Rebecca leads the Work Foundation’s research programme on insecure work. She has expertise in precarity, social mobility and working conditions and applies cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysis to important research and policy questions. Alongside her role at the Work Foundation, she is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary, University of London, conducting a study on the impact of precarious work on life course employment trajectories. Previously, she worked at Eurofound in Dublin.
The Work Foundation, at Lancaster University
Rebecca Florisson
University of Exeter
Helena Fornwagner
Dr Helena Fornwagner is a passionate Behavioural Economist at the University of Exeter. She conducts economic experiments to examine how (monetary) incentives impact individual behaviour. Her research generally focuses on the influence of gender and biological determinants, like one’s sex, on economic decision-making. She is experienced in communicating with non-academics and is committed to sharing scientific findings with the general public, which is integral to her professional mission.
University of Liverpool Management School
David Forrest
David works on sport and gambling. He has highly cited papers in sports economics on topics such as audience demand, managerial change, referee bias and player labour markets. He is active in anti-match fixing, working with unions, police, regulators and UEFA. His first gambling research was on lotteries but latterly he has published several studies of individual behaviour related to problem gambling. He is a member of the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling.
Heriot-Watt University
Rachel Forshaw
Rachel Forshaw is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. Working with Heriot-Watt’s Centre for Energy Economics Research and Policy, she contributes to BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy and Energy Outlook publications. Rachel’s main research interests lie in applied econometrics and data science with a focus on labour markets and inequality.
The Data City
Tom Forth
Tom Forth is co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) at TheDataCity.com. He is also Head of Data at ODILeeds and founder of imactivate – a data and software consultancy.
Harvard University
Jeffrey Frankel
Jeffrey Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research interests include currencies, crises, commodities, international finance, international trade, monetary and fiscal policy, and global environmental issues. He co-directs the NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics and Harvard’s conference on Politics and Economics of
