Personal statement
Emma Congreve is a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute, leading the Institute’s work on poverty, inequality and inclusive growth.
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.
Research interests
Issues affecting low income households including social security & low pay
Inclusive growth and 'wellbeing' policy
Modelling of household incomes
Labour market
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 - ITV Border
- Interviewee
- 24/1/2022
- Interview for Broadcast Media - BBC Radio
- Interviewee
- 24/1/2022
More professional activities
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
- SLF Child Poverty
- Congreve, Emma (Principal Investigator)
- 02-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2022
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