UofG Homelessness Initiative presents Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick

“With all the advantages that Glasgow enjoys as compared with most other UK cities, it is somewhat puzzling that high levels of homelessness persist in the city.”

Join us at our launch event for the University of Glasgow’s Homelessness Initiative where we welcome our first guest speaker Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick who will give her take on the current landscape, exploring what drivers contribute to homelessness in Glasgow. In this public lecture, she will draw on some of the strands that feed into the wider matrix of homelessness; examining the relationship between Local Authorities, Registered Social Landlords and Allocations Schemes, the Housing First programme, people with No Recourse to Public Funds and what impact COVID 19 has had on the sector.

Drawing on her recent evaluation of efforts to end street homelessness in 13 ‘vanguard’ cities across the globe, Suzanne will share her experiences working with the Institute of Global Homelessness and the Oak Foundation, as well as the Crisis Homelessness Monitors and her work chairing the Prevention Review Group.

This event is free and is open to all. Register now to secure your place.

Guest Speaker: Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick

Suzanne Fitzpatrick is the director of the Institute of Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research (I-SPHERE), Heriot-Watt University. Suzanne is a leading international scholar on homelessness, and has undertaken research on family, single and youth homelessness, as well as on rough sleeping, ‘street culture activities’, domestic violence, and rights-based approaches to tackling housing exclusion. Her methodological expertise lies mainly in qualitative research, and in policy, legal and international comparative analysis, but she has also led numerous mixed methods studies with strong statistical components. Suzanne was until recently principal investigator on the highly respected Crisis-funded “Homelessness Monitor” series, and is currently leading a major programmes of work on “Destitution in the UK” for the Jospeh Rowntree Foundation. She is homelessness theme lead in the ESRC/JRF-funded ‘UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)’, and previously led/co-led the housing and homelessness strands in five-year ESRC funded study of “Welfare Conditionality”, as well as an earlier ESRC-funded project on “Multiple Exclusion Homelessness”. Suzanne has also co-led influential research on severe and multiple disadvantage (“Hard Edges”), for the Lankelly-Chase Foundation/Robertson Trust, and she is currently managing a large study of Homelessness and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups in the UK for the Oak Foundation.