Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, Brunel University London
Peter Beresford is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University London and Professor of Citizen Participation at the University of Essex. He is also Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the disabled people's and service user organisation and network, and a long-term user of mental health services.
Peter is a writer, researcher, educator and campaigner with a long-standing interest and involvement in issues of participation and empowerment.
He is also Visiting Professor at the Universities of Edge Hill and East Anglia
Stop telling people who need social care they aren't eligible – be honest, there isn't enough money
Oct 17, 2018 22:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Law
As the crisis in social care funding continues, the government is due to publish a much-delayed green paper in autumn 2018 on how it plans to make the care system for both older people and working-age adults more...
After 75 years, Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics need updating
Mar 17, 2017 15:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Technology
When science fiction author Isaac Asimov devised his Three Laws of Robotics he was thinking about androids. He envisioned a world where these human-like robots would act like servants and would need a set of programming...
A clarion call for a new kind of popular politics
Mar 17, 2017 15:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
If the rising sense of alienation from the political process is to be reversed in the long term, it will require more than a quick dose of populist rhetoric or tinkering with the way politics is organised. The British...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well
Political donations rules are finally in the spotlight – here’s what the government should do