Our people

Professor Craig Watkins is a member of the University Executive Board; Vice-President and Head of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Law

Vanesa’s research focuses on the governance of global environmental change in the urbanization age.

- Youth/young adult criminal justice policy
- Childhood neurodevelopmental impairment
- Developmental science & its applications to social sciences
- Family-focused policy, practice & research methods

Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) Research Theme Lead: Data and Digital Innovation

Director of the Urban Institute and a Professor of Urban Knowledge Governance. Beth also leads the Urban Institute’s Co-producing Urbanisms theme.

- Public health
- Race/ethnicity
- Gender
- Poverty
- Reproductive health
- Chronic health conditions