William Harvey Building
0845 196 4817
Dave.Backwith@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• BSc (Hons) Social Administration
• MA Comparative Labour History
• PhD

• Member of Social Work & Health Inequalities Network
• Member of Politics of Health Group

Courses

• BA Social Work modules:Poverty, Social Exclusion & Social Work and Working with Communities and Groups

• MA Social Work module: Context of Social Welfare

Outline of career

Before joining Anglia Ruskin University, David taught on social policy and social work courses at Liverpool University. He also completed a PhD at Bristol University.

Research Interest

• Poverty and social exclusion
• Mutual Aid
• Social inequalities in health

Selected Publications

Backwith, D. & Walentowicz, P. (1997) Haverhill: Homelessness in a Suffolk Town, Population & Housing Research Group, Anglia Polytechnic University.

Backwith, D. & Harvey, L. (2001) 'From Poverty to Social Exclusion? The Legacy of London Overspill in Haverhill', Ch. 10 in Bradshaw, J. & Sainsbury, R. (eds) Researching Poverty, Aldershot: Ashgate

Backwith, D. & Munn-Giddings, C. (2003) 'Self-help/mutual aid in Promoting Mental Health at Work', Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol. 2.4, 14-25

Backwith, D. & Mantle, G. (forthcoming, 2009) 'Inequalities in Health and community-oriented social work; lessons from Cuba?' International Social Work, Vol. 52.4 491-504