Ms Emma Congreve
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Economics
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
- Hospitality Statistics Briefing, Q4 2023
- Fox Calum, Congreve Emma
- (2024)
- Hospitality Statistics Briefing, Q3 2023
- Fox Calum, Congreve Emma
- Hospitality Statistics Briefing Hospitality Statistics Briefing, Vol 1, No. 3 (2023)
- Modelling the council tax freeze in Scotland – a guide to the facts and figures
- Sousa João, Congreve Emma
- (2023)
- Social Care Innovation in Scotland
- Congreve Emma, Spowage Mairi, McGeoch Adam, Williamson Jack
- (2023)
- Understanding the Impact of the Transition to Net Zero on Low Paid Jobs
- Congreve Emma, Crummey Ciara, Anderson Pauline, Hannon Matthew, Oxby Josh
- (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00086721
- Finding a Voice, Taking Action : Using Action Learning Sets to Support Change in the Scottish Hospitality Industry
- Timbrell Helen, Fox Calum, Robertson Laura, Congreve Emma, McHardy Fiona, McFadyen Chirsty, Davidson Jennifer, Vaupel-Schwittay Helen, Catalano Allison, Hirvonen Anna
- (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00086712
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
- Poor but improving: economy slowly recovers in line with expectations
- Recipient
- 28/3/2024
- Spring Budget 2024 reaction
- Contributor
- 6/3/2024
- BBC Radio Good Morning Scotland
- Interviewee
- 19/12/2023
- Channel 4 news
- Interviewee
- 19/12/2023
- Weekly update: Social security in an independent Scotland and the implications of the changes to immigration policy
- Contributor
- 8/12/2023
- SUII - FROM COMPETITION TO COLLABORATION: THE INTERFACE BETWEEN INFORMAL AND FORMAL CARERS
- Participant
- 4/12/2023
Projects
- Policy Research Unit: Improving Health and Reducing Inequalities in Scotland
- Congreve, Emma (Principal Investigator) Smith, Kat (Co-investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Co-investigator)
- 12-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- Exploring the impact of the Scottish Child Payment on the need for food banks
- Randolph, Hannah (Principal Investigator) Congreve, Emma (Co-investigator) Lenhart, Otto (Co-investigator) Romiti, Agnese (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024
- FROM COMPETITION TO COLLABORATION: THE INTERFACE BETWEEN INFORMAL AND FORMAL CARERS
- Congreve, Emma (Co-investigator)
- 04-Jan-2023 - 03-Jan-2024
- Additional living costs for people with a learning disability
- Congreve, Emma (Principal Investigator) McFadyen, Chirsty (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Health Foundation - cohort analysis of socioeconomic drivers of drug deaths
- Congreve, Emma (Principal Investigator) Catalano, Allison (Co-investigator) Gillan, Brodie (Co-investigator)
- 13-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-2024
- Extra Costs of Disability
- Congreve, Emma (Principal Investigator) McFadyen, Chirsty (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 18-Jan-2024
Contact
Ms
Emma
Congreve
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Economics
Email: emma.j.congreve@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4921