
Professor Patricia Kennett
B.Sc., Ph.D.(Bristol)
Current positions
Professor of International and Comparative Public Policy
School for Policy Studies
Contact
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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.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Critical Human Security and Public Policy Challenges in a Post-Covid World: UK and South Korea
Principal Investigator
Description
This ESRC funded project brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the UK and South Korea to contribute to the development of a body of knowledge, academic exchange and…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/02/2022 to 31/08/2023
Critical Human Security and Sustainable Public Policy in a post-Covid World: UK and South Korea
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/02/2022 to 31/07/2023
Critical Human Security and Sustainable Public Policy in a post-Covid World: UK and South Korea
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/02/2022 to 31/07/2023
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;…Dates
01/02/2017 to 31/08/2017
Thesis supervisions
Assessing the changing dynamics of housing policy since 2007: a policy paradigms approach
Supervisors
Understandings and practices of citizenship in marginalised settings
Supervisors
Modernisation, Confucianism and Gender Justice in Rural and Urban China
Supervisors
Understanding integration policy-making in Japan using a field analytical approach
Supervisors
Growing city, resettled people and contesting rights
Supervisors
Policy movement through the lens of postcolonial feminism, policy transfer, and policy translation
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
08/10/2024Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea
Social Policy and Society
Critical human security and the uneven distribution of risk and insecurity: Neighbourhoods and the pandemic in Delhi, India
Social Policy in Low Income Countries
The Students Companion to Social Policy