Professor
Paul Spicker holds the Grampian Chair of Public Policy at the Robert Gordon
University, Aberdeen, Scotland, and is the Director of the Centre
for Public Policy and Management. He has written widely in the field of
social policy, having published thirteen books, several shorter works and over
70 academic papers. His research has included studies related to benefit delivery
systems, the care of old people, psychiatric patients, housing management and
local anti-poverty strategy. He has experience of housing and welfare rights
work, and has also been a consultant on social welfare in practice, having done
work for a range of agencies at local, national and international levels.
His published work includes:
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1.
The idea of poverty, Policy Press, 175 pp.
2. The ethics of policy research, Evidence and Policy 3(1) pp 99-118.
3. Poverty: an international glossary, co-edited with S Alvarez Leguizamon and D Gordon, Zed Books, 246 pp.
4. Myths of absenteeism mask the true issues to be addressed on incapacity, The Scotsman 27th November pp 50-1.
5. Research
without consent, Social Research Update no. 51, 4 pp
Paul Spicker was also a Special Adviser to the Work and Pensions Committee for their seventh report, Benefits simplification, 2007.

1.
Social Policy: Themes and Approaches, Policy Press 307 pp. Second, revised
edition.
2. Government for the people: the substantive elements of democracy, International Journal of Social Welfare 17(2) pp 251-9
3. Generalising from policy research, Social Policy Association Conference, Edinburgh 23-25th June.
4. Reforming welfare: the earliest studies in Social Policy, Social Policy Association Conference, Edinburgh 23-25th June.
5. The idea of poverty (Japanese edition), trans Akutsu Yoichi, Seikatsushoin (Japan) 326 pp.
6. Submission to the Scottish Parliament's Local Government and Communities Committee: Child Poverty, Scottish Parliament 6 pp.
7. Taking forward the Government's Economic Strategy: response to the discussion paper,Scottish Government, 6 pp.
8. Evidence to the Local Government and Communities Committee, Local Government and Communities Committee Offical Report, Scottish Parliament 26th November 2008
1. Welfare reform has the makings of a nightmare as jobs disappear, Scotsman 15th January.
2. What is a priority?. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 2009 14(2) 112-6
3. The foundations of welfare: Bruges and Ypres, Social Policy Association conference, Edinburgh 30th June.
4. D Byrne, P Spicker, Ethical principles in social policy research and practice, Social Policy Association conference, Edinburgh 1st July.
5. The nature of a public service, International Journal of Public Administration 2009 32(11) pp 970-991.
6. Benefits have far wider role than helping the jobless, Scotsman 8th October p 45.
Earlier material by Paul Spicker still available on the Web includes