Dr David M Smith is a Reader in Social Policy in the Faculty of Health Medicine and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University. He is Co-Lead of the Workforce Research Group in the Healthcare Research Centre and is a sociologist by background. David has significant expertise in undertaking research using ethnographic, qualitative, mixed methods and participatory research methodologies and his research interests are broadly concerned with the social determinants of health; health inequalities and the development, implementation and impact of policies to address these. He was Co-Principal Investigator on the Health Education England project Learning Alliance in Palliative and End of Life Care (LAPCEL) working with minority and underserved communities to study attitudes to, and understandings of, palliative and end of life care within these communities and developing a collaborative partnership between academia, community members/groups and health and palliative care providers. He has expertise in community-based research particularly with migrant, working class and with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
He is currently leading a project with the University of the Philippines (Diliman) and Ryokuku University (Japan) into the migration of Filipino nurses and the retirement planning of older Filipino nurses in the NHS. His first monograph On the Margins of Inclusion won the 2006 Social Policy Association Prize for Best New Publication. In 2018 he won the Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Paper and in the same year received the Sam Aaronovitch Memorial Prize for Winning Paper for his work with migrant Roma communities.
Contact: david.smith1@aru.ac.uk