Professor Tracy Shildrick wins award for her collaborative writing on poverty in Britain

Tracy Shildrick, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, has been awarded a British Academy prize for her collaborative writing on poverty in Britain

The Peter Townsend Policy Press Prize was awarded to Professor Shildrick and her co-authors Professor Robert MacDonald (Teeside University), Professor Colin Webster (Leeds Metropolitan University) and Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite (Durham University) for Poverty and insecurity: life in low-pay, no-pay Britain, published in 2012.

Professor Shildrick's research was conducted in Teeside, and focuses on the men and women who've fallen out of old working-class communities and must now cope with drastically reduced opportunities for standard employment