Ingrid Schoon is Chair of Social Policy at the UCL Social Research Institute. Her research draws on national and international cohort and panel studies, focusing on questions of social inequality in skill development, health and wellbeing in particular regarding the manifestation of risk and resilience in the transition to adulthood. In her research she asks 1) to what extent and how do social conditions, in particular socio-economic adversity, affect individual thinking, feeling and behaviour; 2) to what extent and in what circumstances can individuals succeed against the odds and steer their own life course?; and 3) what can be done to improve the life chances of the most vulnerable?
