Personal statement

Emma Congreve is a Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow and Deputy Director at the Fraser of Allander Institute. Emma's work at the Institute is focussed on policy analysis, covering a wide range of areas of social and economic policy.

Emma is an experienced economist and has previously held roles as a senior economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and as an economic adviser within the Scottish Government.

Her particular area of expertise is economic policy relating to low income households. She also has a background in a range of policy areas, including local government finance and environment and agricultural economic policy.

Publications

Annex B : Replicating the Costs Presented in the Independent Review of Adult Social Care: Congreve Emma, Cooper Benjamin, Crummey Ciara, Bucher Pauline; (2022)
Annex C : Financial Memorandum - National Care Service: Congreve Emma, Cooper Benjamin, Crummey Ciara, Bucher Pauline; (2022)
Annex A : Summary of Scottish Government Research and Analysis of the NCS: Congreve Emma, Cooper Benjamin, Crummey Ciara, Bucher Pauline; (2022)
Social Care Reform in Scotland : Context, Costs and Questions: Congreve Emma, Cooper Benjamin, Crummey Ciara, Bucher Pauline; (2022)
Modelling Packages to Meet Scotland's Child Poverty Targets : Scenarios, Benefits and Trade-offs: Congreve Emma, Kumar Ashwin, Harrison Jordan, Watts Rob, McGregor Peter, Connolly Kevin, McHardy Fiona, Cowan Neil; (2022)
Epilepsy and Employment : a Scoping Exercise for Epilepsy Scotland: Findlay Patricia, McQuarrie Johanna, Congreve Emma; (2022)

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Research interests

Issues affecting low income households including social security & low pay

Child poverty

Inclusive growth and 'wellbeing' policy

Modelling of household incomes

Labour market & employability

Disability (particularly Learning Disabilities)

Social Care

Policy appraisal and evaluation

Professional activities

Presentation to Prince's Trust employability leads: Recipient; 21/2/2022
Scottish Women's Budget Group: Participant; 11/2/2022
Scottish Parliament Education, Children and Young People Committee: Contributor; 9/2/2022
Witness at Scottish Parliament Equality, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee: Participant; 25/1/2022
Interview for Broadcast Media - BBC Radio: Interviewee; 24/1/2022
Interview for broadcast media - ITV Border: Interviewee; 24/1/2022

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Projects

Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on income: labour market changes and policy solutions: Congreve, Emma (Principal Investigator) Eiser, David (Co-investigator); 10-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
JRF: Partnership proposal: Congreve, Emma (Principal Investigator); Collaboartive project with stanadard short-form collaboratio agreement.; 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
Costing the New National Care System: Congreve, Emma (Principal Investigator) Connolly, Kevin (Co-investigator) Cooper, Benjamin (Co-investigator) Crummey, Ciara (Co-investigator); Collabaorative Project - Short form collaboration agreement; 31-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
Trends in Socio-Economic Determinants of Health Inequalities in Scotland: Eiser, David (Principal Investigator) Congreve, Emma (Co-investigator) Smith, Kat (Co-investigator) Spowage, Mairi (Co-investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Co-investigator); 10-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
Partners in Change - Robertson Trust: Davidson, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Congreve, Emma (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2024
Epilepsy and Employment: McQuarrie, Johanna (Co-investigator) Findlay, Patricia (Principal Investigator) Congreve, Emma (Co-investigator); 30-Jan-2021 - 14-Jan-2022

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Address

Economics
Duncan Wing

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