How can health and care support break the cycle of homelessness?

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 maths, economics and sociology.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Michela Tinelli, a health and care economist at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is using data science to improve health and social care for people experiencing homelessness.

• This resource also contains an interview with Michela and offers an insight into careers in health and care economics.

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Michela’s research and challenges them to design and carry out their own discrete choice experiments to understand their classmates’ preference for school services.

This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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