Experts

Stuart is a Professor in Economics at the University of Strathclyde and a Research Associate at the Office for National Statistics supported Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence. His primary research areas are in applied economics and econometrics, in particular as applied to regional and spatial economics, and policy evaluation. Recent projects include work to generate timelier and higher frequency estimates of regional economic growth in the UK and elsewhere (e.g. in the USA), and to analyse

Working in the field of refugee education with a focus on how we can improve the lives of those who are marginalized or disadvantaged in schools. Her research has considered the barriers/ opportunities schools face in supporting refugee children. Questions around inclusion and integration emerge as a notable concern in this research, around who is rendered visible/ invisible through policy and practice. Her book analysing good practice for refugee education is soon to be published by Routledge.

Alisdair McKay is a Senior Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. His research explores the implications of inequality for the business cycle and in particular how it shapes the effects of monetary and fiscal policy.  He received his PhD from Princeton University.

Padraig is a pre-doctoral research assistant at Queen’s University Belfast, where he works at the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH). He is interested in the lessons policymakers can learn from economic history, with a focus on infrastructure financing and public health.

Ross is a PhD Student at the University of Strathclyde. He is an applied microeconomist with a focus on the topic of migration. His current research is on the labour market impacts of migration in the UK. His research interests extend towards how migration relates to political and social outcomes in the short and long run.

I am a DPhil Economics student at the University of Oxford, specialising in macroeconomics and labour economics. My research focuses on the impact of household and firm heterogeneity with the labour market, and the implications of this for the transmission and design of policy in the context of business cycle models.