Stephen Crossley is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Northumbria University. He previously worked on a regional child poverty project in the North East of England and has also worked in local government and with local voluntary sector organisations in neighbourhood youth work and community development roles. He is the author of In Their Place: The Imagined Geographies of Poverty (Pluto, 2017).
Stephen Crossley
Stephen Crossley examines how analyses of former mining communities betray a stigma attached to disadvantaged people; promoting an idea of difference and thus social exclusion.
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