School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies

Profile

Martin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and the Year Tutor for first year Sociology undergraduates.  Martin is responsible for the development and delivery of first year core units in the acquisition of academic and research skills in the social sciences.  In addition to Sociology, Martin has wide experience of teaching and research across a range of academic disciplines including Politics, Public Policy and Social Policy and Administration and this experience is reflected in his substantive teaching which focuses on poverty, social exclusion and homelessness.  Martin also offers a third year optional unit called ‘Urban Sociology’.

PUBLICATIONS

• Blackmore, M. (2001) Mind the Gap: exploring the implementation deficit in the administration of the Stricter Benefits Regime, Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp.145-162. Social Policy Association, London.
• Finn, D. and Blackmore, M. (2000) Activation: The Point of View of Clients and `Front Line Staff', Directorate for Education, Employment, Labour Market and Social Affairs Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee. OECD, Paris.
• Finn, D., Blackmore, M., Nimmo, M., (1998) Welfare-to-work and the long term unemployed, Unemployment Unit, London, ISBN: 1-870563-57-3.
• Bradshaw, Y., Kendall, I., Blackmore, M., Johnson, N. and Jenkinson, S. (1998) Complaining Our Way to Quality, Social Policy and Administration, Vol.32, No.3, pp.209-225, Blackwell, London ISSN: 0144-5596.
• Johnson, N., Jenkinson, S., Kendall, I., Bradshaw. Y. and Blackmore, M. (1998) Regulating for Quality in the Voluntary Sector, Journal of Social Policy, Vol.27, No.3, pp.307-328, ISSN: 0047-2794.
• Blackmore, M. (1997) Going Straight: The Independent Unemployment Unit's guide to jobseekers leaving custody, signing on and finding work, Unemployment Unit, London, ISBN: 1-870563-55-7.
• Blackmore, M., Bradshaw, Y., Jenkinson, S., Johnson, N. and Kendall, I. (1997) Intermediary Organisations in the New Welfare Mix, Non-Profit Studies, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 13-20, ISSN: 1354-652X.
• Blackmore, M. (1997) Complaints Within Constraints: A critical review and analysis of the Citizen's Charter Complaints Task Force, Public Policy and Administration, Vol.12, No.3, pp.28-41, Joint University Council, ISSN: 0952-0767.  Also translated into Italian and published in 'Problemi di Amministrazione Pubblica, September 1998.
• Johnson, N., Blackmore, M., Bradshaw, Y., Jenkinson, S. and Kendall, I. (1997) Contracts and Quality Assurance, in: Dimensions of the Voluntary Sector, Charities Aid Foundation, London, pp.278-283, ISBN: 1-85934-035-0.
• Kendall, I., Blackmore, M., Bradshaw, Y., Jenkinson, S. and Johnson, N. (1997) Quality Services in Quasi-markets, in: M. May, E. Brunsdon and G. Craig (eds) Social Policy Review 9, Social Policy Association, London, pp.184-202, ISBN: 0951 889567.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Jul 2000: Activation: The Point of View of Clients and `Front Line Staff' OECD, Conference on Unemployment, 3-4^th July, 2000, Prague.
• Jul 2000: "A New Deal for the Unemployed in Portsmouth", delivered at the Social Policy Association Annual Conference, 19th July 2000, Roehampton Institute, London.
• Jul 1999: "Mind the Gap: exploring the implementation deficit in the administration of the Stricter Benefits Regime".  Paper delivered at the Social Policy Association Annual Conference, 21st July 1999, Roehampton Institute, London.
• Oct 1995: "The Voluntary Sector and Quality Assurance", delivered at the Centre for Voluntary Organisation, London School of Economics & Political Science.
• Jul 1995: "Intermediary Organisations in the New Welfare Mix", delivered at the Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Sheffield Hallam University.
• Oct 1995: "The Voluntary Sector and Quality Assurance", delivered at the Centre for Voluntary Organisation, London School of Economics & Political Science.