Experts

Alex has an established reputation as a leading voice in national conversations relating to masculinity, education, inequality and access to Higher Education. Since completing his doctoral research which focused inequality and access to university for white working-class boys in the West Midlands in 2020, he has been a regular speaker at national conferences of the British Sociological Association, British Educational Research Association, Forum for Access and Continuation, and Higher Education

Jack Blundell is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Stanford University. His academic research covers intergenerational mobility, income volatility and the effectiveness of government policies surrounding the gender pay gap. He has written on the impact of economic downturns on different types of workers, with a special focus on the self-employed in the current crisis.

David Bogle is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast and is a Research Student at the Queen’s University Centre for Economic History. His research focuses on the evolution of insurance, regulation and financial markets.

Bee is a Research Economist in the Retirement, Saving, and Ageing sector at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Her recent research has included analysing the increase in rates of economic inactivity for older people during the Covid-19 pandemic, documenting financial transfers (gifts and loans) between generations, and examining public sector pay and pension provision.

Michele Boldrin is the Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences in the Department of Economics at Washington University in St Louis. His research  focuses on the theory and application of Dynamic General Equilibrium models. He has written on economic growth, business cycles, asset pricing, the welfare system, innovation theory and technological progress, search theory, the labour market, intellectual property, fertility, and international trade.

Dr Diane Bolet is a political scientist and comparativist, specialised in voting behaviour, far-right politics and climate politics in Europe. She is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po Paris. She hold a PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where she investigated how local context shapes voting preferences for the radical right in European countries.