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
- Professor Julie Barnett, Professor of Health Psychology
- 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
- Jessica Lloyd-Evans, Research Assistant
- Dr Luke Martinelli, Research Associate
- Thomais Massala, 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 O'Brien, Marketing and Communications Assistant
- 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
- 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: