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Dr Matt Barnes

Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Dr Matt Barnes, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at City St George's, University of London

Dr Matt Barnes is a quantitative sociologist in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at City St George’s, University of London, and Co-Director of the City Q-Step Centre.

His research focuses on poverty, inequality, social disadvantage and the use of survey data to inform public policy. He has extensive experience analysing large-scale UK household surveys, including Understanding Society, and has led research on poverty dynamics, poverty typologies, material deprivation, and the wider drivers of social exclusion.

Matt is also Co-Director of the Centre for Poverty and Innovation, a new interdisciplinary centre focused on deep and complex poverty: situations where low financial resources coincide with multiple drivers of poverty across employment, health, housing, caring responsibilities and family circumstances.

He is keen to work with CDT-DIVERSE students interested in using data visualization to make complex longitudinal social data more accessible, inclusive and policy-relevant.

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