Introduction
My work is mainly concerned with the quantitative analysis of poverty with a focus on the early stages of the life course: childhood and youth. Recently I have been doing work on poverty measurement in Low and Middle Income countries, poverty dynamics and the role of the benefit system in supporting poor workers. I have also conducted research on educational attainment, youth transitions, teen gender violence and sex work.
Expert
My main area of research is poverty with a particular emphasis on the early stages of the life course: childhood and youth, poverty dynamics, poverty measurement and the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.
I conduct both UK focused and international poverty research. My research in the UK has chiefly focused on youth disadvantage and more recently in-work poverty.
My most recent project: Measuring multidimensional poverty in the Pacific, looks at the potential of the Consensual Approach to measure poverty in Small Island States.
I value collaboration and interdisciplinarity, and have been involved in collaborative research on a range of areas related to social justice icluding migrant wellbeing, gender violence in teenage relationships and educational inequalities.
Fields of expertise: Reduction of inequalities / equity / poverty eradication, Social policy