Social Market Fountaion

At this ESRC sponsored Chalk + Talk session Professor Rachel Gibson will review findings on whether online campaigning methods work and how their effectiveness compares with more traditional GOTV (get out the vote) efforts.

Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the APPG on Inclusive Growth, the Social Market Foundation and Policy Network are delighted to invite you to this keynote address by Angel Gurría.

Join us for the launch of a major new report with Health Minister Norman Lamb MP. The report explores ways in which the next government can carry out the integration, and proper funding, of health and social care services.

Join us for the launch of a new report on the winners and losers of the 2008 recession.

At the next Chalk + Talk, Professor Le Grand will explore issues around ‘outsourcing’ and privatisation in the delivery of public services, considering the roles of for-profits, non-profits and mutuals.

This event sees the launch of a report exploring how policymakers can help low income households extract value from consumer markets with Alison McGovern MP, Shadow Minister for Children and Families.

Dr Claire Crawford of the University of Warwick and IFS will discuss Socio-economic differences in university participation.

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

Social Market Foundation launches a new report exploring household saving behaviour.

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.

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=.

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.

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.

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.

The Social Market Foundation’s Liberal Democrat Conference Fringe Programme

The Social Market Foundation’s Conservative Conference Fringe Programme

The Social Market Foundation’s 2014 Manchester Fringe Programme

We are delighted to welcome Professor Alison Wolf CBE to discuss the issue of gender in British political and economic life.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Charlie Jeffery to discuss Scottish independence on Thursday 21 August, 12:30-1:30pm.

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.

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.

A Keynote Address at the SMF by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills the Rt Hon Vince Cable MP

Professor Patrick Dunleavy, LSE, will discuss ways of increasing productivity in public services

Launch of ‘The Meritocrat’s Manifesto’ by Dominic Raab MP. Raab will debate The Guardian’s Aditya Chakrabortty.

Policy roundtable with CAGE Warwick on the role of enterprise in development.

This Chalk + Talk summarises recent quantitative research on neighbours, peers and educational achievement