Fran Bennett

Fran Bennett is a senior research and teaching fellow in the Oxford Institute of Social Policy, University of Oxford, with interests in poverty, gender and social security issues.

Our Lives: Poverty then and now in the UK

A report launched today, Our Lives: Challenging attitudes to poverty in 2015, captures the humanity of the experience of poverty and calls for change as radical as the social reform in the 1940s.

By Fran Bennett

/ 17 Apr 2015

Gender and poverty in the UK: Inside the household and across the life course

Unravelling the components of couples’ incomes and investigating individual trajectories over the life course are essential to produce a more rounded and complete picture of the links between gender and poverty, says Fran Bennett.

By Fran Bennett

/ 6 Jul 2014