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Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Sociology and Social Policy (Bath), DPhil Bristol
PostGraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET)
Member of the Higher Education Academy

Professional affiliations

Vice-Chair of the Social Policy Association Executive Committee.
Co-editor (with M. Koivusalo and R. O'Brien) of Global Social Policy: an interdisciplinary journal of public policy and social development (Sage publications).
Editorial Advisory Board, Transformations: Irish Race, Migration and Social Transformation Review.
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Dublin City University (2005-Present).

Course development and teaching

My principal areas of teaching at the Open University are:

• Chair, Welfare, crime and society (DD208)

Series editor (with S, Neal) Welfare, Crime and Society, Open University Press/McGraw Hill

• J. Newman and Nicola Yeates (eds.) (2008) Social Justice
• A. Cochrane and D. Taibot (eds.) (2008) Security
• G. Mooney and S. Neal (eds.) (2009) Community

PhD supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective students who are interested in researching transnationalisation and globalisation processes as they relate to a range of social policy issues, in particular migration, care and social protection.
Current students:

• Freda Owusu: Critical money transfer linkages: transnational livelihoods and prospects for private remitters of funds from the UK to Ghana and Nigeria
• Mike Zapp (University of Landau, Germany): The Globalization of Education Policy: the Diffusion of Lifelong Learning Models and the Role of International Organizations in Non-OECD Countries

Research interests

My intellectual concerns broadly lie with transnational and global processes and their implications for social policy as a field of academic study and as a practice. I am particularly interested in how social diversity, divisions and inequalities are constructed, manifested and contested through these processes. Recent areas of interest include globalisation(s) 'from above' and 'from below', including the development of global governance and its relationship to national social systems, state and non-state strategies of internationalisation, including labour migration and the development of transnational networks.

Recent publications

A selection of my research publications can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.

1. Globalisation Transnationalism and Social Policy

Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates (2011) Youth unemployment as an object of global policy formation and analysis, paper to the annual conference of the UK Social Policy Association, Lincoln, 4-6 July.

Nicola Yeates (2011) 'Globalising Social Policy: reflections on two decades of debate', Plenary Paper, Transnational public policy workshop, Canadian Political Science Association, University of Waterloo, Canada. 18 May

Nicola Yeates (2010) 'From welfare state to international welfare', in Alan Walker, David Gordon, Ruth Levitas, Peter Phillimore, Chris Phillipson, Margot Salomon and Nicola Yeates (eds.) The Peter Townsend Reader. The Policy Press, Bristol.

Bob Deacon, Luk van Langenhove, Maria Cristina Macovei and Nicola Yeates (eds.) (2009) World-regional social policy and global governance: new research and policy agendas in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America London: Routledge.

Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden (eds.) (2009) The Global Social Policy Reader, The Policy Press: Bristol.

Nicola Yeates (ed.) (2008) Understanding Global Social Policy, The Policy Press: Bristol.

Nicola Yeates (2008) 'Global poverty, inequality and wealth', in Tess Ridge and Sharon Wright (eds.) Understanding Inequality, Poverty and Wealth: Policies and Prospects, Bristol: The Policy Press.

Nicola Yeates (2007) 'World-regionalism and social policy: the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process', Cosmopolis: a review of cosmopolitics 2007/1 Espace encyclopédique Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgium, distributed in electronic form by the Canadian "Encyclopédie de l'Agora"

Nicola Yeates (2007) 'The social policy dimensions of world-regionalism', Global Social Policy, vol 7, issue 3, pp 251-385.

Nicola Yeates and Tomas Mac Sheoin (2006) Division and Dissent in the "Anti-Globalisation" Movement' in S. Dasgupta and R. Kiely (eds.) Globalisation and After, Sage: New Delhi.

Nicola Yeates and Bob Deacon (2006) Globalism, regionalism and social policy: framing the debate (with B. Deacon), United Nations University Centre for Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) Working Paper 0-2006/6, April 2006, Bruges, Belgium.

Nicola Yeates (2005) Transnational social policy (special themed section guest co-editor, with Z. Irving), Social Policy and Society, 4(4).

Nicola Yeates (2002) "Globalization and Social Policy: from global neoliberal hegemony to global political pluralism", Global Social Policy, 2(1): 69-91, Sage.

Nicola Yeates (2001) Globalization and Social Policy. London: Sage. (Translated as Globalizzazione e politica sociale. Centro Studi Erickson: Trento, 2004.)

Nicola Yeates (2000) 'Social Politics and Policy in an Era of Globalisation: critical reflections' pp. 36-56, in N. Manning and I. Shaw (eds.), New Risks, New Welfare, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. (Reprinted in R. Vij (ed.) Globalisation and Welfare: A Critical Reader, Palgrave: Basingstoke (2007)).

2. Migrant care workers, care transnationalisation and 'global care chains'

Nicola Yeates (2011) 'What's in a chain? On relationality, circulation, agency and multiplicity in global care chain analysis', paper to seminar 'Transnational families, migration and kin-work'. Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium 24-25 October 2011

Nicola Yeates (2011) 'Bringing gendered transnational labourers and households into commodity chain analysis: a global care chains perspective', paper to Colloquium on 'Gender, Households, and Global Commodity Chains', Binghamton, New York, 14-15 October 2011

Nicola Yeates (2011) 'Ireland's contributions to the global health care crisis', chapter 3, pp. 35-50, in Bryan Fanning and Ronaldo Munck (eds.) Globalisation, migration and social transformation: Ireland in Europe and the World. Farnham: Ashgate.

Nicola Yeates (2010) The globalisation of paid care labour migration: policy issues, approaches and responses, International Labour Review, 149(4): 423-440.

Nicola Yeates (2009) Globalising care economies and migrant workers: explorations in global care chains. Palgrave: Basingstoke.

Nicola Yeates (2009) 'Migration and Nursing in Ireland: an internationalist history', Translocations: migration and social change, 5(1), pp. 1-20.

Nicola Yeates (2009) 'Production for export: the role of the state in the development and operation of global care chains', Population, Space and Place, vol 15, issue 2, pp. 205-228

Nicola Yeates (2008) 'Transnationalism, Social Reproduction and Social Policy: International Migration of Care Workers', in Caroline Moser and Anis Dani (eds.) Assets, Livelihoods and Social Policy. Washington, DC: The World Bank.

Nicola Yeates (2008) 'Here to stay? Migrant health workers in Ireland', in John Connell (ed.) The International Migration of Health Workers, London: Routledge.

Nicola Yeates (2006) Changing Places: Ireland in the international division of reproductive labour, Translocations: Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review, 1(1): 5-21

Nicola Yeates (2005) Global care chains: a critical introduction, Global Migration Perspectives no.44, Global Commission on International Migration, Geneva.

Nicola Yeates (2005) 'A global political economy of care', Social Policy and Society, 4(2): 227-234.

Nicola Yeates (2004) 'Broadening the scope of global care chain analysis: nurse migration in the Irish context', Feminist Review, 77: 79-95.

Nicola Yeates (2004) 'Global Care Chains: critical reflections and lines of enquiry', International Feminist Journal of Politics, 6:3: 369-391.

3. Social Security and Social Protection (national, cross-national and global)

'The General Agreement on Trade in Services: What's in it for social security?', International Social Security Review, 58: 1: 3-22, 2005. (reprinted in B. Cantillon, P. Kemp and I. Marx (eds) International Cooperation in Social Security, Intersentia: Antwerp (2005) and Global Social Policy 'Forum' 5.3 2005)

Nicola Yeates (2009) 'Social security in global context', in Jane Millar (ed) Understanding Social Security, 2nd edition, Bristol, The Policy Press. pp. 111-130. Bristol: Policy Press.

'Common Origins, Different Paths: Adaptation and Change in Social Security in Britain and Ireland' (with M. Daly), Policy and Politics, 31(1): 85-97, 2003.

A repository of research publications and other research outputs can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.

Last updated: 19 March 2012