Alison Garnham

She/Her

Alison Garnham has been Chief Executive of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) since September 2010. Prior to this she was the CEO of Daycare Trust and was previously, for nine years, the Director of Policy at One Parent Families (now Gingerbread). In her early career, she worked for women’s organisations and local voluntary sector organisations and then for nearly ten years as a welfare rights adviser in Citizens Advice Bureaux. She joined CPAG in 1989 (for the first time) where she co-authored a number of publications about the Child Support Act. She has subsequently written about childcare, lone parenthood and child poverty. Before joining One Parent Families she was Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University) where she has also been an Honorary Research Fellow. She was for nine years a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Robert Joyce

Robert is Deputy Director at the IFS. His research focuses primarily on welfare policy, the labour market, and the drivers of income and wealth inequalities.

Dr Tammy Campbell

Director of Early Years, Education Policy Institute. Tammy joined EPI in 2022, while completing a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship based in LSE’s Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE). She remains a Visiting Senior Fellow at CASE. Her PhD in Quantitative Social Science for Social Policy was awarded in 2016 by the UCL Institute of Education, and she also holds degrees in Policy Analysis and Evaluation, Psychology, and Philosophy. Pre-PhD, Tammy was a Government Social Researcher, in the (then) Department for Children, Schools and Families; before that, she worked with children and young people. Tammy’s interests span the social, structural, educational and psychological processes shaping young lives.

Dr Kitty Stewart

Kitty Stewart is Associate Professor of Social Policy at the LSE and Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE). She has a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence. Her research focuses primarily on the causes and consequences of child poverty, with particular interests in the roles of early childhood services and the social security system. Recent projects include a mixed-methods study of the impact of the two-child limit and the benefit cap on larger families, and an analysis of the impact of the policies of recent UK governments on inequalities in early childhood.

Natalie Vivash

Parent Advisor. Natalie Vivash is a travel advisor for TUI and mum of three children. Before working in travel, Natalie was a teaching assistant for most of her career. Natalie has experienced first hand the effects of the two-child limit policy.