Anna Kaxira
Anna is a PhD Researcher at the Policy Studies Institute (PSI). She holds a BSc in International and European Studies from the University of Macedonia (Greece) and an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). She is a mixed-methods researcher and has conducted evaluation and impact assessments for the European Commission, the UK government and charitable trusts.
Anna has worked in the business, the not-for-profit (NatCen Social Research) and the supranational (European Commission, UNESCO and CEDEFOP) sectors, across a range of public policy projects, which include social, economic and environmental policy themes. Her research interests are policy evaluation, green economy, green skills, climate change, renewable energy and resource efficiency.
She was awarded a PhD studentship sponsored by the University of Westminster and linked to the UK’s Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN). Her research project explores how complexity could be evaluated in the low-carbon transition system from a policy perspective, while taking into consideration the synergies and trade-offs of the nexus.
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PhD researcherLuis Pinto
Luis Pinto currently works at the European Environment Agency as the Learning and Development Coordinator. He graduated in Economics and holds a masters in Education and Society, Luis has always been passionate about all aspects of learning, personal and organisational development. Professionally, he seeks to operate in the intersection between learning, leadership, sustainability, technology and systemic innovation within complex adaptive systems.
Luis is a part-time PhD student at PSI. His research project focuses on the required competencies and learning strategies towards a new type of knowledge for governing sustainable transitions.
Will McDowall
Will McDowall is a lecturer at the UCL Energy Institute and Institute of Sustainable Resources, where he is Course Director for the MSc Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment. His research is interdisciplinary, and focuses on climate and energy policies, particularly focused on energy innovation policy, and on the sustainability appraisal of energy technologies and pathways. He has expertise in a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methods, including energy systems modelling, deliberative multi-criteria mapping, systematic literature review, qualitative interviews and participatory scenario building.
In addition to research, Will lectures on the economics and policy of energy innovation. In 2014, he appeared as an expert witness on low-carbon innovation to the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change. Prior to working at UCL, Will worked as a policy advisor in the Canadian federal government, and before that he was research fellow at the Policy Studies Institute (2004-2006).
Will is pursuing his PhD by published work at PSI. The publications on which his PhD portfolio is based span several years of work research on hydrogen energy, and explore the role of scenarios and visions in the governance of sustainability transitions.
Dr Michael White
Michael White joined PSI in 1979 after working in industry and management research and teaching. In 1986 he founded the Employment Studies Group and was its Head until 1994.
His studies have included three national surveys of unemployment, and many evaluations of government labour market programmes, including the Restart Cohort Study, and the Macro evaluation of New Deal for Young People. He took part in the ESRC's Social Change and Economic Life Initiative (1986-91), was co-director of the Employment in Britain survey (1992), and was involved in the ESRC's "Future of Work" programme, leading the Working in Britain in the Year 2000 survey. He has also carried out several projects on lone mothers, employment and childcare issues and has a particular interest in working time and work-life balance.
He served on the Social Statistics Committee of the Royal Statistical Society 1998-2002, and on the Editorial Board of Work, Employment and Society 2006-2008.
In 2005 he was awarded an OBE for services to labour market policy.
Qualifications
B.A. Psychology with Statistics, University of London
PhD in Organizational Behaviour, University of Lancaster
Contact details
- Email: m.white@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7911 7507
Dr Peter Barbrook-Johnson
Pete joined PSI in June 2016 as a Research Associate. He is currently working on the ESRC/NRF/Newton Fund funded ISULabaNtu project concerning community-led upgrading of informal settlements in South Africa, the H2020 MIN-GUIDE project, concerning EU mineral policy, and the ESRC funded Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity across the Nexus. In addition to his research activities, Peter is part of the core team delivering the module ‘Environmental Change & Transition to a Low Carbon Society’ on the MA course, Energy and Environmental Change.
Pete has experience in a range of research methods including agent-based modelling of social and policy systems, stakeholder causal mapping, and qualitative and quantitative social research methods. His main research interests focus on the interaction between environmental policy, social and behavioural science, and complexity science. Pete regularly delivers short courses and teaching on agent-based modelling, and has experience delivering social research methods teaching (including statistics) to undergraduates, PhD students, and early-career researchers.
Prior to joining PSI, Pete worked at the University of Surrey, in the Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS), as a Research Fellow. He also completed his PhD in Computational Social Science at CRESS and is a Visiting Research Fellow there. He worked on topics including, farmer behaviour and soil conservation, household adoption of solar panels, protective behaviour during epidemics, commons-based peer production, watershed management, and industrial ecology. Pete has a BA in Economics from the University of East Anglia, and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London, where he specialised in Environmental Economics and Policy.
Pete is on Twitter - @bapeterj - and his personal website can be found at www.barbrookjohnson.com
Research Interests:
- Computational modelling (especially agent-based modelling)
- Using models as discussion tools
- Social and behavioural science
- Complexity science applied to social science and policy issues
- Stakeholder mapping (eg, fuzzy cognitive mapping)
- Use of models in policy
Qualifications
- PhD Computational Social Science, University of Surrey
- MSc Environmental Technology: Environmental Economics and Policy, Imperial College London
- BA Economics, University of East Anglia
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Research FellowDr Isis Nunez Ferrera
Isis is an architect and researcher specialising in urban planning, design and international development. Her experience includes 10 years of practice, research and fieldwork on urban design and regeneration schemes, diversity in the built environment, urban transport, slum upgrading and community-led development in Honduras, Brazil, India, Turkey, Kenya, Ecuador, Colombia and the UK. She has collaborated on issues of housing rights and inclusive approaches with UN-Habitat, Practical Action-UK, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), University College London, government agencies and various grassroots organizations in Africa, South-east Asia and Latin America.
For the past six years she has been part of a team developing and coordinating the international programmes at Architecture Sans Frontieres-UK (ASF-UK), where she has developed participatory and action research methodologies focused on slum-upgrading, urban regeneration, urban resilience and interdisciplinary planning and design. As associate at ASF-UK she has experience working with a range of stakeholders and has delivered training for practitioners and government officials, including at the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum 2012.
Working across different scales, from government and third sectors, to academia and grassroots, has encouraged her to experiment with innovative research and planning methods that engage with everyday realities and facilitate co-production between actors. Her interest is currently focused on how to better understand and illustrate complex and interconnected spatial and environmental issues in the built environment as well as how to utilise this data to inform transformative policies, planning and design interventions. For this purpose, her work utilises participatory methodologies for planning and design, systems thinking, visual anthropology and diagrammatic analysis.
Her PhD research was awarded a President’s Award for Research for Outstanding PhD thesis by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), which focused on a diagrammatic and visual analysis of sustainability, resilience and spatial tactics in informal settlements in Quito and Nairobi. In 2014, she was selected as one of 50 UNESCO youth leaders on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) for her capacity-building work with ASF-UK and she is a member of the Global Expert Group for the UN-Habitat initiative on Urban Planning and Design LABs as tools for integrated and participative urban development.
Her current projects include:
Co-Investigator of the ESRC-NRF funded research project (2016-2019) on Urban Transformations in South Africa. This is a multidisciplinary partnership between the University of Westminster, University of KwaZulu-Natal and University College London, with collaborators from uTshani Fund, University of Ibadan in Nigeria and EcoLtd. The project seeks to co-produce an integrated and participatory framework revealing the tools and processes for effective construction and environmental management for the improvement of low-income settlements in Durban and the wider KwaZulu-Natal province.
Co-Investigator in the Futures Cities Africa - Cities Alliance research on urban informality and city growth in Ugandan cities (2016). This research is led by the Max Lock Centre at University of Westminster, in a consortium with the University of Greenwich, Natural Resources Institute UK, and the Research and Training Consultancy Ltd, Uganda.
Researcher on Design Innovation for Climate Change within the Latitudes Network (2015-ongoing). Since 2015, she has been leading research and pedagogic activities in collaboration with partner universities in India, China, Italy, Norway, Finland, Maldives, Malaysia, Brazil, Colombia and the UK. The Latitudes network is a global research and educational network that brings together students and staff to engage in interdisciplinary design research and learning by using virtual learning environments to co-produce innovation across different latitudes and climatic regions.
Coordinator of ASF-UK Resilience by Design programme (2014-ongoing). Resilience by Design is a programme that unites a series of live-projects and international workshops exploring socio-ecological issues in the context of rapid urban change, climate hazards, resource scarcities and depleted ecosystems. It focuses on bridging local with scientific knowledge by utilising an innovative participatory, action-learning and interdisciplinary methodology. With this approach we facilitate the formulation of future scenarios and concrete solutions that can facilitate long-term resilience, while retaining a strong pedagogic focus that allows communities and different stakeholders to understand and reflect on the complex interaction between humans and the ecosystems they inhabit and transform.
Qualifications
- PhD Architecture, University of Westminster, 2014
- MSc Building and Urban Design in Development, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, 2008
- Architecture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, 2005
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- Email: i.nunez-ferrera@psi.org.uk
Dr Ritsuko Ozaki
Ritsuko is a sociologist and has worked on the diffusion of environmental innovations with a particular focus on user adoption and consumption. She joined PSI in October 2016 and currently works on the project Urban Infrastructural Innovation and Sustainable Lifestyles, which is funded by the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) in Japan. This project explores different pathways to transition to sustainability in Japan’s medium-sized cities. It is part of a larger programme that aims to create policy frameworks for sustainable consumption and production in East Asia.
Prior to PSI, Ritsuko worked at Imperial College Business School and the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU, University of Sussex). Her background is in housing and built environment studies and her main research interests are: innovation diffusion; consumption, practices and lifestyles; the role of technological innovation in socieital transformation.
Qualifications
- DPhil in Sociology, University of Sussex
- MA in Social History, University of Essex
- Postgraduate Certificate in Sociology, University of Essex
- BA in International and Cultural Studies, Tsuda College, Tokyo
Contact details
- Email: r.ozaki@psi.org.uk
Dr Kevin Burchell
Kevin is an interpretive social scientist, with a focus on producing research that is of value across academic, policy and practitioner domains. His research interests are: domestic energy, climate adaptation and resilience, smart meters, behaviour and practice, domestic energy and knowledge, community action and participation, participatory action research, public engagement and public dialogue, and critical social marketing. Kevin joined Policy Studies Institute in 2014. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at Kingston University, a Research Fellow at LSE, and he has a PhD from LSE.
Qualifications
- 1999-2005 PhD, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE.
- 1997-1998 MSc Human Geography Research (Distinction), as above.
- 1994-1997 BSc Geography (First class), as above
Contact details
- Email: k.burchell@westminster.ac.uk
Halina Ward
Halina is Head of Development Futures at Bond. She was previously Interim International Partnerships Director at Future Cities Catapult, a UK government-backed technology and innovation centre working to stimulate innovation to deliver integrated city services. Halina joined PSI in July 2013 as a Visiting Research Fellow. Prior to that, she was Director of the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development, a research and advocacy charity working to equip democracy to tackle the challenges of sustainable development.
Qualifications
- LLM (Law and Development), School of Oriental and African Studies, 1994-1995
- Law Society Finals, The College of Law, York, 1989-1990
- LLB, University College London, 1985-1988
Olivia Chassais
Olivia has been a Visiting Research Fellow at PSI since December 2012, having previously been a Research Officer at PSI from March 2008 to November 2009. Her key project was INDI-LINK, where she worked on identifying combinations of policies that would best meet sustainable-development goals. She then worked for three years as a Research Programme Officer / Scientific Officer at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG R&I), where she managed projects on resource efficiency and sustainable-development indicators.
Qualifications
- MPhil, Engineering for Sustainable Development, University of Cambridge, UK, 2006
- Diplôme d’Etudes Universitaires Générales (DEUG) in Life Sciences, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France, 2005
- MSc in Management (Grande Ecole Programme), Rouen Business School (ESC-Rouen), France, 2004
- Licence (eqvt to BA) in Sociology, University of Rouen, France, 2001
Rebekah Phillips
Rebekah is a freelance environmental researcher, project manager and advocate. She became a Visiting Research Fellow at PSI in July 2013. In addition, Rebekah is an Associate at two environmental think-tanks: Green Alliance and Sustainability First and works frequently with Groundwork UK. Rebekah is also a Director of local re-use project the Remakery.
Previously, Rebekah worked at Green Alliance for six years, where she was a Senior Policy Adviser in charge of the organisation’s Green living theme which she set up and developed. She has also worked as the Environment and Transport Analyst for BBC News, for Elsevier Science in Amsterdam, for Womankind Worldwide and for Action for Armed Violence in Liberia.
Rebekah’s research and policy advocacy work focuses mainly on behaviour change and energy policy and how to best to encourage and enable energy demand reduction. On a local level, she manages projects that enable and encourage sustainable living more broadly.
Current research projects are focusing on the intersection between community demand reduction and management of the electricity networks; innovation in the consumer-facing electricity demand response market and the use of messengers in driving energy saving through the smart-meter rollout.
Previous recent work includes the role of a national communications campaign to drive demand for energy savings through the smart-meter rollout; research on the role of community champions in promoting energy efficiency; exploring how to drive more sustainable behaviour in tower blocks and encouraging schoolchildren to conserve water.
More information can be found on Rebekah’s website: www.rebekahphillips.co.uk.
Research AssociateTom Watson
Tom has recently returned from a secondment at the Energy Research Partnership, where he carried out research on behalf of the Government Office for Science into the options for decarbonising the UK transport sector (report forthcoming). He is conducting research into the role of community resilience in the face of heatwaves, and carrying out a literature review for a project funded by the European Climate Foundation called Managing Heat System Decarbonisation: Transitions and Supporting Infrastructure Development
Prior to this he carried out work looking into the role of trade associations in the EU policy process and on the challenges of evaluating complex environmental policy interventions. He was also a co-author of Scenarios for the Development of Smart Grids in the UK, a UKERC-funded project that employed a range of social research techniques to develop sociotechnical scenarios for a smarter energy system. Tom worked at the trading arm of a Big Six energy company before moving to PSI via the Association for the Conservation of Energy. He holds a master’s in Energy Policy from Exeter University and a BA in Philosophy from UCL.
Qualifications
- MSc Energy Policy, Exeter University
- BA Philosophy, University College London
Contact details
- Email: T.Watson@psi.org.uk
Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers
Martin currently coordinates research and policy analysis proposals and projects in the field of resource efficiency, decoupling of resource use and economic growth, waste prevention, reuse and recycling of material resources, and sustainable resource management at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin.
Read Martin’s CV here.
Qualifications
- PhD in Human Geography, University of Greifswald
- Diploma / MSc in Environmental Science, University of Lueneburg
Stephen Morris
Stephen worked at PSI from 2008 to 2012, having spent 12 years as a researcher in central government, holding posts at the Department of Social Security (DSS), Office for National Statistics (ONS), Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Prior to this, Stephen was a Research Officer at the Institute for Employment Studies.
The focus of Stephen's work has mainly been on large and complex policy evaluations, including the Prototype New Deal for Lone Parents and the design of the Employment Retention and Advancement Demonstration, the largest randomised trial of welfare-to-work policies thus far conducted in the UK. Stephen has also been responsible for several longitudinal studies of families with children, including the Programme of Research into Low Income Families (PRILIF) and the Families and Children Study (FACS). He also worked in the DWP Model Development Unit, where he was responsible for demographic analysis and forecasting, specifically undertaking econometric estimation for the department's main dynamic micro-simulation model of pensioner incomes, PENSIM2.
In previous work, Stephen was responsible for drafting guidance on evaluation methods for government researchers and made a substantial contribution to the government's guidance on ex-post evaluation methods, the Magenta Book. He also taught courses on evaluation methods and evidence-based policy at the National School for Government. In 2006, Stephen completed a Research Fellowship at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), funded by the ESRC, where he conducted research into child support using micro-level longitudinal data. Stephen is a member of the BHPS Scientific Advisory Committee and is on the Editorial Board of Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, a tri-annual publication covering applied research into poverty and welfare.
Stephen's work at PSI included Provider-Led Pathways impact evaluation and two feasibility studies for the DWP looking at methods of impact evaluation. He taught on the MA in Applied Market and Social Research offered through the Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages School at the University of Westminster.
Research AdministratorHilary Salter Hilary Salter
Contact details
- Email: h.salter@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7911 7543
Mayer Hillman
Mayer’s research interests include: energy conservation; walking and cycling; road safety; climate change; health promotion; quality of life issues; environmental and resource sustainability; green economics; children’s physical and social development; setting clocks forward.
Visit his personal website here.
Contact details
- Email: mayer.hillman@blueyonder.co.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7794 9661
Deborah Smeaton
Deborah joined PSI in 1999 and, as a mixed-methods researcher, has worked on a broad range of projects, using a variety of methodological approaches. She is experienced in:
- overall research design
- quantitative data analysis (cross sectional, panel, large and complex)
- survey design
- qualitative methods including case studies, focus groups and in-depth interviewing
- qualitative data analysis
- evaluation design and
- systematic literature reviewing/distillation.
Her research experience and publications span a variety of areas, with a focus on labour-market issues, including: entrepreneurship, older workers, change in the workplace, work and parenthood, maternity and paternity rights, discrimination, equalities, disadvantage, work-life balance, welfare to work and, more recently, food hygiene and nutrition-related research.
Deborah has managed projects for a wide variety of clients and agencies, including: DTI, DWP, HMRC, ESRC, JRF, EHRC, Nuffield, FSA England, FSA Northern Ireland, TUC, NESTA and the Big Lottery Fund.
Recent projects led and conducted by Deborah include: an evaluation of a Nutrition Award Scheme pilot for food businesses (for the Food Standards Agency in Northern Ireland), an evaluation of the impact on livelihood development of International Development grants on overseas communities (for the Big Lottery Fund); trends, causes and correlates of continuing to work beyond state pension age (for Eurofound) and a literature review of the costs and benefits to businesses of adopting work-life balance and flexible working policies and practices (for BIS).
Qualifications
B.Sc. (hons) Sociology, Kingston University
M.Sc. Political Philosophy, London School of Economics
M.Sc. Social Research Methods (distinction), University of Surrey
Contact details
- Email: d.smeaton@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7911 7530
Dr Simon Dresner
Simon’s expertise is in the social and economic aspects of sustainability. His book The Principles of Sustainability was published by Earthscan in 2002 and an updated second edition was published in 2008. In the area of environmental taxation, he coordinated an EC research project on social responses to ecological tax reform policies (PETRAS), worked on a project about ways to remove regressivity from environmental taxes and did research on public attitudes for the Green Fiscal Commission. He is now coordinating a project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation about designing a carbon tax to protect low-income households.
Qualifications
BSc Psychology, University of St Andrews
MA Sociology, California State University
PhD Social and Economic Research on Technology, University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: s.dresner@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7209 1389
Genevieve Knight
Genevieve Knight is a Senior Research Fellow with the National Institute of Labour Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. She led the Work and Social Policy Group at PSI from January 2008 to July 2013. Genevieve is an applied economist/econometrician, with a quantitative emphasis. Her chief skills are with econometric modeling, and handling complex data. However, she also conducts cost-benefit analysis, and systematic literature and evidence reviews. She has wide experience of social policy development, research and advocacy, which builds on her background in economics.
Qualifications
1989-1992: Bachelor of Economics (Honours) University of Sydney, Australia with Econometrics major
1992: awarded Australian Bureau of Statistics Honours Year Scholarship
1994-1995: joint Masters in Economics and Econometrics with Honours, University of Sydney, Australia
1996-2004: Doctor of Philosophy, Economics part time University of Sydney submitted for examination: 31 August 2002, awarded 2004, supervisor: Prof. Russell Ross
Final thesis: Evaluation of the Australian Wage Subsidy: Special Youth Employment and Training Program, SYETP [pdf format, 1MB]
1996-1998: Overseas Research Studentship, London School of Economics
Contact details
- Email: g.knight@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7911 7511
Professor Isobel Allen
Areas of research and expertise include: doctors' careers and the organisation of the medical workforce; family planning; terminations of pregnancy; teenage pregnancies; older people; interface between health and social care; health care of homeless people; community care; residential care of older people; evaluation; maternity services.
Contact details
- To contact Isobel, please email Tim Edwards: t.edwards@psi.org.uk
Professor Alan Marsh
Specialist in the use of large-scale survey research to study:
* the relationship between social and economic change and social policy, and
* the evaluation of social policy both in general and in quasi-experimental pilots.
Current studies concentrate on low-income families with children, lone parents, long-term unemployed and disabled people, determining the outcomes for family well-being of incentives to increase labour market participation, active case management, household income sharing, improved education and health.
Qualifications
1969- BA in Social Psychology in the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex
1976 - PhD in Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Contact details
- Email: a.marsh@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7911 7523
Sandra Vegeris
Sandra joined PSI in 2001 and was promoted to senior researcher in 2005. Her expertise draws from 15 years research experience in social policy and programme evaluation, with an emphasis on multi-methods approaches. She has project managed both large scale national level and smaller scale local level research projects which have included evidence reviews, survey research, case studies, and depth interviews with either cross-sectional or longitudinal designs. Her research interests encompass: labour market interventions, poverty and disadvantaged groups, policy on older people, measures that promote quality of life in later life, and citizen participation in governance.
Qualifications
Honours BA (1983) Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
MA (1986) Computer Application in Education, OISE, University of Toronto
PhD (1991) Measurement & Evaluation, Qualitative programme evaluation techniques, University of Toronto
See Sandra's full CV here.
Contact details
- Email: s.vegeris@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7911 7519
Robert Lyons
Contact details
- Email: r.lyons@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: 020 7911 7547
Malcolm Rigg
Malcolm was Director of PSI from 2004 to September 2013. He led and taught extensively on the MRS-accredited Masters in Applied Market and Social Research. He was previously Managing Director of the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB). Before joining BMRB, he was Director of Research at COI Communications and has also been Head of Public Interest Research at Consumers’ Association (now Which?). He has wide interests in research, social policy, education and marketing.
He is an Academician of the Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Market Research Society and of the Royal Society of Arts. He became an Honorary Life Member of the Association of Survey Computing in 2006. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Market Research. He chairs and is actively engaged in his local Citizens' Advice service and is a director of his local Healthwatch. He is a Trustee of the participation organization, Involve. He is a member of the Ofgem consumer panel and the experts panel of the Food Standards Agency.
Contact details
- Email: m.rigg@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7911 7522
Ben Shaw
Ben joined PSI in October 2006 and became Director in June 2015, having previously served as Acting Director since October 2013. He has nearly 20 years’ experience of working on environmental issues at the interface of research and policy. Since joining PSI, he has worked on research projects investigating eco-innovation, environmental tax reform, public responses to environmental policy, the evaluation of policy and research, and children’s independent mobility. He is the lead co-ordinator of the Sustainable Development Research Network (SDRN) and managed the secretariat for the UK Green Fiscal Commission.
As well as taking overall responsibility for the development and direction of PSI, Ben has a particular research interest in the use of evidence in the policy system and the development of evaluation approaches for environmental policy interventions.
Prior to joining PSI, Ben was Principal Policy Adviser at Green Alliance. His work there mainly focused on national-level strategic policy development and advocacy in the areas of waste, resource and product policy, but also included projects on the role of negotiated agreements in UK environmental policy and sustainable consumption.
Ben read Geology at Bristol University and followed this with a MSc and research in geophysics before moving to his work focused on environmental policy and research.
Qualifications
MSc European Environmental Policy and Regulation, Lancaster University, awarded 1996
MSc Applied and Environmental Geophysics, University of Birmingham, awarded 1992
BSc Hons: Geology, University of Bristol, awarded 1990
Contact details
- Email: b.shaw@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7911 7544
Mark Rickinson
Dr Mark Rickinson is a research consultant with a particular interest in the environment who specialises in educational research and evaluation, research reviews and research training (www.markrickinson.co.uk). He is currently leading an Anti-Bullying Development & Research (D&R) Project with Coventry City Council and recently completed two projects for the European Commission on Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Education and Training. He also works as a Senior Research Associate at the Young Foundation and is a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University Department of Education. Previously he spent several years as a Senior Research Officer at the National Foundation for Educational Research.
Visiting Research FellowGabriel Chanan
Gabriel Chanan is an independent consultant on community involvement, engagement and development. He directed research and policy at the Community Development Foundation for many years. He has been a leading adviser to government on community engagement and involvement, and from 2005-8 he worked on empowerment in the Home Office and the Department of Communities and Local Government. He is currently working with the Homes and Communities Academy on spreading empowerment skills across professions, and in a number of other areas.
Contact details
- Email: /images/gabrielchanan.jpg
Stephen Tindale
Stephen was previously Executive Director of Greenpeace UK and Chair of Greenpeace Europe in Brussels. Before that he was Special Adviser to Michael Meacher when he was Environment Minister. Prior to that, he was Head of Environment at IPPR. He has published short books (through IPPR) on Green Tax Reform and energy policy.
Senior Research FellowRobin Vanner
Robin joined PSI in 2003 and has 12 years of experience as a researcher and consultant in the field of environmental policy. In this time he has developed a wide range of expertise in sustainability and economic assessment. He is currently responsible for developing a research programme in pro-environmental behavioural change from the perspective of paradigms of thinking. His expertise as an environmental economist also includes regulatory cost assessments and sustainability assessments. He has an MSc in Environmental Technology (energy-policy option) from Imperial College in London (ICCET).
Qualifications
- University of East Anglia - B.Sc. (Hons.) Environmental Science
- Imperial College London - M.Sc. Environmental Technology
Contact details
- Email: r.vanner@psi.org.uk
Roger Salmons
Roger is an environmental economist with significant experience of applying economic analysis to the design and evaluation of environmental policy, having spent over 10 years as a researcher at PSI and CSERGE at University College London. During this time he worked on collaborative research projects with organisations throughout Europe and was a member of the European Research Network on Market-Based Instruments for Sustainable Development and the European Research Network on Tradable Emission Permits. His main areas of interest and expertise relate to the evaluation of environmental policies and measures; the design and evaluation of economic instruments; and environmental policy and economic performance.
In addition to his research activities, Roger has acted as an expert consultant to Defra, the Environment Agency, OECD and the European Commission. More recently, he has worked in the consultancy sector, as Technical Director for the Environmental Economics Team at Jacobs Engineering UK. Roger also has previous senior management experience in the commercial sector, having spent 11 years working for a leading UK retail company.
Qualifications
- PhD: Economics, University College London, awarded 2006
- M.Sc: Environmental and Resource Economics, University College London, awarded 1995.
- MBA: Management Science and Marketing, University of Bradford, awarded 1983.
- BSc (Hons): Mathematics and Economics, First Class, University of Surrey, awarded 1979.
Contact details
- Email: r.salmons@wmin.ac.uk
David Wilkinson
David is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He was previously Principal Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute and before that worked at the Office for National Statistics and the London School of Economics. His work has focused on a range of topics in applied labour economics. His recent research has covered evaluation methodology with applications to welfare-to-work programmes; the impact of recent changes in student funding. Current research includes scoping work towards estimation of the take-up of Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance, and a quality measurement framework for pre-school education.
Qualifications
- 1989-90 MSc Economics, University of Bristol
- 1984-87 BA (Hons) Economics and Mathematics, University of Liverpool
Contact details
- Email: d.wilkinson@niesr.ac.uk
Glen Murphy
Contact details
- Email: G.Murphy3@westminster.ac.uk
- Telephone: 020 7911 7539
Ben Fagan-Watson
Ben Fagan-Watson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute (PSI). He has a range of research interests, including:
Evaluation: Ben is one of the core team running the new ESRC-funded £3m Centre for Evaluating Complexity Across the Nexus, which is exploring new methods to evaluate the effectiveness of UK environmental policy. From 2017-2021 he is leading the process evaluation of the Heat Networks Investment Project for the Department of Business, Energy, Innovation and Skills. He recently co-ordinated a Rapid Evidence Assessment for Defra which is assessing the impact and implementation of complex environmental policies on complex systems.
Action research and co-production: Ben is Co-Investigator of the IsuLabantu project, which seeks to support communities in Durban, South Africa, and strengthen their capacity to guide urban development themselves. In particular, the project focuses on community-led processes and in-situ upgrading of informal settlements. From 2015-16 he was Co-Investigator on the Urban Heat project, which explored how communities can be involved in preparing for and responding to heatwaves and hot weather in the UK. From 2009-2013 Ben conducted two action-based research projects for Defra assessing how to encourage pro-environmental behaviours around food waste (Maiden Lane Food Loop), and assessing whether ‘trusted intermediaries’ (such as plumbers, or plumbers’ merchants) can be used to spread pro-environmental, water-saving behaviours and products to the general public (Plug-It).
Corporate power: From 2013-14, Ben was on secondment to CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) where he was the Head of Government Relations. CDP is an international not-for-profit organisation that gathers key environmental information from over 5,000 of the world’s largest businesses on behalf of 722 investors worth $87 trillion. He led CDP’s research into corporate lobbying on climate policy, and contributed to the Guide to Responsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy, which was written with eight leading institutions, including three UN agencies. He has since led two projects exploring how businesses and trade associations influence EU climate policy.
Children’s independence and travel: Ben has worked on two major projects on Children’s Independent Mobility - children’s freedom to travel to local places without adult supervision. He conducted a comparative study of England and Germany in this field and coordinated a major international study building on this work, which has involved working with partner researchers from 15 other countries.
Research networks and projects: Ben organised, publicised and managed two major research projects as part of the secretariat of the Sustainable Development Research Network and the Green Fiscal Commission.
Ben was module leader of ‘Environmental Change and Transition to a Low Carbon Society’, which is part of the MA Energy and Environmental Change. He is available as a PhD supervisor.
Ben joined PSI in 2009. In June 2008, he was given the ‘London Social Justice Campaigner 2008’ award by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, a UK charitable foundation that aims to promote effective campaigning. Ben holds a first-class BA in Historical Studies from the University of Bristol.
Contact details
- Email: b.watson@psi.org.uk
Professor Fred Steward
Fred joined PSI in October 2009. Prior to this, he led innovation research at the business schools of Brunel University and Aston University. Seconded to NESTA in 2008, he has advised government departments in the UK, Europe and China on innovation and sustainability. During 2009, he was seconded to Advantage West Midlands to develop a bid to the European Institute of Innovation & Technology for a climate change Knowledge & Innovation Community. He is Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London and President of the European Association for the Study of Science & Technology, EASST.
His primary research interest is in 'transformative innovation' - pervasive, radical, system-wide social and technological change. His approach to this is a synthesis between innovation network concepts and sociotechnical transition theory. The focus of his research is the role of innovation in addressing the global challenge of climate change and environmental sustainability, and the implications of this for policy.
Fred is a member of several international committees: the Dutch Knowledge & System Innovation programme, the Sustainable Consumption Research network and the IHDP Industrial Transformation programme. He is a member of the Royal Society committee on Global Environmental Change.
Contact details
- Email: f.steward@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: 020 7911 7523
Lesley Hoggart
Lesley is currently Principal Research Fellow in the School of Health and Social Care, University of Greenwich, and was previously Senior Research Fellow, Work and Social Policy Group at PSI.
Qualifications
- PhD: 'The Social Policy of Birth Control: a comparative study of the politics of British birth control in the 1920s and the 1970s', Goldsmiths College, University of London, 1998
- MSc: Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1986
- BSc (ECON), specialising in International Relations, London School of Economics, University of London, 1983
Contact details
- Email: L.Hoggart@greenwich.ac.uk
Athena Piterou
Athena Piterou joined the University of Greenwich Business School in 2011 after completing a PhD, linked to the ESRC-funded project ‘Dematerialising the printed paper text’, at Brunel University. The PhD examined electronic books might alleviate the environmental implications of print. At the Policy Studies Institute, Athena’s role involved mapping the interactions among the organisations participating in the Sustainable Development Research Network (funded by Defra).
Qualifications
- PhD: Brunel Business School, 2009
- MSc: Technology Management, UMIST, 2004
- Bacherlor's degree: Marketing, Athens University of Economics and Business
Contact details
- Email: athenapiterou@hotmail.com
Sue Clegg
Sue Clegg has almost 20 years' experience in research. She specialises in qualitative research and has worked both in academia and in an agency; she has managed projects in the UK and across Europe. Sue's expertise is in health and well-being, including: food choices; experience of services; living with health problems and disabilities; and the perspectives of professionals. Recent work includes work for the Food Standards Agency, exploring people's use and understanding of front-of-pack nutrition information labels, a process evaluation of a calorie-information scheme, an evaluation of pilot childcare programmes for DfE (then DfES), DWP and the Welsh Assembly, and an investigation of the medical information needs of health professionals.
Sue has also lectured in sociology, specialising in research methods, and has delivered training on researching sensitive issues.
Contact details
- Email: sclegg@tiscali.co.uk
Martha Bicket
Martha joined PSI in May 2012 and is a Senior Research Fellow in sustainability policy. Her current work includes the analysis of paradigms and public acceptability for the EU-funded FP7 project DYNAMIX, where she is exploring: how underlying societal paradigms and public acceptability affect resource-use policy effectiveness and feasibility; and the optimal design and sequencing of policies for absolute decoupling. Martha was recently involved in a scoping study for the EU Commission, where she drew upon a wide range of existing data and work, such as that of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, to identify priority sectors, materials and value chains for the transition to a circular economy, as well as key actors, winners and losers. Martha has experience in a range of research methods including the design, implementation and analysis of large-scale surveys, data visualisation techniques and in quantitative analysis and modelling software. Her other experience and interests include evaluation and appraisal, with a particular focus on Cost-Benefit Analysis, Social Discount Rates and the appraisal of projects and policies with long-term consequences.
Prior to joining PSI, Martha worked at the European Commission in Climate Change and Natural Hazards, DG Research and Innovation. Martha has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Warwick and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London, where she specialised in Environmental Economics and Policy.
Qualifications
- MSc Environmental Technology, Imperial College London, 2011
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics, University of Warwick, 2009
Contact details
- Email: m.bicket@psi.org.uk
- Telephone: 020 7911 7534
Projects
March 2016 to March 2019
Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN)
Projects
October 2012 to August 2013
January 2001 to September 2003
Evaluation of Lone Parents Work Focused Interviews extensions
Projects
March 2016 to March 2019
Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN)
February 2016 to January 2019MIN-GUIDE: Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe
February 2016 to February 2019Projects
February 2016 to February 2019
Projects
June 2016 to March 2021
Urban Infrastructural Innovation and Sustainable Innovation
Projects
February 2015 to July 2015
Factors Affecting Public Engagement by Researchers
January 2015 to June 2016URBAN HEAT: community-led resilience to urban heatwaves
January 2011 to June 2014Smart Communities: working together to save energy?
Projects
July 2013 to April 2014
Evaluation of United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Projects
August 2011 to July 2014
Sustainable Development Research Network (Phase IV)
Projects
January 2017 to August 2021
Evaluation of the Heat Networks Investment Project
February 2016 to January 2019MIN-GUIDE: Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe
November 2015 to April 2016Business lobbying in the wake of COP21
July 2015 to May 2016Marylebone Road Subway: Pre- and post-improvement works surveys
January 2015 to June 2016URBAN HEAT: community-led resilience to urban heatwaves
September 2014 to March 2015Lobbying by Trade Associations on EU Climate Policy
March 2014 to June 2014October 2011 to September 2013
Scenarios for the development of smart grids in the UK
Projects
January 2012 to December 2012
Evaluation of FSA Guidance on Cross Contamination
January 2012 to December 2012Evaluation of the 'Survival Guide to Food' Project summary
December 2011 to June 2012Working after state-pension age
December 2009 to May 2010May 2009 to December 2009
Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance: impact study
January 2009 to December 2013Jobseeker Regime and Flexible New Deal (JRFND) Evaluation
December 2008 to September 2009Older Workers: Expectations, Preferences and Barriers
October 2008 to April 2009BTW 50+: Literature Review and Indicative Guide for Secondary Data Analysis
June 2008 to December 2008BIG Small Grants Evaluation: Study Description
February 2008 to May 2008Older People Inside and Outside the Labour Market: A Review
January 2008 to March 2009An Ageing Workforce: The Employer's Perspective
April 2006 to October 2006The Future of Work: the employer perspective
October 2001 to November 2002Costs and Benefits to Business of Adopting Work Life Balance Working Practices: A Literature Review
Projects
April 2011 to September 2012
Designing carbon taxation to protect low-income households
December 2010 to May 2012December 2009 to June 2010
Innovation and the costs of EuP policy
December 2008 to November 2009June 2007 to October 2007
A Synthesis Review of the Public Understanding Research Projects
May 2007 to October 2009November 2006 to October 2009
March 2004 to October 2004
Fuel poverty and climate change
April 2003 to March 2007UK Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium (UKSHEC)
April 2002 to January 2004The Social Impacts of Environmental Taxes: removing regressivity
Rapid Review of the Evidence on Forests and Climate Change
Projects
October 2012 to August 2013
February 2012 to March 2012
Review of the DWP Cost Benefit Framework and how it has been applied
October 2011 to March 2014Evaluation of the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme and the Food Hygiene Information Scheme
January 2009 to December 2013Jobseeker Regime and Flexible New Deal (JRFND) Evaluation
April 2008 to March 2011Evaluation of Private Sector Led Pathways to Work Incapacity Benefit Reform
January 2005 to December 2009December 2004 to June 2005
Working for Families Evaluation
June 2004 to October 2004Evaluation of Extended Schools Childcare and Childcare Taster Pilots
April 2004 to July 2005Secondary Analyses of NDLP and LPWFI data
April 2004 to April 2006Evaluation of Work-Focused Interviews for Partners and the revamped New Deal for Partners
September 2003 to May 2007Evaluation of Incapacity Benefit Reform Pilots (IB Pilots)
July 2003 to April 2011Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Scheme
July 2002 to April 2004Evaluation of Joint Claims for JSA extension
January 2001 to September 2003Evaluation of Lone Parents Work Focused Interviews extensions
Costs and Benefits to Business of Adopting Work Life Balance Working Practices: A Literature Review
Projects
December 2004 to June 2005
Working for Families Evaluation
July 2003 to April 2011Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Scheme
April 2001 to September 2002The Families and Children Study (FACS)
January 1991 to September 2003The Programme of Research on Low-income Families (PRILIF)
Projects
March 2013 to November 2013
Employment, pay and poverty: evidence and policy review
January 2012 to December 2012Evaluation of FSA Guidance on Cross Contamination
January 2012 to December 2012Evaluation of the 'Survival Guide to Food' Project summary
December 2011 to June 2012Working after state-pension age
November 2011 to February 2012Perceptions of the Police and Crime Mapping Trailblazers
October 2011 to March 2014Evaluation of the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme and the Food Hygiene Information Scheme
December 2010 to May 2012April 2010 to November 2011
Single Parents' Work Aspirations
January 2009 to December 2013Jobseeker Regime and Flexible New Deal (JRFND) Evaluation
January 2009 to September 2009December 2008 to September 2009
Older Workers: Expectations, Preferences and Barriers
October 2008 to April 2009BTW 50+: Literature Review and Indicative Guide for Secondary Data Analysis
April 2008 to September 2009Better off Working?: Work, poverty and benefit cycling
February 2008 to May 2008Older People Inside and Outside the Labour Market: A Review
January 2008 to August 2008People with mental health conditions and pathways to work
September 2007 to May 2008Evaluation of the London Student Pledge
January 2007 to May 2007Review and evaluation of BIG funding for older people
January 2007 to June 2007Engaging with older citizens: A study of London boroughs
April 2005 to October 2007May 2004 to June 2005
Scottish Student Income and Expenditure Survey
April 2004 to May 2005Continuity of Older Citizen's Involvement in the Whole Policy Process: A Review of Practices
January 2004 to December 2008Pathways to work: evaluation of the IB reform pilots
July 2003 to April 2011Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Scheme
April 2003 to May 2004Independent Living in Later Life: a qualitative study
April 2001 to September 2002The Families and Children Study (FACS)
January 1991 to September 2003The Programme of Research on Low-income Families (PRILIF)
Projects
December 2006 to September 2007
Strategic Review of Sustainable Development in Higher Education
Projects
March 2016 to March 2019
Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN)
February 2016 to January 2019MIN-GUIDE: Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe
November 2013 to June 2014July 2013 to April 2014
Evaluation of United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
August 2011 to July 2014Sustainable Development Research Network (Phase IV)
April 2011 to August 2011December 2010 to May 2012
May 2010 to May 2010
Developing and delivering Green Fiscal Reform
January 2010 to October 2010October 2009 to January 2013
Independent Mobility as a Critical Aspect of Children's Development and Quality Of Life
January 2009 to June 2009Public perceptions of short term actions government should take to mitigate climate change
January 2009 to October 2009Real world consumer behaviour relating to the purchase of environmentally preferable goods
January 2008 to July 2008Designing Environmental Policy to be Innovation Friendly
October 2007 to September 2008SKEP Call 2 - Science to Policy Process
October 2007 to June 2008Bridging Research and Policy Through Outcome Evaluation
May 2007 to October 2009February 2007 to November 2007
Sectoral Costs of Environmental Policy (SCEP)
January 2007 to December 2009Sustainable Development Research Network (phase III)
January 2007 to December 2007Measuring ECO-innovation: ecological and economic performance and DeRIVEd indicators (ECODRIVE)
Projects
February 2016 to January 2019
MIN-GUIDE: Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe
March 2014 to June 2014November 2013 to June 2014
September 2012 to December 2015
April 2011 to August 2011
January 2010 to October 2010
December 2009 to June 2010
Innovation and the costs of EuP policy
November 2009 to November 2010Social Research Review to Inform Natural Environment Policy
January 2009 to October 2009Real world consumer behaviour relating to the purchase of environmentally preferable goods
January 2008 to June 2008Household and Economy Wide Impacts of Changing Environmental Behaviours
October 2007 to September 2008SKEP Call 2 - Science to Policy Process
November 2006 to October 2009May 2005 to November 2005
Ex-post estimates of costs to business of EU environmental policies
April 2005 to September 2006Developing New Methodologies to Assess the Sustainability Impacts of Trade Policies [SIAMethod]
April 2003 to March 2005Projects
September 2012 to December 2015
December 2009 to June 2010
Innovation and the costs of EuP policy
December 2008 to November 2009April 2008 to March 2010
Carbon Calculations over the Life Cycle of Industrial Activities (CCaLC)
July 2006 to June 2009Resource productivity, ETR and sustainable growth in Europe (PETRE)
December 2004 to November 2006Projects
May 2009 to December 2009
Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance: impact study
August 2004 to September 2005Ethnic parity in Jobcentre Plus programmes
May 2004 to June 2005Scottish Student Income and Expenditure Survey
January 2004 to June 2006September 2002 to November 2003
England and Wales Student Income and Expenditure Survey
Projects
January 2017 to August 2021
Evaluation of the Heat Networks Investment Project
March 2016 to March 2019Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN)
February 2016 to February 2019November 2015 to April 2016
Business lobbying in the wake of COP21
July 2015 to May 2016Marylebone Road Subway: Pre- and post-improvement works surveys
January 2015 to June 2016URBAN HEAT: community-led resilience to urban heatwaves
September 2014 to March 2015Lobbying by Trade Associations on EU Climate Policy
March 2014 to June 2014August 2011 to July 2014
Sustainable Development Research Network (Phase IV)
December 2010 to May 2012August 2010 to June 2012
Plug-it: Working with intermediaries as facilitators of change to the way people live or consume
October 2009 to January 2013Independent Mobility as a Critical Aspect of Children's Development and Quality Of Life
March 2009 to March 2010'Food Loop': Testing innovative approaches for achieving pro-environmental behaviours
May 2007 to October 2009January 2007 to December 2009
Sustainable Development Research Network (phase III)
Projects
April 2008 to September 2013
October 2006 to July 2007
The sexual health needs of unaccompanied minors in Enfield and Haringey
Projects
March 2016 to March 2019
Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN)
February 2016 to January 2019MIN-GUIDE: Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe
July 2015 to May 2016Marylebone Road Subway: Pre- and post-improvement works surveys
November 2013 to June 2014July 2013 to April 2014
Evaluation of United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
September 2012 to December 2015April 2012 to January 2013
August 2011 to July 2014
Sustainable Development Research Network (Phase IV)
December 2010 to May 2012Publications
2016
Training and employee mobility in the British private and public sectors
2016Not so dissatisfied after all? The impact of union coverage on job satisfaction
2016Older British employees’ declining attitudes over 20 years and across classes
20152015
The Progress of HRM in the Public Sector
2009Work Orientations of Older Employees
2008Organizational Commitment: Do Workplace Practices Matter?
20072006
Unions, Within-Workplace Job Cuts and Job Security Guarantees
2006Unions, Job Reductions and Job Security Guarantees: The Experience of British Employees
2005Careers in Britain: Recovering a Future
2005John Killeen Commemorative Lecture 2004: In Pursuit of a Culture of Evaluation
2005Cooperative unionism and employee welfare
2004Effective Job Search Practice in the UK's Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Programme for Youth
2003Evaluation of Adult Basic Skills Pathfinder Activities
2003Evaluation of Adult Basic Skills Pathfinder Activities
2003Evaluation of lone parent adviser meetings
2003Ways in and out of low income in rural England
2003'High-performance' Management Practices, Working Hours and Work-Life Balance
2002The effect of careers guidance for employed adults on continuing education
2002Benchmarking the effectiveness of NDYP
2001New Deal for Young People: National Survey of Participants: Stage 2
2001The Responsiveness of House Prices to Macroeconomic Forces
2001Macro-economic evaluation of Newdeal for Young People Job Search impacts
2001Youth Unemployment, Labour Market Programmes and Health
2000New Deal for Young People: national survey of participants stage 1
20002000
The Employment of Lone Mothers in Denmark and Great Britain
2000The Impact of Careers Guidance on Employed Adult People
2000Lone Mothers' Poverty and Employment
2000Longitudinal Data for Policy Analysis
2000The Impact of Careers Guidance for Employed Adults in Continuing Education
1999Performance, Equality and Staff Development
19991998
Restructuring the Employment Relationship
1998Are active labour market policies enough?
19981998
1997
The Impact of Public Job Placing Programmes
19971996
From Unemployment to Self-employment
1996Moving In and Out of Self-Employment
19961996
Findings from the Macro Evaluation of the New Deal for Young People
1994Unemployment and Public Policy in a Changing Labour Market
1994Employer Policies and Individual Life Chances
1994Job Search Effort and Motivation in Unemployment
1994The causes of persistently high unemployment
1994Unemployment, Public Policy and the Changing Labour Market
1993Employee Commitment and the Skills Revolution
1992Economic Value of Careers Guidance
19921991
Corporate Support for Higher Education
19911988
1983
Long-term unemployment and labour markets
Publications
2016
Heatwave planning: community involvement in co-producing resilience
20152014
Community, the very idea!: perspectives of participants in a demand-side community energy project
2014Working together to save energy? Final report of the Smart Communities project
Publications
2009
Policy Conclusions and Implications for the EU Sustainable Development Strategy
2009Identification of most synergistic sets of integrated policy instruments
2009State-of-the-art review of sustainability policy assessment
2009Recommendations for implementation of the EU SDS
2009Indicators for Green Public Procurement (GPP)
Publications
2016
Baker Street Wonderpass: evaluation of improvement works
2015Energy Options for Transport: Phase One
2015Lobbying by Trade Associations on EU Climate Policy
20142014
Scenarios for the Development of Smart Grids in the UK: Synthesis Report
Publications
2014
Publications
2015
Children’s Independent Mobility: An International Comparison and Recommendations for Action
2013A comparison study of children's independent mobility in England and Australia
2013Children's independent mobility: a comparative study in England and Germany (1971-2010)
1996Speed Control and Transport Policy
1993Cycle helmets: the case for and against
19931993
Children, Transport and the Quality of Life
19901976
Transport Realities and Planning Policy
1973Personal Mobility and Transport Policy
Publications
2016
Older British employees’ declining attitudes over 20 years and across classes
20152014
Costs and Benefits to Business of Adopting Work Life Balance Working Practices: A Literature Review
2011Impact of BIG Funding of Community Enterprise Overseas
2011Development Work for Wave 2 of the Food Issues Survey - Summary
2010Jobseekers Regime and Flexible New Deal evaluation: A report on qualitative research findings
2010The EHRC Triennial Review: Developing the Employment Evidence Base
20102010
2010
Older workers: employment preferences, barriers and solutions
201050+ Back to work evidence review and indicative guide for secondary data analysis
2008A review of BIG funding for older people
2007The future of work: employers and workplace transformation
2006Maternity and Paternity Rights and Benefits: Survey of Employees 2005
2004Individuals' donations to charities and their use of tax relief
2004Managing to Change? British workplaces and the future of work
2004Work-based learning for adults: an evaluation of labour market effects
2003'High-performance' Management Practices, Working Hours and Work-Life Balance
2003The Impact of Adult Basic Skills Pathfinder Extension Activities: Stage 2 of the Evaluation
Publications
2013
Designing Carbon Taxation to Protect Low-Income Households
20102009
Policy Conclusions and Implications for the EU Sustainable Development Strategy
2009Household and economy wide impacts of changing environmental behaviours
2009Identification of most synergistic sets of integrated policy instruments
2009State-of-the-art review of sustainability policy assessment
2009Recommendations for implementation of the EU SDS
2009Indicators for Green Public Procurement (GPP)
2008The Principles of Sustainability
2007Forestry and Climate Change: Global Understandings and Possible Responses
20072006
Economic instruments to improve UK home energy efficiency without negative social impacts
2006Towards the design of an Environmentally and Socially Conscious Water Metering Tariff
2006Forests and Climate Change: Global Understandings and Possible Responses
20062006
Special issue: Social and political responses to ecological tax reform in Europe
2006A Green Living Initiative: Engaging Households to Achieve Environmental Goals
2006A History of and Social Responses to Environmental Tax Reform in the United Kingdom
2006Environmental and Wider Implications of Political Impediments to Environmental Tax Reform
2005Climate change and fuel poverty
2004Getting out of the mess we're in
2004Distributional Impacts of Economic Instruments to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transport
2004Economic Instruments for a Socially Neutral National Home Energy Efficiency Programme
2004Towards the design of an Environmentally and Socially Conscious Water Metering Tariff
20042004
Green taxes and charges: Reducing their impact on low-income households
20022001
A comparison of RTD structures in EU member states
1999Decision-making Processes for Projects Requiring Environmental Impact Assessment
1998Isomorphism and Interdependence
Publications
2014
Costs and Benefits to Business of Adopting Work Life Balance Working Practices: A Literature Review
2013Provider-led Pathways to Work: Net impacts on Employment and Benefits
20112011
Improving DWP assessment of the relative costs and benefits of employment programmes
20102009
2008
A cost-benefit analysis of Pathways to Work for new and repeat incapacity benefits claimants
2007Evaluation of the childcare taster pilot and extended schools childcare pilot programmes
20072007
New Zealand Working For Families programme: Literature review of evaluation evidence
2007Review of the DWP Cost Benefit Framework and how it has been applied
20072007
2006
2006
2006
Final Report: LPWFI and Review Meetings administrative data analyses and qualitative evidence
2006Lone parents: In Work Benefit Calculations - work and benefit outcomes
2005Incapacity Benefit reforms - the Personal Adviser role and practices: Stage Two
20052005
2004
Evaluation of lone parent work focused interviews: final findings from administrative data
2003Evaluation of lone parent adviser meetings
2002Joint Claims for Jobseekers Allowance, stage 2 quantitative evaluation of labour market effects
2002Benchmarking the effectiveness of NDYP
2001Joint Claims for Jobseekers Allowance, stage 1 quantitative survey potential claimants
2001Evaluation of New Deal for Young People in Scotland: Phase 2
2001New Deal for Young People: National Survey of Participants: Stage 2
2001Evaluation of New Deal for Young People in Scotland
2001Macro-economic evaluation of Newdeal for Young People Job Search impacts
2001Macro-economic evaluation of New Deal for Young People
2000Lifetime experiences of self-employment
1999Worker Displacement in Australia and Britain
1998What it costs to lose your job
Publications
2005
Women doctors and their careers: what now?
20032001
Stress Among Ward Sisters and Charge Nurses
2001Social Care and Health: a New Deal?
2001Stress in hospital medicine: a problem for key medical staff
2000General Medical Council. A clear case of....
2000Challenges to the health services: the professions
2000The Handling of Complaints by the GMC a study of decision-making and outcomes
1999Factors affecting career choices in medicine
19981998
1997
1997
Creating Partnerships in Social Care
1997British doctors are not disappearing
19971996
1995
1995
Targeting Those Most in Need: Winners and Losers
1994Doctors and their Careers: A New Generation
1994Health Care Needs and Services in Resettlement Unit
1994Stimulating Provision by the Independent Sector
1993Rationing of Health and Social Care
1993Work Roles and Responsibilities in Genitourinary Medicine Clinics
1993Flexible working in general practice
1992Purchasing and Providing Social Services in the 1990s
1992Part Time Working in General Practice
1992Elderly People: Choice, Participation and Satisfaction
1991Family Planning and Pregnancy Counselling Projects for Young People
1990Care Managers and Care Management
1989Social Services Departments as Managing Agencies
1989Health Care for Single Homeless People
19881988
Any Room at the Top? A Study of Doctors and their Careers
1987Education in Sex and Personal Relationships
1986Publications
2008
2007
The take-up rate of Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance: Feasibility study
20072006
Maternity and Paternity Rights and Benefits: Survey of Employees 2005
2005The Employment Retention Advancement Scheme: Summary Report on the Implementation of ERA
2005The Employment, Retention, Advancement Scheme: Summary Report on the Implementation of ERA
2004Individuals' donations to charities and their use of tax relief
20042004
The British lone parent cohort and their children: 1991 to 2001
20032003
2003
Families and Children Study: Work and Childcare
2001Earnings Top-up evaluation: effects on low-paid workers
2001The ETU Evaluation Synthesis Report
2000The First Effects of Earnings Top-up
2000The British Lone Parent Cohort 1991 to 1998
20002000
The Medium-term Effects of the Voluntary Stage of ONE
19991999
Low-income Families in Britain
19981998
Lone Parents on the Margins of Work
19981998
The Health Trap: Poverty, Smoking and Lone Parenthood
19951994
1993
Publications
2015
2012
Perceptions of the policing and crime mapping 'Trailblazers'
20112011
Flexible New Deal evaluation: Customer survey and qualitative research findings
20112010
Jobseekers Regime and Flexible New Deal evaluation: A report on qualitative research findings
20102010
2010
Better off Working? Work, poverty and benefit cycling
2010Older workers: employment preferences, barriers and solutions
201050+ Back to work evidence review and indicative guide for secondary data analysis
2009Rewarding responsibility? Long-term unemployed men and the welfare-to-work agenda
2009People with mental health conditions and Pathways to Work
20082008
2008
Lone parents and the challenge to make work pay
2008A review of BIG funding for older people
20072007
Engaging older citizens, a study of London boroughs
20072007
Beyond the Tick Box - Older citizen engagement in UK local government
2007Supporting an intergenerational centre in London: Scoping the evidence
2007The lone parents pilots: A qualitative evaluation of Quarterly Work Focused Interviews
20062006
Qualitative Evaluation of Quarterly Work Focused Interviews (QWFI) and In Work Credit (IWC)
20062005
The Employment Retention Advancement Scheme: Summary Report on the Implementation of ERA
2005The Employment, Retention, Advancement Scheme: Summary Report on the Implementation of ERA
2005Higher and further education student income, expenditure and debt in Scotland
20042004
Independent Living in Later Life: Qualitative research
2004The British lone parent cohort and their children: 1991 to 2001
2003Families and Children Study: Work and Childcare
2003Families and Children Study 2001: Report on Living Standards and the Children
2002Low/moderate-income families in Britain
2002Low/moderate-income families in Britain: changes in living standards 1999-2000
Employment, Pay and Poverty: Evidence and policy review
Publications
2008
HEFCE strategic review of sustainable development in higher education in England
Publications
2015
Children’s Independent Mobility: An International Comparison and Recommendations for Action
20142013
2013
Children's independent mobility: a comparative study in England and Germany (1971-2010)
20112011
2009
Household and economy wide impacts of changing environmental behaviours
2008Publications
2014
2014
2011
2011
2011
Social Research Evidence Review to Inform Natural Environment Policy: Reports and Annex
2011The Big Society Concept in a Natural Environment Setting
2009Household and economy wide impacts of changing environmental behaviours
20072006
2005
Energy Use in Offshore Oil and Gas Production: Trends and Drivers for Efficiency from 1975 to 2025
2005Publications
2011
2010
Material Flow Analysis and Value Chain Analysis for the UK Plastics Sector
2010Publications
2011
2007
The take-up rate of Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance: Feasibility study
2006Evaluation of Basic Skills Mandatory Training Pilot: Synthesis Report
2005Minority Ethnic Outreach Evaluation
2005Higher and further education student income, expenditure and debt in Scotland
20032003
2002/03 Student Income and Expenditure Survey
2002Collective bargaining and workplace performance
2001Changes in the Wage Structure and Participation in Education and Training for Young People
2000Labour Market and Skill Trends 2000
1999Trade Unions and Training Practices in British Workplaces
1999Trade Unions and Training Practices in British Workplaces
19981998
Towards Reconciliation of NES and LFS Earnings Data
1998The Meaning and Determinants of Skills Shortages
1998Publications
2016
Heatwave planning: community involvement in co-producing resilience
2016Baker Street Wonderpass: evaluation of improvement works
20152015
Children’s Independent Mobility: An International Comparison and Recommendations for Action
2015Lobbying by Trade Associations on EU Climate Policy
20142013
A comparison study of children's independent mobility in England and Australia
2013Food Loop – A technical research report for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
2013Community co-design: A guide to working collaboratively through design
2013Children's independent mobility: a comparative study in England and Germany (1971-2010)
Publications
2010
Better off Working? Work, poverty and benefit cycling
2009Rewarding responsibility? Long-term unemployed men and the welfare-to-work agenda
20082008
2008
Random Assignment and Informed Consent: A Case Study of Multiple Perspectives
2008Lone parents and the challenge to make work pay
20072007
The sexual health needs of unaccompanied minors in Enfield and Haringey
2007Camden Childcare Needs Assessment
2007The lone parents pilots: A qualitative evaluation of Quarterly Work Focused Interviews
2006Young Women and Sexual Decision-Making
2006Young People, Sex and Choices: Haringey Case Study
20062006
Qualitative Evaluation of Quarterly Work Focused Interviews (QWFI) and In Work Credit (IWC)
20062006
2005
The Employment Retention Advancement Scheme: Summary Report on the Implementation of ERA
2005Neoliberalism, the new right and sexual politics
2005Risk, young women and sexual decision-making
2005The Employment, Retention, Advancement Scheme: Summary Report on the Implementation of ERA
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2016
Baker Street Wonderpass: evaluation of improvement works
2015Children’s Independent Mobility: An International Comparison and Recommendations for Action
20142013
The development of smart homes market in the UK
2013Social barriers to the adoption of smart homes
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Previous publications
Barbrook-Johnson, P., Badham, J., Gilbert, N. (2016) Uses of agent-based modeling for health communication: The TELL ME case study. Health Communication. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1196414
Anzola, D., Barbrook-Johnson, P., Cano, J. (2016) Self-organisation and Social Science. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. DOI: 10.1007/s10588-016-9224-2
Johnson, P. (2015). Agent-Based Models as “Interested Amateurs”. Land. 4(2), 281- 299. doi:10.3390/land4020281
Gilbert, N., Anzola, D., Johnson, P., Elsenbroich, C., Balke, T., Dilaver Kalkan, O. (2015). Self- organizing dynamical systems. In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 21. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 529-534. Elsevier.
Johnson, P. (2014). Using the Telephone to Interview Professionals: Understanding the Use of Models in Environmental Policy. SAGE Research Methods Cases.
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Selected Publications
- Shaw, I. and Ozaki, R. (2016) ‘Emergent practices of an environmental standard’, Science, Technology, and Human Values, 41, 219-242.
- Shaw, I. and Ozaki, R. (2015) ‘Performing accountability: Making environmental credentials visible in housing design’, Energy Policy, 87, 136-139.
- Ozaki, R. and Shaw, I. (2014) ‘Entangled practices: governance, sustainable technologies, and energy consumption’, Sociology, 48(3), 590-605.
- Ozaki, R. and Dodgson, M. (2014) ‘Consumption of Innovation’, in M. Dodgson, D. Gann and N. Phillips (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 271-289.
- Ozaki, R., Shaw, I. and Dodgson, M. (2013) ‘The co-production of “sustainability”: negotiated practices and the Prius’, Science, Technology and Human Values, 38(4), 518-540.
- Shaw, I. and Ozaki, R. (2013), ‘Energy provision and housing development: re-thinking professional and technological relations’, Energy Policy, 60, 427-430.
- Ozaki, R., Shaw, I. and Dodgson, M. (2013), ‘The negotiated consumption of sustainability’, Scandinavian Journal of Management, 29(2), 194-202.
- Ozaki, R. and Shaw, I. (2013) ‘Close encounters of the third kind: social housing residents and new technologies for sustainability’, Environment and Planning A, 45(2), 238-243.
- Ozaki, R. and Sevastyanova, K. (2011) ‘Going hybrid: An analysis of consumer purchase motivations’, Energy Policy, 39, 2217-2227.
- Ozaki, R. (2011) ‘Green electricity tariffs: Why do consumers adopt?’, European Business Review, March-April 2011, 10-13.
- Ozaki, R. (2011) ‘Adopting sustainable innovation: what makes consumers sign up to green electricity?’, Business Strategy and the Environment, 20, 1-17.
- Ozaki, R. and Dodgson, M. (2010) ‘Adopting and consuming innovation’, Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation, 28(4), 1-16.
- Pickett-Barker, J. and Ozaki, R. (2008) ‘Pro-environmental products: marketing influence on consumer purchase decision’, Journal of Consumer Marketing, 25(5), 281-293.
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Other publications
- Progress on ‘GDP and beyond’ actions, European Commission Staff Working Document, 2 August 2013 (See also the report annexes.)
- Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe, Communication From The Commission To The European Parliament, The Council, The European Economic And Social Committee And The Committee Of The Regions, 20 September 2011
- Chassais, O., Tukker, A., Markandya, A., Barton, D., Brouwer, R., Porsch, L., Bosello, F., Perry, I. (2011): Interdepartmental Coordination Group on ‘GDP and beyond’ - Seminar on ‘Evidence and decision making’ – 10 May 2011, Position paper of DG Research and Innovation (restricted)
- Chassais, O. (2010), conference report on Research on Sustainable Development Indicators: Taking Stock of Results and Identification of Research Needs, Luxembourg, 30 September 2009
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Research project
November 2014 to April 2015Energy Options for Transport (secondment to Energy Research Partnership)
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Other publications available for download
The Future of Rural Railways (1981)
The Social Consequences of Rail Closures (1980)
Transport Realities and Planning Policy (1976)
Personal Mobility and Transport Policy (1973)
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Professional affiliations:
- Econometrics Society
- American Economist's Association
- Royal Economic Society
- Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
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other publications
A Zero Waste UK (IPPR/Green Alliance)
Return to Sender: product policy and producer responsibility
Creative Policy Packages for waste: Lessons for the UK
Signed, Sealed and Delivered? The Role of Negotiated Agreements in the UK
Negotiated Agreements: Best Practice Checklist
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Recent publications include:
- Rickinson, M. (2007) 'Researching and understanding environmental learning: hopes for the next ten years', In: Reid, A. & Scott, W. (Eds) Researching Education and the Environment: Retrospect and Prospect. Routledge: London
- Morris, A., Percy-Smith, J. & Rickinson, M. (2007) Practitioners & Evidence: Designing research and development to influence practice. CfBT: Reading.
- Rickinson, M. (2007) 'How might we enhance the role of research in the development of Education for Sustainable Development?', In: Drivers and Barriers for Implementing Learning for Sustainable Development (UNESCO, 2007)
- Prosser, M., Rickinson, M., Bence, V., Hanbury, A. & Kulej, M. (2006). Formative Evaluation of Accredited Programmes [online]. Available here [6 June 2006]
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Extended biography
Gabriel has worked in teaching, educational research, local arts development and community development. He has carried out pioneering European research on the role of local citizen organisations, including the first EU-wide study of community involvement in regeneration (Out of the Shadows: Local Community Action and the European Community, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 1992; Community Involvement in Urban Regeneration: Added Value and Changing Values, European Commission Regional Studies 27, 1997).
In 2002 he carried out a study of Measures of Community for the Home Office, and in 2003 a study of community involvement in urban policy for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (Searching for Solid Foundations: Community Involvement and Urban Policy, ODPM, Sept 03).
Much of Gabriel's work has focused on creating evaluation frameworks for work carried out in local communities in order to move the community development profession onto a more objective, evidence-led basis. The local government framework for 2008-11 opens a new chapter in the relationship between community work and mainstream social issues. This will furnish a wealth of new data with the potential to reveal how local community projects do or don't affect health, education, housing, employability, social cohesion, equality and the overcoming of poverty and crime. Gabriel is currently exploring the formulation of guidance and advice to local authorities and their partners on how best to use the new framework to integrate community involvement with their other responsibilities.
Publications include
The Community Development Challenge. London : Department of Communities and Local Government, 2006
‘Whatever happened to social Europe?’ (Edited and introduced). London: ACED (Active Communities and European Development) 2006. Available from CDF and Community Service Volunteers.
Measures of Community. London : Home Office/Community Development Foundation, 2004
Searching for Solid Foundations. London : Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2003.
Community Involvement: The Roots of Renaissance. London : ODPM, 2002
Local Community Involvement, a Guide to Good Practice. Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 1999.
'Employment policy and the social economy: promise and misconceptions'. Local Economy, Feb 1999 [Winner of first Sam Aaronovitch memorial prize, 2000].
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Talks and conference sessions
- Talk on Cancun Climate Change Agreement to the Commonwealth Partnership on Technology Management, 13 December 2010
Watch the webcast - Innovation and Sustainability session at 2010 SDRN Conference (chair)
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Previous publications and presentations
Piterou, A., Shackley, S. and Upham. P (2008): Project ARBRE: Lessons for bioenergy developers and policy makers, Energy Policy,36,6,2044-2050
Piterou, A. & Steward, F. (2008): Emerging Sustainable Innovation networks and the print on paper sociotechnical regime, SCORE conference, Brussels
Piterou, A. (2008): Emerging Innovation Networks and the print on paper sociotechnical regime,4 th UK Social Networks Conference, Greenwich university
Piterou, A. & Steward, F. (2008) The emergent e-book innovation network and the print-on- paper sociotechnical regime, 4S&EASST Conference, Rotterdam
