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You are here Our people Graeme Cooke
 
Graeme Cooke

Graeme Cooke

Research Director

Phone: + 44 (0)20 7470 6149
Email: g.cooke@ippr.org
 

Areas of expertise:

  • Centre-left political thinking and ideas
  • Shifts in political sociology
  • Welfare reform, the labour market, poverty and family policy

Graeme has debated policy and politics on BBC Breakfast, GMTV, Sky News, Channel 4 News, BBC News 24, Working Lunch and the Westminster Hour. He has published articles in the Guardian, Progress magazine and the Fabian Review, and blogged for the New Statesman, Left Foot Forward and Labour List.

Before rejoining IPPR in October 2010, Graeme Cooke was Head of the Open Left project at Demos and previously worked as Expert Adviser to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions between 2008 and 2009. Prior to that he was a Research Fellow at IPPR and has worked for the Local Government Association and 4Children. He also worked as a policy adviser to David Miliband during the Labour leadership campaign.

 

Publications

No place to call home: The social impacts of housing undersupply on young people

Author(s) : Jenny Pennington

09 Dec 2012

The relational state: How recognising the importance of human relationships could revolutionise the role of the state

12 Nov 2012

Double Dutch: The case against deregulation and demand-led funding in childcare

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke, Kathleen Henehan

16 Oct 2012

Together at home: A new strategy for housing

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke, Andy Hull

21 Jun 2012

Build now or pay later? Funding new housing supply

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke, Andy Hull, Tony Dolphin

25 Oct 2011

Still partying like it's 1995

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

22 Sep 2011

National salary insurance: Reforming the welfare state to provide real protection

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

28 Jul 2011

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

It's All About You: Citizen-centred welfare

12 Sep 2007

Taking responsibility: A fair welfare contract

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke, Stuart White

05 Jul 2007

Politics for a New Generation

14 May 2007

Equal Access? Appropriate and affordable childcare for every child

Author(s) : Kate Stanley, Kate Bellamy, Graeme Cooke

12 Jun 2006

 

Articles

Did Ed Miliband's social security speech get it right? - 06 Jun 2013

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Different and better - 31 May 2013

Author(s) : Nick Pearce, Graeme Cooke

Why Labour is right to consider a salary insurance scheme - 23 Apr 2013

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Don't let Mick Philpott off the hook by focusing on benefits, George Osborne - 05 Apr 2013

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Britain’s welfare state can be cheaper and popular - 03 Apr 2013

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

What's the solution to the housing crisis? - 02 Apr 2013

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Should Britain make benefits dependent on past contributions to deter welfare tourism? - 06 Mar 2013

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Making the welfare system more contributory - 05 Dec 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Labour's welfare dilemma - 16 Nov 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Labour's next big idea: the 'relational state' - 12 Nov 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke, Rick Muir

Time for a fundamental rethinking of housing strategy - 03 Oct 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

What now for housing policy? - 21 Sep 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

"Beds in sheds" shouldn't distract us from the real housing crisis - 03 Sep 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Independent View: Housing Benefit reform needs liberal principle of localism - 20 Jul 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Childcare costs could be election battleground - 19 Jul 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Striking a better balance - 30 May 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

We need a firm limit on the time we are prepared to tolerate anyone being unemployed - 17 Apr 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

A Queen’s speech for jobs and growth - 03 Apr 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke, Richard Darlington, Tony Dolphin

Budget 2012: are personal tax statements just political point-scoring? - 21 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Labour are reformers not just spenders - 21 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Put childcare at heart of Labour’s agenda - 21 Dec 2011

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Many happy returns to work - 31 Oct 2011

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Brave new world - 31 Aug 2011

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

How a salary insurance scheme would work - 28 Jul 2011

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Something blue, something new - 20 Apr 2011

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Tory welfare reforms are misguided - 17 Feb 2011

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

For love or money - 16 May 2008

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

Unequal struggle - 23 Jan 2008

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke, Carey Oppenheim

Make it pay - 09 Jan 2008

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

CSA reform - 22 Mar 2007

Author(s) : Graeme Cooke

 

Projects

The social impact of housing: young people and across generations

Tackling youth unemployment: lessons from Europe

Class, culture and capitalism: the new political sociology of Britain

Building on the pensions consensus