John Macnicol

John Macnicol, PhD
Lecturer
London Internship Program & London Internship Program (Summer)

Professor John Macnicol is a visiting professor of social policy at the London School of Economics. Previously, he was a professor of social policy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published extensively on social policy, and has given papers at numerous international conferences. Recent book publications are: (editor) Paying for the Old: Old Age and Social Welfare Provision (Thoemmes Press, 7 volumes, 2000); The Politics of Retirement in Britain 1878-1948 (Cambridge University Press, second edition, 2002); Age Discrimination: an Historical and Contemporary Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2006) (winner of the Social Policy Association’s prize for ‘Best New Publication, 2006-7’). Recent articles include: ‘Older Men and Work in the Twenty-First Century: What Can the History of Retirement Tell Us?’, Journal of Social Policy, 37, 4, October 2008; ‘Differential Treatment by Age: Age Discrimination or Age Affirmation?’, in Robert B. Hudson (ed.), Boomer Bust? Economic and Political Issues in the Graying Society, Vol. I (Praeger, 2009);  During 2009 he co-authored a report on inter-generational equity for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (A Think Piece on Intergenerational Equity (EHRC, 2009)). He has presented papers at numerous UK and international conferences, most recently at the XVII World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010, and the ESPAnet Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 2010.