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

- Family experiences of child welfare service
- The impact of inequality
- New approaches to supporting families

Housing policy, housing management, citizenship, crime and anti-social behaviour, neighbourhood renewal and social cohesion and religion

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

- Methodology & the relationship between knowledge, evidence, policy, practice & context

Urban and regional policy, neighbourhoods, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis, spatial aspects of deprivation

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