Previous Publications

Anna works as a writer, researcher and consultant for a number of think tanks and policy organisations.

She is the author of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Viewpoint on fear and distrust (published by the Policy Press in June 2009) and a member of the writers' panel for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. She has written reports for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Demos, Shelter and has contributed to publications by The Young Foundation and The Smith Institute.

The idea for 'Ground Control' emerged from a series of three reports, comparing trends towards gated communities and ghettoes in the US and UK, looking at polarisation and cultural regeneration in Newcastle and investigating the privatisation of public space.