Esther Dermott is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. A sociologist of family life, her research centres on developing a sociological account of 'good' parenting that is both conceptually robust and practically relevant. This has involved exploring the relationship between families, gender, and intra-household poverty as a member of the Poverty and Social Exclusion 2012 team. She is co-editor of The Sociology of Children and Families Policy Press book series; co-editor of Open Space in the journal Families, Relationships and Societies; and board member of the European Sociological Association Research Network on Families and Relationships (RN13).Gill Main is a University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on child and youth poverty and well-being, and especially on incorporating children’s accounts and perspectives into understandings and measures of child poverty. She was involved in exploring child poverty as a member of the Poverty and Social Exclusion 2012 team. She is co-editor of the Policy Press Journal of Poverty and Social Justice.

“Comprehensive, shocking and revealing. How the UK declined and poverty rose as economic inequality spread across the land." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford

• Introduction: Poverty and social exclusion in the UK ~ Esther Dermott;Measuring poverty in the UK ~ David Gordon;The impoverishment of youth: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion among young adults in the UK ~ Eldin Fahmy;Improvement for some: poverty and social exclusion among older people and pensioners ~ Demi Patsios;Which men and women are poor? Gender, poverty and social exclusion ~ Esther Dermott and Christina Pantazis;Better understandings of ethnic variations: ethnicity, poverty and social exclusion ~ Saffron Karlsen and Christina Pantazis;Improving lives? Child poverty and social exclusion ~ Gill Main and Jonathan Bradshaw;The cost of children: parents, poverty, and social support ~ Esther Dermott and Marco Pomati;A worsening picture: poverty and social exclusion and disabled people ~ Pauline Heslop and Eric Emerson;Devolution and North/South division: poverty and social exclusion in the countries and regions of the UK ~ Mike Tomlinson;More similarities than differences: poverty and social exclusion in rural and urban locations~ Nick Bailey and Maria Gannon;Conclusion: innovating methods, informing policy and challenging stigma ~ Gill Main.

Esther Dermott is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. A sociologist of family life, her research centres on developing a sociological account of 'good' parenting that is both conceptually robust and practically relevant. This has involved exploring the relationship between families, gender, and intra-household poverty as a member of the Poverty and Social Exclusion 2012 team. She is co-editor of The Sociology of Children and Families Policy Press book series; co-editor of Open Space in the journal Families, Relationships and Societies; and board member of the European Sociological Association Research Network on Families and Relationships (RN13).Gill Main is a University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on child and youth poverty and well-being, and especially on incorporating children’s accounts and perspectives into understandings and measures of child poverty. She was involved in exploring child poverty as a member of the Poverty and Social Exclusion 2012 team. She is co-editor of the Policy Press Journal of Poverty and Social Justice.

“Comprehensive, shocking and revealing. How the UK declined and poverty rose as economic inequality spread across the land." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford

• Introduction: Poverty and social exclusion in the UK ~ Esther Dermott;Measuring poverty in the UK ~ David Gordon;The impoverishment of youth: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion among young adults in the UK ~ Eldin Fahmy;Improvement for some: poverty and social exclusion among older people and pensioners ~ Demi Patsios;Which men and women are poor? Gender, poverty and social exclusion ~ Esther Dermott and Christina Pantazis;Better understandings of ethnic variations: ethnicity, poverty and social exclusion ~ Saffron Karlsen and Christina Pantazis;Improving lives? Child poverty and social exclusion ~ Gill Main and Jonathan Bradshaw;The cost of children: parents, poverty, and social support ~ Esther Dermott and Marco Pomati;A worsening picture: poverty and social exclusion and disabled people ~ Pauline Heslop and Eric Emerson;Devolution and North/South division: poverty and social exclusion in the countries and regions of the UK ~ Mike Tomlinson;More similarities than differences: poverty and social exclusion in rural and urban locations~ Nick Bailey and Maria Gannon;Conclusion: innovating methods, informing policy and challenging stigma ~ Gill Main.

Esther Dermott is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. A sociologist of family life, her research centres on developing a sociological account of 'good' parenting that is both conceptually robust and practically relevant. This has involved exploring the relationship between families, gender, and intra-household poverty as a member of the Poverty and Social Exclusion 2012 team. She is co-editor of The Sociology of Children and Families Policy Press book series; co-editor of Open Space in the journal Families, Relationships and Societies; and board member of the European Sociological Association Research Network on Families and Relationships (RN13).Gill Main is a University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on child and youth poverty and well-being, and especially on incorporating children’s accounts and perspectives into understandings and measures of child poverty. She was involved in exploring child poverty as a member of the Poverty and Social Exclusion 2012 team. She is co-editor of the Policy Press Journal of Poverty and Social Justice.

“Comprehensive, shocking and revealing. How the UK declined and poverty rose as economic inequality spread across the land." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford

• Introduction: Poverty and social exclusion in the UK ~ Esther Dermott;Measuring poverty in the UK ~ David Gordon;The impoverishment of youth: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion among young adults in the UK ~ Eldin Fahmy;Improvement for some: poverty and social exclusion among older people and pensioners ~ Demi Patsios;Which men and women are poor? Gender, poverty and social exclusion ~ Esther Dermott and Christina Pantazis;Better understandings of ethnic variations: ethnicity, poverty and social exclusion ~ Saffron Karlsen and Christina Pantazis;Improving lives? Child poverty and social exclusion ~ Gill Main and Jonathan Bradshaw;The cost of children: parents, poverty, and social support ~ Esther Dermott and Marco Pomati;A worsening picture: poverty and social exclusion and disabled people ~ Pauline Heslop and Eric Emerson;Devolution and North/South division: poverty and social exclusion in the countries and regions of the UK ~ Mike Tomlinson;More similarities than differences: poverty and social exclusion in rural and urban locations~ Nick Bailey and Maria Gannon;Conclusion: innovating methods, informing policy and challenging stigma ~ Gill Main.