- Deputy Director of Public Policy, UCL
Olivia is Deputy Director of Public Policy at UCL and a cofounder of the Universities Policy Engagement Network. Formerly a Board Member for the Campaign for Social Science and a human geographer, Olivia has considerable research experience, in areas relating to missing people, suicide and family geographies.
Olivia has delivered a range of internationally recognised high impact research projects and related Knowledge Exchange/Knowledge Transfer activities and published over 30 single and co-authored peer-reviewed papers, reports and briefings, Olivia is an author of the UCL/Resolution Foundation’s Exploring Inequalities project report, Structurally Unsound.
Experience
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2020–presentDeputy Director UCL Public Policy, UCL
Education
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2008University of Leeds, PhD
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2004University of Sheffield, Ma
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2003Brunel University, BSc Hons
Publications
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2023The Cost of Living Crisis in the UK: All In It Together?, Report,
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2022Bringing adult learning principles to university–policy engagement training involving students and policy professionals, Research for All
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2021The dynamics of working at intersections: Reflections from exploring inequalities, Research for All
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2019Structurally Unsound: Exploring inequalities to better inform UK policy, UCL & Resolution Foundation Report,
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2017Missing women: policing absence, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
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2016Geography of missing adults, Missing Persons: A Handbook of Research
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2016And now the end is near: enlivening and politizising the geographies of dying, death and mourning, Social & Cultural Geography
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2016Geographies of missing people: Improving police knowledge and response to missing persons, Handbook of Missing Persons
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2016Suicidal journeys: attempted suicide as geographies of intended death, Social & Cultural Geography
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2015Search/ing for missing people: Families living with ambiguous absence, Emotion, Space and Society
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2015'To the End of the World': Space, Place, and Missing Persons Investigations, Policing (Oxford): a journal of policy and practice
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2014Missing persons: the processes and challenges of police investigation, Policing and Society
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2014'No news today': talk of witnessing with families of missing people, cultural geographies
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2013Young children engaging with technologies at home: The influence of family context, Journal of Early Childhood Research
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2013Space for play?: Families' strategies for organizing domestic space in homes with young children, Home Cultures
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2013Exploring the Quotidian in Young Children’s Lives at Home., Home Cultures: the journal of architecture, design and space
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2012Preschool children’s learning with technology at home, Computers & Education 59
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2012Using mobile phone diaries to explore children's everyday lives, Childhood
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2011Parents, pre-schoolers and learning with technology at home: some implications for policy, JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING
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2011From public policy to family practices: researching the everyday realities of families' technology use at home, JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING
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2010Toy tours: reflections on walking-whilst-talking with young children at home, Qualitative Researcher
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2008Ubiquitous presence, partial use: The everyday interaction of children and their families with ICT, Technology, Pedagogy and Education
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