Dr Kelly Bogue has been a researcher at the Centre for Peace and Security since 2017 and was the Postgraduate Research Tutor from 2018-2023. She gained her PhD in 2017 from the University of Manchester, studying the impact of UK welfare reforms, specifically the 'under-occupancy penalty' (Bedroom Tax). Through extensive fieldwork using an ethnographic approach, Kelly analysed the impact of the policy on the everyday lives of housing association tenants on one estate, which was published as a book 'The Divisive State of Social Policy' by Policy Press in 2019. As a researcher, Kelly is interested in processes of social change, societal divisions and the impacts of policy, particularly in relation to housing and austerity. She has carried out numerous research and evaluation assignments for regional and national organisations, including the West Midlands Combined Authority, Local Government Association and the Home Office. Methodologically, Kelly has a particular interest in methods that sit within a broad ethnographic approach. Kelly co-founded and co-convenes the Citizen Social Science programme at the Centre which provides research training skills, and supports community researchers to conduct their own peer research projects.