John H McKendrick is Professor of Social Justice and co-Director of the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit in the Glasgow School for Business and Society at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is primarily concerned to inform the work of practitioners and campaigners beyond the academy who seek to tackle poverty in Scotland. He edits the Poverty in Scotland book series for CAPG (2021 edition in preparation) and writes a column in the Scottish Anti Poverty Review (Poverty Alliance’s quarterly journal). He has published many reports and briefings papers, and delivers around twenty presentations every year to a wide range of Third sector and local government events on issues pertaining to the eradication and amelioration of poverty in Scotland. In 2020, he has led research and consultancy on poverty and transport, food, education, and local leadership and decision-making. He is a member of the Scottish Leaders Forum (Child Poverty group), National Partners to support local implementation of Every Child, Every Chance, and a range of charitable and local bodies concerned to tackle poverty. He co-ordinates the research that underpins the work of GCU’s Caledonian Club, a university-school partnership through which the university works with children in five school clusters in Glasgow as they progress through nursery, primary and secondary education. He is an active member of the Poverty and Education Network (of the Scottish Educational Research Association), a group that aims to bring together practitioners and researchers to better understand and address the problems created by poverty for education in Scotland, and is on the Advisory Board of the EIS’s two year project to review the impact of poverty on education. He also has an interest in children’s play and everyday environments and has edited several collections of works and published several reports/papers in this field, including a nationwide review on the use of school grounds in Scotland (2004), and Play and Education in Scotland (Scottish Educational Review, Autumn 2019).