Peter Kaim-Caudle (1916 in Breslau – 18 May 2010 in

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) was Professor of Social Policy at Durham University and a recognised expert on the provision of social services.

Life and career

Peter Robert KaimHonorary degree welcome speech at NUI
/ref> was born in Breslaudeath notice
in ''The Irish Times'' to a middle-class German Jewish family on 14 December 1916. In 1933 he left the increasingly

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German Reich for England, where he studied economics at the LSE.He graduated in 1939 and went to work in business. During World War II he was interned for fifteen months as an enemy alien, at first in the

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and later in Canada. His career in education began with the arranging of and teaching informal classes for fellow internees. After the war he returned to Britain and married Londoner Patricia Caudle a former landgirl and later English teacher. The couple adopted the new surname Kaim-Caudle and had four children. Peter began his post-war career as a lecturer at the University of Dundee, then in 1950 moved to the

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where he spent the rest of his professional life. He became the University's first Professor of Social Administration.NUI communications office
/ref> and authored many papers for British and overseas journals on social service provision, particularly pensions and subsidised health care.
/ref> From 1963 he collaborated with and made frequent visits to the Economic and Social Research Institute in

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.obituary in Irish Times
/ref> His contributions to Irish social policy research were recognised by the award in 2002 of the

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from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Kaim died at his daughter's home in

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, Paris on 18 May 2010.

Published books

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaim-Caudle, Peter 1916 births 2010 deaths Academics of social policy Academics of Durham University Writers from Wrocław People from the Province of Silesia Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom People interned in the Isle of Man during World War II