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Profile

Jo Horwood entered higher education as a non-standard entry mature student and graduated with a BSc in Health Studies from Chichester Institute of Higher Education (now University College Chichester) in 1996.  Following this, she was employed as a research assistant on a project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and led by Dr. Heather Clark to investigate the value older people give to low level care and support services. This project resulted in a co-authored report published by The Policy Press in 1998.  During this time she gained a PGCE qualifying her to teach in further and higher education. 

At Portsmouth, she has completed a programme of research under the supervision of Professor Graham Moon and her thesis, an analysis of neighbourhood response to the siting of mental health facilities, is in the final stage of completion.  Themes developed in her thesis include the theorisation of risk and dangerousness and how these are socially constructed in the context of a locational conflict.  Initial findings from this research have been published in Area in 2003.