Position:
Research Associate
Email:
Telephone:
+44 (0)29 208 74850
Location:
Room 1.59, Glamorgan Building
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Dr John Lever
Over the last decade John has been involved in qualitative, mixed methods and policy oriented academic research in a number of areas, including cross sector partnership working; regeneration and sustainable communities; social exclusion, crime and community safety; international governance and civil society activism; quality food assurance, animal welfare, and halal and kosher meat markets. As a freelance social researcher John has recently conducted research on volunteering, partnership working, migration and destitution in the UK asylum system. John's current research interests revolve around regeneration / sustainable communities, migrant workers / entrepreneurs and supply chain issues related to animal welfare and halal/kosher meat markets.
Qualifications
PhD Sociology and Public Policy, UWE; Bristol, 2007.
MSC Applied Social Research, UWE: Bristol 2002.
BA (Hons) Sociology and Philosophy, University of Leeds, 1998.
Career Profile
Current – Wales Rural Observatory
2010-2012 – Freelance Social Researcher
2008-2010 – School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University
1999-2008 – UWE, Bristol
1995-1998 – University of Leeds
Current – Wales Rural Observatory
2010-2012 – Commissioned research for BHA for Equality in Health and Social Care; Destitution Concern Bradford; and the Institute for Volunteering Research
2008-2010 –Welfare Quality® and Dialrel projects, School of City and Regional planning, Cardiff University
2003-2008 –Various projects on urban policy, community participation and sustainable communities, Cities Research Centre, UWE, Bristol