Matt Cavanagh
Associate Fellow
Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6283Email: m.cavanagh@ippr.org
Twitter: @matt_cav_
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.
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.
Publications
Fair and democratic migration policy: A principled framework for the UK
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh, Sarah Mulley
17 Jan 2013
International students and net migration in the UK
Author(s) : Alex Glennie, Matt Cavanagh
14 May 2012
Guest workers: Settlement, temporary economic migration and a critique of the government's plans
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
31 Oct 2011
23 Nov 2010
Articles
Willetts attempts to limit the damage of Coalition immigration policy - 14 Sep 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
What's in Mark Harper's immigration in-tray? - 13 Sep 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
How best to respond to a growing population - 06 Sep 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
Net migration starts to fall – but the real questions remain unanswered - 30 Aug 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
ONS blunder lets ministers blame falling real incomes on immigration - 01 Aug 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
Troubled families policy deserves cross-party support - 22 Jul 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
A record population increase? It's OK, Britain can cope - 18 Jul 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
A crowded island – but mainly in the South East - 16 Jul 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
A U-turn on international students would be welcome - 12 Jul 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
Ed Miliband is facing up to the problem of employers shunning British workers - 22 Jun 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
Political football if foreign students are kicked out of UK universities - 15 Jun 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
Ed Miliband embraces Englishness, but still has to grasp the nettle on immigration - 07 Jun 2012
Author(s) : Matt Cavanagh
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
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