RESEARCH TEAM
DR. EMMA WAINWRIGHT
+44 (0)1895 266088
Emma is a senior lecturer with expertise in Sociology, Education, Social Policy and Geography. She is a member of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies (Welfare, Health and Wellbeing theme) and was Director of the Centre for Human Geography (2012-15). Emma studied Geography at the University of Aberdeen and, after completing her PGCE (Secondary) at the University of Edinburgh and a brief foray into teaching, was awarded a scholarship by the University of St Andrews to undertake her PhD in Social and Historical Geography. Her broad research interests attend to: education, training, welfare-to-work; social policy, family, parenting and care; embodiment, body work and emotional labour. Emma’s work has been funded through grants awarded by the ESRC, British Academy, Barclays, the Learning and Skills Council and Brunel University London. Emma is currently a member of the ESRC peer review college (2010-2019), external examiner at Newcastle University (2015-17), and acts as a regular reviewer for various academic journals. In 2006 Emma was awarded the Newbigin Prize by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for her paper published in the Scottish Geographical Journal. Recent work has been published in Area, Sociology of Health and Illness, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Geoforum and an edited collection of papers on Women, Work-life Balance and Quality of Life in Gender, Place and Culture.
For more information on Emma, please see her University profile.
DR. ELODIE MARANDET
+(44)01895 270 085
Elodie is a researcher at Brunel University London where she completed her PhD in 2013. She has worked on a number of research projects focusing on gender, care, training and education. Her work has been published in the British Educational Research Journal and Space and Polity and she recently assisted in editing a Routledge Major Works reader on Gender and the Environment.
RESEARCH PARTNERS
A2DOMINION
0800 432 0077
customer.services@a2dominion.co.uk
A2Dominion is a residential property group with 36,000 homes across London and the South East, and thousands more in the development pipeline.
The Group offers high-quality sustainable homes for sale and shared ownership, available through its FABRICA by A2Dominion brand.
It also provides affordable, private and social rented homes, student, key worker and temporary accommodation, as well as supported and sheltered housing.
With a unique approach to house building, all of the profits the Group generates are reinvested into supporting its social purpose, helping it to deliver more affordable homes and services to customers.
A2Dominion is part of the g15, a group of the largest housing providers in London.
CATALYST HOUSING
0845 437 9705
enquiries@catalystgateway.org.uk
Catalyst Gateway was formed in 2010 to bring together and further develop Catalyst Housing’s twenty year history of community development work.
Catalyst Gateway delivers a range of projects to support and empower local communities.
Catalyst Gateway runs many projects and also provides funding and support to other local groups.
Catalyst Gateway has three focus areas:
• Employment and skills
• Young people and family
• Community enterprise
More than 7,500 people took part in Catalyst Gateway activities last year. Catalyst Gateway is active throughout London and the South East, mainly focusing on the areas where Catalyst Housing works.
