Mr Philip Martin
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Research Fellow
Biography
Philip Martin is a Research Fellow at the Sustainable Housing & Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU), University of Salford. Prior to joining SHUSU in 2013, he worked in local government and the third sector, primarily in the field of equalities. His research interests centre around the implications of factors such as welfare, work, migration and poverty on ideas of citizenship, participation and identity, particularly for communities and made vulnerable by mainstream polity and system organisation.
Over the past decade, he has been a core member of several significant research projects, both in the UK and the European Union, conducting research on a wide variety of topics including: Gypsies, Roma and Traveller communities, military veterans and the welfare system, as well as housing, health and energy use. His main expertise is in empirical qualitative research.
His most recent publication is a paper on military veterans and citizenship (Armed Forces and Society 2024) and a chapter on Roma, social work and human rights approaches to social work in an edited volume (2025, forthcoming). He is currently undertaking a Phd by Published Works at the University of Salford.
Qualifications
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MSc History of Science, Technology & Medicine (Distinction)
1997 - 1998 -
BA History 1st Class
1992 - 1995