UK Trauma Council Insight Series - Poverty and trauma: Inequality, stigma, and mental health

Chair – Prof Rachel Hiller

Rachel is an Associate Professor in Child & Adolescent Mental Health at University College London (UCL). She is also the Head of Postgraduate Studies at the Anna Freud Centre. Rachel is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). Rachel’s research focuses on complex child trauma and adversity, with a particular focus on the mental health and wellbeing of children who have a social worker (including those who are in care). Her work here spans investigating psychological and social mechanisms linking trauma and adversity to mental health, as well as the effectiveness and implementation of scalable interventions across social care and mental health settings. She currently serves as Co-Director of the UK Trauma Council.

Dr Beverly Barnett-Jones MBE

Dr Beverley Barnett-Jones is Nuffield Family Justice Observatory‘s Associate Director for System and Impact. She works on expanding the capacity of Nuffield Family Justice Observatory to make its evidence count on the practice front by making connections, developing conversations and fostering opportunities for innovations and activities that will unlock system change in the family justice system. Beverley worked as a social worker for 30 years, undertaking a variety of practice and management roles in local authority and family court settings. Always committed to making research count, she has spent the last few years bringing research and evidence into the design and development of new services. She was a member of the FDAC partnership, acting as a mentor and support to the expansion of this innovative family justice model. Beverley led a Nuffield Family Justice Observatory project that examined how post-adoption contact could potentially be modernised, including through new digital solutions, and co-authored the Modernising post-adoption contact: findings from a recent consultation paper. She received an MBE in June 2018 for her work with children and families.

Prof Tracy Shildrick

Tracy Shildrick is Professor of Inequalities at Newcastle University. She is currently head of Sociology and Deputy Head of the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. She has researched and written about young people for many years. She is Editor in Chief of The Journal of Youth Studies. She has particular interests in poverty and youth disadvantage and also in intra-generational and intra-generational inequality. She recently completed project with Revolving Doors Agency and Leaders Unlocked looking at young people, poverty and policing.

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