People

Use the table below to find our researchers.

Name Expertise Contact Details

Nicholas Pleace

Director, Professor of Social Policy

Research Champion for Justice and Equality

  • 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

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

Twitter: @NicholasPleace

Joanne Bretherton

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Social Justice and Criminology

  • 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

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

Dr Katherine Brookfield

Senior Lecturer

  • Planning and systems of spatial regulation
  • Housing markets and development
  • Age-friendly communities
  • Mixed qualitative methods

+44 (0)1904 324060
k.brookfield@york.ac.uk 

Jo Dixon

Social Work Lecturer and Research Fellow

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

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

Dr Eppie Leishman

Research Associate

  • Health inequalities
  • Housing and home
  • Online research methods

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

Deborah Quilgars

Emeritus Professor

  • Housing, risk and safety nets, homelessness and support services
  • Young people
  • European perspectives
+44 (0)1904 321482
deborah.quilgars@york.ac.uk

Dr Julie Rugg

Senior Research Fellow

  • Private renting
  • Housing benefit
  • The contribution of the voluntary sector to the alleviation of homelessness
  • Cemeteries research
+44 (0)1904 321484
julie.rugg@york.ac.uk

Dr Carolyn Snell

Reader in Social Policy

  • Fuel poverty and policy
  • Climate policy
  • Energy policy
  • Welfare reform
  • Disability
  • Environmental Attitudes
  • Education for Sustainable Development
  • Public participation in policy development

+44 (0)1904 321479
carolyn.snell@york.ac.uk

Twitter: @Carolyn_Snell

Dr Alison Wallace

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Housing

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

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

Teresa Frank

Research Support Administrator, Part time (Monday to Thursday)

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

Nicola Moody

Research Facilitator, Part time (Monday to Thursday)

  • Budget preparation for research projects
  • Project financial management
  • Budget forecasting
  • Centre's first aider 
+44 (0)1904 321476
nicola.moody@york.ac.uk

Sally Pulleyn

Research Support Manager

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

Dawn Rowley-White

Research Support Administrator and Editorial Assistant

  • Research support to a number of projects across the Department of Social Policy & Social Work
  • Administrator for the Departmental Ethics Committee (DEC)
  • Administrator for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) Committee
  • Responsible for research content on websites and social media channels
  • Editorial Assistant on the Journal of Comparative and International Social Policy
+44 (0)1904 321280
dawn.rowley-white@york.ac.uk
Honorary staff      

Rebecca Tunstall

Emeritus Professor

  • Social housing
  • Neighbourhoods 
  • Inequality
becky.tunstall@york.ac.uk 

Contact us

sbs-research@york.ac.uk
+44 (1904) 321231
University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD.
@UoY_SBS