Sophia Parker

Biographical Information
"Sophia is currently based at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she is a Research Associate. Until September 2010 she was Acting Director of the Resolution Foundation, having joined the Foundation in May 2009 as Research and Policy Director. Before that, she worked with Kent County Council to set up their unique Social Innovation Lab, where she published Just Coping: a new perspective on low income families. Previously, Sophia was deputy director of thinktank Demos, leading their work on public service reform and families. She has also worked as a civil servant at the Women and Equality Unit. Sophia is a committee member of the Fabian Women's Network, and an associate at ESRO, an ethnographic research agency."