Dr John Holmes PhD, MA, BA (Hons) (York)

Section of Public Health, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA

Office: G033

Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 6384
Fax: +44 (0) 114 272 4095

email : john.holmes@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

My degrees were all undertaken within the Social Policy and Social Work department of the University of York. During this time I worked as a research assistant studying trends in child poverty in the UK and developing countries.

After completing my PhD I worked for the Institute for Social Change at the University of Manchester for one year before taking up my current post as a research fellow at Sheffield in 2010.

Research Interests

• Alcohol Policy
• Longitudinal and typological modelling
• Appropriation of the internet and social media
• Child poverty, well-being and development
• Adolescent deliberate self-harm

Teaching Interests

• Quantitative research methods
• Online research methods
• Children, young people and social policy

Current Projects

• MRC-funded interdisciplinary study of alcohol policy effectiveness