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.
University of Bristol
Sarah Smith
University of Oxford
Maggie Snowling
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.
University of Essex
Lisa Spantig
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.
University of Stirling
Leigh Sparks
Leigh Sparks is Professor of Retail Studies at the University of Stirling. I undertake research into spatial-structural change in retailing. My research has been funded by local authorities, governments, retail organisations and most of the research councils. I have published over 160 refereed journal articles and books. I have been an expert advisor to the Scottish Government on retail, town and place matters since 2012 and am currently chairing a review of the Town Centre Action Plan for
Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde
Mairi Spowage
Mairi Spowage is Deputy Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute. Areas of expertise include economic policy, regional economic statistics, and economic & fiscal forecasting.
Mairi leads on the Institute’s work with various partners, including those in business, the public and third sector.
Previously, she was Deputy Chief Executive of the Scottish Fiscal Commission and Head of National Accounts at the Scottish Government, and has 15 years of experience in different
Harvard University
Stefanie Stantcheva
Stefanie Stantcheva is a professor of Economics at Harvard University.
Her research focuses on how to improve the tax and transfer system for firms and individuals. She combines theory and empirics to study the effects of taxes and transfers on human capital, capital, migration, and innovation and how to incorporate these effects into our tax models. She also explores what drives people’s social preferences, attitudes, and perceptions using large-scale online surveys and
