I completed my doctoral research in 2009 at Imperial College, London where I investigated the measurement of life-course socioeconomic position and its relationship with health outcomes. I also hold an MSC in Social Research Methods with Statistics from City University, London and a BA in Media Studies from the University of Sussex.
In 2009 I joined the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC) as a Research Fellow, where my work involved quantitative analysis of large, cross-sectional and longitudinal datasets such as the Labour Force Survey, the English Survey of Housing, Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), and the General Household Survey. I worked on a variety of CPC projects including work on leaving and returning home in young adulthood in the UK and transitions to living alone in later life. I also investigated women’s economic activity over the life course as a predictor of health in later life and a project examining the role of economic uncertainty in predicting the fertility behaviour of men and women. During this period, I developed a particular interest in housing policy and the ways in which this can affect the choices and constraints people face in various aspects of their lives.
I joined CRSP in June 2018. My work is focussed mainly on quantitative analysis, including analysing data from the Family Resources Survey for the annual Households Below a Minimum Income Standard report. However, I have also been involved in aspects of the qualitative programme of work, including supporting the collection of focus group data for calculation of the Minimum Income Standard for London.
My research interests stem from a broad focus on understanding the consequences of differential socioeconomic circumstances from a life course perspective. More specifically, my interests include family and household dynamics; health inequalities and the social implications of housing policy. I also have an ongoing interest in longitudinal research methods.
Selected publications
- Blackwell, C., Padley, M., Ellis, W., Balchin, E., Stone, J., Robinson, E. and Davis, A. (2026) A Minimum Income Standard for London 2025. London: Trust for London.
- Robinson, E., Stone, J. and Padley, M. (2026) Households living below a Minimum Income Standard: 2008–2024. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
- Gardiner, C, Juet, A, Webb, EJD, Stone, J (2025) Characteristics and population estimates of unpaid end of life carers: An observational study, Palliative Medicine, 39(10), pp.1091-1098, ISSN: 0269-2163. DOI: 10.1177/02692163251366090.
- Stone, J. and Robinson, E. (2025) Poverty at the end of life in 2024. London: Marie Curie
- Stone, J. and Padley, M. (2025) A Minimum Income Standard for the United Kingdom in 2025. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Stone, J. (2025) Local indicators of child poverty after housing costs, 2023/24. London: End Child Poverty.
- Thomas, M., Rose, P., Coneyworth, L., Harvey, J., Goulding, J., Stone, J., Padley, M., O'Reilly, P. and Welham, S. (2025) Food insecurity amongst Universal Credit claimants: the Benefits and Nutrition Study (BEANS), a cross-sectional online study. European Journal of Nutrition 64(115) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-025-03596-y
- Stone J (2024) Poverty at the end of life in 2023. London: Marie Curie.
- Stone, J., Blackwell, C. and Shepherd, C. (2024) UK benefit uptake among blind and partially sighted people. London: RNIB - Royal National Institute of Blind People.
- Stone, J. (2024) The Cost of a Child in Scotland in 2023. Glasgow: Child Poverty Action Group Scotland
- Stone, J., Robinson, E., Blackwell, C. and Padley, M. (2024) Debt, poverty and living standards in Great Britain. Bradford: Christians Against Poverty
- Stone, J., Shepherd, C., Ellis, W. and Padley, M. (2023) Constructing a Decent Living Index. Edinburgh: abrdn Financial Fairness Trust
- Stone, J. (2023) Policy interventions to alleviate poverty at the end of life. London: Marie Curie
- Hirsch, D. and Stone, J. (2020) The cost of pensioner poverty and non-take-up of Pension Credit. London: Independent Age
- Hirsch, D., Padley, M., Stone, J. and Valadez-Martinez, L. Social Indicators Research. The Low Income Gap: A New Indicator Based on a Minimum Income Standard. (2020) DOI 10.1007/s11205-019-02241-6
- Falkingham, J., Sage, J., Stone, J. & Vlachantoni, A. (2016) Residential mobility across the life course: continuity and change across three cohorts in Britain. Advances in Life Course Research 30, 111-123.
- Berrington, A, Stone, J and Beaujouan, E. (2015) Educational differences in timing and quantum of childbearing in Britain: a study of cohorts born 1940-1969. Demographic Research, 33, (26), 733-764.
- Stone, J, Evandrou, E, Falkingham, F & Vlachantoni, A. (2015) "Women’s economic activity trajectories over the life course: implications for the self-rated health of women aged 64+ in England" Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 69, 873-879
- Stone, J, Berrington, A and Falkingham, J (2014) Gender, turning points, and boomerangs: returning home in young adulthood in Great Britain. Demography, 51, (1), 257-276.
- Stone, J. Evandrou, M. and Falkingham, J. (2013) ‘The transition to living alone and psychological distress in later life’. Age and Ageing. 42, (3), 366-372.