Provided by Adrian Sinfield, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy , University of Edinburgh
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My very good friend and collaborator of many years, John Ditch, has died after a long illness. Neil Lunt and John Hudson have this excellent tribute on the York University website – https://www.york.ac.uk/business-society/about/news/2025/john-ditch/.
John made significant contributions to the SPA while he was in Ulster and York – on the executive and then honorary secretary and later chair of the Journal of Social Policy. His writing and editing on teaching and research in and around the broad area of social security, nationally and internationally, proved valuable in developing the literature and policy making and debates.
Professor Adrian Sinfield