This event sees the launch of a report exploring how policymakers can help low income households extract value from consumer markets.
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Chalk + Talk with Claire Crawford – The University Challenge: Social Mobility and Higher Education
Dr Claire Crawford of the University of Warwick and IFS will discuss Socio-economic differences in university participation.
Chalk + Talk: Britain and the EU
Professor Anand Menon of King’s College London will discuss Britain’s strained relationship with the EU at our latest ESRC sponsored Chalk + Talk session
Savings in the Balance
Social Market Foundation launches a new report exploring household saving behaviour.
Unlocking Development
Join us for a reception to launch Unlocking Development, a new publication from the University of Warwick’s Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) in association with the Social Market Foundation.
Good Culture in Financial Services: Does the Model Matter?
Please join us for the launch of a new Social Market Foundation publication ‘Good Culture in Financial Services: Does the Model Matter?’, kindly supported by LV=.
Chalk + Talk with Professor Eric Kaufmann – The White British Response to Ethnic Change: UKIP, White Flight or Integration?
Join us for the next in the ESRC sponsored Chalk + Talk series with Eric Kaufmann author of a recently-released report ‘The White British Response to Ethnic Change: UKIP, White Flight or Integration?
Chalk + Talk with Professor Bridget Anderson: Who is the migrant and why are we worried?
Please join us for the next in the ESRC sponsored Chalk + Talk series with Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director at COMPAS, University of Oxford.
Institutional Corruption? The revolving door in American and British Politics
The first of a new series of events we are running in association with the University of Warwick’s Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, CAGE.
Party Conferences 2014
Our 2014 fringe programme will seek to tackle issues from our key research priorities: increasing productivity; changing financial services; tackling the cost of living; and, reforming public services. See a full list of our activity across the three conferences.
Liberal Democrat Party Conference 2014
The Social Market Foundation’s Liberal Democrat Conference Fringe Programme
Conservative Party Conference 2014
The Social Market Foundation’s Conservative Conference Fringe Programme
Labour Party Conference 2014
The Social Market Foundation’s 2014 Manchester Fringe Programme
Chalk + Talk with Professor Alison Wolf: The XX Factor – How 70 million professional women are transforming societies
We are delighted to welcome Professor Alison Wolf CBE to discuss the issue of gender in British political and economic life.
Chalk + Talk with Professor Charlie Jeffery: The state of the Scottish debate
We are delighted to welcome Professor Charlie Jeffery to discuss Scottish independence on Thursday 21 August, 12:30-1:30pm.
Venturing Forth: Increasing High Value Entrepreneurship
Launch of a new SMF report which sets out the links between entrepreneurial activity and growth; and address the barriers holding back those with the most potential.
SMF Summer Reception: What’s next for the radical centre?
The SMF Summer Reception is bringing together the voices of the radical centre (our term, not theirs) for a shared discussion about the big issues lying beneath public service reform.
SMF Keynote: Rt Hon Vince Cable MP
A Keynote Address at the SMF by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills the Rt Hon Vince Cable MP
Chalk + Talk with Professor Patrick Dunleavy
Professor Patrick Dunleavy, LSE, will discuss ways of increasing productivity in public services
The Meritocrat’s Manifesto with Dominic Raab MP
Launch of ‘The Meritocrat’s Manifesto’ by Dominic Raab MP. Raab will debate The Guardian’s Aditya Chakrabortty.
Unlocking Development: The role of enterprise
Policy roundtable with CAGE Warwick on the role of enterprise in development.
Chalk + Talk with Professor Stephen Gibbons
This Chalk + Talk summarises recent quantitative research on neighbours, peers and educational achievement
Making progress: boosting the skills and wage prospects of the low paid
Launch of a new SMF report looking at in-work progression.
Riders on the Storm: Britain’s middle income households since 2007
Launch of a new report examining the UK’s middle income households since 2007
Chalk + Talk with Professor Dieter Helm CBE
Professor Dieter Helm will discuss what’s next for UK energy policy.
How can we tackle in-work poverty?
This roundtable will ask if tax, wage subsidies & minimum wages are the right tools to tackle in-work poverty
Branching Out: The evolution of retail banking
Launch of new SMF report on the future of banking
Chalk + Talk with Professor Karen Rowlingson
Professor Karen Rowlingson will discuss the role of wealth in inequality.
Public spending in tough times: Labour’s Zero-Based Review with Chris Leslie MP
Keynote speech from Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Chris Leslie MP
The power of patient data: how information can transform the NHS’s capacity for innovation
George Freeman MP will discuss the revolutionary potential of data in healthcare.
Priced out: tackling the problems of housing and in-work poverty
This roundtable discussion will explore in-work poverty, affordable housing and housing supply.
Schools United: Ending the Divide Between Independent and State
At this events Dr Anthony Seldon will launch his latest SMF pamphlet on the UK’s educational divide
Whole Person Care with Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP
Health and Social Care policy dinner with Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP. By invitation only.
Child poverty: Does throwing money at the problem work?
As part of JRF’s 2015 anti-poverty strategy, this events will discuss child poverty and social mobility.
Chalk + Talk with Professor John Kay
Leading economist Professor John Kay will discuss the economic challenges facing an independent Scotland.
Chalk + Talk with Professor Sascha Becker
Professor Sascha Becker discusses whether EU Structural Funds have positive growth effects.
The legacy of the Robbins Report and the Future of Higher Education
The launch of a pamphlet by Universities Minister David Willetts MP.
Chalk + Talk with Professor Stephen Roper
Professor Stephen Roper discusses support for a UK mid-market growth as a policy opportunity.
Chalk + Talk with Professor Charles Goodhart CBE
Professor Charles Goodhart CBE, LSE, gives a prognosis for the eurozone and European Banking Union.
The Single Local Growth Fund: A great LEP forward?
The third in a series of three roundtable discussions on the Single Local Growth Fund.