Tess Lanning
Research Fellow
Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6135Email: t.lanning@ippr.org
Twitter: @IPPR_TessL
Areas of expertise:
- Skills and the labour market
- Welfare reform and employment
- Criminal justice
- Qualitative research methods
Tess comments regularly in the media. She has written articles for the Guardian, New Statesman, Public Finance, Regeneration and Renewal, and Left Foot Forward.
Before joining IPPR in 2007, Tess was a policy analyst at the International Council of Security and Development, working on research projects in Rio de Janeiro and London. She has also worked as a Spanish translator and interpreter. Tess studied Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick and has an MSc in the Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Publications
No train, no gain: Beyond free-market and state-led skills policy
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Tess Lanning
05 Apr 2012
15 Nov 2011
Redesigning justice: Reducing crime through justice reinvestment
Author(s) : Rick Muir, Tess Lanning, Ian Loader
29 Jul 2011
Getting what we deserve? Attitudes to pay, reward and desert
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Tess Lanning
09 Jun 2011
More than a foot in the door: Job sustainability and advancement in London and the UK
Author(s) : Dalia Ben-Galim, Tess Lanning, Kris Krasnowski
21 Mar 2011
Strength Against Shocks: Low-income families and debt
Author(s) : Dalia Ben-Galim, Tess Lanning
07 Feb 2010
Articles
No more Mad Men marriages for women - 11 Apr 2012
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
Marrying social justice and economic efficiency: statecraft and skills policy under Labour - 05 Apr 2012
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
No train no gain? Why employers don’t train and what to do about it - 05 Apr 2012
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
What does ‘The Fixer’ tell us about Labour’s approach to the economy? - 05 Apr 2012
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
The independent view why the women-in-the-boardroom brand of feminism is limited - 16 Mar 2012
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
David Miliband is spot on in highlighting the structural roots of youth unemployment - 06 Feb 2012
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
Do politicians get what’s needed to tackle unfair pay? - 23 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
Time to rethink apprenticeships - 15 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
Skills in opposition: Quantity sells, but quality is more transformational - 30 Sep 2011
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
What should be done with arrested rioters? - 11 Aug 2011
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
Getting criminal justice reform back on track - 03 Aug 2011
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
A new manifesto for justice - 01 Aug 2011
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
Executive pay: the politics of envy or a crisis of capitalism? - 09 Jun 2011
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
Hutton report does not explain how to make pay fair - 14 Mar 2011
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
Research reveals sentencing reform could save millions - 08 Dec 2010
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
Top pay: not just a public affair - 01 Dec 2010
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
Firms need tailored support for welfare plans to work - 05 Oct 2010
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
Back to what work? - 05 Oct 2010
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
ippr visits Rwanda - 12 Jul 2010
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
The lost generation - 20 Jan 2010
Author(s) : Tess Lanning
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