Experts

William is currently a postdoctoral researcher based in the Cathie Marsh Institute (CMI) and a staff member in the Department of Sociology. He is currently working on an ESRC project entitled ‘Together and Apart: the Dynamics of Ethnic Diversity, Segregation and Social Cohesion among Young People and Adults’ with Dr James Laurence. William is also a UK Data Service Impact Fellow and a recipient of the ESRC Baltic Scholarship (University of Riga). William completed his PhD in Sociology with a

Professor Mike Sharland is a global expert in antimicrobial prescribing, resistance and healthcare associated infection in children, conducting strategic trials to inform policy.

Sharot is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. Her research focuses on how emotion, motivation and social factors influence our expectations, decisions and beliefs. Her papers have been published in top scientific journals including Nature, Science and Nature Neuroscience. Dr. Sharot is the author of The Optimism Bias (2011) and The Influential Mind (2017), both of which received the British Psychological Society Book Award. She has written essays for the popular press that have been published

Moses Shayo studies the political economy of redistribution, nationalism, conflict, and international integration; the social and political implications of participation in financial markets; and consumer behavior. One of his major contributions to these areas has been analysing how and to what extent they are shaped by social identity. His work combines empirical studies of the determinants and implications of social identity, with a theoretical framework in which both identities and individual

Nihar is an economist at the Health Foundation and works primarily on labour market issues in health and social care. Previously, he worked as a labour market economist at HM Treasury, where he undertook research on minimum wage policy. Nihar also has prior experience in quantitative and qualitative research at Ofgem and ICF Consulting. His areas of expertise include labour economics, development economics and international trade.

Will Shepherd is a research assistant at the Centre for Economic Performance. He joins following four years working at the Office for National Statistics as part of the Government Economic Service Degree Apprenticeship. At the ONS he specialised in microdata research, developing and analysing datasets on topics such as business dynamism, international trade and graduate mobility. He holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Kent. Current areas of research include: Business dynamism and