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
Property and wealth taxes in the UK: The context for reform
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Howard Reed
19 Mar 2013
Beyond the bottom line: The challenges and opportunities of a living wage
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Matthew Pennycook
20 Jan 2013
Pressures and priorities: The long-term outlook for Britain's public finances
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Amna Silim
20 Sep 2012
No train, no gain: Beyond free-market and state-led skills policy
Author(s) : Tess Lanning, Kayte Lawton
05 Apr 2012
Jobs for the future: The path back to full employment in the UK
Author(s) : Clare McNeil, Tony Dolphin, Kayte Lawton
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) : Kandida Purnell, Kayte Lawton, Jenny Bird
23 Jun 2010
A Qualitative Study of Apprenticeship Pay: An IPPR report to the Low Pay Commission
Author(s) : Emma Norris, Kayte Lawton
01 Apr 2010
The Long Cold Winter: Beating fuel poverty
Author(s) : Ron Campbell, Kayte Lawton, Jenny Bird
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, Pamela Perun, Kayte Lawton, Elena Chávez Quezada
09 Jul 2008
For Love or Money: Pay, progression and professionalisation in the ‘early years’ workforce
Author(s) : Graeme Cooke, Kayte Lawton
02 Apr 2008
Working Out of Poverty: A study of the low-paid and the ‘working poor’
Author(s) : Graeme Cooke, Kayte Lawton
03 Jan 2008
Articles
Keep the living wage alive - 24 May 2013
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
The living wage - a slogan devoid of real action? - 01 Mar 2013
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Affordable childcare rather than tax cuts would better help struggling families - 06 Dec 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Why Osborne is wrong to reject property tax reform - 04 Dec 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
The Swedish example, navigating a path out of recession - 20 Nov 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Pay and power: democratising the workplace - 12 Nov 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Remember ‘full employment’? - 18 Oct 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Fiscal arithmetic of the next spending review cannot be avoided - 27 Sep 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
Plans to freeze benefits reveal the lack of reform in welfare - 20 Sep 2012
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton
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) : Laura Bradley, Kayte Lawton
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
Projects
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The Condition of Britain -
Devo More: Extending devolution and strengthening the union -
Childcare: A strategic national priority? -
Routes to full employment: scenarios and impacts -
Commission on the Future of Higher Education -
Pressures and priorities -
Progressive migration -
Northern Economic Futures Commission -
Promoting growth and shared prosperity in the UK -
Housing policy: a fundamental review
Latest project updates
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The new breadwinners?
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Beyond Irregularity
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The Condition of Britain
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The Condition of Britain
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New video: Ultra-low emission vehicles -
The Condition of Britain
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The Condition of Britain
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Pressures and priorities
Budget 2013: Sharing out the chancellor's cuts -
Renewing the UK’s energy mix
New video: Will Straw on designing carbon taxation to protect low-income households -
Renewing the UK’s energy mix
Why a 2030 carbon target is good for consumers -
Commission on the Future of Higher Education
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Progressive migration
Yvette Cooper at IPPR: Labour's immigration policy -
Northern Economic Futures Commission
George Hawks Lecture -
Where next for Europe?
New video: IPPR talks to EU commissioner László Andor -
Beyond Irregularity
Briefing papers: Returning irregular migrants -
The Condition of Britain
Event review: Jon Cruddas launches The Condition of Britain -
The Condition of Britain
New video: Jon Cruddas backs The Condition of Britain -
Progressive migration
IPPR paper on principles for migration policy sparks a lively debate -
Commission on the Future of Higher Education
Public debate and learning trip, Newcastle -
Renewing the UK’s energy mix
IPPR makes submission on Energy Bill -
The true cost of energy
Reg Platt speaks at the Fair Energy Summit -
Commission on the Future of Higher Education
'Reconciling competing expectations' -
Where next for Europe?
Keynote speech: Britain’s relationship with the EU -
Where next for Europe?
New video: Views on Europe -
Frontline – improving the children’s social work profession
Michael Gove: 'Frontline is a brilliant idea'
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