Dr. Hayley Alderson received her BA (Hons) in Criminology and Psychology from the University of Northampton in 2004, an MSc in Criminology from Teesside University in 2007, and a PhD from Newcastle University in 2016. She is a Senior Research Fellow at NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria (NENC) Embedded Children and Families Social Care LCRN based within the Population Health Sciences Institute. Her research interests include substance misuse, criminal justice, intimate partner violence and abuse, mental health, and young people.