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Professor Donald Hirsch

Professor Donald Hirsch

Emeritus Professor of Social Policy in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities

Areas of expertise

Poverty, Income, Welfare, National Living Wage, Universal Credit

Profile

Donald is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.  Donald was the Director of the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) from 2012 to 2022.

Interview booking

Please call the press office on +44 (0)1509 223491 to arrange an interview with Professor Donald Hirsch. Bookings can also be made online at Globelynx.

Related press releases

The UK’s cost of living support won’t protect the poorest – here’s what the government should do instead

10 August 2022

Cost of living report backed by former PM Gordon Brown

7 August 2022

1-in-4 children living in poverty set to worsen during cost of living crisis

12 July 2022

Cost of living crisis could drive a wedge into justice gap

31 May 2022

Universal credit: what the £20 a week cut will mean for hundreds of thousands of households

4 October 2021

As fuel prices and living costs rise, Loughborough produces official calculations for measuring fuel poverty in remote areas

4 October 2021

New data shows child poverty rates have risen sharpest in the Midlands and the North

14 October 2020

Summer statement: Tory benefits policy under coronavirus is finally beginning to help the poorest

9 July 2020

An ethical future could make life harder for the poorest – but it doesn’t have to

2 March 2020

National Living Wage will give millions a ‘decent standard of living' - but should be implemented with caution

1 October 2019

Working lone parents cannot achieve a decent standard of living due to cuts to benefits and rises in everyday essential costs

3 September 2019

Families juggle work and rising costs as school holidays loom

3 July 2019

Child poverty growing fastest in the UK’s most deprived areas

15 May 2019
A sad child with her mother

Three-quarters of lone parent families, and rising, are living below the Minimum Income Standard

6 February 2019

Cost of living almost doubles for young adults who fly the nest: New research examines the minimum income requirements of 20-somethings living at home

18 January 2019
money

The Living Wage is one of the UK’s most important academic breakthroughs, according to a new campaign

6 December 2018
Family cutout

Cost of raising a child falls but many parents still struggle to meet the threshold

20 August 2018
Supreme Court

Struggling families disqualified from justice despite Supreme Court verdict

20 March 2018
A sad child with its mother

More than half of children now living in poverty in some parts of the UK

24 January 2018

Single-earner families face living standards drop

15 November 2017
the cost of raising a child 2017

The cost of raising a child in 2017: UK’s poorest families expected to make stagnant benefits stretch further

21 August 2017
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