IPPR Scotland will develop evidence, ideas and action to shape a social security system which better meets the needs of those living on low-to-middle incomes in Scotland.

Loughborough University’s Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP)

Income | £104,000 | 15 months

The team at CRSP will investigate current and future economic well-being of low-to-middle-income families comprising adults in their 20s living with their parents.

Newcastle University

Income | £70,000 | 18 months

The project will develop an evidence base for action to address financial hardship in rural Britain.

The Poverty Truth Community (Faith in Community Scotland)

Spending | £75,000 | Three years

The Poverty Truth Community aims to ensure people living with poverty are connected with people in positions of influence to help shape decisions made about poverty-related issues.

Resolution Foundation

Assets | £190,000 | Three years

This project is a partnership with the Resolution Foundation.Together the organisations are undertaking a major investigation into the role of wealth in 21st century Britain.

Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM), University of Birmingham

Income | £77,000 | One year

This one-year project aims to better understand decision-making experiences for people on low-to-middle incomes in the new retirement landscape. It will investigate the effectiveness of current consumer protection strategies and make recommendations for improving consumer outcomes.

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)

Spending and Income | £133,000 | Two years

CPAG will be working on ending the need for food banks through advocating for adequate emergency provision, within a social security system that prevents poverty.

Demos

Income and Assets | £97,000 | 15 months

Demos will develop guidance from public deliberation on how to raise the tax needed to preserve public services given the UK’s ageing population, and how to communicate this effectively.

Fabian Society

Income | £74,000 | Nine months

The Fabian Society will examine and better understand the public’s views towards changes to social security through a citizen’s jury, public polling and policy modelling.

Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde

Income | £68,000 | One year

A one-year project to examine changing patterns of working hours to better understand what drives these changes, how it affects poverty/inequality, and how policy might be able to respond.

The High Pay Centre

Income | £62,000 | Nine months

The High Pay Centre will involve research and related policy work analysing pay gaps between high, low and middle earners at the UK’s biggest companies, based on forthcoming pay-ratio disclosures.

Jubilee Debt Campaign

Spending | £180,000 | Three years

This joint project by Jubilee Debt Campaign and the Centre for Responsible Credit will support people with lived experience of problem debt to influence and improve credit regulation and debt solutions.

Refuge

Income | £37,000 | One year

This project will enable Refuge to campaign to secure changes to Universal Credit in order to reduce the prevalence of welfare-based economic abuse.

Funded Projects

Work we are funding

2020 Projects Funded

Income | £52,300 | May-August 2020

Income | £90,000 | May-August 2020

Income | £21,000 | May-June 2020

Income | £49,000 | May-October 2020

Income | £37,000 | May-October 2020

Income | £76,000 | August 2020 – July 2021

Spending (Problem Gambling) | £125,000 | October 2020 – October 2022

Spending | £133,000 | May 2020 – May 2022

Income | £109,460 | November 2019 to October 2020

Income | £48,621 | June 2020 – December 2020

Income | £70,000 | June 2020 – May 2023

2019 Projects Funded

Income | £150,000 | Two years