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Dr. Jo Aldridge

Dr. Jo Aldridge is a Reader in Social Policy and Criminology and is currently a prominent lecturer in the Social Sciences Department at Loughborough University, U.K.

Her work is extensive and insightful and opens up many new pathways into the interpretation of Social Policy in contemporary society.

Working closely with Simon Cross produced arguably one of her best pieces which is entitled “Young People Today: Media, Policy and Youth Justice” and it shows a critical side of the media and their representation of children and young people. This topic is one that Jo feels strongly about and she runs tutorials for a module called Children, Young People and Risk which calls on students to think about what 'childhood' really means today.

Jo has worked with young carers and done extensive research into their experiences of life and of note is her project entitled 'Pictures of Young Caring' which she completed with Dr. Darren Sharpe in 2006. This project saw twenty children/young people use disposable cameras to capture their daily experiences of living with, and caring for parents with mental illness.

Trivia: 1) Jo has 2 sons - one of them she often refers to as hairy. 2) Her parents totally believe everything they read in the Daily Mail. 3) She has arguably the coolest figurine in her office of 2 police officers fighting. 4) She was previously a journalist