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Dr. Nadia Ayed is a Researcher at the Institute for Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research (I-SPHERE), Heriot-Watt University, within the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society. She holds a multidisciplinary background in psychology, critical psychiatry, and sociology, specializing in homelessness, housing precarity, and social capital. Her work integrates mixed-methods approaches to study social relationships and care provisioning in marginalized communities.
Education: PhD (2019-2022, Queen Mary University of London), MSc in Mental Health Research (King’s College London), and BA (Hons) in Psychology, Politics, and Sociology (University of Cambridge).
Research focuses on evaluations of homelessness prevention models like Upstream, destitution in the UK, and capacity-building initiatives for minoritized ethnic communities. She contributed to the Centre for Homelessness Impact’s DLUHC-funded Test and Learn programme, leading randomized control trials on employment support for homeless individuals.
Key projects include:
- Evaluation of Upstream in Scotland and England
- Knowledge-building on homelessness and Black/minoritized communities
- Destitution in the UK research
Her work emphasizes social capital’s role in adversity and employs mixed-methods to assess housing interventions.
