Carolin Hess is a PhD student at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce in the Policy Institute at King's.

She has been involved in several policy-informing research projects around social exclusion and mobility, and has contributed to studies investigating digital exclusion, educational intergenerational mobility, energy poverty, multiple exclusion homelessness, and co-production. Carolin is currently supporting the external evaluation of the government led “Changing Futures” programme in Nottingham, which delivers frontline and strategic system change work for adults facing severe and multiple disadvantage. As part of her role, she has led on a study on gender-specific and intersectional barriers for women with multiple disadvantage to access appropriate health and housing services in Nottingham on which she will build as part of her PhD. Carolin holds a Master’s degree in International Social and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Carolin has written a series of posts on the Unit blog:

• Addressing homelessness in social work education
• Overdose Prevention Centres – lessons from abroad
• Tracing the significance of executive functioning among people experiencing homelessness
• Agency and choice in multiple exclusion homelessness

Carolin Hess: ORCID iD | Research Profile at King's