Sophia Parker

Resolution Foundation Research Associate

Sophia is currently based at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she is a Research Associate. Until September 2010 she was Acting Director of the Resolution Foundation, having joined the Foundation in May 2009 as Research and Policy Director. Before that, she worked with Kent County Council to set up their unique Social Innovation Lab, where she published Just Coping: a new perspective on low income families. Previously, Sophia was deputy director of thinktank Demos, leading their work on public service reform and families. She has also worked as a civil servant at the Women and Equality Unit. Sophia is a committee member of the Fabian Women’s Network, and an associate at ESRO, an ethnographic research agency.

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Sue Regan

Trustee and Former Chief Executive

Sue Regan was Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation from December 2005 to january 2010. Sue currently lives in Australia, is a trustee of the Foundation and regularly contributes to our blog.

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Donald Hirsch

Donald is an independent consultant and writer on social policy. He works as Head of Income Studies for the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University.

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Lane Kenworthy

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Mike Brewer & Liam Wren-Lewis

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Professor Jane Waldfogel & Elizabeth Washbrook

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Professor John Van Reenen

Professor Van Reenen's interests lie in the impact of innovation on jobs, skills, wages and productivity. He also works in the areas of labour markets, competition policy, industrial economics, health systems and econometrics.

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Craig Holmes and Ken Mayhew

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Steven Roberts

Dr Steven Roberts is a lecturer in the Education School at the University of Southampton. After five years in various management positions in the retail sector, he undertook his first degree in Industrial Relations/ Human Resource Management and Social Policy at the University of Kent. He was then awarded a fully funded ESRC 1 + 3 studentship to undertake his MA in Research Methods and a subsequent PhD in Social Policy. His PhD was an in-depth qualitative analysis of the transition to adulthood of ordinary and often overlooked young people. With the broad notion of youth transitions still serving as a significant influence, his current primary research interests include work based learning provision in the service sector and the experience of non-traditional students in Higher Education.

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Alan Manning

Professor Alan Manning is Head of the Economics Department at the London School of Economics where he has taught since 1989. He is one of the UK’s leading labour market economists and has published widely on the impacts of the minimum wage, monopsony, immigration and technological change on wages and employment.

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Paolo Lucchino and Salvatore Morelli

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