Paul Stubbs
Paul Stubbs is a British-born sociologist who is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics in Zagreb where he heads the Department of Labour Markets and Social Policies.
His main research, advocacy and consultancy interests focus on social protection and social inclusion in South Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on the role of international actors. He has recently completed two research projects on child poverty and household coping strategies and local state capture in Croatia. He is working on historical studies of the welfare state in socialist Yugoslavia and on the Non-Aligned Movement, socialist Yugoslavia and UN social rights. He has advised a number of international organisations on their work in the region, including UNICEF, UNDP, the UK government's DFID, Save the Children, CARE International and the Finnish government.
His publications include Social Policy and International Interventions in South East Europe (Deacon and Stubbs, eds, 2007), Towards Open Regionalism in South East Europe (Stubbs and Solioz, eds, 2012), Transformations in Global and Regional Social Policies (Kaasch and Stubbs, eds, 2014), Making Policy Move: Towards a politics of translation and assemblage (Clarke, Bainton, Lendvai and Stubbs, 2015) and Social Inequalities and Discontent in Yugoslav Socialism (Archer, Duda, Stubbs, eds, 2016). He is the team leader of the Croatian team in the European Social Policy Network, which advises the European Commission on social policy and social inclusion issues. (2016)
