Through public engagement and/or research, the Senior Fellows will engage in policy discussions about 'what works' for preventing and tackling homelessness.

Suzanne Fitzpatrick is Professor of Housing and Social Policy and Director of  the Institute for Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research (I-SPHERE), Heriot-Watt University. She completed her PhD on youth homelessness at the University of Glasgow in 1998. Suzanne held various posts in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow until 2003, when she was appointed the Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy and Director of the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York. Suzanne has a background in law, and specialises in research on homelessness and housing exclusion.