Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK

Esther Dermott is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. A sociologist of family life, her research centres on developing a sociological account of 'good' parenting that is both conceptually robust and practically relevant. This has involved exploring the relationship between families, gender, and intra-household poverty as a member of the Poverty and Social Exclusion 2012 team. She is co-editor of The Sociology of Children and Families Policy Press book series; co-editor of Open Space in the journal Families, Relationships and Societies; and board member of the European Sociological Association Research Network on Families and Relationships (RN13).Gill Main is a University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on child and youth poverty and well-being, and especially on incorporating children’s accounts and perspectives into understandings and measures of child poverty. She was involved in exploring child poverty as a member of the Poverty and Social Exclusion 2012 team. She is co-editor of the Policy Press Journal of Poverty and Social Justice.

• Introduction: Poverty and social exclusion in the UK ~ Esther Dermott;Measuring poverty in the UK ~ David Gordon;The impoverishment of youth: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion among young adults in the UK ~ Eldin Fahmy;Improvement for some: poverty and social exclusion among older people and pensioners ~ Demi Patsios;Which men and women are poor? Gender, poverty and social exclusion ~ Esther Dermott and Christina Pantazis;Better understandings of ethnic variations: ethnicity, poverty and social exclusion ~ Saffron Karlsen and Christina Pantazis;Improving lives? Child poverty and social exclusion ~ Gill Main and Jonathan Bradshaw;The cost of children: parents, poverty, and social support ~ Esther Dermott and Marco Pomati;A worsening picture: poverty and social exclusion and disabled people ~ Pauline Heslop and Eric Emerson;Devolution and North/South division: poverty and social exclusion in the countries and regions of the UK ~ Mike Tomlinson;More similarities than differences: poverty and social exclusion in rural and urban locations~ Nick Bailey and Maria Gannon;Conclusion: innovating methods, informing policy and challenging stigma ~ Gill Main.

“Comprehensive, shocking and revealing. How the UK declined and poverty rose as economic inequality spread across the land." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford