Edith England

I am a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Practice at Cardiff Met, and the Programme Director for the Health and Social Care programme, having completed my PhD at Cardiff Uni in 2020.

I have a third sector background (housing, homelessness and welfare), moving to academia in 2017.

My areas of interest are:

- Homelessness and ‘precarious’ housing / housing insecurity (including squatting, property guardianship, and the private rented sector).
- Neurodiversity and housing, especially ADHD/ autism and housing/ homelessness (currently recruiting for our ADHD/ Autism housing survey here (https://cardiff.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bHfPaswbBVMjWD4)
- LGBTQ+ homelessness – recently completed the largest UK-based survey to date of LGBTQ+ homelessness.
- Welsh housing and homelessness.

I have published widely within critical social policy, sociology and geography. I am especially interested in using critical theory (e.g. Queer and Crip theory) to understand and address issues within social policy.
I am also involved in running the Queer Populations and Policies Network
(https://sites.google.com/view/qpapnetwork/about-qpap).