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

Learning Disability Data : Looking Beyond Scotland: Jack David, Crummey Ciara, Congreve Emma, McFadyen Chirsty, Watts Rob; (2023)
Data on the Lives of People with Learning Disabilities in Scotland : Short Term Actions for Change: Jack David, Crummey Ciara, Congreve Emma, McFadyen Chirsty, Watts Rob; (2023)
Evaluation of the Commission on Social Security's Plan : Cost, Funding, and Wider Impact: Randolph Hannah L, Congreve Emma, Connolly Kevin, Crummey Ciara; (2023)
Economic Commentary [February 2023]: Spowage Mairi, Watts Rob, Catalano Allison, Crummey Ciara, Cooper Ben, Randolph Hannah, Congreve Emma; Fraser of Allander Economic Commentary Vol 46, pp. 1-35 (2023)
The impact of using an income supplement to meet child poverty targets : evidence from Scotland: Congreve Emma, Connolly Kevin, Harrison Jordan, Kumar Ashwin, McGregor Peter G, Mitchell Mark; Journal of Social Policy, pp. 1-17 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000927
Scotland's Budget Report 2022: , Eiser David, Spowage Mairi, 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

Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on household income: Contributor; 16/11/2022
The rationale for employability support: Contributor; 22/10/2022
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

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Projects

ReWage subgroup: analysis of hospitality labour market data: Congreve, Emma (Principal Investigator); 15-Jan-2022 - 28-Jan-2023
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 - 31-Jan-2023
Partners in Change - Robertson Trust: Davidson, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Congreve, Emma (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2024

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Address

Economics
Duncan Wing

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