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Neil Lunt is Professor of Social Policy at the University of York and Associate Dean (Internationalisation) in the School for Business and Society. He leads comparative research on health and welfare reform, medical tourism, and local-government responses to austerity, and currently supervises PhD students across these themes.
Education:
- BA Politics, University of Durham
- MA Political Philosophy, University of York
- PhD Social Policy, Massey University, New Zealand
Research Interests:
Lunt’s work sits at the intersection of social policy, public management and global health. He examines how health and social services are organised, governed and experienced across different welfare regimes, with particular attention to patient mobility, migration and the devolution of welfare responsibilities to local authorities.
Recent projects analyse the English NHS’s growing reliance on commercial income, the role of bilateral health agreements in South Africa, and the UK Household Support Fund as a local safety-net during the cost-of-living crisis.
Grants & Projects:
- Principal Investigator, “Social Welfare for Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia” (2020-25)
- Principal Investigator, “Experimental, innovative and novel treatments: rapid scoping review” (2018)
PhD Supervision:
Lunt welcomes applicants interested in comparative public-sector reform, health and social-service markets, migration and welfare, and practitioner research methodologies.
