Our people Kayte Lawton
Kayte Lawton
Senior Research Fellow
Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6169Email: k.lawton@ippr.org
Twitter: @IPPR_KayteL
Areas of expertise:
- Welfare and benefit reform
- Poverty and inequality, including child poverty
- Unemployment and worklessness
- Skills policy
- Low pay, job quality and in-work poverty
- Pay and pay inequality
Kayte is an experienced media commentator, with recent appearances on Sky News and BBC News 24, as well as a number of local radio appearances. She is also a skilled conference speaker and has recently delivered presentations at a Westminster Forum event, a national conference on employment and skills, and a TUC conference on poverty.
Before joining IPPR, Kayte worked as a research administrator for Liverpool John Moores University and the World Cancer Research Fund. She holds a BA in Geography and an MA in Latin American Studies, both from the University of Liverpool.
Publications
No train, no gain: Beyond free-market and state-led skills policy
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Tess Lanning
05 Apr 2012
Jobs for the future: The path back to full employment in the UK
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin, Kayte Lawton, Clare McNeil
14 Sep 2011
Getting what we deserve? Attitudes to pay, reward and desert
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Tess Lanning
09 Jun 2011
Review of access to essential services: Financial inclusion and utilities
Author(s) : Reg Platt, Kayte Lawton
12 Oct 2010
Green and Decent Jobs: The case for local action
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Jenny Bird, Kandida Purnell
23 Jun 2010
A Qualitative Study of Apprenticeship Pay: An IPPR report to the Low Pay Commission
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Emma Norris
01 Apr 2010
The Long Cold Winter: Beating fuel poverty
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Jenny Bird, Ron Campbell
15 Mar 2010
Opportunities in an Age of Austerity: Smart ways of dealing with the UK’s fiscal deficit
03 Dec 2009
The Future's Green: Jobs and in the UK Low-Carbon Transition
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Jenny Bird
02 Nov 2009
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Achieving a sustainable solution to low pay and in-work poverty
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
07 Jan 2009
The UK Child Trust Fund: A successful launch
Author(s) : Jim Bennett, Kayte Lawton, Elena Chávez Quezada, Pamela Perun
09 Jul 2008
For Love or Money: Pay, progression and professionalisation in the ‘early years’ workforce
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Graeme Cooke
02 Apr 2008
Working Out of Poverty: A study of the low-paid and the ‘working poor’
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Graeme Cooke
03 Jan 2008
Articles
Big companies can afford a living wage - 17 May 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Supporting business: let's follow northern Europe - 17 Apr 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
The budget: neither fair nor effective - 23 Mar 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Why Osborne’s ‘granny tax’ makes sense - 22 Mar 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
The UK economy needs some Obama-style stimulus - 15 Mar 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Pay and performance: creating a fairer share of rewards - 09 Jan 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Coalition should "come clean" on child poverty - 13 Dec 2011
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
How do we get fair pay? - 29 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Lib Dems should look beyond the tax system to help low-to-middle income families - 21 Sep 2011
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Warren Buffett does not have the answer. But John Lewis might - 03 Sep 2011
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Public support action on excessive pay gap - 09 Jun 2011
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Don’t be fooled by today’s child poverty figures - 12 May 2011
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Making pay work: can the living wage provide a comprehensive route to improving living standards? - 09 May 2011
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Matthew Whittaker
Most benefits overpayment is not caused by fraud - 17 Feb 2011
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Let’s open up internships - 10 Feb 2011
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Take Two Views on Child Benefit Reform - 01 Feb 2011
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
IFS: Government not on track to meet child poverty target - 16 Dec 2010
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Laura Bradley
The private sector is the real source of unfair pay - 02 Dec 2010
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Spending review will weaken work incentives - 21 Oct 2010
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Welfare spending – time to reassess universal benefits? - 18 Aug 2010
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Kate Stanley
Interns Should Be Given A Fair Wage - 10 Aug 2010
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Welfare reform: the weakest link - 27 May 2010
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
IDS welfare reforms won’t provide the support needed to escape poverty - 27 May 2010
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Child and pensioner poverty fall, but 2010 target will be missed - 20 May 2010
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Lib Dem minimum wage plans make sense in long run - 21 Apr 2010
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Encourage creation of new, good quality green jobs for people who are not highly skilled - 30 Mar 2010
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Someone to hold the ladder - 10 Feb 2009
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
The fight to end child poverty - 10 Feb 2009
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Carey Oppenheim
The injustice of in-work poverty - 02 Oct 2008
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Projects
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Flagship projects
Latest project updates
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Progressive Migration
New video: International student and net migration -
Beyond the bottom line: the role of the living wage in raising living standards
New video: What price a living wage? -
Housing policy: a fundamental review
Affordable housing for Londoners -
The true cost of energy
Regulation will improve competition and ensure fairer energy prices for consumers -
Beyond Irregularity
Stakeholder roundtable, fieldworkers training and steering committee meeting -
Beyond Irregularity
Stakeholder meeting and fieldworkers training -
Northern Economic Futures Commission
NEFC interim report published -
New Era Economics
New Video: 'Wellbeing, choice and sustainability' -
Smarter Skills
New video: Why are UK firms taking the 'low road' to improve skills? -
Borderland
Scottish independence, the benefits for the North of England -
Commission on the Future of Higher Education
The challenges facing UK higher education -
Modelling reforms to the tax and benefit system
Pros and cons: budget stimulus options -
Beyond Irregularity
New video: Why does irregular migration matter? -
Beyond Irregularity
Event update: Stakeholder seminar 9th March -
After the Euro crisis: Where next for the European Project?
New video: Rob Shapiro on the eurozone -
New Era Economics
New video: Vince Cable on industrial strategy -
After the Euro crisis: Where next for the European Project?
Jack Straw on the EU's crisis of legitimacy -
Young people and savings
New video: Polling shows young people aren't saving enough -
The Future of Globalisation
Highlights video: 'The third wave of globalisation' UK launch -
Building on the pensions consensus
McClymont: Pensions reform means maximising returns -
The Future of Globalisation
New video: Lord Mandelson speaks to Reuters about globalisation's 'third wave' -
English Questions
New video: John Denham on the growing sense of Englishness -
The Future of Globalisation
IPPR publishes evidence submissions -
English Questions
New video: A surge in English identity -
Pay and reward in London
Excessive pay and rewards for failure
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