Michael Noble, Professor of Social Policy

Michael Noble is Professor of Social Policy at Oxford. Director of the Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy (CASASP) and the Social Disadvantage Research Centre (SDRC) at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the South African Human Sciences Research Council and received an OBE in 2001 for his contributions to poverty research. In 2008 he was made a CBE for services to social research on poverty and deprivation.

His major research interests are in the areas of poverty and social exclusion and income maintenance policy. He has been an advisor to the UK Government on small area indicators of poverty and deprivation and is currently working with the South African Government's Department of Social Development (DSD) to develop the evidence base for pro-poor policy making.

Current Research includes:

• Developing a Tax-Benefit Micro Simulation Model for South Africa

• Developing Indices of Multiple Deprivation for South and Southern Africa

• Conceptualising and Measuring Child Poverty in South Africa

• Researching the relationship between employment and social security in South Africa

• Developing an Index of Multiple Deprivation for England

• Evaluating the New Deal for Communities Programme in England

• Tracking Neighbourhood Deprivation in England and Wales

• Measuring Fear of Crime at the small area level