Paul Biddle
Research Fellow
Social Sciences languages
Northumbria University
United Kingdom
Biography
Paul is a Research Fellow in the Department for Social Sciences. He has undertaken research and evaluation across a wide range of policy areas including criminal justice, homelessness, social exclusion, supported employment, trade unions, culture & heritage, children’s services, domestic abuse, animal welfare and the role of the third sector in the delivery of public. He has worked on projects funded by the Department of Health, Department of Work and Pensions, the Ministry of Justice, the TUC, local government, the National Trust and the Scottish Government. Before joining the Department in 2004, Paul was a researcher at Barnardo’s and the Sustainable Cities Research Institute.
Research Interest
equality & diversity, criminal justice and offending, healthcare in prisons, culture, heritage, housing, governance, partnership working, service commissioning, public service delivery and worklessness & welfare reform.
Publications
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Lewis, R; Dobbs, L; Biddle, P (2013) ‘If This Wasn’t Here I Probably Wouldn’t Be’: disabled workers views of employment support, Disability and Society, February 2013
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Dyer, W; Biddle, P; Steer, M (2015) ‘Mental Health Street Triage’, Policing July 2015
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Dyer, W & Biddle, P (2016) ‘Enhanced Support for High Intensity Users of the Criminal Justice System’: An Evaluation of Mental Health Nurse Input into Integrated Offender Management Services in the North East of England’, Social Policy & Society, 15:1 43-55.
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Davies, P & Biddle, P (2016) ‘Implementing a Perpetrator Focused Partnership Approach to Tackling Domestic Abuse: An example of the opportunities and challenges of criminal justice localism?’ (submitted)
