Imogen Blood

She began her career in frontline supported housing and prison drug work and is a qualified social worker. She then moved into research and has seventeen years’ experience of designing, conducting and managing research studies and evaluations. She has held research posts at Bury MBC Housing, Housing Projects Advisory Service, NACRO and the University of Salford, where she set up the Making Research Count initiative to promote research into practice in partnership with the Greater Manchester authorities.