Experts

Susan Harkness is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Poverty and Social Justice at the University of Bristol. She is co-Investigator of the ESRC research centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC), where she leads the research programme on ‘Changing family life-courses and inequalities.’ Her research focusses on how gender and family structure relate to inequality and poverty. She has particular interests in maternal employment and single parents’ socio-economic circumstances.

Richard’s main research is on firm-level productivity, including its determinants (e.g., trade, investment, and innovation). As well as publishing widely in journals on the topic, he has undertaken extensive policy work for bodies like UKTI, UK regional governments, and the North East and Tees Valley LEPs. He is also a research associate of the New Zealand Productivity Commission.

Mark Harrison is a research associate of Warwick’s ESRC Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global. He works on the economics and politics of the two world wars, and of Russia under communism. His recent books include The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937-1939 (2018), and One Day We Will Live Without Fear: Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State (2016).

Mark Hart is Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Aston Business School, Associate Director of the Aston Centre for Growth, and is one of the Programme Directors and Academic Lead of the national Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme. A 2014 recipient of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion, he has played a national role in promoting enterprise skills and supporting entrepreneurs as well as advising government on small business and entrepreneurship matters.

Jonathan Haskel is an external committee member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of the England. He has a number of publications in academic Economics journals on productivity, growth and the intangible/knowledge economy, and his recent book is Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2018 for services to economics.

Chris Hatton is Professor of Social Care in the Department of Social Care and Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University, having previously worked at Lancaster University and the University of Manchester. His research is mainly with people with learning/intellectual disabilities, trying to document and understand the social and health inequalities that people experience, evaluating how people are supported, and working with others to use this knowledge to tackle these inequalities.