Section: Staff Profiles

Richard Freeman

Name
Dr Richard Freeman
Title
Senior Lecturer
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
2.03 21 George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 4680
E-Mail
Research Interests
public policy,Social Policy,governance,Knowledge,practice
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/freeman_richard

Office hours: Monday, Wednesday 12-1

Richard Freeman teaches theory and method on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.  He was recently Research Fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Bremen (2005-2010) and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University (2007-2010).  He is Director of the University's Public Policy Network.

For more information on current research, knowledge exchange and related activity, including papers, publications and postgraduate supervision, click here.


Topics interested in supervising

I'd be glad to work with any student wanting to think critically and imaginatively about policy and governance. I'll leave it to you to decide whether those terms fit or can be made to fit for you. I'm currently supervising postgraduates writing about agency, emotion, engagement, gender, knowledge, identity, mobility, migration, mapping, participation and practice, and in contexts ranging from the Department of Health, the European Commission, the UN, the Labour Party, community development, primary health care, social services and workers' hostels. My own work tries to connect cross-national and comparative social and public policy with the sociology of knowledge. I'm increasingly interested in problems of practice, in what it is that policy makers do when they go to work. More at http://www.richardfreeman.info/.

If you are interested in being supervised by Richard Freeman, please see the links below for more information:

PhD in International Public Health Policy; PhD in Politics; PhD in Social Policy

This page was published on 6 May 2011


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