Dr Angela Spinney

Until recently Dr Spinney was a Senior Lecturer in Housing at Leeds Met University and worked on various contract research projects for her funding organisation, the Centre for Regional and Social Research. Before this she worked for fifteen years as a senior policy and social housing manager. This included working as Policy and Research Manager for a UK Local Authority, which involved undertaking regular applied research on the general and specialist housing needs of those living in the district. The results of the research were incorporated within the Housing Strategy Statement produced by the council, and used by government officers to determine funding allocation. Over the course of her career Angie’s work has concerned involvement with public policy development, including influencing and advising on housing policy at both local and national level. She has given speeches at political party conferences on behalf of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Homelessness, on the main areas of concern regarding current housing policy.

Conference Papers

ENHR International Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007. "The Effect on Policy Responses of Differing Constructions of Homelessness Attributed to Domestic Violence".

ENHR International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia July 2006. "A Comparative Investigation of Policy Responses to Homelessness in England and Australia".

ENHR International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia July 2006 "The Gendered Nature of Policy Discourse: Patriarchy, Pathology or is there a Third Way?" (with Judith Nixon and Caroline Hunter).