Institute for Policy Research central team
We carry out public policy research, deliver programmes for policymakers, practitioners, researchers and postgraduates, 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 Visiting Fellows.
Central team
- Professor Nick Pearce, IPR Director
- Dr Geoff Bates, Research Associate
- Dr Leda Blackwood, Lecturer
- Dr Iulia Cioroianu , Prize Fellow
- Professor James Copestake, Director of Studies for Professional Doctorate
- Dr Matt Dickson, Reader in Public Policy
- Dr Aida Garcia-Lazaro, Research Associate
- Dr Rita Griffiths, Research Fellow
- Dr Charlie Larkin, Director of Research
- Dr Predrag Lažetić, Prize Fellow
- Dr Luke Martinelli, Research Associate
- Dr Thomais Massala, Research Associate
- Professor Jane Millar, Professor of Social Policy
- Sophie O'Brien, Events and Communications Officer
- Amy Thompson, Head of Policy Programmes and Communications
- Claudia Torres Cervantes, IPR Co-ordinator
- Marsha Wood, Research Assistant
PhD students
- 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
- Sooksiri Chamsuk, Carbon emission reduction and well-being: Unravelling greenhouse gas emission reduction, carbon finance, and development in Asia
- Jeff Farrar, The Incentives and Disincentive in Adopting a System Wide Approach to Cross Public Sector Challenges
- Andrew Fyfe, From billions to trillions? An assessment of the evaluability of multi-lateral agencies’ claims to crowd in the private sector to support financing the SDGs in low income countries
- 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 and Pakistan
Theses titles are as follows: