Sarah Mulley
Associate Director for Migration and Communities
Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6186Email: s.mulley@ippr.org
Twitter: @sarahmulley
Areas of expertise:
- The economics of migration
- Migration communication and public opinion
- International aid and finance
- Global governance and international institutions
Sarah is a regular commentator on migration and international development issues in print and broadcast media. Sarah’s recent coverage includes the Guardian, Financial Times, Observer, Times of India, Channel 4 News and Sky News.
Before joining IPPR, Sarah was Coordinator of the UK Aid Network, a coalition of NGOs working on international aid, where she led UK and EU advocacy on aid issues. She was previously a Research Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme in Oxford, worked as a consultant for a wide range of research and policy organisations, and was a Senior Policy Analyst at HM Treasury, where she held a range of domestic and international policy positions. Sarah has an MPhil in International Relations and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, both from the University of Oxford.
Outside of work, Sarah is an advisory board member of Publish What You Fund, and a founding member of Labour Values.
Publications
Fair and democratic migration policy: A principled framework for the UK
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh, Sarah Mulley
17 Jan 2013
The Limits to Limits: Is a cap on immigration a viable policy for the UK?
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
28 Mar 2010
Policy Coherence and the Future of the UK's International Development Agenda
Author(s) : Matthew Lockwood, Sarah Mulley
05 Mar 2010
Development: Do points mean prizes? How the UK’s migration policies could benefit the world’s poor
Author(s) : Laura Chappell, Sarah Mulley
01 Mar 2010
Migrant Worker Availability in the East of England: An economic risk assessment
Author(s) : Jill Rutter, Maria Latorre, Sarah Mulley
02 Apr 2009
Articles
Europe’s Immigration Challenge - 11 Apr 2013
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Immigration: Labour inches towards a new approach - 07 Mar 2013
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Yvette Cooper makes a steady start across the immigration minefield - 07 Mar 2013
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
New migration statistics should reassure on Bulgaria and Romania - 28 Feb 2013
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Falling net migration: A trap for future governments? - 28 Feb 2013
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
What the government must do to prepare for Romanian and Bulgarian migrants - 22 Feb 2013
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
New research confirms the government’s net migration target is unsustainable - 15 Feb 2013
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Is the new IF campaign trying to ‘Make Poverty History’, again? - 25 Jan 2013
Author(s) : Leni Wild, Sarah Mulley
What would a progressive immigration policy look like? - 17 Jan 2013
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
It's time to look beyond the statistics - 30 Dec 2012
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Labour’s problem with integration - 14 Dec 2012
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
The 2011 census shows a people at ease with diversity. Politicians must catch up - 11 Dec 2012
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
The net migration target is bad policy and bad politics - 30 Nov 2012
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
What might a One Nation immigration policy look like? - 13 Nov 2012
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Where now for the immigration debate? - 02 Nov 2012
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
The population debate must not be defined by immigration - 06 Sep 2012
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Stop playing the net migration numbers game - 30 Aug 2012
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Not another Live Aid - 26 Jun 2012
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Labour is developing the right instincts on immigration - 23 Jun 2012
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Net migration – a target they wish they’d never set - 24 May 2012
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Rifts on immigration demonstrate real challenges for the government - 15 Apr 2011
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Reducing Immigration: Caps, limits and the perils of political target - 06 Apr 2011
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Government faces tough choices on student immigration - 24 Feb 2011
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
MigrationWatch distorts statistics on immigration via students - 29 Jan 2011
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
'Bogus students' aren't as big a problem as MigrationWatch claims - 09 Jan 2011
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
The government's immigration sums don't add up - 18 Nov 2010
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
More misleading Mail migration claims - 29 Oct 2010
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Migrationwatch need to go back to school and learn how to count - 15 Oct 2010
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley, Glenn Gottfried
Home Office research highlights difficulty of Government’s immigration target - 06 Sep 2010
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
Why MigrationWatch are wrong: a plea for a more robust debate on immigration - 19 Aug 2010
Author(s) : Sarah Mulley
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