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Professor Charlotte Pearson serves as Professor of Social Policy within the Urban Studies & Social Policy department at the University of Glasgow, with an additional appointment as Associate in the School of Health & Wellbeing. Her research critically analyzes policies promoting independent living and equality for disabled people, with current focus on young disabled people's transition to adulthood through an ESRC-funded study with Glasgow, Newcastle, and York Universities.
Her research spans disability policy, independent living, equality frameworks, youth transitions to adulthood, pandemic impacts on disabled populations, personalisation in social care, and welfare benefit reforms. Pearson's extensive publication record demonstrates consistent examination of policy implementation gaps and the lived experiences of disabled people across various contexts.
Professor Pearson's scholarly contributions have been recognized with the 2024 Cambridge University Press Award for Excellence in Social Policy. Her work consistently addresses critical tensions between policy intentions and real-world outcomes for disabled populations, with recent publications examining pandemic impacts, benefit assessment processes, and social care reform challenges.
- 2024 Cambridge University Press Award for Excellence in Social Policy
As an academic leader, Pearson supervises doctoral research in disability studies and related fields while securing substantial funding from ESRC, UKRI, and government sources. She serves as Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research and previously edited Disability & Society (2005-2019). Her policy influence extends through roles as specialist adviser to the House of Lords Public Services Committee Inquiry (2023-2024) and academic adviser to the Scottish Government's Personal Assistants' Programme Board.
