Institute for Policy Research Central team
We undertake and enable policy-relevant research, deliver programmes for policymakers, researchers and practitioners and run high-profile public events.
We undertake and enable policy-relevant research to make an impact, especially through building links with the worlds of policy and practice as well as by increasing public understanding of policy research through our Public Lecture and Publications series.
We run the Policy Fellowship Programme, Professional Doctorate, and Visiting Fellows and Visiting Policy Fellows schemes.
Read more about our Advisory Board members and Academic and Policy Fellow visitors.
Central team
Professor Nick Pearce, IPR Director
Professor Julie Barnett, Professor of Health Psychology
Dr Iulia Cioroianu , Prize Fellow
Professor James Copestake, Director of Studies for Professional Doctorate
Dr Matt Dickson, Reader in Public Policy
Research Programme Lead - vacant
Dr Rita Griffiths, Research Fellow
Dr Predrag Lažetić, Prize Fellow
Jessica Lloyd-Evans, Research Assistant
Dr Luke Martinelli, Research Associate
Professor Jane Millar, Professor of Social Policy
Amy Thompson, Head of Policy Programmes and Communications
Claudia Torres Cervantes, IPR Co-ordinator
Professor Chick Wilson, Professor of Physical Chemistry
Sophie Wise, Marketing and Communications Assistant
Marsha Wood, Research Assistant
PhD students
- Emily Rempel, Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate
- Joan Abbas, PhD Candidate
- Xinyan Cheng, PhD Candidate
- Joe Chrisp, PhD Candidate
- David Young, PhD Candidate
- Jane Mackay, PhD Candidate
- Seren Essex, PhD Candidate
- Levana Magnus, PhD Candidate
Professional Doctorate students in their thesis stage
- Jeff Farrar, Collective performance management of UK public services: necessary or feasible?
- Andrew Fyfe, Aspiring towards additionality: assessing the plausibility of multilateral agencies’ efforts to attract private sector financing of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Sue Godt, Global governance and private foreign investment in low income country health and education services
- Njahira Karanja, The blockchain and management of juveniles in Kenya’s criminal justice system
- Ali Salman, Digital economy transformation and policy in Malaysia
Theses titles are as follows: