Meet the Team

  • Pippa Palmer

    BSR HUB RESEARCH DIRECTOR

    Roles: Founder / Director, Polln | Senior Strategic Lead, LSBU | Director, Boarding School Concern
    Personal research focus: systems change at the intersection of policy, place, and practice; home as a health determinant, fuel poverty, retrofit, and a just transition; socioeconomic, cultural, and individual impacts of boarding school.

  • Katie Betteridge

    BSR HUB RESEARCHER

    BSR Role: Research & Workshop Facilitation. Specialist Group Lead: Rebalancing Narratives.
    Personal research focus: PhD Doctoral Student | Lecturer in Criminology, LSBU | dementia, policy & care in the home; change to sense of self and belonging when home becomes an institution

  • Rachel Wickremer

    BSR HUB CO-ORDINATOR & RESEARCHER

    BSR Role: Member Co-ordination. Research & Workshop Facilitation. Specialist group lead: The Institution | Personal research focus: institutional care and the developing child; housing & health inequalities

The BSR Hub is hosted by Polln, a research consultancy founded by Pippa Palmer, which works closely with LSBU. Hosting through Polln (which is offered without charge) means members have a practical place to connect and collaborate, whilst avoiding the inevitable complexities of University IT barriers.