Tracy Shildrick is Professor of Inequalities at Newcastle University. She is currently head of Sociology and Deputy Head of the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. She has researched and written about young people for many years. She is Editor in Chief (along with Dan Woodman and Rob Macdonald) of The Journal of Youth Studies. She has particular interests in poverty and youth disadvantage and also in intra-generational and intra-generational inequality. She recently completed project with Revolving Doors Agency and Leaders Unlocked looking at young people, poverty and policing.