Professor Graham Room

Acting Director

Graham Room is Acting Director of the Institute for Policy Research (IPR). He has led the development of the IPR during the period since 2011.

He is Professor of European Social Policy and is author, co-author or editor of twelve books, the most recent being Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy: Agile Decision-Making in a Turbulent World, Edward Elgar, 2011. He was Founding Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy and is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences.

He has been a consultant to the European Commission in regard to the development of its social action programmes in the field of poverty and social exclusion, the Second European Programme to Combat Poverty and the EU Observatory on National Policies to Combat Social Exclusion. He was a member of the Council of Europe Steering Group on Poverty and Marginalisation and Special Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities. In addition he has held various academics posts and roles at the University of Bath including Head of Social Science.

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