Dr Emma Gorman

Emma is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Organisations, Economy and Society, and a member of the Centre for Employment Research. 

As an applied economist, Emma works on topics in education, health and labour economics. Her current research focuses on social mobility and the economic and social determinants of population health. She has published widely on these topics in journals such as Labour Economics, Economics of Education Review, Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, American Journal of Epidemiology and the British Journal of Sociology. 

Emma regularly referees for academic journals and for the UK Research Councils. Emma has been involved in many funded projects (MRC, ESRC, Nuffield) in roles from Research Associate to PI. In her post at Westminster, Emma acts as a mentor to junior researchers and supports researcher development more widely.

Prior to joining the University of Westminster, she held posts at the New Zealand Treasury, University of Glasgow, and Lancaster University where she completed her PhD in Economics. She has also conducted work for various government entities, such as DWP, DfE, the Low Pay Commission and the Social Mobility Commission. Emma is affiliated with the IZA, Institute of Labor Economics network and the Global Labor Organization (GLO).

Recent grant-funded research

• Children of the 1990s - extending understanding of social mobility in England and Wales (PI, with Franz Buscha, Patrick Sturgis & Min Zhang, funder: ESRC)
• Analysis of post-16 education pathways that entrench social segregation (co-I, with Peter Urwin and Dave Thompson, funder: Nuffield Foundation)

For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.