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Nicholas Pleace
Director
Professor of Social Policy
Research Champion for Justice and Equality

+44 (0)1904 321479
nicholas.pleace@york.ac.uk

  • Interdisciplinary research
  • Comparative research
  • Housing and social justice
  • Housing inequalities, health and wellbeing
  • Neighbourhood effects, social justice, health and wellbeing
  • Independent living and co-production of services for people with support needs
  • Housing exclusion, homelessness and social justice, health and wellbeing
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Joanne Bretherton
Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321478
joanne.bretherton@york.ac.uk

  • Homelessness and housing exclusion
  • Social enterprise service models
  • Service evaluation
  • Gender-based (domestic) violence
  • Negative area effects in relation to mixed communities
  • International comparisons with a particular interest in the Asia Pacific region and Japanese social and housing policy
Fiorella Ciapessoni

Fiorella Ciapessoni 
PhD student

+44 (0)1904 321472
fc743@york.ac.uk

  • Homelessness
  • Housing exclusion
  • Urban poverty
  • Crime
  • Reentry policies
Jo Dixon

Jo Dixon 
Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321275
jo.dixon@york.ac.uk

  • Outcomes for children and adolescents in and on the edges of care
  • Leaving care
  • Innovative approaches to working with vulnerable young people
Dr Eppie Leishman

Eppie Leishman
Research Associate

+44 (0)1904 321473
eppie.leishman@york.ac.uk

  • Health inequalities
  • Housing and home
  • Online research methods
Deborah Quilgars 

Deborah Quilgars
Senior Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321482
deborah.quilgars@york.ac.uk

  • Housing, risk and safety nets, homelessness and support services
  • Young people
  • European perspectives
‌ Dr Julie Rugg

Julie Rugg
Senior Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321484
julie.rugg@york.ac.uk

  • The private rented sector
  • Housing assistance within the welfare system
  • Landlord and tenant housing behaviours
  • Cemetery research
 Alison Wallace

Alison Wallace
Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321487
alison.wallace@york.ac.uk

  • Sustainable homeownership
  • Low cost homeownership
  • Housing markets
  • Buy-to-let
  • Cultural-economy
  • Systematic review methodology

 Administrative staffResponsibilities
Teresa Frank

Teresa Frank 
Research Support Administrator
Part time (Monday to Thursday)

+44 (0)1904 321289
teresa.frank@york.ac.uk

  • Administrative support to a number of research projects across the Department of Social Policy & Social Work
  • Range of administrative duties which help support the day-to-day running of the Centre
  • Administrator for the Departmental Ethics Committee (DEC)
  • Administrator for the Research Excellence Framework (REF)
Nicola Moody

Nicola Moody
Research Facilitator
Part time (Monday to Thursday)

+44 (0)1904 321476
nicola.moody@york.ac.uk

  • Budget preparation for research projects
  • Project financial management
  • Budget forecasting
  • Centre's first aider
‌ Sally Pulleyn

Sally Pulleyn 
Research Support Manager

+44 (0)1904 321951
sally.pulleyn@york.ac.uk

  • Supporting the Director
  • Personnel work
  • Recruitment and induction
  • Maintenance of accommodation and facilities
  • Health and safety
  • Managing a team of staff to ensure research activities are supported efficiently and effectively
Dawn Rowley-White

Dawn Rowley-White 
Research Support Administrator and Editorial Assistant

+44 (0)1904 321280
dawn.rowley-white@york.ac.uk

  • Administrative support to a number of research projects across the Department of Social Policy & Social Work
  • Range of administrative duties which help support the day-to-day running of the Centre
  • Administrator for the Departmental Ethics Committee (DEC)
  • Administrator for the Research Excellence Framework (REF)
  • Editorial Assistant on the Journal of Comparative and International Social Policy

 

Honorary staff Interests

Rebecca Tunstall 

Emeritus Professor

becky.tunstall@york.ac.uk

  • Social housing
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Inequality