Shaping policy with Income Volatility data

Rosario leads JRF's insight and analysis infrastructure, which aims to generate timely and impactful insights on social and economic inequalities. Prior to joining JRF, Rosario was Data Lead at New Philanthropy Capital, where he was responsible for leading the charity’s data strategy and providing thought leadership on the effective use of data and impact measurement.

He has also worked for the children and young people's charity Buttle UK, and the West London Children Zone. Before joining the charitable sector, Rosario held various research and analysis roles for market research companies and has an academic background in law and forensic psychology.

Magdalena has been working in data, innovation, and technology for the past 15 years. She has led the design and development of products and services in various scenarios across the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors (Smart Data Foundry, University of Edinburgh, Digital Curation Centre, BBC, Art Institute of Chicago).

Magdalena is currently Head of Academic Engagement at Smart Data Foundry, working across legal, technical and research teams to define, build, and deliver a new service to provide safe and secure access to high-value de-identified private sector financial data assets to deliver unique socioeconomic and policy insights “at scale” (e.g., near-real-time large-scale, integrated, linked data across all geographies).

Simon joined the Resolution Foundation in February 2023. His work focuses on wealth inequality, household balance sheets and macroeconomic policy. Previously, Simon worked at the Bank of England in a number of roles covering macroprudential policy, household and corporate debt, and financial markets. He has a BA and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Dr John Harvey is an Associate Professor based in N/LAB. His recent work focuses on the use of aggregated consumer behavioural data to address social issues, such as: food and nutritional security, food waste, loneliness, deprivation, and vulnerable migration. Dr Harvey is interested in questioning why we give so much of our private data to companies and expect that they do nothing prosocial with it in return.

His research interests are broad, and he has published on topics within consumer behaviour, network analysis, and economic anthropology. He enjoys experimenting with mixed methods and is particularly interested in observational methods that examine digital footprints, i.e. information that exists on the Internet as a result of our online activity.

Completed an MEng Civil Engineering degree at Edinburgh Napier University in 2021, where he specialised in the use of statistical models and machine learning techniques to analyse behavioural and perceptual datasets.

In September 2021, he began his PhD at the University of Nottingham. His current research focuses on the spatial dynamics of fuel poverty; the relationships between different types of poverty; the optimal way to measure poverty; and how to decarbonise housing without exacerbating social inequalities.