Ben W. Ansell

Policy

Alongside my academic research I have written reports and analysis for policymakers and think tanks in the UK and Europe.

Recent Policy Work

‘Taxing Times: Policies, Politics, and Principles’. Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), National Renewal Programme. August 2026. (PDF)

‘Political Inequality’, with Jane Gingrich. IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, Institute for Fiscal Studies. 2022. (PDF)

Earlier Policy Work

Policy analysis of Spanish higher education policy for Fundación Alternativas: English / Spanish.

‘British Universities: Quality at the Cost of Inequality’, with Pepper Culpepper. Times Higher Education (London), February 3, 2011. Opinion piece on British higher education reform.

I served as an academic consultant to Her Majesty’s Treasury in the United Kingdom on education and immigration policy and as a consultant to the Leitch Review of Skills, an independent review established by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to examine British skills policy to 2020. The following publicly available documents reflect this work: