Trish McCourtMcCourt is a part time Housing-Led Facilitator with East Midlands Community Led Housing, promoting the development of community led-housing initiatives across the East Midlands. She has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing since 1991 and has thirty years’ experience working in the field of housing. Starting out as a volunteer with Shelter in South Wales, Trish has since worked for local authorities, housing associations, the charity and non-profit making sector and as a self employed consultant, principally across the East Midlands area. Her roles have included senior positions within the local authority and housing association sector including operational management of housing projects, social housing and homelessness services, strategy and policy development and as a direct service provider. She has experience of working in housing development, housing strategy, private sector housing, housing management and homelessness and community led housing.

Trish is also undertaking an MSc in Public Sociology at the University of Northampton. The purpose of this course is to draw on research-driven insights to articulate new and emerging issues, enabling students to use traditional and novel collaborative processes to work with individuals and groups from business, the public sector and civil society to develop new ways of addressing social issues.