Position:
Research Associate
School:
Planning and Geography
Email:
Telephone:
+44 (0)29 208 74850
Fax:
+44 (0)29 208 74845
Location:
Room 1.59, Glamorgan Building
Website:
Dr John Lever
Over the last decade John has been involved in qualitative, mixed methods and policy oriented academic research in a number of areas, including cross sector partnership working; regeneration and sustainable communities; social exclusion, crime and community safety; international governance and civil society activism; quality food assurance, animal welfare, and halal and kosher meat markets. As a freelance social researcher John has recently conducted research on volunteering, partnership working, migration and destitution in the UK asylum system. John’s current research interests revolve around international migration, animal welfare, food and identity.
Current – Wales Rural Observatory
2010-2012 – Freelance Social Researcher
2008-2010 –Welfare Quality® and Dialrel projects, School of City and Regional planning, Cardiff University
2003-2008 –Various projects on urban policy, community participation and sustainable communities, Cities Research Centre, UWE, Bristol
Qualifications
PhD Sociology and Public Policy, UWE; Bristol, 2007.
MSC Applied Social Research, UWE: Bristol 2002.
BA (Hons) Sociology and Philosophy, University of Leeds, 1998.
Career Profile
Current – Wales Rural Observatory
2010-2012 – Freelance Social Researcher
2008-2010 – School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University
1999-2008 – UWE, Bristol
1995-1998 – University of Leeds