Collaborations
Projects, community collaborations, civic roles.
Imogen worked with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as part of a “Poverty and Stigma Design Team” (2022-23), that brings together people with lived and learned expertise to generate insight and ideas on what is needed to address the stigma that underpins poverty in the UK. In 2023 Imogen undertook a literature review for the poverty and stigma design team to guide their work, which can be accessed here. From 2022 to 2024 she was a consultant to JRF’s Stigma Free Futures work, and co-authored the report Poverty stigma: a glue that holds poverty in place (2024).
Imogen was a civic commissioner on Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission (round one, 2018-23) and an elected Trustee (2019-23) of the Poverty Truth Network. Poverty Truth believe that any talk about poverty must include people who experience the struggle against it. Our strapline captures this, ‘nothing about us, without us, is for us.’
Lancaster Black History Group (LBH) is a grassroots community group founded in June 2020 after Black Lives Matter protests in Lancaster, with the mission of fighting racism through education. Imogen has been an executive member of the group since it was founded, and has led/co-led/and participated on several projects, grant bids and heritage & community collaborations. Further information can be accessed here.
Imogen was a co-I on an ESRC network project that worked with academics and activists ‘Exploring Everyday Practice and Resistance in Immigration Detention’ (2012-15) with Dr Nick Gill (PI), Prof Mary Bosworth, Dr Dominique Moran and Dr Alex Hall (York, UK).
Imogen was a member (2021-26) of “The Insight Hub”, a forum jointly led by Lancaster City Council and Lancaster University where collaborative projects and initiatives can be formed, tested and energised to help the district flourish.
Imogen was a co-I on an ESRC project ‘Making Asylum Seekers Legible & Visible: An Analysis of the Dilemmas & Mitigating Strategies of Asylum Advocacy in the UK & US’ (2010-11) which worked with refugee and asylum organisations across the UK and US, (with Dr Nick Gill (PI) and Deirdre Conlon). See the project website here asylum-network.com/ and view the final report here.
Imogen was co-I (with Celia Roberts) on ‘Childbirth Organisations: European Patient Organisations in the Knowledge Society’, that worked with several childbirth organisations in the UK, France and Ireland (funded through a European Commission Framework 7 Programme, Science and Society project called EPOKS).
