Our Director Paul Hackett was interviewed twice on the BBC on 30th March 2016 to discuss a survey the Institute has conducted looking at the employee perspective on productivity: Today programme at 21:35 - listen here 5 Live Breakfast at 2:42:40 - listen here The survey was commissioned by Prospect, USDAW, BECTU, Community, Association of Teachers and Lecturers, FDA … [Read more...]

The Guardian's economic correspondent Philip Inman wrote exclusively ahead of the release of a report describing the findings of a survey the Institute was commissioned to conduct. The full article can be viewed here … [Read more...]

A new report published by the IPA, 'Involvement and Productivity - The missing piece of the puzzle', features a chapter by the Institute's director, Paul Hackett, discussing our ongoing work on productivity. … [Read more...]

The Institute's director, Paul Hackett, writes for New Start magazine on the prospects for community-led housing following the publication of our research report, Local Housing, Community Living.  … [Read more...]

Smith Institute report 10 million missing voters leads to a debate in the Scottish Parliament on the subject of electoral enrolment. … [Read more...]

The Institute's director, Paul Hackett, writes for Inside Housing on our report Local Housing, Community Living and the prospects for community-led housing. … [Read more...]

Quoting key findings of our report Local Housing, Community Living, Mark Lawrence writes in 24dash.com that community-led housing could be the end of NIMBYISM … [Read more...]

Writing on the Local Gov website, Austin Macauley describes our report Local Housing, Community Living, noting the need for the reinstatement of the empty Homes Community Grants Programme … [Read more...]

Following publication of our report, 10 million missing voters, Paul Hunter, head of research, writes for Democratic Audit UK  on changes to voter registration which could result in millions of people dropping off the electoral roll. … [Read more...]