Experts

Janine joined the Macro modelling and Forecasting team at NIESR in 2018 as an Economist. Her responsibilities include forecasting key macroeonomic variables for a variety of developing and emerging market economies during the quarterly forecast round. With a background in monetary policy and central banking, she is ideally placed to conduct NIESR’s inflation analysis, published monthly on the Institute’s website. Janine’s interest in big data and quantitative methods led to her involvement

Steven’s research uses microeconomic theory and controlled laboratory experiments to investigate how context, motivation and the social environment influence human cooperation. His published work has specifically examined how uncertainty about intentions can frustrate coordinated shifts to better practices, how the distribution of prosocial dispositions in society hinges on the prevalence of environments in which people are forced to compete, and how to think about the consequences of

Stefan Bouzarovski is a an internationally leading expert in energy poverty and sustainability policy, having written over 120 scientific publications on these topics. He has more than 25 years of experience in inequality measurement, identification, socio-demographics, as well as best-practice policy development and evaluation. He has provided expert advice to multiple government agencies, European Parliament, European Commission, United Nations, World Bank and International Energy Agency.

Samuel Bowles, (PhD, Economics, Harvard University) heads the Behavioural Sciences Programme at the Santa Fe Institute. Bowles’ research includes theoretical and empirical studies of political hierarchy and wealth inequality and their evolution over the very long run. Recent books are The Moral Economy:  Why good laws are no substitute for good citizens (2016) and A Cooperative Species: Human reciprocity and its evolution (with Herbert Gintis, 2011). With CORE he has produced a new free

Claudine Bowyer-Crane is a psychologist with a background in children’s language and reading development. She has particular expertise in developing and evaluating early interventions for children’s language and literacy development, as well as the development of literacy skills in children with English as an Additional Language.

Mike Brewer’s research has covered aspects of inequality in income and wealth, including the role of the labour market and the impact of personal taxes and the social security system. He also has a long background in using microsimulation methods. He is the author of a book, What Do We Know And What Should We Do About Inequality?, published by SAGE in 2019