Connor Stevens
7 September 2022
The cost of living crisis and its impact on low-income Londoners
This briefing note examines the scale of the crisis facing the London and the UK, and the disproportionate impact on low income households. It also explores a wider set of factors that affects people’s ability to cope with record price increases.
22 September 2021
Better Work Audit: Job quality in London over the last decade
The Better Work Audit builds on research on the quality of work in London. We examine public data on job quality in the capital, and how this compares to the UK trend.
19 February 2021
Making a market for the missing middle: Higher technical education
This research, commissioned by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, explores how a higher technical education offer with a focus on industry-specific skills, could help to address the needs of local people, local businesses and the local economy.
27 October 2020
Crisis in the capital
This report explores the impact of the coronavirus crisis on London’s labour market and low-paid Londoners. It sets out what could be done by central government and London local government to mitigate the impact of the crisis, and build back better.
26 August 2020
Better basic skills: Better business
These resources were developed as part of a project, supported by the Department for Education, which focused on engaging employers with Adult Education Budget basic skills provision.
30 July 2020
The impact of the coronavirus outbreak on London’s low paid workers
This paper presents early findings from research examining the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on low-paid workers in London. The findings are based on new analysis of labour market data and original polling.
1 October 2017
Evaluation of the Skills Escalator Pilot
This evaluation measures the impact of the West London Alliance Skills Escalator pilot – which aimed to support working people on low household incomes to gain better-paid and more stable employment through a programme of personalised advice and skills acquisition.
