Simon is the Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Vulnerable State project, having trained as an anthropologist in addition to his academic background in law. His doctoral thesis asks what it means to work in the business of ending homelessness in England. Offering an ethnographic account of aid ‘at home’, it focuses on a regularly neglected aspect of scholarly coverage of homelessness: the moral labour, disputes, tragedies and contradictions negotiated everyday by frontline workers at the coalface of the homeless industry. His findings foreground the futility that is hardwired into the post-austerity push to end homelessness in the UK, revealing the feedback loop of apparent state failure and virtuous firefighting that is at the heart of the enterprise. Simon holds a PhD in anthropology (2023) from the London School of Economics, having previously completed there a joint honours BA in Anthropology and Law (2017, First Class).

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