Staff Profile:

Tony Maltby

Tony Maltby is a Research Fellow at CROW

Before joining CROW, Tony worked as a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK. He was the founding Editor of the journal Social Policy and Society, published by Cambridge University Press, is co-editor (with Dr Debra Street, SUNY at Buffalo, USA) of the Ashgate series New Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life and with Karen Clarke (Manchester) and Patricia Kennett (Bristol) co-editor of Social Policy Review a publication of the Social Policy Association and Policy Press. He is co-author with Alan Walker of Ageing Europe (Open University Press).

Among his more recent publications include Ageing Matters: European Policy Lessons from the East, Ashgate, with John Doling and Catherine Jones-Finer, (Eds.) and as lead editor, Ageing and Transition to Retirement. A Comparative analysis of European welfare states, Ashgate. He also co authored (with Jo Cook and Lorna Warren), ‘A participatory approach to understanding older women’s quality of life’ in Alan Walker and Catherine Hagan Hennessy, (Eds.) Growing Older: Quality of Life in Old Age, Open University Press, Maidenhead, based upon their involvement in the ESRC’s Growing Older research programme.

Research

His main research interest has been in the field of the social policy of employment, work and income in later life, but he has a particular interest into the concept of Workability and its applicability to a British ‘welfare state’. His move to CROW extends his interests to include training, education and Life Long Learning issues.

Contact

Tel: 0116 204 7057
Email: tony.maltby@niace.org.uk