Vickie Cooper joined the Open University in 2015 as a Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology. She is the Co-director of Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC), which is an interdisciplinary, cross-faculty research centre concerned with developing and supporting research projects and papers that think critically about problems of crime and justice. Vickie’s research on housing inequality and homelessness asks whether people can have a sense of belonging without a fixed home, without a private place normally afforded to those who are housed.