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Kitty Stewart

Kitty Stewart

CASE Associate Director and Professor of Social Policy

Expertise: child poverty, early years policy, social security policy

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Biography

Kitty Stewart is Professor in the Department of Social Policy and Associate Director of CASE. She has a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute, Florence, and worked at UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre before joining CASE as a post-doctoral researcher in 2001. Her recent research has examined the causes and consequences of child poverty, the impact of social security reforms in the UK on child poverty and wider outcomes, and policy for young children including child benefits and Early Childhood Education and Care. Kitty is a Trustee of the Education Policy Institute and the Child Poverty Action Group and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Kitty Stewart's current research interests are:

  • Child poverty
  • Social security policies
  • Early Childhood Education and Care
  • Maternal employment trajectories
  • Brexit and social policy
  • Mixed methods research

Kitty's latest projects include:

  • Family finances: What difference does cash support for children make? Funded by the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, this project is looking at the impact of the Scottish Child Payment - an extra £25 per week received for children under 16 in families in receipt of Universal Credit. We are looking at large scale data and conducting interviews with families in Scotland and England.
  • Investigating the Impact of the Health in Pregnancy Grant
  • Inequalities in early education in England
  • Benefit changes and larger families: This four year mixed methods study funded by the Nuffield Foundation examined the impact of the two-child limit and the Benefit Cap on families with three or more children. www.largerfamilies.study.

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