The important work that is going on in terms of strictly “public sector data”, and how it can be safely and appropriately used for research, policy-making and practice, needs to be widened to address the mass of service monitoring data that are collected – but effectively lost – in such an ad hoc way.
Janet Bowstead is one of our #DataImpactFellows romania rcs data for 2019. Janet is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Royal Holloway, University of London.
She is a feminist academic with a professional background in frontline, policy and coordination work on violence against women. , across geography, social policy and sociology; integrating quantitative, spatial, qualitative and creative methods. She has research articles in journals in geography and wider social sciences and social policy. Janet is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.