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Professor Del Roy Fletcher
BSc (Hons) MSoc Sc
Phone 0114 225 3487
E-mail d.r.fletcher@shu.ac.uk
Del Roy Fletcher is a professor of labour market studies at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, and coordinator of its labour markets team. He has extensive experience of research exploring the difficulties faced by severely disadvantaged groups in the labour market and the evaluation of pilot programmes. In respect of the former, he is an acknowledged national expert on offender employment issues. He has, for example, directed a landmark study into the problems experienced by those with a criminal record in the labour market and the first ever review of offender enterprise support in England. He is currently conducting a study of the implementation of the joint DWP/Ministry of Justice Offender Employment Review.
Del has directed several national evaluations of labour market pilot programmes including the Jobseekers Mandatory Activity, Working Neighbourhoods Pilot, the New Deal Innovation Fund (rounds one, two and three) and the National Development Programme. He was part of the team responsible for evaluating the City Strategy. He has authored 22 academic publications including 19 articles in national peer-reviewed academic journals.
Research interests
Del's research interests include
- offenders in the post-industrial labour market
- evaluation of labour market pilot programmes
- worklessness
- UK welfare reform and its impact on deprived individuals and communities
- labour market disadvantage
Current research projects
Please contact me for further details about these research projects and for summaries of the findings.
2010–2011 Qualitative study of offender employment review, DWP. Role - director
2010–2011 Participant focused research, Sova. Role - director
Selected reports (2001 onwards)
Fletcher, D.R. (2011) Nottingham City Strategy Pathfinder, Local Evaluation. Sheffield: Nottinghamshire City and County ESB.
Fletcher, D.R. (2010) Review of Offender Financial Capability Support: Key Messages. Sheffield: Financial Inclusion Services (Yorkshire)
Fletcher, D.R. (2010) Evaluation of FISY Financial Inclusion Project: Offender Element. Sheffield: Financial Inclusion Services (Yorkshire).
Fletcher, D.R. (2010) The Role of Local Infrastructure Organisations in supporting the efforts of the Voluntary Sector to Reduce Re-offending. Sheffield: NAVCA.
Green, A., Adam, D. and Hasluck, C. (2009) Evaluation of City Strategy. London, Department for Work and Pensions
Fletcher, D.R., Gore, T., Macmillan, R., Beatty, C. and Pearson, S. (2009) Qualitative Evaluation of the Jobseeker Mandatory Activity (JMA). Research Paper No. 553. London, Department for Work and Pensions.
Fletcher, D.R., Gore, T., Reeve, K. and Robinson, D. (2008) Social Housing and Worklessness: Qualitative Research Findings. Research Report No 521. London, Department for Work and Pensions.
Fletcher, D.R., Gore, T., Reeve, K. and Robinson, D. (2008) Social Housing and Worklessness: Key Policy Messages. Research Report No 482. London, Department for Work and Pensions.
Crisp, R. and Fletcher, D.R. (2008) A Comparative Review of Workfare Programmes in the United States, Canada and Australia. Sheffield, Department for Work and Pensions.
Fletcher, D.R. (2006) Review and Evaluation of Yorkshire Forward's Construction Training in Prisons Project at HMP Lindholme. Interim Report. Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University.
Fletcher, D.R. (2006) Evaluation of Working Neighbourhoods Pilot: Report on Phase 3 Pilot Case studies. Sheffield, Department for Work and Pensions.
Fletcher, D.R. et al (2005) Evaluation of Working Neighbourhoods Pilot: Report on Phase 2 Pilot Case Studies. Sheffield, Department of Work and Pensions.
Fletcher, D.R. (2005) Review and Evaluation of Yorkshire Forward's Construction Training in Prisons Project at HMP Lindholme. Initial Review and Good Practice Guide. Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University.
Fletcher, D.R. (2004) Reducing Re-offending: The Enterprise Option. A report to the Small Business Service, January 2004. URN 04/568. Sheffield, Small Business Service.
Fletcher, D.R. (2004) Evaluation of the Bradford Capacity Building Pilot. A Final Report to the Department for Work and Pensions. Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University.
Fletcher, D.R. (2004) District Manager Discretionary Fund: Good Practice Guide. Sheffield, Jobcentre Plus.
Fletcher, D.R. (2003) Evaluation of the Yorkshire Prisons ETE Scheme. A report to SOVA. Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University.
Fletcher, D.R. (2003) Evaluation of the New Deal Innovation Fund Round Three Projects. Second Summary Report to the Department for Work and Pensions. Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University.
Fletcher, D.R. (2002) Evaluation of the New Deal Innovation Fund Round Three Projects. First Summary Report to the Department for Work and Pensions. Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University.
Fletcher, D.R. et al (2001) Recruiting and employing offenders. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Work and Opportunity Series No. 27. York, York Publishing Services.
Fletcher, D.R. (2001) Evaluation of the New Deal Innovation Fund- Rounds One and Two. Employment Service Report Ref: ESR86. Sheffield, Department of Work and Pensions.
Academic publications (2001 onwards)
Fletcher, D.R. (2011) Welfare reform, Jobcentre Plus and the street-level bureaucracy: towards inconsistent and discriminatory welfare for severely disadvantaged groups? Social Policy and Society, 10 (4), pp. 111-114.
Fletcher, D.R. (2010) The Workless Class? Economic transformation, informal work and male working class identity Social Policy and Society, 9, (3), pp. 325-336.
Fletcher, D.R. (2010) How do we make prisons places of work and learning? A CRESR think piece.
Fletcher, D.R. (2009) Social Tenants, Attachment to Place and Work in the Post-industrial Labour Market: Underlining the Limits of Housing-based Explanations of Labour Immobility? Housing Studies, 24 (6), pp. 775-791.
Fletcher, D.R. (2009) Offenders, the changing nature of work and prison-based vocational training. Skills in England 2008.
Fletcher, D.R. (2008) Employment and disconnection: cultures of worklessness in neighbourhoods, In: Flint, J. and Robinson, D. (Eds) Community cohesion in crisis? New Dimensions of diversity and difference. Bristol, Policy Press.
Fletcher, D.R. (2008) Tackling concentrations of worklessness: highlighting the limits of work-focused organisational cultures in the UK. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 26, pp. 563-587.
Fletcher, D.R. (2008) Offenders in the post-industrial labour market: from the underclass to the undercaste? Policy and Politics, 36 (2), pp. 283-297.
Fletcher, D.R (2007) Offenders in the post-industrial labour market: lubricating the revolving door? People, Place and Policy, 1 (2).
Fletcher, D.R. (2007) A culture of worklessness? Historical insights from the Manor and Park area of Sheffield. Policy and Politics, 36 (2), pp. 65-85.
Fletcher, D.R. (2005) Providing enterprise support for offenders: realising new opportunities or reinforcing old inequalities? Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 23 (5), pp. 715-731.
Fletcher, D.R. (2004) Demand-led programmes: challenging labour market inequalities or reinforcing them? Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 22 (1), pp. 115-128.
Fletcher, D.R. (2004) Employers, recruitment and offenders: the emergence of a new challenge for policy makers? British Journal of Community Justice, 2 (1), pp. 13-24.
Fletcher, D.R. (2003) Employers, recruitment and offenders: underlining the limits of work-focused welfare? Policy and Politics, 31 (4), pp. 497-510.
Fletcher, D.R. (2002) The Police Act and the recruitment of offenders: towards the limits of social exclusion? Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 20 (5), pp. 757-773.
Fletcher, D.R. (2001) Ex-offenders, the labour market and the new public administration. Public Administration, 79 (4), pp. 871-891.
