Mr Raj Patel Impact Fellow, University of Essex

Raj Patel
Email
rajpatel@essex.ac.uk
Telephone
3831
Office
2N2.5A.06
Curriculum vitae

Policy, impact and research interests

Raj is a policy analyst and his expertise is in research, policy development, public relations, building partnerships and business development. His substantive areas of expertise include growth and regional development; entrepreneurship and innovation; labour markets and skills; and regeneration. Having worked in government, academia, business and charities at a senior level, he is particularly interested in ideas around how to better join up economic and social development. He is a strong proponent for strengthening academic and policy collaboration to improve long-term decision-making, fuel social innovation and improve lives. His current responsibilities cover the use of large scale data and evidence to understand economic and social change; facilitating knowledge exchange; and building networks and productive partnerships.

Latest Publications

Health and employment: commentary

  1. Stephen Bevan
  1. Labour Market
  2. Health
  3. Public Policy
  4. Well Being

Changes in employment status: does poor health matter?

  1. Don J. Webber
  2. Dominic Page
  3. Michail Veliziotis
  4. Steve Johnson
  1. Labour Market
  2. Health
  3. Poverty
  4. Public Policy
  5. Unemployment
  6. Well Being

What happens to employment after an acute health shock?

  1. Andrew Jones
  2. Nigel Rice
  3. Francesca Zantomio
  1. Labour Market
  2. Health
  3. Public Policy
  4. Disability

The state of social capital in Britain: a policy briefing from Understanding Society

  1. Raj Patel
  1. Health
  2. Poverty
  3. Public Policy
  4. Area Effects
  5. Well Being
  6. Societies
  7. Young People
  8. Social Behaviour
  9. Arts
  10. Social Capital
  11. Sport

Financial struggle connected to neighbourhoods

  1. Sarah Brown
  1. Area Effects
  2. Finance
  3. Debt: Indebtedness
  4. Social Networks
  5. Housing Market

Insights 2015: findings from the largest longitudinal study of UK households
  1. Surveys
  2. Research
  3. Social Sciences

Introduction

  1. Michaela Benzeval
  1. Surveys
  2. Societies
  3. Social Change

The growth of private renting in Great Britain: characteristics and flows

  1. Paul Sissons
  2. Donald Houston
  1. Housing Market

Through the keyhole of involuntary house moves

  1. Darren Baxter
  1. Housing Market

Investigating the effects of active commuting

  1. Ellen Flint
  2. Steven Cummins
  1. Commuting
  2. Health
  3. Well Being
  4. Biology

Latest Media

To understand the impact of government policies we need a long-term evaluation culture

  1. Raj Patel
  1. Surveys
  2. Public Policy
  3. Government

Most people working from home want to keep doing it, new analysis using Understanding Society data

  1. Piotr Marzec
  2. Alita Nandi
  3. Raj Patel
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Commuting
  5. Household Economics
  6. Health
  7. Covid-19
  8. Public Policy
  9. Demography
  10. Geography
  11. Sociology Of Labour
  12. Ethnic Groups
  13. Sociology Of Households

Common policy problems and what researchers can do about them

  1. Raj Patel
  1. Households
  2. Social Policy
  3. Surveys
  4. Public Policy
  5. Government
  6. Societies
  7. Social Change
  8. Research
  9. Social Sciences
  10. Information Networks

Working with the policy machinery

  1. Raj Patel
  1. Households
  2. Social Policy
  3. Surveys
  4. Public Policy
  5. Government
  6. Societies
  7. Social Change
  8. Research
  9. Social Sciences
  10. Information Networks

Gained in translation: adding value to research to inform policy

  1. Raj Patel

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