Edith England

Overview

I am a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Practice. My areas of interest are:

• Homelessness and ‘precarious’ housing (e.g. squatting, property guardianship)
• The private rented sector
• Home and place-making
• Frontline interactions, especially within the welfare state/third sector.
• Experiences of a) women and minoritized genders and sexualities b) neurodiverse people.

I take a critical social policy approach, with a focus on discourse and meaning-making and with attention to the impact of uneven power. I am especially interested in using a) critical theory (e.g. Queer and Crip theory) and care ethics to understand and address issues in social policy.

I chair the CSESP Gender and Sexualities Research Group and the weekly CSESP Research Seminar Series and am involved in running the Queer Populations and Policies Network (https://sites.google.com/view/qpapnetwork/about-qpap).