Staff profile
Dr Stephen Crossley
Assistant Professor - Terms 1&3_Level 2 BA Sociology Year Tutor/erm 2_Level 2 BA Sociology Year Tutor / Term 1_BAs CHSS_JH UG Year Tutor
| Affiliation |
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| Assistant Professor - Terms 1&3_Level 2 BA Sociology Year Tutor/erm 2_Level 2 BA Sociology Year Tutor / Term 1_BAs CHSS_JH UG Year Tutor in the Department of Sociology |
| Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing |
Biography
Stephen joined the department as Assistant Professor in June 2020, having previously worked at Northumbria University. He completed an ESRC funded PhD at Durham in 2017, examining the UK Government’s Troubled Families Programme. Prior to entering academia, he worked in a number of public sector and voluntary sector roles in the North East of England, working on issues such as community cohesion, tenant participation, health inequalities and child poverty.
He has published extensively on issues relating to ‘troubled families’, child poverty and social justice and his research interests revolve around policy responses to social disadvantage and inequality and the symbolic power of social policies.