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Olivia Stevenson

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Deputy Director of Public Policy, UCL

Olivia is Deputy Director of Public Policy at UCL and a cofounder of the Universities Policy Engagement Network. Formerly a Board Member for the Campaign for Social Science and a human geographer, Olivia has considerable research experience, in areas relating to missing people, suicide and family geographies.

Olivia has delivered a range of internationally recognised high impact research projects and related Knowledge Exchange/Knowledge Transfer activities and published over 30 single and co-authored peer-reviewed papers, reports and briefings, Olivia is an author of the UCL/Resolution Foundation’s Exploring Inequalities project report, Structurally Unsound.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Deputy Director UCL Public Policy, UCL

Education

  • 2008 
    University of Leeds, PhD
  • 2004 
    University of Sheffield, Ma
  • 2003 
    Brunel University, BSc Hons

Publications

  • 2023
    The Cost of Living Crisis in the UK: All In It Together?, Report,
  • 2022
    Bringing adult learning principles to university–policy engagement training involving students and policy professionals, Research for All
  • 2021
    The dynamics of working at intersections: Reflections from exploring inequalities, Research for All
  • 2019
    Structurally Unsound: Exploring inequalities to better inform UK policy, UCL & Resolution Foundation Report,
  • 2017
    Missing women: policing absence, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • 2016
    Geography of missing adults, Missing Persons: A Handbook of Research
  • 2016
    And now the end is near: enlivening and politizising the geographies of dying, death and mourning, Social & Cultural Geography
  • 2016
    Geographies of missing people: Improving police knowledge and response to missing persons, Handbook of Missing Persons
  • 2016
    Suicidal journeys: attempted suicide as geographies of intended death, Social & Cultural Geography
  • 2015
    Search/ing for missing people: Families living with ambiguous absence, Emotion, Space and Society
  • 2015
    'To the End of the World': Space, Place, and Missing Persons Investigations, Policing (Oxford): a journal of policy and practice
  • 2014
    Missing persons: the processes and challenges of police investigation, Policing and Society
  • 2014
    'No news today': talk of witnessing with families of missing people, cultural geographies
  • 2013
    Young children engaging with technologies at home: The influence of family context, Journal of Early Childhood Research
  • 2013
    Space for play?: Families' strategies for organizing domestic space in homes with young children, Home Cultures
  • 2013
    Exploring the Quotidian in Young Children’s Lives at Home., Home Cultures: the journal of architecture, design and space
  • 2012
    Preschool children’s learning with technology at home, Computers & Education 59
  • 2012
    Using mobile phone diaries to explore children's everyday lives, Childhood
  • 2011
    Parents, pre-schoolers and learning with technology at home: some implications for policy, JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING
  • 2011
    From public policy to family practices: researching the everyday realities of families' technology use at home, JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING
  • 2010
    Toy tours: reflections on walking-whilst-talking with young children at home, Qualitative Researcher
  • 2008
    Ubiquitous presence, partial use: The everyday interaction of children and their families with ICT, Technology, Pedagogy and Education