Josie Dickerson

Prof Josie Dickerson is a research director in Born in Bradford, leading the FaIR team (Family Inequalities Research for prevention and early intervention). Josie was born and bred in Bradford and is passionate about making Bradford a great place for all children to live and grow, as well as sharing this learning nationally and internationally. Josie’s work focuses on building research evidence that ensures that all children reach their full potential. To do so, she works closely with families, stakeholders and decision and policy makers to improve services and the wider early years system.  Josie leads the world’s first experimental birth cohort: Born in Bradford’s Better Start, which has recently been awarded a Wellcome Discovery award to follow-up children in middle childhood to understand the longer-term impacts of early interventions, and long-term consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. Josie holds a NIHR Population Health Career Scientist award, an Honorary Professorship at the University of York and is proud to be the Chair of INRICH (International Network for Research on Inequalities in Child Health).