Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Dan Finn

Professor Dan Finn

Professor of Social Inclusion

SSHLS

Milldam
Burnaby Road
Portsmouth
Hants
PO1 3AS

dan.finn@port.ac.uk

Profile

Dan is Professor of Social Inclusion and was previously co-Director of the independent Unemployment Unit.  He studied for an undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of Warwick before completing his PhD at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, in 1978.

Dan is best known for his role in the development, analysis and assessment of the British Governments' welfare to work programmes and he has acted as a consultant and special adviser for a number of UK and international agencies. Dan has been a Visiting Professor at University of Melbourne and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, University of Uppsala, and is presently Associate Director of Research at the London based Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion.

Higher Degree Teaching/Supervision

Dan has undertaken, supervised, and managed a broad range of research projects. His research interests include policy responses to youth and long term unemployment; the reform of public employment services; activation of benefit systems; implementation of welfare to work strategies; and the integration of employment and skills provision. He has a particular interest in ‘contracting out’ employment services and the development of ‘welfare markets’ in the UK, USA, Australia, the Netherlands and other OECD countries. 

Major publications include:

  • ‘Outsourcing Employment Programmes: Contract Design and Differential Prices’ (2011), European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp 289-302, Intersentia, Kluwer Press.
  • ‘Welfare Markets’: lessons from contracting out the delivery of welfare to work programmes in Australia and the Netherlands (2008), pp 1-59, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York,  ISBN: 978-1-85935-678-4.
  • ‘Activation Policies in Great Britain’ (2008), with Schulte B., in Eichhorst W., Konle-Seidl R. and Kaufmann O, (eds) Bringing the Jobless into Work? Experiences with Activation Schemes in Europe and the US, pp 297-344, Springer, Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-77435-8
  • Training Without Jobs: New Deals and Broken Promises (1987), London: Macmillan.

 Qualifications

  • BA (Hons), Sociology, University of Warwick
  • PhD Youth Unemployment and the School Leaving Age, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham

 Research Clusters

  •  Policy, Politics, Justice and Security in Europe

Discipline Areas

  •  Social Inclusion Politics and Public Administration

Publications

Authored Books

  • Training Without Jobs: New Deals and Broken Promises - from Raising the School Leaving Age to the Youth Training Scheme (1987), MacMillan Education, Basingstoke, ISBN 0-333-36509-7
  • Unemployment and Training Rights Handbook, Unemployment Unit, first edition 1991, substantially revised and reprinted 1993 and 1995; and then revised with others (I. Murray, C. Donnelly and M. Nimmo) in 1996 and 1997, pp 1-421, last ISBN 1 870563 43 7.

Monographs

Journal Articles (from 2005)

  • ''Ending Child Poverty' in the United Kingdom  – lessons from New Labour’s strategy', Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue canadienne de politique sociale, No. 65/66, pp 139-153, University of York, Toronto, Canada, ISSN: 1929-4093
  • ‘Outsourcing Employment Programmes: Contract Design and Differential Prices’ (2010) European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp 289-302, Published/Hosted by Intersentia, Kluwer Presss, ISSN: 1388-2627.
  • With Lange J. ‘Der „Wohlfahrtsmarkt“ in der britischen Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Lehren für Deutschland?’ (2009), Sozialer Fortschritt (German Review of Social Policy), Vol. 59 No. 3, pp 80-87, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.
  • The 'Welfare Market' and the Flexible New Deal: Lessons from other countries (2009), Local Economy, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp 51-58, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Welfare to Work: New Labour's 'Employment First' Welfare State (2005), Benefits: A Journal of Social Security Research, Policy and Practice, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp 93-97, the Policy Press, Bristol. ISSN 0962 7898

Other refereed contributions (from 2005)

  • Getting Jobs and Moving On: lessons from Britain's 'Employment First Welfare State' (2005), refereed conference paper, Transitions and Risk: New Directions in Social Policy Conference, Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne , 23-25 February.

Book Chapters (from 2005)

  • ‘Welfare to work after the recession: from the New Deals to the Work Programme’ (2011) in Holden C., Kilkey M. and Ramia G, Social Policy Review 23: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, Policy Press, Bristol, pp 127-146 ISBN 978 1 84742 830 1.
  • ‘The 'Welfare Market': the role of the private sector in the delivery of benefits and employment services’ (2009), in Millar J. (ed) Understanding social security (Second edition): Issues for policy and practice, Policy Press, Bristol .
  • ‘Employment First’: i programme New Deal e le politiche di attivazione in Gran Bretagne’ (2009), in Cantalupi M. and Demurtas M. (eds) Politiche attive del lavoro, servizi per l’impiego e valutazione:  Esperienze e percorsi in Italia e in Europa,  il Mulino, Bologna, pp 123-154, ISBN 978-88-15-13385-4
  • ‘Activation Policies in Great Britain’ (2008), with Schulte B., in Eichhorst W., Konle-Seidl R. and Kaufmann O, Bringing the Jobless into Work? Experiences with Activation Schemes in Europe and the US, Springer,  Verlag Berlin Heidelberg , ISBN 978-3-540-77435-8.
  • ‘The 'Wicked Problems' of British Cities: Unemployment, Inactivity and Welfare to Work’ (2007), with Atkinson R. and Crawford A, in Donzelot J. (ed) Ville, City, Violence and Social Dependency, CEDOV Centre d'Etude, de Documentation et d'Observation sur les Villes, La Documentation francaise, Paris, ISBN 978-2-11-006938-2.
  • Working Class Images of Society and Community Studies (2007), with Brooks E., in Campbell J., Erickson M., Gray A., Hanson S. and Wood H. (eds), CCCS Selected Working Papers in Cultural Studies, Vol 1, Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, ISBN 978-0415324403 (first published in 1979).
  • Social Democracy, Education and the Crisis (2007), Finn D., as part of the Education Group, in Campbell J., Erickson M., Gray A., Hanson S. and Wood H. (eds), Working Papers in Cultural Studies, Vol 2, Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, ISBN 978-0415324410  (first published in 1979).
  • 'Contracting Out' and Contestability: Modernising the British Public Employment Service (2005)  in Bredgaard T. and Larsen F. (eds) Employment policy from different angles, DJØF-forlaget, Copenhagen , pp 233-249, ISBN 8757413495.
  • 'The role of contracts and the private sector in delivering Britain's "employment first" welfare state' (2005), in Sol E. and Westerveld M. (eds) Contractualism in Employment Services: A New Form of Welfare State Governance, Kluwer Law International, Aspen Publishers, pp 101-117,  ISBN 9041124055. 

Research Reports and Other Publications (from 2005)

  • Outcome based commissioning: lessons from contracting out employment and skills programmes in Australia and the USA (2010), pp 1-48, United Kingdom Commission for Employment and Skills, London, ISBN 978 1 906597 55 2. This can be viewed on the UK Commission for Employment and Skills website. 
  • ‘Back to Work’ (2010), Public Finance, 16 July, cover story.
  • With Gloster R. Lone Parent Obligations: A review of recent evidence on the work-related requirements within the benefit systems of different countries (2010), pp 1-99, Research Report No. 632,Department for Work and Pensions, London, ISBN 978 1 84712 708 2. 
  • Differential Pricing in Contracted Out Employment Programmes: Review of International Evidence (2009), pp 1-72, Research Report No. 564, Research Report, Department for Work and Pensions, London .
  • Contracting out welfare-to-work: lessons from the Netherlands (2008), in Research in Public Policy, Bulletin of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation, Issue 7, Autumn 2008, pp 20-22, University of Bristol
  • Welfare Markets: lessons from contracting out the delivery of welfare to work programmes in Australia and the Netherlands (2008), Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York,  ISBN: 978-1-85935-678-4 (pdf), at http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/2306-welfare-unemployment-services.pdf
  • Poverty and service delivery: benefits, tax credits and employment services (2008), with Mason D., Rahim N. and Casebourne J., Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.
  • Workfare und 'Sozialhilfe zu Arbeit': Lehren aus Großbritannien (2008), in Eichhorst W. and Schneider H. (eds) Umsetzung des Workfare-Ansatzes im BMWi-Modell für eine existenzsichernde Beschäftigung,  IZA Research Report No. 18, Institute  for the Study of Labor, Bonn, pp 25-45. 
  • 'Australian Welfare Reform and the Job Network' (2008) in Working Brief, No.184, May, Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, London
  • Contracting Out Welfare to Work in the USA: Delivery Lessons (2007), Research Report No. 466, Department for Work and Pensions, London.  
  • Removing the disincentives to work for homeless young people: Evaluation of a Centrepoint employment support pilot initiative (2006) with N. Smith,  prepared by the Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion (Summary version published by Centrepoint as 'Testing the impact of dedicated employment support in London and Newcastle'. 
  • Understanding young people in jobs without training: A report for the Department for Education and Skills by the Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion (2006) with A. Anderson, B. Brooke, A. Doyle and S. Moley, ISBN 1 84478 718 4. This can be viewed on the Department of Education website. 
  • 'Review of Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe, by Joel F. Handler' (2005), Social Service Review, Vol. 79 No. 4, pp 737-41, University of Chicago Press.
  • 'Review of Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor, by Louise Simmons (ed)' (2005), Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 33 Part 4, pp 684-86, University of Cambridge Press.
  • 'Review of Work: Personal Lives and Social Policy, by Gerry Mooney (ed)' (2005), Journal of Social Welfare, Vol. 14 No. 3, pp 239-40, Blackwell Publishing Limited, Oxford.
  • The National Minimum Wage in the United Kingdom (2005) Graue Reihe des Instituts Arbeit und Technik 2005-01, Gelsenkirchen , pp 1-36. 
  • Reinventing the Public Employment Service: The Changing Role of Employment Assistance in Great Britain and Germany (2005), with Knuth M., Schweer O. and Somerville W., Anglo German Foundation, Berlin and London, pp 1 - 57, ISBN 1 900834 53 7.   

Grants Received (from 2005)

  • ‘The Work Programme: design and implementation lessons from international comparators’, Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, November 2010 – October2011.
  • ‘Lone Parent Obligations: International comparisons, synthesis reports and Project Adviser’, with Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion for the Department for Work and Pensions, March 2009-March 2011.
  • 'Welfare Markets and the Third Sector', Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, November 2008 - October 2010.
  • 'Welfare Markets': lessons from contracting out the delivery of welfare to work programmes in Australia and the Netherlands , Joseph Rowntree Foundation, November 2007 - April 2008.
  • Poverty and service delivery: benefits, tax credits and employment services, with Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, April-December 2007.
  • Making Markets in Employment Services, Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, January 2007 - June 2008.
  • 'LAPs and RAPs': City Strategies and Plans for Social Inclusion, QeC-ERAN ('Quartiers en Crisis - European Regeneration Areas Network', Brussels ) and European Commission, September 2006.
  • 'Restart': Strategies for reducing early school leaving in Europe, QeC-ERAN ('Quartiers en Crisis - European Regeneration Areas Network', Brussels ) and European Commission, April-May 2006.
  • Innovation and Knowledge Transfer in Labour Market Programmes, Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, August 2004 - September 2006.
  • Youth Unemployment Research, the Bertelsmann Foundation, May 2005.
  • Systematic Review of Evidence on Intermediate Labour Markets and Transitional Employment, and Evaluation of the 'Step Up' pilot employment programme, with Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, for the Department of Work and Pensions, April 2003-June 2005.

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