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Rick Muir
Associate Director for Public Service Reform
Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6168Email: r.muir@ippr.org
Twitter: @rickmuir1
Areas of expertise:
- Public service reform
- Education
- Health
- Crime and policing
Rick leads IPPR's work on improving and reforming public services. He comments regularly on these issues in the print and broadcast media. He has recently appeared on the Today Programme, PM, Newsnight, BBC News Channel and Sky News and has written for The Times, Guardian, Independent and Daily Telegraph.
Rick has a DPhil in politics from Oxford University, where he was a departmental lecturer in politics. He is a councillor in Hackney, London, and a member of the advisory board of Linden Children’s Centre.
In a personal capacity Rick is a member of the Independent Commission on Policing.
Publications
Pubs and places: The social value of community pubs (2nd ed, 2012)
Author(s) : Rick Muir
24 Jan 2012
Tied down: The beer tie and its impact on Britain's pubs
Author(s) : Rick Muir, Glenn Gottfried
29 Aug 2011
Redesigning justice: Reducing crime through justice reinvestment
Author(s) : Rick Muir, Tess Lanning, Ian Loader
29 Jul 2011
Room for Improvement: ippr's response to the schools white paper
Author(s) : Rick Muir, Jonathan Clifton
03 Dec 2010
28 May 2010
Tomorrow’s Prisons: Designing the future prison estate
Author(s) : Rick Muir, Ian Loader
01 Apr 2010
Opportunities in an Age of Austerity: Smart ways of dealing with the UK’s fiscal deficit
03 Dec 2009
The Power of Belonging: Identity, citizenship and community cohesion
Author(s) : Rick Muir, Ben Rogers
17 Jan 2008
14 May 2007
Articles
Closing time? - 17 May 2012
Author(s) : Rick Muir
The Independent View: Clegg’s Pupil Premium could be wasted - 15 May 2012
Author(s) : Rick Muir
The missing middle - 10 Apr 2012
Author(s) : Rick Muir
The case against for-profit schools - 20 Feb 2012
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Time for Schools Commissioners - 28 Dec 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Police futures - 08 Dec 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
An open letter to Labour's new shadow education and health secretaries - 07 Oct 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Progressive police and crime commissioners: An opportunity for the centre-left - 14 Sep 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir, Ian Loader
Osborne’s slashing of police budgets will hinder reform - 25 Jul 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Michael Gove's school funding proposals scrutinised - 20 Jul 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Putting the politics into policing - 06 Jul 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Health reform u-turn prompts schools rethink - 15 Jun 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Your police force needs you! Time to take Police and Crime Commissioners seriously - 03 Jun 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
New cops on the block - 07 Apr 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
New cops on the block - 07 Apr 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Why the Coalition's take on localism is unsustainable - 19 Mar 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Why the Coalition's take on localism is unsustainable - 19 Mar 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
League tables show Gove's lack of ambition on underperforming schools - 13 Jan 2011
Author(s) : Rick Muir
No more hard Labour? - 11 Oct 2010
Author(s) : Rick Muir
One more heave – or does Labour need a much deeper ideological renewal? - 01 Sep 2010
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Big Questions about the Big Society - 29 Jul 2010
Author(s) : Rick Muir
The axe factor - 08 Jul 2010
Author(s) : Rick Muir
The English left needs to reclaim English identity - 08 Jul 2010
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Capable communities - 04 Mar 2010
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Arrested development - 02 Dec 2009
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Restore trust to reform democracy - 12 Jun 2009
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Time for a new Chartism - 18 May 2009
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Last orders at the bar? - 04 Apr 2009
Author(s) : Rick Muir
Take the politics out of policing - 05 Feb 2009
Author(s) : Rick Muir
What do we mean by police independence? - 11 Dec 2008
Author(s) : Rick Muir
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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