Vickie Cooper is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University. Her research interests include homelessness, evictions, housing inequality and criminal justice,  homelessness and mortality. Vickie is co-editor of Violence of Austerity (Pluto Press, 2017), and recently co-authored on issues relating homelessness and mortality, available here (free access): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13576275.2023.2176214