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Prof Paul Bellaby

	Rm 600, Crescent House, University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, M5 4WT.
	p.bellaby@salford.ac.uk
	+44 (0) 161 295 2819

Key Memberships

Member of School: School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences

From October 2011 to November 2011.

Full Member of Research Centre: Centre for Social Research

From January 2010 to December 2011.

Profile Summary

PAUL BELLABY MA PhD, having retired in 2008, is PT Research Professor of Sociology in the Centre for Social Research, University of Salford, where from 2000 he was successively Reader, Professor and Director of the Institutes for Public Health Research and Policy and Social, Cultural and Policy Research.

He took his first degree at Trinity College, Cambridge in History (Pt 1) and Economics (Pt 2) (1965) and also his MA and PhD. From 1965-1968 he taught part-time at Cambridge, from 1968-1989 was Lecturer in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Keele and from 1989-2000 was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at East Anglia.

His first publications were in the sociology of education (including Sociology of Comprehensive Schooling 1977). His second field was the sociology of health - papers about occupational organization in nursing; an ethnography of the industrial workplace and other studies of employment and health, some reported in Sick from Work (1999), and wider work on lay health and safety perception. His third field has been the social and economic implications of energy and climate change, marked in part by a book edited with Rob Flynn: Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technology (2007).and an edited journal section in Energy Policy (2010) on the social transition to sustainable energy..

While at Salford he has led and published upon several health-related projects, including ICT, Digital Divide, Habitus and Self-Management of Heart Disease (2005-7) within the ESRC e-Society programme. He contributed a paper and a guest editorial to the British Medical Journal on public reaction to the MMR vaccination campaign. He published research on the health and social implications of extending pension age. He also helped bring participation in the major EPSRC Supergen programme (the UK Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium - UKSHEC) to Salford. In this context, he led the social sciences element in the original inter-university and cross-disciplinary bid in 2003 and defended the bid for renewal in 2007 and has contributed with colleagues to a series of publications (books, refereed journal articles, research reports) around the themes of public engagement with hydrogen energy and on how such radical innovation might take off and diffuse. Finally, he has taken part in several events under the aegis of UK Energy Research Centre, UKSHEC, British Sociological Association and others, that have drawn together specialists, national and international, in the sustainable energy field with industry and policy-makers. Much of this work, including publication, has been done since 2008, the last RAE.

In the course of his career, he has supervised or advised to completion 22 PhDs (5 at Salford) and 4 MPhils. At Salford he has also been external examiner for PhDs at Keele, Surrey, Limerick and Royal Holloway London, and an MD at Manchester.

Key Qualifications

1975

PhD null (from Cambridge University).

1968

MA null (from Cambridge University).

Key Projects

2008

Jun

Engaging the public in sustainable energy futures: lessons from practice
ESRC, Ł2,000.00.
Investigators: P Bellaby (5%), M Ricci (90%), R Flynn (5%).

2008

Mar

Evaluating Opinion Polls Concerning Fluoridation of Water Supply
Ashton, Wigan and Leigh PCT, Ł2,750.00.
Investigator: P Bellaby (100%).