Experts

Matthew Clancy is currently faculty in the department of economics at Iowa State University and formerly a research economist at the US Department of Agriculture, where he specialized in science policy. He has published research on innovation, especially agricultural innovation, and remote work.

Ken is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and an IZA Research Fellow. He is a member of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity and sits on the School Teachers’ Review Body.  His research mainly uses large data sets and econometric techniques to investigate the labour market outcomes of ethnic minority and immigrant groups in the UK, focusing on self-employment and earnings.  His work has been published in a range of academic and policy outlets.

Andrew Clark’s work uses satisfaction scores, and other psychological indices, as proxy measures of utility. His research has covered relative utility or comparisons (to others like you, to your partner etc.), and the use of long-run panel data to model adaptation to life events (such as unemployment, marriage, and divorce). Recent work on birth-cohort data has analysed the influence of family background and childhood events on adult outcomes (including adult subjective well-being).

Paula Clarke is a cognitive developmental psychologist working as an Associate Professor in the field of education. Her research is primarily on the development and evaluation of school-based interventions to support the reading and language skills of Key Stage 2 and 3 pupils. She also has expertise in the assessment of reading and language skills, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and the development of continued professional development training for Teaching Assistants.

Joanna is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Bath. Her research interests are in labour and gender economics, migration and economics of education. She is also a member of Dobrobyt na pokolenia – group of Polish economists providing expert commentaries to economic and political events, based on academic research.

Jo is a Professor in the Economics of Health and Care at the University of Bristol. Her research interests lie in the theory underlying economic evaluation (including capability), developing broader measures of outcome for use in economic evaluation (including measures of capability, particularly the ICECAP suite of measures), health care decision making, the economics of antimicrobial resistance and the organisation of care, particularly end of life care. She currently holds a Wellcome