Professor Patricia Kennett
B.Sc., Ph.D.(Bristol)
Current positions
Professor of International and Comparative Public Policy
School for Policy Studies
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Research interests
Comparative and international social and public policy; cities, sustainable development and social change; governance and the global political economy.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Professor of International and Comparative Public Policy
School for Policy Studies
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Critical Human Security and Sustainable Urban Development in India
Principal Investigator
Description
As population growth and migration have put increasing pressure on India’s major cities, peri-urban development and satellite towns have emerged to relieve the pressure points as well as to become…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
02/01/2020 to 30/06/2020
Meeting Points
Principal Investigator
Description
There is a common assumption that neighbourliness and street-level interaction and connections have diminished, as contemporary society has become more mobile and individualised, and as residential streets grow increasingly diverse;…Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/02/2017 to 31/08/2017
Digital Engagement and Citizenship in the Smart City
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Cities globally are being (re)imagined as “smart cities”, with digital technologies offering opportunities for innovations in city management, civic engagement and place making. Local-level innovation is occurring idiosyncratically and independently…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/01/2016 to 31/03/2016
The uneven impact of the economic crisis on cities and households: Bristol and Liverpool compared
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
06/06/2011 to 06/04/2013
The uneven impact of recession on cities and households: Bristol and Liverpool compared
Principal Investigator
Description
This project will explore the impact of the economic recession on cities and households through a systematic comparison of the experiences of two English cities, Bristol and Liverpool. The research…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/09/2011 to 30/09/2012
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/08/2018Discipline, debt and coercive commodification
Critical Social Policy
Introduction to Themed Section
Critical Social Policy
(Dis)integration, disjuncture and the multidimensional crisis of the European social project
Handbook of European Social Policy
Handbook of European Social Policy
Handbook of European Social Policy
Global policy paradigm, gender equality and everyday lives in Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul and Taipei
Gender, Place and Culture
