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Mark Hyde

 

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Mark Hyde

  • Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Public Policy and Mangement, School of Management (Plymouth Business School (Faculty))
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  • Telephone: +441752585790
  • Email: M.Hyde@plymouth.ac.uk


Role

 

 

As well as being substantially involved in leading international collaborative research projects, presenting work at international conferences, and publishing work in scholarly books  and leading journals, Mark is a key member of the Public Policy and Management subject team, which includes several responsibilities: Programme Manager, BSc Public Services; Module Leader, “Public Services Research Project” (undergraduate, level 3); Module Leader, “Public Services Delivery and Evaluation” (undergraduate, level 3); Module Leader, “Contemporary Social Policy” (M level); Module Leader, “Governance and Public Management” (M level); Module Leader, “Advanced Policy Analysis” (M level); Module Leader, “Selected Issues in Public Management” (M level); PhD supervision. 

For more detailed published biographical statements, see: 

Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 2009, 26th Edition, Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who.

Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 2010, 27th Edition, Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who.
Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 2011, 28th Edition, Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who.



See also Mark's latest:

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Qualifications & background

 

  • BA (Hons) Social Policy and Administration, first class (Council for National Academic Awards).
  • PhD in Social Policy (Council for National Academic Awards and the Economic and Social Research Council).
 

Professional membership

  • Member, Social Policy Association
  • Member, Policy Studies Association

 

 

Roles on external bodies

 Current roles

  • Director, Pensions Worldwide, an international research network, 2006 onwards.
  • Member, Editorial Board, The Open Social Science Journal, 2007 onwards.
  • Founding Editor, Social & Public Policy Review, 2006 onwards.
  • Secretary, International Advisory Council, Policy Studies Association, 2004 onwards.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Poverty & Public Policy, 2008 onwards.
  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 2009 onwards.
 


Teaching interests

 

Mark is a key member of the Public Policy and Management subject team. His teaching interests are, inter alia: the philosophical foundations of policy design, policy decision making and implementation, the normative principles that are embedded in policy decision making (such as justice, need, desert, citizenship, freedom), and policy evaluation.

see CURRICULUM VITAE
 

 

 


Research interests
 

Mark is currently involved in cross-national comparative research, in collaboration with academics at the Harvard Law School, looking at the social dimension of financial market activity. He has previously undertaken research and published in a wide range of areas. He is most well known for his work on retirement and pensions, which has encompassed several themes, including "social justice and retirement", the "normative foundations of pension scheme design", "trust and pensions", and the "privatisation of public pensions". He is the author or editor of several books, including The Privatisation of Mandatory Retirement Income Protection (Edwin Mellen Press, 2006), The Marketisation of Social Security (Greenwood, 2001), and Comparing How Various Nations Administer Retirement Income (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010). Mark has authored numerous scholarly articles, many published in world leading journals, and his work has been widely cited. He is currently Director of Pensions Worldwide, the international forum for pensions scholars.

PENSIONS WORLDWIDE

 

Other research

  • Mark is the Executive Editor of the international journal, Social & Public Policy Review.
  • He is currently engaged in research examining the philosophical foundations of pension scheme design.
  • He is engaged in several international collaborative research projects on the theme of the "social" in social security. His collaborators are prominent scholars in their respective fields.

 

see CURRICULUM VITAE
see SOCIAL & PUBLIC POLICY REVIEW

 

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

 Currently supervising

  • Theresa Waight (Director of Studies), “Lone fatherhood in comparative perspective”.
  • Pik Sum Wong (second supervisor), “Chinese people in the UK labour market”.
  • Steve Ball (Director of Studies), “The Articulation of Road Safety Concerns in Rural Cornwall: Managing Local Expectations”.

     

     

    Grants & contracts

     

     

    • QR Funding, 1995 to 1996, £5,000, University of Plymouth (see Payne et al., 1995; Hyde and Armstrong, 1995).
    • Economic and Social Research Council, August 1986 to August 1989, PhD Competition Award, £2,000 (see Hyde and Deacon, 1988).
    • Plymouth Health Authority, April 1991 to July 1991, £1,500 (see Hyde, 1992).
    • Employment Service, March 1993 to September 1993, £20,000 (see Hyde, 1996, 1998, 2000).
    • Royal College of Nursing, March 1993 to September 1993, £5,000 (see Hyde, 1996, 1998, 2000).
    • Plymouth City Council (with Geoff Payne and Judy Payne), September 1996 to August 1997, £18,500 (see Payne et al., 1996, Hyde and Ackers, 1997).
    • Plymouth Community Partnership (with Rob Mawby), September 1997 to March 1998, £7,500 (see Simmonds and Hyde, 1998).
    • The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (with John Dixon and Glenn Drover), May 1999 to January 2004, $55,000 (£25,000) (administered at Canada) (see Hyde et al., 2003, 2004, 2006).
     


    Publications
    For a fuller list of Mark's publications, and several reviews of his work:

    see     CURRICULUM VITAE, PENSIONS WORLDWIDE


    Since 2008

    Hyde, M., Moizer, J. and Farrar, S. (2012) “Should Europeans fear the privatisation of pensions?”, Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 28, 3. Routledge. ISSN 1748-6831.

    Barton, A., Johns, N.R., Green, A., Hyde, M. and Squire, G. (2012) “Controlling God in the UK: The vexed question of political accountability and faith-based groups”, Journal of Politics and Law, ISSN 1424-2818.

    Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (2010) Comparing How Various Nations Administer Retirement Income: Essays on Social Security, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 300 pages. ISBN: 13: 978-0-7734-3727.

    Hyde, M. and Johns, N. (2010) “Brij Mohan’s social policy analysis: A view from Western Europe”, Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 27, 2/3, pp. 189-199. doi: 10.1080/17486831003687469

    Nick Johns, N., Hyde, M. and Barton, A. (2010) “Diversity or Solidarity? Making Sense of the ‘New’ Social Democracy”, Diversity, 2, 1, pp. 1-14. doi: 10.3390/d20x000x

    Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (2009) “A Just retirement Pension System: Beyond Neoliberalism”, Poverty & Public Policy, 1, 1, pp. 1-25. doi: 10.2202/1944-2858.10000

    Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (2009) “Individual and Collective Responsibility: The Market Orientation of Mandated Private Pension Arrangements”, Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 25, 2, pp. 109-117. doi: 10.1080/17486830902789749

    Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (2010) “Can private pensions be trusted? A cross-national review”, International Journal of Social Economics, 37, 4, pp. 276-292. doi: 10.1108/03068291011025246

    Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (2009) “Assessing the Capacity of Pension Institutions to Promote Distributive Justice: A Liberal Conceptual Framework”, The Open Social Science Journal, 2, pp. 16-31. doi: 10.2174/1874945300902010016.

    Dixon, J. and Hyde, M. (2009) “Eveline M Burns: A Tribute”, Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 25, 2, pp. 89-91. doi: 10.1080/17486830902789707.

    Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (2008) “A Comparative Analysis of Mandated Private Pension Arrangements”, International Journal of Social Economics, 35, 1, pp. 49-62, 35, 1. doi: 10.11.08/03068290810843837.

    Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (eds) (2009) “The ‘Social’ in Social Security: Welfare Pluralism in International Perspective”, Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 25, 2, 90 pages. Routledge. ISSN 1748-6831.

    Dixon, M. and Hyde, M. (2009) “Disability Rights”, in International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation, New York: New York State University.

    Dixon, J. and Hyde, M. (2009) “Citizenship, the Public Interest and Governance”, in Korac-Kakabadse, N. (ed), Citizenship: A Reality Far From Ideal, London: Basingstoke: Palgrave. ISBN: 0230216668.

    Hyde, M. (2010) “The social dimension and social security: a developing agenda”, in Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (eds), Comparing How Various Nations Administer Retirement Income: Essays on Social Security, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN: 13: 978-0-7734-3727, pp. 1-22.

    Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (2010) “Mandated Private Pensions: The Alternative”, in Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (eds), Comparing How Various Nations Administer Retirement Income: Essays on Social Security, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN: 13: 978-0-7734-3727, pp. 91-115.

    Hyde, M. and Hockaday, M. (2009) “Trusting in the future: New Labour’s pensions”, in Barton, A. and Johns, N. (eds), Evaluating the Political Achievement of New Labour Since 1997: Social Policy and the Public Trust, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN13: 978-0-7734-4695-3.

    Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (2009) “Introduction”, Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 25, 2, pp. 109-117. doi: 10.1080/17486830902789749, Routledge.

    Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (2010) “Foreword”, in Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (eds), Comparing How Various Nations Administer Retirement Income: Essays on Social Security, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN: 13: 978-0-7734-3727.

    Hyde, M. (2009) Review of Shapiro, D. (2007) Is The Welfare State Justified, reviewed in Poverty & Public Policy, 1, 1, pp. 1-3. doi: 10.2202/1944-2858.1006, BE Press.


    Submitted for Research Assessment Exercise 2001

    Hyde, M. (2000) “From Welfare to Work? Social Policy for Disabled People of Working Age in the UK in the 1990s”, Disability & Society (impact factor: 0.814), 15, 2, pp. 327-341. doi: 10.1080/0967590025702

    Hyde, M. (1998) “Sheltered and Supported Employment in the 1990s: The experiences of disabled workers in the UK”, Disability & Society (impact factor: 0.814), 13, 2, pp. 199-215. doi: 10.1080/09687599826786

    Hyde, M. (1996) “Fifty Years of Failure: Employment Services for Disabled People in the UK”, Work Employment & Society (impact factor: 1.051), 10, 4, pp. 693-700. doi: 10.1177/0950017096104004

    Dixon, J. and Hyde, M. (2000) “A Comparative Perspective on Social Security for Disabled People”, Disability & Society (impact factor: 0.814), 15, 5, pp. 709-730. doi: 10.1080/713661998


    Submitted for Research Assessment Exercise 2008

    Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (2003) “Welfare Retrenchment or Collective Responsibility? The Privatisation of Public Pensions in Western Europe”, Social Policy and Society, 2, 3, pp. 189-198 (currently in the Journal's top ten most cited articles). doi: 10.1017/S14746403001234

    Dixon, J. and Hyde, M. (2003) “Public pension privatization: Neoclassical economics, decision risks and welfare ideology”, International Journal of Social Economics, 30, 5, pp. 633-650. doi: 10.1108/03068290310471899

    Hyde, M., Dixon, J. and Drover, G. (2007) “Assessing the capacity of pension institutions to build and sustain trust: A multidimensional conceptual framework”, Journal of Social Policy (impact factor: 1.177), 36, 3, pp. 1-19.     doi: 10.1017/S0047279407001080

    Hyde, M., Dixon, J. and Drover, G. (2006) The Privatization of Mandatory Retirement Income Protection: International Perspectives, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pages. ISBN 13: 978-0-7734-5838-3.


     

    Reports & invited lectures

     

    • Hyde, M. (2000) “Social Policy for Disabled People of Working Age in the United Kingdom”, The Richard Crossman Chair Lecture, Faculty of Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa, Israel, September 7.
    • Hyde, M. and Dixon, J. (2005) “Pension privatization in 32 countries”, paper presented at the international conference, Transformation of the Modern State: From state provision to state-regulated markets in European old-age security?, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Berlin, September 16-18.
    • Hyde, M. (1992) Promoting Better Play Provision for Children with Learning Disabilities, Plymouth: Plymouth Health Authority.
    • Simmonds, L. And Hyde, M. (1998) A Third Way for Plymouth? The role of the community and voluntary sectors in local economic development, University of Plymouth: Community Research Centre.
    • Hyde, M. (1997) “Disadvantage and poverty among disabled people in the 1990s: The relevance of social policy”, The Implications of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act for Social Work with Disabled People. Cornwall Social Services and the University of Plymouth, Atlantic Hotel, Newquay, February 18.
    • Payne, J., Payne, G. and Hyde, M. (1995) “Who Doesn’t Get What? Class and Deprivation”, Cambridge Stratification Research Seminar, Clare College Cambridge, 21-22 September.
    • Hyde, M. (1993) “Employment Services for Disabled People in the 1990s”, Employment Service and the University of Plymouth, Tamar Committee Room, University of Plymouth, October 19.
     

    Conferences organised

     

     

    • The Implications of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act for Social Work with Disabled People, Cornwall Social Services and the University of Plymouth, Atlantic Hotel, Newquay, February 17-18, 1998.
    • Employment Services for Disabled People in the 1990s, Employment Service and the University of Plymouth, Tamar Committee Room, University of Plymouth, October 19, 1993.

     



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