Edith England
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Practice
Cardiff School of Education & Social Policy
Overview
I am a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Practice. My areas of interest are:
- Homelessness and ‘precarious’ housing (e.g. squatting, property guardianship)
- The private rented sector
- Home and place-making
- Frontline interactions, especially within the welfare state/third sector.
- Experiences of a) women and minoritized genders and sexualities b) neurodiverse people.
I take a critical social policy approach, with a focus on discourse and meaning-making and with attention to the impact of uneven power. I am especially interested in using a) critical theory (e.g. Queer and Crip theory) and care ethics to understand and address issues in social policy.
I chair the CSESP Gender and Sexualities Research Group and the weekly CSESP Research Seminar Series and am involved in running the Queer Populations and Policies Network (https://sites.google.com/view/qpapnetwork/about-qpap).
Research Publications
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’
England, E., 7 Sept 2024, In: British Journal of Sociology. 76, 1, p. 50-64 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
‘It Matters How They See You’: ‘Maternal Activation’ As a Strategy to Navigate Contradictory Discourses of Motherhood and Neoliberal Activism in the Welsh Homelessness System
England, E. & Henley, J., 26 Feb 2024, In: Social Policy and Society. p. 1-14Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
'You mean, my theoretical rights?' Exploring service shortfalls and administrative (in)justice among homeless trans people
England, E., 11 Jan 2024, Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain. Policy Press, p. 136-154 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
‘Show me you're trying, that's all…’: Exploring the discursive impact of punishments and incentives in the Welsh homelessness system as ‘controlled conditionalities’
England, E., 29 Aug 2023, In: Social Policy and Administration. 58, 1, p. 141-154 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Queer utopias of housing and homelessness
Carr, H., Cooper, A., England, E., Matthews, P., Taylor, G. & Tunåker, C., 15 Dec 2022, In: Housing Studies. p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
'You're having us on ... that's what it felt like.': Frontline Workers Navigating the Introduction of Moral Commitments to Domestic Abuse Support within a Statutory Homelessness System
England, E., 20 Oct 2022, In: Social Policy and Society. 23, 3, p. 735-749 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’
England, E., 18 Aug 2022, In: Sociological Review. 71, 1, p. 148-164 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
‘Homelessness is a queer experience.’: utopianism and mutual aid as survival strategies for homeless trans people
England, E., 10 Aug 2022, In: Housing Studies. p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A typology of multiple exclusion homelessness
England, E., Thomas, I., Mackie, P. & Browne-Gott, H., 13 Jun 2022, In: Housing Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
'It's Not Just about a Rainbow Lanyard': How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service
England, E., 30 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Social Policy.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review