Experts

Pawel is a Research Economist analysing structural issues at the Bank of England. His research interests include analysing effects of economic uncertainty and factors driving corporate decisions, in particular investment and cash holding decisions. Pawel specialises in analysing firm-level and survey data. He is part of the team that developed the Decision Maker Panel with academics from Stanford and Nottingham University. The panel is the largest timely source of firm-level data in the UK.

Kevin T. Smiley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Louisiana State University. Dr. Smiley is an environmental and urban social scientist who focuses on disaster vulnerability and resilience from an environmental justice perspective. This work on disasters often centres on analysing race, climate change, spatial inequalities, health, and social capital. Smiley is also the author of Market Cities, People Cities (NYU Press 2018).

Kate is an Associate Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a PhD student at the Department of Economics, University College London. Her research interests span public economics, household finance and empirical industrial organisation. She has published research on the effectiveness of public policy in retail markets and on how to tax small businesses.

Sarah Smith is Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. Her research interests are in public policy, including gender and charitable giving/ pro-social behaviour. She is looking at the impact of COVID19 on the allocation of childcare and analysing expert economist views on COVID19. She set up a COVID-economics blog targeted at 6th formers wanting a taste of economics.

Professor Maggie Snowling is President of St. John’s College and Professor of Psychology, University of Oxford. She is also professionally qualified as a clinical psychologist. Her research on children’s reading and language is at the interface of psychology and education. In Oxford, she has served as Chair of the Admissions Committee (2018-2020) and in this role steered the development of major Access initiatives.

Lisa Spantig is a lecturer in economics at the University of Essex and a CESifo research affiliate. She is an applied microeconomist who works on topics at the intersection of behavioural and development economics, with a focus on norms and information. For her research, she teams up with NGOs and companies to collect experimental, survey, and administrative data, or uses large-scale secondary survey data.