Saul is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the Faculty of Health and Education, Founding Director of the Institute for Children’s Futures, and Professor of Children and Families, at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has held professorial and leadership roles at Cambridge, Sussex, Birmingham, Nottingham and Loughborough universities before coming to Manchester Met in May 2022. Saul is a Registered Social Worker and has worked with children and families.
For the last thirty years, Saul has been recognised as the pioneer and world leader on research, policy and practice for young carers – children who have unpaid caring roles in their families. He publishes extensively in this field and advises governments, policy makers and practitioners around the world. He and his work have featured in ten television documentaries.
Saul is a Trustee of the Manchester United Foundation, and The Fed. He is an Ambassador for the national charity Carers Trust and is President or Patron of a number of carers’ centres. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Social Sciences.
Saul was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant in 2025.