Category Archives: Media Release

“Arguments in favour of rail nationalisation ignore the significant benefits derived since the introduction of rail franchising, including huge expansion in the number of passenger journeys and an upward trend...

“Theresa May is absolutely right to want to make markets fair, but there are risks that capping prices this way could have unfair consequences. “Energy companies will inevitably recoup the...

“This research highlights yet again that self-employment has torn a hole in the welfare safety net, and that hole is only getting bigger as the number of self-employed workers increases....

The research finds that although the FE and skills sector faces a series of challenges over the next two decades, it can seize the opportunity to play an even greater...

Kathryn Petrie, economist at the Social Market Foundation, commenting on Labour’s plan announced today to ban zero hours contracts said: “The majority people on zero hours contracts do not want...

Hike in hourly rate could push more workers into cheaper and less secure forms of employment New research, released today by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) think tank, warns that...

In our latest ESRC-sponsored Ask the Expert seminar, Professor Michael Oxley of the Cambridge Centre for Housing Planning Research (CCHPR) discussed the changing role of the private rented housing sector...

In our second ESRC-sponsored Ask The Expert seminar of the year, Professor Louise Arseneault of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King’s College London presented her research on...

Responding to the Budget, SMF research director Nigel Keohane said: “Since the financial crash, we’ve become accustomed to budgets dictating the tone and shape of political debate for months ahead....