The Barnett Professorship of Social Policy is the chair in
social policy
Some professionals and universities consider social policy a subset of public policy, while other practitioners characterize social policy and public policy to be two separate, competing approaches for the same public interest (similar to MD a ...
at the
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...
. It was established in 1999 and is named for
Canon Samuel Barnett
Samuel Augustus Barnett (8 February 1844 – 17 June 1913) was a Church of England cleric and social reformer who was particularly associated with the establishment of the first university settlement, Toynbee Hall, in east London in 1884. H ...
. The chair is based in the
Department of Social Policy and Intervention and its holder is elected to a
Fellowship
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of
St Cross College, Oxford
St Cross College, known colloquially as StX, is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1965, St Cross is a graduate college with gothic and traditional-style buildings on a central site in St Giles', just sou ...
.
List of Barnett Professors of Social Policy
* 2000 to 2004:
Jane Lewis
* 2006 to 2013:
Peter Kemp
* 2013 to 2017:
* Since 2023:
Kenneth Nelson
Kenneth Nelson (March 24, 1930 – October 7, 1993) was an American actor.
Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Nelson appeared in several television series in the late 1940s, ''Captain Video and His Video Rangers'' and ''The Aldrich Family'' am ...
References
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Professorships at the University of Oxford
St Cross College, Oxford