Dr Rana Jawad
Membership
- Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Social Policy since 2009.
- Treasurer of the UK Social Policy Association (SPA) since 2005.
- Chair of the SPA’s International and Comparative Social Policy Working Group since 2011.
She also runs the new Middle East and North Africa Social Policy jiscmail MENASP@jiscmail.com She is happy to hear from anyone who would like to join these groups.
PhD supervision
Rana supervises PhD research on social policy in the Middle East and religion and social policy. She is happy to hear from new applicants interested in these areas or any of the research areas mentioned above.
Profile
Rana Jawad joined DSPS as a lecturer in social policy in January 2012 having spent a couple of years as a lecturer in social policy at the University of Kent and before that, as an ESRC post-doctoral fellow at the University of Warwick.
Her main interests are in the study of social policy and the welfare regimes of the Middle East region, with particular emphasis on the Arab and Muslim populations there; and more generally in the study of religious welfare practices and how religious identity has shaped the development of welfare provision in both OECD and non-OECD countries. These two lines of enquiry make links between social policy, international development and moral philosophy and feed into a much broader theoretical focus on the meaning of wellbeing and the mutually constitutive relationship between religious identities and capitalism.
Rana currently directs an international ESRC-funded project based on the three country case studies of Iran, Lebanon and Turkey which is seeking to develop the classification of social policy in the region of the Middle East beyond the Rentier state, and more broadly to develop a cultural approach to comparative social policy analysis. The project website will be posted here soon. Rana has acted as consultant to international agencies such as DFID and ESCWA on the subject of social policy and religion in the Middle East.
Research interests
- Social policy and welfare regimes in the Middle East
- Islamic welfare practices
- The role of religion in shaping social and public policy, and social welfare in OECD and non-OECD countries
- Culture and social policy
- The relationship between religion and Capitalism
- Social movements
- The voluntary sector
- Culture and social policy
- Ethics of social welfare
Teaching
Undergraduate
Rana is Admissions Tutor for Undergraduate programmes within DSPS.
- SP20005: Power and policy: an introduction to critical policy analysis
- Religion and Public Policy
Publications
Book/s
Jawad, R., 2012. From wellbeing to ways of being: religion and faith-based welfare in the UK. Bristol: Policy Press.
Jawad, R., 2009. Religion and Social Welfare in the Middle East: A Lebanese Perspective. Bristol: Policy Press.
Book Sections
Jawad, R., 2013. Forthcoming. Reinstating Social Policy in the Arab World: Some New Analytical Perspectives on Religion and Social Citizenship. In: Parker, J., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Azman, A., eds. Social Welfare Responses to the Consequences of Civil Unrest in the Muslim World. London: Routledge.
Gal, J. and Jawad, R., 2013. The Middle East. In: Greve, B., ed. International handbook of the welfare state. Abingdon: Routledge. (Routledge International Handbooks)
Jawad, R., 2012. Religion. In: Alcock, P., May, M. and Wright, S., eds. The Student’s Companion to Social Policy Companion, 4th ed. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 160-165.
Jawad, R., 2012. Social Policy in Middle Eastern Societies. In: Alcock, P., May, M. and Wright, S., eds. The Student’s Companion to Social Policy Companion, 4th ed. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 477-454.
Jawad, R., 2012. A secular response to social solidarity? Social capital, religion and the implications for social policy. In: O'Sullivan, M. and Flanagan, B., eds. Spiritual capital: spirituality in practice in Christian perspective. Farnham: Ashgate.
Jawad, R., 2012. Forthcoming. Beyond Revolutions and Social Welfare as Women’s Work: The Coming of Age of Social Policy in the Middle East? In: Ellison, M., ed. Defining and Reinventing Social Solidarity and Sustainability Across the Mediterranean. Bristol: Policy Press.
Jawad, R., 2006. Social policy in Lebanon. In: Fitzpatrick, T., Kwon, H., Manning, N., Midgley, J. and Pascall, G., eds. International Encyclopaedia of Social Policy. London: Routledge.
Articles
Jawad, R., 2012. Thinking about religious welfare and rethinking social policy in the British context. Social Policy and Society, 11 (4), pp. 613-624.
Jawad, R., 2012. Serving the public or delivering public services? Religion and social welfare in the new British social policy landscape. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 20 (1), pp. 55-68.
Jawad, R. and Yakut-Cakar, B., 2010. Religion and social policy in the Middle East: the (re)constitution of an old-new partnership. Social Policy & Administration, 44 (6), pp. 658-672.
Jawad, R., 2010. Faith in the Public Realm: Controversies, Policies and Practices - edited by Adam Dinham, Robert Furbey and Vivien Lowndes. Public Administration, 88 (2), pp. 588-590.
Jawad, R., 2009. Religion and social welfare in the Lebanon: treating the causes or symptoms of poverty? Journal of Social Policy, 38 (01), pp. 141-156.
Jawad, R., 2008. Review Essay: Possibilities of Positive Social Action in the Middle East: A Re-Reading of the History of Social Policy in the Region. Global Social Policy, 8 (2), pp. 267-280.
Jawad, R., 2007. Human ethics and welfare particularism: An exploration of the social welfare regime in Lebanon. Ethics and Social Welfare, 1 (2), pp. 123-146.
De Jong, J., Jawad, R., Mortagy, I. and Shepard, B., 2005. The sexual and reproductive health of young people in the Arab countries and Iran. Reproductive Health Matters, 13 (25), pp. 49-59.
Jawad, R., 2002. A profile of social welfare in Lebanon: Assessing the implications for social development policy. Global Social Policy, 2 (3), pp. 319-342.
Reports/Papers
Yeates, N., Haux, T., Jawad, R. and Kilkey, M., 2011. In Defence of Welfare: The Impacts of the Spending Review. Other. Social Policy Association.
Conference or Workshop Items
Jawad, R., 2011. Religion and Social Policy in the Middle East: Beyond the Rentier State, Toward a New Ethic Welfare. In: Annual Conference of the Society for the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 2011-10-28 - 2011-10-29, Milwaukee.
Jawad, R., 2011. Social Policy in the Middle East. In: Brown University, Global Security Programme Seminar, 2011-10-27, Rhode Island.
Jawad, R., 2011. Beyond Revolutions and Social Welfare as Women’s Work: The coming of Age of Social Policy in the Middle East? In: Social Policy Association Conference, 2011-07-04 - 2011-07-06, University of Lincoln.
Jawad, R., 2010. Beyond the Rentier State, Toward New Paradigm of Social Policy in the Arab World. In: Gulf Studies Conference, 2010-07-01 - 2010-07-02, University of Exeter.
Jawad, R., 2010. From Wellbeing to Ways of Being: Religion, Faith-based Organisations and Welfare Reform in the UK. In: Social Policy Association Conference, 2010-07-04 - 2010-07-05, University of Lincoln.
