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EH14 4AS
United Kingdom
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Beth is a Senior Research Fellow at I-SPHERE, Heriot-Watt University. Her research focuses on homelessness, youth homelessness, rough sleeping and complex needs, social housing, and poverty. Her current work includes monitoring the impacts of welfare reform and the wider policy and economic context on UK homelessness via the 2011-2021 Crisis and Joseph Rowntree Foundation-funded Homelessness Monitors project and evidencing the impacts of welfare conditionality on young people, rough sleepers and social housing tenants via the Economic and Social Research Council-funded Welfare Conditionality: sanctions, support and behaviour change project. She has a background in philosophy and a particular interest the ethics of social policy and practice interventions. Beth is the Chair of the Housing Studies Association, on the editorial board of the journal Housing Studies and a non-executive director for The Rock Trust, a Scottish youth homelessness charity. She completed her PhD comparing responses to homelessness in Scotland and Ireland in 2013 at the University of York and has previously worked as a researcher at The Young Foundation, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Shelter.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Beth Watts (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Beth Watts (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Beth Watts (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Beth Watts (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Beth Watts (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
30/11/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
21/06/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
23/05/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
20/09/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Suzanne Fitzpatrick & Beth Watts
18/11/15
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research