Hilary Metcalf

Director of Employment and Social Policy Research at the National Institute of Economic and Policy Research

Hilary’s main research interest is in labour market disadvantage and, particularly, the role of employers. She has published widely on disadvantage and discrimination, including on age, gender, ethnicity, migration status, class, criminal record, long-term unemployment, literacy and numeracy and homelessness. She recently conducted research into employers’ role in the low pay/no pay cycle funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Other recent work has been to inform current government policy on the abolition of the default retirement age, on the inclusion of caste discrimination in the Equality Act and on gender equality policy in employment. Her research has been funded by the ESRC, charitable research bodies (including the Leverhulme Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation), the ILO, the OECD, the European Commission, UK and Irish government departments and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, amongst others.