Public Engagement
2025 BBC Breakfast, invited to comment on the March Spring Budget statement of the Government
Youth Unemployment
2025 Invited to contribute to the Roundtable on Youth Outcomes, held by Sheffield Policy Campus, in collaboration with Department for Education, Department for Work and pensions, and South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
2022 Ethnic differences in early labour market outcomes of women. https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/ethnic-differences-early-labour-market-outcomes-women
2022 Work with Doncaster council on youth unemployment and job vacancies
2021 ‘Racial differences in school to work transitions.’ Presentation for the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences: https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/transitioning-from-school-work
2021 Evidence to the House of Lords Committee on Youth Unemployment: https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2482/html/
Child Poverty
My work on Child Poverty, especially Persistent Child Poverty and Multidimensional Child Poverty have had a high impact and have received considerable media coverage.
In particular my paper: ‘Persistent poverty and children’s cognitive development: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study’ has featured in the government’s 2012 consultation document on child poverty. Recently (May 2015) the Office of National Statistics cited my paper as a key paper establishing the negative impact of persistent poverty on the cognitive development of children, especially in the early years of their lives. The findings have been cited by leading charities like the Child Poverty Action Group and the National Children’s Bureau; and covered by leading national newspapers (for example, Guardian). The findings were also cited by the British Psychological Society and described as of key interest to the policy makers.