britain and the Netherlands: the power of market discipline in liberal and corporatist regimes.

Research project(s)

The reconstruction of British and German pension regimes

Free movement, pension costs: the projected pension outcomes of European Union migrants to Britain in comparative perspective

Dr Paul Bridgen
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

Room Number : 58/4093

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