Professor Gary Craig
Phone: WISE: +44 (0)1482 305178
Email: g.craig@hull.ac.uk
Prof. Gary Craig, B.Sc., Dip. Ed., Dip C.W.,
PhD, AcSS, FRSA is Professor Emeritus of Social Justice
at the University of Hull, Joint Head of the Centre for Social
Inclusion and Social Justice and Associate Fellow Fellow, WISE ,
where he has led the team working on issues of modern
slavery. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of
Durham and Associate Fellow at the Third Sector Research Centre,
University of Birmingham.
Prof. Craig was formerly at the Universities
of Bradford, York and (as Professor of Social Policy and Head of
the Policy Studies Research Centre), the University of Lincoln.
Prior to this, he worked in local government and the voluntary
sector, mainly in large-scale community development projects. He
was secretary of the UK Social Policy Association 1993-7, and
Executive member 1993-8 and 1999 to present, Editor of the
Community Development Journal from 1983-1997 and is a member of the
Editorial Boards of the Community Development Journal, Journal of
Social Development in Africa , Journal of Social
Policy, and the Journal of Intercultural Studies , and (formerly)
of Social Policy and Society. He has been a social policy adviser
to Family Services Unit, national policy and research adviser to
the Children’s Society and to Barnardo’s on anti-poverty work and
the involvement of young people, has advised the Derwent
Consultancy and the National Lotteries Charities Board, and has
been a UK expert adviser to the UN international workshop on
participation and to OECD on community capacity-building. He was
elected to the Board of the International Association of Community
Development in 1995 and was President from 1999-2008, now having a
roving role as International Ambassador for IACD. He managed the
evaluation of the Hull/E Riding Health Action Zone community
development stream and was a member of the academic advisory group
supporting the production of the UK Index of Multiple Deprivation
(2000-2008). He has been external examiner to six
Universities at undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels , has been
examiner of the CASE studentship scheme and of two other ESRC
postgraduate research training schemes, and was Chair of the
Subject Area panel for social policy, social work and health
studies, revising the postgraduate research training guidelines and
of the ESRC Postgraduate Training Recognition Panel for social
policy, social work and health studies. He was a member of the
social policy sub-panel for the 2008 HEFCE RAE.
Current research interests include
modern slavery, children and young people, community
development, social security, income maintenance, poverty and
anti-poverty work in local government, ‘race’ and ethnicity, rural
policy issues, local governance, the voluntary and community
sectors, and evaluation methodology. His two hundred-plus
publications include 7 edited books, more than thirty chapters in
books, and forty academic journal articles: recent edited authored
or co-authored publications include Child Slavery Now, (ed.) (2010)
Bristol: Policy Press, Community Empowerment, (1995). Zed Books;
Combating Local Poverty, Local Government Management Board; Small
Change, (1996), Joseph Rowntree Foundation; “Community care, social
security – and ‘race’”, in Community care and ‘Race’, (1996), Open
University Press; “Let them eat cake!: food poverty in the UK”, in
First World Hunger, (with Liz Dowler)(1997), Macmillan; Social
Policy Reviews 8 and 9, (1996-7), Social Policy Association; “The
privatisation of human misery”, (1998), Critical Social Policy,
Sage; “Small is beautiful? Local government reorganisation and
social services departments”, (1998), Policy and Politics;
Inclusive Regeneration (with P. Alcock et al), DETR; Developing
Local Compacts, with Marilyn Taylor and others (1999) (Joseph
Rowntree Foundation); “’Race’, poverty and social security” in An
Introduction to Social Security, (1999), Routledge; Unfinished
Business? (With Jill Manthorpe) (1999), Policy Press; What Counts?
, what works? : The evaluation of local government anti-poverty
work, IDeA (1999); Fresh Fields? : Issues in rural social care,
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2000), what works in community
development with children? (Barnardo’s) (2000); Young urban and
female (with R. Alsop and S. Clisby) (YWCA 2001); and International
social policy: Welfare regimes in the developed world, Macmillan
(with P. Alcock) (Palgrave, 2001 ; 2nd edition 2008 ); Missing
Connexions (with Liz Britton, Bob Coles and Balbir Chatrik et al.),
Policy Press; Trust or Contract? : evaluating of local compacts,
with Marilyn Taylor et al. (Policy Press); The paradox of compacts
(Home Office 2005) with Marilyn Taylor; A Turning Point? - The
state of race relations in Hull (Hull City Council 2005); Rural
Community Value – measuring the impact of rural community councils
(DEFRA 2006) with Malcolm Moseley and Others. Sure Start with Black
and Minority Ethnic Groups, with others (DfES) , Contemporary
Slavery in the UK (with others) (JRF , 2008) and Mapping
Rapidly Changing ethnic minority populations, for JRF (2009).
A n edited book on social justice and public policy (jointly
edited: Policy Press), was published 2008 . A
book on Child Slavery (Policy Press) will be published in
2010 and on Community Development in the UK
(Policy Press) in 2011.
Major recent and current research projects
include career dynamics and welfare needs of black and Asian 16-17
year olds (JRF); policy influence by voluntary and community
organisations (ESRC – with University of Brighton); rural health
inequalities (Prince’s Trust); black mental health advocacy (JRF –
with MIND); evaluating local compacts (JRF – with University of
Brighton); Councillors as partners (JRF); Young women in rural and
urban areas (two projects – both YWCA); evaluation of Action Pays,
young people in community action (NCVYS); the social and economic
impacts on communities of refugees and migrants (DTLR); teenage
pregnancy in rural and coastal areas (Dept. of Health/TPU – with
Universities of Liverpool and Brighton); the impact of compacts (3
studies: Home Office – with UWE); the national evaluation of the
Children’s Fund Local Network Fund (DfES Children and Young
People’s Unit, with University of York and BRMB); the economic
contribution of the voluntary sector to regional development
(Yorkshire Forward); asset-based community development (Carnegie
Trust); international knowledge exchange in community development
(Esmee Fairbairn Foundation); the place of ‘ethnicity’ in the
national Sure Start programme (DfES); issues in contemporary
slavery (Joseph Rowntree Foundation); mapping ethnic minorities in
rapidly changing populations (JRF); Forced Labour and the
Gangmaster's Licensing Authority (Oxfam)(2009); and Forced labour
in the UK (JRF).
He was the first person in the world to hold a
Chair in Social Justice. He was a member of the Carnegie UK Trust
Commission on Rural Community Development for which he has written
several papers and is a research adviser to the Big Lottery Fund.
He was elected Academician to the Academy of Learned Societies in
the Social Sciences in 2002 and has been a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts since 2002. He will be attending the
ILO/Government of the Netherlands International Convention on the
worst forms of child labour in 2010 as an expert adviser and was
recently made a Trustee of the Desmond Tutu Foundation UK.
Publications
For details of publications, either on modern
slavery issues or more widely on social justice and social
policy, please contact Professor Craig
Email: g.craig@hull.ac.uk