Kate Pickett OBE FRSA FFPH FAcSS is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York, where she leads the Public Health and Society research group and is Director of the Born in Bradford Centre for Social Change.

In the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre, Kate will be working on our ‘place-based’ research. This work will bring communities together with practitioners, policymakers and researchers to create deep and shared understanding of the inhibitors, facilitators and opportunities for inter-organisational service provision in policing vulnerabilities. This work will initially take place in Bradford and Kate will contribute her knowledge and experience of its diverse socio-economic and demographic composition and related inequalities, rich data (including linked routine data) resources and partnerships.