Our team
Katherine Brickell
Co-Investigator
Katherine is Professor of Urban Studies at King’s College London and is best known for her feminist and legal-oriented geographical research on home and its unmaking. She has longstanding expertise in studying household debt in people’s everyday domestic and working lives, including its gendered dynamics. Her books include Home SOS (2020), The Handbook of Displacement (2020) and Geographies of Forced Eviction (2017). With Mel Nowicki, Katherine has a decade of experience co-researching family homelessness and Temporary Accommodation in London, Greater Manchester, and Dublin.
Mel Nowicki
Co-Investigator
Mel is Reader in Urban Geography at Oxford Brookes University, and Visiting Reader in Urban Geography at King's College London. Her research explores the lived experience of housing precarity. Her current research focuses on the rise of family homelessness and Temporary Accommodation in the UK and Ireland, and understanding how shrinking domestic space is shifting our expectations of home. Her first book, Bringing Home the Housing Crisis: Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London, was published by Bristol Policy Press in 2023.
Shared Health Foundation
Project Partner
Shared Health Foundation is a clinically-led and evidence-based non-profit, passionate about reducing the impact poverty has on health. SHF primarily support homeless families in Greater Manchester. They also campaign for policy change and are Co-secretariat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Households in Temporary Accommodation. With the APPG HTA, they are currently leading the SAFE Campaign to place a statutory obligation on local councils to notify a child’s school and GP when a family becomes homeless.
Fraser Curry
Research assistant
Fraser is a PhD student at King's College London researching housing, urban popular economies and political ecology. His doctoral research explores post-war histories of migration to West London and the role that kinship, familial and community relations play in finding and financing housing. Previously, he has worked on property guardianship in Senegal, young people's social infrastructures in East London, and social housing policy in the UK. He holds an MSc in Urbanisation and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Miranda Keast
Consultant
Miranda is an independent consultant who combines an extensive background working in leadership roles in the homelessness sector with strong research experience. She is currently undertaking a professional doctorate in social policy at Cardiff University exploring how homeless migrants experience the making of home in the UK. In the last four years she has led and developed research and network coordination projects for organisations such as Shelter, Crisis, the Museum of Homelessness and Housing Justice.
Claire Brickell
Consultant
Claire Brickell is an award-winning public sector research leader with over 15 years of experience across academic and government sectors. She specialises in taking a user centred approach to knotty policy problems and draws on an extensive methodological toolbox from social research and digital paradigms. Claire holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and previously led research teams across four government departments. https://www.everydayresearch.co.uk
Bison Bison
Book cover and graphic design
Bison Bison is a D&AD award-winning graphic design agency based in London. https://www.bisonbison.co.uk
