Experts

Dr Daisy Fancourt is Associate Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology and a Wellcome Research Fellow at University College London. Her work focuses on the effects of social, cultural and community engagement on health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Daisy is leading a team running the UK’s largest study into the psychological and social impact of the virus and is leading the COVID-MINDS Network: an international network of over 140 longitudinal studies exploring the global mental health

Cathy Farmer is a freelance journalist. She has communicated the impact of education in the UK and around the world alongside senior academics and education researchers. She also works in the charity sector, and was a BBC News producer, having worked on numerous UK and global stories.

Christine joined the IFS in 2015 in the Education and Skills sector. Her work focuses on early intervention, child development, and programme evaluation. Current projects include assessing the impact Sure Start has on children’s health outcomes, piloting an early intervention programme in Peterborough, and modelling the relationship between parental labour supply, childcare choices, and child development.

Graham Farrell is professor of crime science at the School of Law, University of Leeds. He previously worked at Oxford University, the United Nations (in Vienna, Austria), at universities in Canada (Simon Fraser) and the US (Rutgers, Cincinnati) and as deputy research director at the Police Foundation in Washington DC. His research has been funded by the ESRC, the EPSRC, the EU, the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council and others. He has worked as a consultant to the United

Dr Mark Farrell is a UK qualified Actuary (FIA) and Senior Lecturer in Actuarial Science at The Management School, Queen’s University Belfast. Mark’s research interests include Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Insurance Technology (Insurtech). Mark is also a Fulbright Scholar and blogs on technologies affecting the actuarial profession at ProActuary.com.

Mohammad R. Farzanegan is Professor of Economics of the Middle East. He has several published or forthcoming articles on economic sanctions, the political economy of COVID-19, and the political economy of oil rents and conflict. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in several prestigious journals including European Journal of Political Economy, Empirical Economics, World Economy, Defence and Peace Economics, Economics & Politics, Scientific Reports, & Energy Economics, among others.