Griffiths, Simon, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Dr Simon Griffiths

Position held:
Lecturer in Politics

Phone:
+44 (0)20 7078 5319

Email:
s.griffiths (@gold.ac.uk)

Warmington Tower Room: 605

Office hours:
Tuesday 10:30-12:00

Biographical information

I joined the Department in 2008 and am currently also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Political Ideologies in Oxford <http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/profile/simon-griffiths.html>.

I divide my time between academia and public policy and was formerly Senior Policy Advisor at the British Academy (the UK’s national body for the humanities and social sciences), where I was involved in setting up their Policy Centre. I was also a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Market Foundation, where I headed the organisation's work on public service reform. Before that I have worked as a parliamentary researcher, taught at the London School of Economics and worked for the sociologist, Anthony Giddens.

I have a PhD and Masters from LSE and an undergraduate degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford.

As well as publishing on politics and public policy, I have written for The Independent, Times, The Guardian and many journals, and have appeared on television and radio, and in the national and international press.

Teaching

I currently co-convene the undergraduate course, Themes and Issues in British Politics Since 1945, and the internship programmes for MA International Studies, BA International Studies and MA Contemporary British Politics.

Areas of supervision

I would be interested in supervising students in, amongst other things, contemporary British politics, political parties, the public services or the recent history of British political thought.

Research interests

My research is on the recent history of UK political thought, focusing on the main political parties, debates about the market between left and right, and on public service reform in education and health.

Selected publications

Books:

Simon Griffiths, Hayek and the British Left: Neoliberalism, Markets and Modern Capitalism (forthcoming)

Edited books:

Simon Griffiths and Kevin Hickson (eds.), British Political Parties and Ideology after New Labour (Palgrave Macmillan), 2009. Includes contributions from David Owen, Anthony Giddens, Raymond Plant and David Willetts
Simon Griffiths and Richard Reeves (eds.), Well-being how to lead the good life and what government should do to help, (SMF), 2009 <http://www.smf.co.uk/well-being.html>. Includes contributions from Richard Reeves (on Mill), Will Hutton (on Galbraith) and Lord (Richard) Layard
Simon Griffiths (ed.), The Politics of Aspiration, (SMF), 2007 <http://www.smf.co.uk/the-politics-of-aspiration>. Includes contributions from Jim Murphy MP, Lisa Harker and Camila Batmanghelidh
Anthony Giddens with the Assistance of Simon Griffiths, Sociology (5^th edition), (Polity: Cambridge), 2006

Book chapters:

‘The Con/Lib Agenda for Education’ in Simon Lee and Matt Beech (ed.), The Cameron-Clegg Government: Coalition Politics in an Age of Austerity (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2011)
‘Kinnock’, Tim Heppell (ed.) Leaders of the Opposition (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2011)
‘The Public Services Under Gordon Brown’, Matt Beech and Simon Lee (eds.), The Brown Government (Routledge), 2009
‘Cameron’s Conservatives and Public Service Reform’, Matt Beech and Simon Lee (eds.), The Conservatives Under David Cameron: Built to Last?, (Palgrave Macmillan), 2009
With Kevin Hickson, ‘Introduction’, Simon Griffiths and Kevin Hickson (eds.), British Political Parties and Ideology After New Labour (Palgrave Macmillan), 2009
‘New Labour, New Liberalism and Revisionism’s Second Wave’, Simon Griffiths and Kevin Hickson (eds.), British Political Parties and Ideology After New Labour (Palgrave Macmillan), 2009
‘Preface’, Simon Griffiths and Richard Reeves (eds.), Well-being (The Social Market Foundation), 2009
‘British socialism in and after the twentieth century’, Paul Kelly, Yasushi Soeya and Seishi Sato (eds.), British Political Thought, (Minerva-Sobu: Kyoto, Japan), forthcoming [in Japanese], 2007

Articles:

‘Against the Man in Whitehall: Hilary Wainwright, left-libertarianism and the revival of pluralism’ submitted to editor for a special edition of Journal of Political Ideologies, and presented as part of Goldsmiths’ Research Unit in Politics & Ethics seminar series on ‘The Libertarian Impulse: Theories, Histories, Comparison’, forthcoming 2011
With Beth Foley, ‘Collective Coproduction: a new research agenda’, forthcoming 2011
‘The Public Services Under Gordon Brown’, Policy Studies (30/1), February 2009
‘”Comrade Hayek”? Andrew Gamble and the new right’, Journal of Political Ideologies (12/2), June 2007
‘Market Socialism in Retrospect’, Contemporary Politics (12/1), March 2006

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