Robert Walker
Beijing Normal University, China, and University of Oxford, UK
Robert Walker is professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University under China's 'High Level Foreign Talents' programme. He is professor emeritus at the University of Oxford where he is also emeritus fellow of Green Templeton College. Interests include poverty, social exclusion, family dynamics and budgeting strategies, children's aspirations and employment instability and progression. Policy concerns embrace social security and social assistance, welfare to work and labour market policies, policy evaluation and policy transfer.