Barbara Waine, Honorary Research Fellow, 2009-2012, Manchester
Research Interests
My principal research interest is pensions policy including in particular individualised forms of pension provision; the decline of defined benefit schemes and the relationship between pensions policy and policy to promote ‘financial literacy’.
Publications
- ‘New Labour and Pension Reform: Security in Retirement?, Social Policy and Administration, Forthcoming.
- ‘Personal Provision of Retirement Income in the UK’ in Personal Choice in the Provision of Retirement Income: Meeting the Needs of Older People? edited by Jim Stewart and Gerry Hughes, Edward Elgar, 2009.
- ‘Rules for the Rich? Contemporary Trends in Executive Pensions’, Competition and Change, Vol.12,No.3, pp.287-292, 2008.
- ‘A New Epoch of Individualisation? Problems with the ‘Personalisation’ of Public Services’ (with T. Cutler and K. Brehony), Public Administration, Vol. 85 No. 3, 847-55, 2007.
- ‘Individualised pension provision: UK experience, US Plans’, Benefits, The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 223-230, 2006.
- ‘Ownership and Security: Individualised Pensions and Pension Policy in the UK and US’,
- Competition and Change, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 321-337, 2006.
- ‘Incentivizing the Poor Relation: ‘Performance’ and the Pay of Public-sector ‘Senior Managers’ Competition and Change, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 69-81, 2005.
- ‘Not So Seamless? Performance Related Pay and Financial Control in English Schools’ (with T. Cutler), Public Money and Management, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 67-71, 2005.
- ‘Performance without Pay? Managing School Budgets under Performance Related Pay: Evidence from the First Year of PRP’, (with T.Cutler), Financial Accountability and Management, Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 57-75, 2004.