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Director Emran Mian sets out the Social Market Foundation's approach to the EU referendum and the campaign.

The Social Market Foundation’s (SMF) Commission on Inequality in Education is an independent, cross-party initiative which is examining the causes and effects of inequality in education at primary and secondary levels in England and Wales. The commission is chaired by Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP.

Speech by Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP to launch the Social Market Foundation's Commission on Inequality in Education on 12 January 2016. Check against delivery.

On 6 January 2014 Amanda Wolthuizen will join the Social Market Foundation as Media and External Affairs Manager, taking over from Leonora Merry who leaves the SMF this month to join health think tank the Nuffield Trust.

With manifestos on everyone’s minds at the party conferences this year, our quest for catchy policy ideas has been a leitmotif of the SMF’s conference activity.

This week was panning out to be a fairly typical one in my job managing the SMF's external affairs. I certainly didn't expect to be debating with another think tank - the Centre for Policy Studies - whether SMF is 'left of centre' or not.

On 10 July the SMF hosted Andy Burnham and Stephen Dorrell to debate how Government can integrate health and social care. This page contains multimedia from the event, including audio clips, tweets and photographs.

The Social Market Foundation has appointed Emran Mian to take over as Director when Ian Mulheirn leaves the think tank in August.

Last Friday Leonora Merry convened a gathering of think tank staff in person at the ODI and online via social media for the Social Market Foundation events The Future of Think Tank Communications. Unlike most SMF eventss this one wasn’t about a new research paper or p