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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Peter Dwyer is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of Social Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Demography, Health, and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass Homelessness and Social Issues, Sex Work and related issues, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Migration and Labor Dynamics, Youth Education and Societal Dynamics, Retirement, Disability, and Employment, and Health disparities and outcomes.

Recent publications by Peter Dwyer include the following:

  • "Little and large: methodological reflections from two qualitative longitudinal policy studies on welfare conditionality," 2020, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
  • "Fighting or fuelling forced labour? The Modern Slavery Act 2015, irregular migrants and the vulnerabilising role of the UK's hostile environment," 2020, Critical Social Policy
  • "Military Veterans and Welfare Reform: Bridging Two Policy Worlds through Qualitative Longitudinal Research," 2021, Social Policy and Society
  • "pH-stat versus pH-shift lipolysis model: Exploring in vitro-in vivo relationships for lipid-based formulations of nilotinib," 2025, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • "Corrigendum to: The Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (NCI-MATCH) Trial: Lessons for Genomic Trial Design," 2021, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Frequent coauthors in Peter Dwyer's work are:

  • Lisa Scullion
  • Katy Jones
  • Stuart Hodkinson
  • Hannah Lewis
  • Louise Waite

Peter Dwyer's work has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Critical Social Policy
  • Social Policy and Society
  • Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
  • European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Recognition of their contribution to the field includes being named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North

    Hannah M. Lewis;Peter James Dwyer;Stuart Hodkinson;Louise Waite

  • Universal Credit, ubiquitous conditionality and its implications for social citizenship

    Peter Dwyer;Sharon Wright

  • Creeping conditionality in the UK: From welfare rights to conditional entitlements?

    Peter Dwyer

  • The experiences of accession 8 migrants in England : motivations, work and agency

    Joanne Cook;Peter Dwyer;Louise Waite

  • Understanding social citizenship: Themes and perspectives for policy and practice

    Peter Dwyer

  • Fixed laws, fluid lives: the citizenship status of post-retirement migrants in the European Union

    Louise Ackers;Peter Dwyer

  • Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s

    Peter Dwyer

  • Senior citizenship?: Retirement, migration and welfare in the European Union

    Louise Ackers;Peter Dwyer

  • Welfare rights and responsibilities: Contesting social citizenship

    Peter Dwyer

  • ‘Good relations’ among neighbours and workmates? The everyday encounters of Accession 8 migrants and established communities in Urban England

    Joanne Cook;Peter Dwyer;Louise Waite

  • Making sense of social citizenship: some user views on welfare rights and responsibilities:

    Peter Dwyer

  • The Social Security Rights of Older International Migrants in the European Union

    Peter Dwyer;Dimitris Papadimitriou

  • Forced labour and UK immigration policy : status matters?

    PJ Dwyer;H Lewis;LC Scullion;L Waite

  • Doing the right thing : Labour's attempt to forge a new welfare deal between the individual and the state

    Emma Heron;Peter Dwyer

  • Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum

    Hannah Lewis;Peter Dwyer;Stuart Hodkinson;Louise Waite

  • Meeting Basic Needs? Forced Migrants and Welfare

    Peter Dwyer;David Brown

  • Retired EU migrants: healthcare rights and European social citizenship

    Peter Dwyer

  • 'We nicked stuff from all over the place': policy transfer or muddling through?

    Peter Dwyer;Nick Ellison

  • Promoting social inclusion? The impact of village services on the lives of older people living in rural England

    Peter Dwyer;Irene Hardill

  • Work, welfare, and wellbeing: the impacts of welfare conditionality on people with mental health impairments in the UK

    Peter Dwyer;Lisa Scullion;Katherine Jones;Jenny McNeill

Frequent Co-Authors

John Flint
John Flint University of Sheffield

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