Academics
Linda Hantrais
BA, DipSocAdmin, PhD (Flinders University)
Emeritus Professor of European Social Policy Email L.Hantrais@lboro.ac.uk |
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Biography
My on-going research interests focus on three interrelated themes: international comparative research theory, methodology and practice, and the management of international research projects; comparative analysis of social science research assessment procedures; international comparisons of public policy and institutional structures, with particular reference to European social policy, and the relationship between socio-demographic change and policy responses.
These activities have attracted external funding for international research projects, publications, seminars and training workshops (European Commission Framework Programme, Economic Social Research Council). They have involved membership of international committees, particularly in France (Agence nationale de la Recherche, British Council Alliance Programme, Centre d’études de l’emploi, Comité national d’évaluation de la recherche, Réseau des Maisons des sciences de l’homme, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Think Tank: Base Recherche Action INovation Santé) and as expert advisor, including the Council of Europe’s Committee on Social Policy for Families and Children and the European Commission’s High Level Group of Experts on Demographic Questions, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities. I have also been invited to undertake consultancies (British Council, ESRC, European Commission’s DG Research, European Science Foundation, European Universities Association). Since 2006, I have been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, and in the same year, I became a member of the Academy of Social Sciences. I was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Social Research Association in 2008.
My single-authored book-length publications over the past few years closely reflect these research interests. Family Policy Matters: responding to family change in Europe (The Policy Press, 2004) drew on the findings from a European Commission project funded under the Fifth Framework Programme, entitled ‘Improving Policy Responses and Outcomes to Socio-Economic Challenges: changing family structures, policy and practice’ (IPROSEC), involving the coordination of a team of researchers from 11 EU member states. In volume 2 of Pour une meilleure évaluation de la recherche publique en sciences humaines et sociales (La Documentation française, 2006), I presented the detailed findings from a study I was invited to coordinate on the assessment of social science and humanities research in France. My third edition of Social Policy in the European Union (Palgrave, 2007) spans 50 years of EU social policy, extending to 27 member states and covering a period of intense activity associated with enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe. International Comparative Research: theory, methods and practice (Palgrave, 2009) builds on and develops from seven series of research seminars and Cross-National Research Papers delivered over more than twenty years. The monograph offers a comprehensive topic-based overview of international comparative research in the social sciences and humanities and provides researchers and users of their findings with the tools needed to conduct effective and reliable international comparisons.
Detailed searchable list of publications.
Main Recent Publications (since 2000)
Books - Authored
Hantrais, L., International Comparative Research: theory, methods and practice, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan and St Martin’s Press, 2009.
Hantrais, L., Social Policy in the European Union, 3rd edn, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan and St Martin’s Press, 2007 (1st edn, 1995, 2nd edn 2000).
Hantrais, L., Pour une meilleure évaluation de la recherche publique en sciences humaines et sociales, vol. 2, Paris: La Documentation française, 2006.
Hantrais, L., Family Policy Matters: responding to family change in Europe, Bristol: The Policy Press, 2004.
Books Edited
Hantrais, L. and Mangen, S. (eds), Cross-National Research Methodology and Practice, London: Routledge, 2006.
Hantrais, L. (ed.), Policy Relevance of Family and Welfare Research, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2003.
Hantrais, L. (ed.), Researching Family and Welfare from an International Comparative Perspective, from papers presented at a dialogue workshop held in Brussels on 14–15 June 2001, Brussels, European Commission, 2001, EUR 20001.
Hantrais, L. (ed.), Gendered Policies in Europe: reconciling employment and family life, London and New York, Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Chapters in Edited Works
Hantrais, L. and Arve-Parès, B., ‘Enjeux de l’évaluation des Maisons des sciences de l’Homme’, in J. Commaille (ed.), Avenir de la recherche et Maisons des sciences de l’Homme, Paris: La Documentation française, 2006, pp. 71–86.
Hantrais, L., ‘Welfare policies’, in C. Hay and A. Menon, European Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 292–309.
Hantrais, L., ‘Social Policy’, chapter 23, in M.P. van der Hoek (ed.), Handbook of Public Administration and Policy in the European Union, London and New York: Taylor and Francis, 2005, pp. 557–71.
Hantrais, L. ‘Vers la mixité méthodologique en comparaisons internationales’, in J-C. Barbier and M-T. Letablier, Politiques sociales: enjeux méthodologiques et épistémologiques des comparaisons internationales/Social Policies: epistemological and methodological issues in cross-national comparison, Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Work and Society Series, no. 51, 2005, pp. 271–89.
Hantrais, L., ‘Crossing cultural boundaries’ in P. Kennett (ed.), Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004, pp. 261–75.
Hantrais, L., ‘Cross-national comparative approaches to the analysis of family and welfare’, in C. Cameron (ed.), 2003, Cross-National Qualitative Methods, Brussels: European Commission, DG Research, pp. 3–14.
Hantrais, L., ‘L’évaluation dans le contexte international’, chapter 6, in CNER (ed.), L’Évaluation de la recherche publique dans les établissements publics français, Paris: La Documentation Française, 2003, pp. 118–52.
Hantrais, L. ‘Sissejuhatus’, in D. Kutsar (ed.), Millist Perekonnapolitikat me Vajame?, Tartu: Tartu Ülikoolo Kirjastus, 2003, pp. 5–11.
Hantrais, L., ‘Social policy and the European Union’, in P. Alcock, A. Erskine and M. May (eds), The Student’s Companion to Social Policy, 2nd edn, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 234-40.
Refereed Journal Articles
Hantrais, L., ‘Living as a family in Europe’, in Council of Europe, Population Studies: Policy implications of changing family formation, no. 49, 2006, pp. 117–81.
Hantrais, L., ‘Combining methods: a key to understanding complexity in European societies’, European Societies, vol. 7, no. 3, 2005, pp. 399–421.
Hantrais, L. and Letablier, M-T., ‘Données démographiques et structures familiales dans les pays de l’Europe de l’Est’, Informations sociales, no. 124, juin 2005, pp. 16–28.
Hantrais, L. and Letablier, M-T., ‘Les réponses politiques aux évolutions socio-démographiques: Estonie, Hongrie, Pologne’, Informations sociales, no. 124, juin 2005, pp. 30–40.
Hantrais, L. and Ackers, P., ‘Women’s choices in Europe: striking the work-life balance’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 11, no. 2, 2005, pp. 197–212.
Hantrais, L., Guest editor of a themed issue of Social Policy and Society on ‘The European Union and Social Policy: national and EU policy interaction’, Introduction and Review article: European Commission Funded Research on Family and Welfare, vol. 2 no, 3, July 2003, pp. 209–10, 249–53.
Hantrais, L., ‘Central and East European states respond to socio-demographic challenges’, Social Policy and Society, vol. 1, no. 2, 2002, pp. 141–50.