NEW APPOINTMENTS AT HERIOT-WATT

Heriot-Watt is delighted to welcome Suzanne Fitzpatrick and Dr Sarah Johnsen who join the University’s Housing and Urban Society Research Group from July 2010. Having directed York University’s Centre for Housing Policy since 2003, Suzanne becomes Professor of Housing and Social Policy at Heriot-Watt. Sarah, a Research Fellow at York since 2005, becomes a Senior Research Fellow. At Heriot-Watt, Suzanne and Sarah will be working on a range of projects including an ESRC-funded study of multiple exclusion homelessness. Suzanne will retain her role as Editor of the International Journal of Housing Policy (formerly the European Journal of Housing Policy).

Also joining Heriot-Watt is Kirsten Besemer, Research Associate, who moves from Chester University where she has been completing her PhD on the effects of trade liberalisation on Vietnamese rice farmers. Kirsten will work with Professor Glen Bramley and other colleagues on the 2010-11 UK Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey, 2011. This ESRC-funded project is being undertaken in collaboration with the Universities of Bristol, Glasgow and Queens, Belfast. Following on from the Millenium Poverty survey of 2000, the Breadline Britain surveys of 1983 and 1990, and Peter Townsend’s 1969 study, the 2010-11 research will measure the incidence of poverty across the country and investigate the nature of poverty and social exclusion in different contexts.