Mike is a Professor of Critical Pedagogy at Birmingham City University and is working with us as an associate on the Lived Experience Voices project with the National Expert Citizens Group (NECG).

Mike has been involved in the multiple disadvantage, homeless and youth and community work fields as client, worker, manager, academic and researcher for over 30 years. He previously worked at Newman University Birmingham, the University of Suffolk, the Open University and Oxford University. He is a National Teaching Fellow, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a qualified youth and community worker and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts for his work on homelessness in 2009. He has published extensive research and provided consultancy work for a wide range of bodies around the world, including local and national authorities and the third sector.