Noel Whiteside
Professor of Comparative Public Policy
Tel: (0)24 765 32173
Email: N.Whiteside@warwick.ac.uk
Room: D0.13
Profile
Noel Whiteside is Professor of Comparative Public Policy. She is a contemporary historian of social and public policy development with specific interests in labour markets and constructions of social dependency in comparative (European) perspective. Current research projects include:
- the impact of financial crisis on pensions and pension policies (funded by the European Commission under Framework 7 - GUSTO).
Noel Whiteside has been a visiting Fellow at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), the Ecole Normale Superieur at Cachan (Paris), the universities of Sydney and Macquarie (Australia) and, most recently, at Columbia University's Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall (Paris) in 2005-6. She was appointed Zurich Financial Services Fellow in 2000 and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society the following year. She sits on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Nordforsk programme on Nordic Excellence in Welfare Research (2008-12).
Recent books include Pension Futures in the Twenty-first Century: Redrawing the Public-Private Divide (2003 & 2005), Britain's Pensions Crisis: history and policy (2006), and Transforming European Employment Policy: labour market transitions and the promotion of capability (2011).
She teaches on undergraduate modules Social Welfare in Britain and Creating Social Europe; and convenes MA module Restructuring Welfare States: European perspectives.
Researh Interests
European labour market policies; Social security; Comparative systems of governance
Current Research Project
- Superannuation Flagship Cluster, with Professor Robert M Lindley, Institute for Employment Research, Mr Bernard H Casey - Institute for Employment Research Prof Noel Whiteside - Sociology, Funded by: CSIRO, Project Start Date: 01/07/2013 Project End Date: 30/06/2016
Selected Publications
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The Beveridge Report and Its Implementation: a Revolutionary Project?, Histoire@Politique. Politique, culture, société, n° 24, septembre-décembre 2014 [en ligne, www.histoire-politique.fr]
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‘Who were the ‘unemployed’? Conventions, classifications and social security law in Britain, 1911-34’ Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 40, 1, 150-170
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Constructing unemployment: Britain and France in historical perspective’ Social Policy and Administration, 48, 1, 2014, 67-85.
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‘Privatisation and After: time, complexity and governance in the world of funded pensions’ Transfer 20, 1, 2014, 67-79
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‘Lebenschancen und Wohlfahrt: Forderung der Gleichstellung von Mannern und Frauen im forgeschritten Alter’ in. B. Huber (ed) Kurswechsel fur ein gutes Leben (campus, Frankfurt am Main 2013) 130-149
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‘Organising labour markets: the British experience’ in S. Wadauer, T. Buchner, and A. Mejstrik The History of Labor Intermediation: Institutions and Individual Ways of Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Berghahn Books 2015) 74-91
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Whiteside, N.,Ebbinghaus, B., (2012) 'Shifting responsibilities in Western European pensions systems: what future for social models' Global Social Policy 12 (3), 266 - 282
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Whiteside, N.,Mah, A., (2012) 'Human rights and ethical reasoning: capabilities, conventions and spheres of public action' Sociology 46 (5), 921 - 936
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Whiteside, N. (2012) 'The Liberal era and the growth of state welfare?' in Social Policy 4th Ed., 117 - 124, Editors: P. Alcock, M. May and S. Wright
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Whiteside, N. (2011) 'Creating public value' in Public Value: theory and practice, 74 - 89, Editors: J. Benington and M. H. Moore, Palgrave
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Whiteside, N. (2011) 'Creating collective capability: historical perspectives on co-ordinated public action?' in Transforming European Employment Policy: labour market transitions and the promotion of capability, 157 - 181, Editors: R. Rogowski, R. Salais and N. Whiteside, Elgar