Rebecca leads the Work Foundation’s research programme on insecure work. She has expertise in precarity, social mobility and working conditions and applies cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysis to important research and policy questions.
Alongside her role at the Work Foundation, she is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary, University of London, conducting a study on the impact of precarious work on life course employment trajectories. Previously, she worked at Eurofound in
David works on sport and gambling. He has highly cited papers in sports economics on topics such as audience demand, managerial change, referee bias and player labour markets. He is active in anti-match fixing, working with unions, police, regulators and UEFA. His first gambling research was on lotteries but latterly he has published several studies of individual behaviour related to problem gambling. He is a member of the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling.
Rachel Forshaw is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. Working with Heriot-Watt’s Centre for Energy Economics Research and Policy, she contributes to BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy and Energy Outlook publications. Rachel’s main research interests lie in applied econometrics and data science with a focus on labour markets and inequality.
Jeffrey Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research interests include currencies, crises, commodities, international finance, international trade, monetary and fiscal policy, and global environmental issues. He co-directs the NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics and Harvard’s conference on Politics and Economics of
I have 22 publications in peer-reviewed journals on aspects of finance, economics and health. I have developed collaborative interdisciplinary research and have been successful in nine grant proposals. Current research projects include Work disability and the legacy of the Northern Irish Troubles ; Cost effectiveness of stratified medicine approaches to colorectal cancer and Time discounting as a mediator of the relationship between financial stress and health.
Eric French is the Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour Economics at the University of Cambridge, Co-director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and is a Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Centre for Economic Policy Research. French’s research interests include: household behavior over the lifecycle; the impact of government and private pensions on savings and labor supply; the impact of health
