Joel is a researcher who first joined Social Life through the field team in 2023. He has since supported the Southwark Estates Health and Wellbeing project, and helped facilitate the second round of research into public space interventions in the OPDC area along the Grand Union canal.
Joel also lectures in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts (UAL), where his work explores how the university can strategically utilise its resources to support housing campaigns in the local area.
He has an MSc in Urban Development Planning from UCL, and sits on the board of trustees at community land trust RUSS, who recently completed a project of 36 mixed-tenure, permanently affordable homes in Lewisham, south London, which were partly self-built by volunteers.
