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You are here Our people Matt Cavanagh
 
Matt Cavanagh

Matt Cavanagh

Visiting Fellow

Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6283
Email: m.cavanagh@ippr.org
Twitter: @matt_cav_
 

Areas of expertise:

  • Migration policy
  • The politics of migration
  • Defence and security
  • Crime policing and justice

Matt has extensive broadcast media experience including on BBC TV and radio, Sky and others. He writes for Prospect and Spectator magazines, and has published online articles for the New Statesman, the Independent, the Guardian's Comment Is Free, and elsewhere.

Before joining IPPR in 2011, Matt worked as a special adviser for the Labour government between 2003 and 2010, in the Home Office, the Treasury, the Ministry of Defence, and finally in the Number 10 Policy Unit from 2007 to 2010.

From 2000 to 2003, Matt worked for the Boston Consulting Group, and prior to that as a lecturer in Philosophy at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He has a BA in PPE, BPhil in Philosophy, and DPhil in Political Philosophy from the University of Oxford.

 

Publications

International students and net migration in the UK

Author(s) : Alex Glennie, Matt Cavanagh

14 May 2012

Migration review 2011/2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

01 Jan 2012

Guest workers: Settlement, temporary economic migration and a critique of the government's plans

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

31 Oct 2011

Immigration under Labour

23 Nov 2010

 

Articles

How ministers are gaming the net migration target - 14 May 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Demand, not supply - 30 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Riots report undermines the Tory diagnosis, but spreads itself too thin - 28 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Replacing control orders: an unsatisfactory compromise - 26 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

IPPR responds to the government’s plans on immigration settlement policy - 29 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Why the immigration cap isn’t biting — and why that is good news - 28 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Why does the UK government struggle to reach its net migration target? - 24 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

The coalition's migration troubles continue - 23 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

UK Border Agency split could deepen underlying cause of failure - 21 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

The implications of today's border security report - 20 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

How to implement a minimum price for alcohol - 16 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Conservatives put politics before policy on immigration - 02 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

The MoD wastes another opportunity - 01 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Today's NATO leak highlights the need for more realism over Afghanistan - 01 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Dog-whistling on migrants and benefits - 20 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

The Home Office still hasn't cleared up its border issues - 19 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

The politics of immigration in a downturn - 11 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

There’s still no conclusive evidence immigration causes unemployment - 11 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Does immigration cause unemployment? - 10 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

The right tries to blame youth unemployment on immigration - again - 09 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Immigration to fall in 2012 — but still not on track to hit the Tory target - 01 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Dave's ‘troubleshooters’ policy is right — but it needs working on - 15 Dec 2011

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Five barriers to making effective government strategy - 14 Dec 2011

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Is there such a thing as an ideal level of population? - 08 Dec 2011

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Afghanistan: exit strategy - 28 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Immigration: a policy distorted by targets - 17 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

The Tories may have left it too late for that realistic debate about border security - 16 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

'Guest worker' plan would hurt the economy - 08 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

Britannia waives the rules - 05 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

By all means let’s be tough on crime, but let’s also be principled - 04 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh

 

Projects

Progressive Migration

Migration: Rapid reports and analysis

Economics of Migration