Researching Homelessness: Challenging Exclusion?

Researching Homelessness in Europe: Theoretical Perspectives

Debating, theorising and researching obesity in challenging times

The past decade has witnessed a cacophony of calls to combat ‘the obesity epidemic’ and the ‘impudent lifestyles’ claimed to cause it. Reportedly affecting most adults and a growing number of children (but considered especially problematic among the poor, notably working-class mothers), overweight/ obesity/fatness is presented by various ‘entrepreneurs’ (Monaghan et al, 2010) as a massive publi...

Challenging gender stereotypes: resistance and exclusion.

The likelihood of resisting gender-stereotypic peer group norms, along with expectations about personal resistance, was investigated in 9- to 10-year-olds and 13- to 14-year-olds (N = 292). Participants were told about a stereotype conforming group (boys playing football; girls doing ballet) and a stereotype nonconforming group (boys doing ballet; girls playing football). Contrary to expectatio...

Escaping Homelessness 1 Running head: ESCAPING HOMELESSNESS Escaping Homelessness: Anticipated and Perceived Facilitators

One study with two distinct sections was conducted to identify factors facilitating escape from homelessness. In section one, 58 homeless individuals rated possible facilitators of escape (factors they believed would help them become more independent and self-sufficient). In section two, 80 participants who had already exited homelessness rated the same facilitators (factors that would have hel...

Researching Statement

As a network researcher, my goal is to develop theoretical frameworks for the control and optimization of large-scale engineering networks and explore the practical implications of such fundamental understanding. Motivated by concrete real-life applications, I pursue the underlying theoretical findings that can contribute to the fundamentals of networks and shed light on other practical applica...