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About Me

Chris Goulden manages the Poverty Team in the Policy and Research Department at Joseph Rowntree Foundation. He specialises in poverty, welfare and employment policy areas and quantitative research methods. He joined JRF in 2003. Chris used to manage and conduct social research on drugs and crime at the Home Office and helped develop the alcohol harm reduction strategy at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in the Cabinet Office. Before that, he worked in the NHS in West London and Bradford doing clinical and action research on cancer. Chris has a Masters degree in social research methods from London South Bank University and has been a member of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills Policy Expert Group and of the Social Research Association board. He is a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee.

Location:
United Kingdom, York
Current organization:
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Past organizations:
Home Office, Cabinet Office, Hammersmith Hospital, Bradford Hospital
Current role:
Head of Poverty
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Poverty Eradication, Social Research Methods, Policy Analysis
I am:
Project manager
Languages:
English
My website links:
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Universities:
Leeds University, UK, South Bank University, London
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I'm passionate about

Social research, social media, reducing poverty

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Poverty, social research methods, UK policy affecting poverty, modelling, having an impact on policy and practice through social research.

People don't know that I'm good at

Playing the guitar, vegetarian cooking, swing bowling.

My TED Story

I want to organise a TEDx event in York on the theme of poverty in the UK and other developed economies.

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