Juliet is Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University. She has a background in social epidemiology, and her current work focuses on quantitative analysis of poverty and income adequacy, with a particular interest in analysing inequalities from a life course perspective.
Juliet has extensive expertise and experience in research related to poverty, inequality and living standards. In her role at the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) at Loughborough University, she leads on quantitative research across the Centre, including high-profile projects that have received national attention from stakeholders, policy-makers and the media. This includes the Centre’s pioneering Minimum Income Standard (MIS) research, which sets out what the public agree is needed to have a minimum socially acceptable standard of living.
Juliet has a particular interest in child poverty, and since joining CRSP has worked with the End Child Poverty Coalition to produce local area statistics on child poverty after housing costs, which are updated annually. These statistics are used by a wide range of organisations beyond the coalition, including combined authorities, local authorities, the NHS, voluntary organisations, and transport planners. Juliet regularly works with non-academic organisations to produce policy-relevant research; in additional to the End Child Poverty Coalition, she has an ongoing working relationship with the end-of-life charity Marie Curie, for whom she carries out research on poverty at the end of life that has underpinned the charity’s campaigning on improving financial security for people with terminal illness. She also regularly works with Child Poverty Action Group to produce their annual Cost of a Child report.
- Robinson, E, Stone, J, Padley, M (2025) Households below the Minimum Income Standard: 2008-2023, Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
- Stone, J (2024) Poverty at the end of life in the UK in 2023.
- Stone, J (2024) Local indicators of child poverty after housing costs, 2022/23: estimates of child poverty after housing costs in parliamentary constituencies and local authorities, End Child Poverty.
- Davis, A, Blackwell, C, Padley, M, Ellis, W, Stone, J, Balchin, E (2024) A Minimum Income Standard for the United Kingdom in 2024, Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
- Stone, J and Padley, M (2023) The cost of a child in 2023, Child Poverty Action Group.
- Hill, K, Hirsch, D, Stone, J, Webber, R (2020) Home Truths: Young adults living with their parents in low to middle income families, Standard Life Foundation.
- Hirsch, D, Stone, J, Padley, M, Valadez-Martinez, L (2019) The low income gap: a new indicator based on a minimum income standard, Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement, ISSN: 0303-8300.
- Stone, J, Berrington, A, Falkingham, J (2013) Gender, Turning Points, and Boomerangs: Returning Home in Young Adulthood in Great Britain, Demography, 51(1), pp.257-276, ISSN: 1533-7790. DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0247-8.