Rate My Professor Katherine Brickell

Professor Katherine Brickell is Professor of Urban Studies in the Department of Geography and Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation) for the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King’s College London. Her feminist-oriented research and scholarship on home and domestic life crosscuts urban, social, political, and legal geography. She has nine years of research experience examining family homelessness, debt, and life in Temporary Accommodation for domestic abuse survivors and children in urban centres of England, including London and Greater Manchester, and Ireland, including Dublin. Collaborative research with Mel Nowicki and Shared Health Foundation has resulted in the UK government's National Plan to End Homelessness (2025) committing to updates in statutory guidance on social housing allocations to address barriers faced by domestic abuse survivors with debt. Additionally, research with Rosalie Warnock explores experiences of neurodivergent children and families in Temporary Accommodation, leading to collaboration with the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Households in Temporary Accommodation, Shared Health Foundation, and Autistica for the first national call for evidence. Their report, 'It's Like Torture': Life in Temporary Accommodation for Neurodivergent Children and their Families, was published in January 2026.