Jacqui Croft is Lecturer in Social Policy in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. She completed her PhD, on the coping strategies of lone mothers with housing affordability problems, at the end of 2001. The project, Risk crystallisation, housing debt and social division, was funded by the ESRC.
Since completing her PhD, Jacqui has worked on systematic reviews of literature on local government finance and on public participation in area-based initiatives. She is also currently working on an evaluation, for the ODPM, of Approved Development Programme-funded supported housing projects for teenage mothers. She recently completed a review of the literature on school choice and housing location for the Centre for Neighbourhood Research.
Her ongoing research interests include: the relationships between housing, neighbourhoods and mechanisms of exclusion; and access to justice (with particular focus on housing and financial issues).
SELECTED FUNDED RESEARCH
Evaluation of the Safer Communities Supported Housing Fund and the Approved Development Programme Pilots for Teenage Mothers.
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2003-2004
What Works Regarding Community Involvement in Area Based Initiatives : A Systematic Literature Review, Home Office, 2003
Links Between the Finance and Non-finance Elements of Local Goverment Funding, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2001-2002 r
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Croft, J (2002) Review of the finance and non-finance aspects of local government (with M Kleinman, P Burton and T Travers) London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Croft, J (2001) ‘‘A risk’ or ‘at risk’? Reconceptualising housing debt in a risk welfare society’, Housing Studies, 16 (6), pp. 737-753.
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