Arune is an Embedded Researcher at the Centre for Homelessness Impact, working on the Personal Grants Trial, which aims to evaluate the impact of unconditional cash transfers on homelessness, financial security and wellbeing. Her role focuses on data collection and trial delivery, working closely with service delivery partners and participants throughout the study. She is particularly interested in the design and delivery of randomised controlled trials, research on homelessness, poverty, and mental health, and in ensuring high ethical standards in research involving vulnerable populations.

She has extensive experience of randomised controlled trials, including previous work on a large clinical trial at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London which tested the efficacy of a novel intervention for distressing voices in psychosis.