Lucy Holmes is a I have recently joined the UK Parliament Select Committees Engagement Team, supporting public engagement with both House of Lords and House of Commons committees. at STREETS2HOMES. She possess expertise in qualitative research, analysis, social research, public policy, research and 7 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "I worked with Lucy over many years at Crisis, the homelessness charity, where we were part of the volunteer leadership team running emergency shelters over Christmas. Lucy is a terrific colleague, thoughtful and empathetic, decisive and clear in her communication." and "In addition to the other justified praise Lucy has received on these pages she is also a very good and patient teacher of social research to someone like me who is largely learning about it as I do it. Key to this is her ability to encourage people who have been researchers for less long to think in a disciplined and sociological way and avoid the pitfall of jumping to hasty conclusions which are not backed up by valid data and evidence"