User:The Vintage Feminist/Jo Pike

Joanne "Jo" Pike is senior lecturer in childhood and education at Leeds Beckett University, West Yorkshire, former lecturer at Leeds University, and former visiting fellow at Monash University in Australia.

In December 2017 it was announced that she had been selected by the Labour Party from an all-women shortlist to contest Shipley at the next UK general election.

Education
Pike gained her PhD from the University of Hull in 2010.

Political career
In November 2017 Labour's Shadow Minister for Public Health and chair of the School Food APPG, Sharon Hodgson, launched a parliamentary inquiry, the All-Nation Children's Future Food Inquiry, to gather information on the issue of childhood food insecurity. Pike is among those providing research to the inquiry.

Pike is also a member of Labour's Shipley Feminist Zealots and lobbied alongside Owen Jones for the UK's ratification of the Istanbul Convention on Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. The current Conservative Party MP for Shipley, Philip Davies, is well known for his opposition to the legislation and is a member of Women and Equalities Select Committee, a committee which he has suggested should not exist.

Personal life
Pike is married.

Selected bibliography

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