Donald Hirsch is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University. He developed the calculation of the UK Living Wage accredited by the Living Wage Foundation and he leads CRSP's ongoing research programme into household incomes and poverty trends. He was Poverty Adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation for the ten years prior to joining CRSP in 2008.
Laura Valadez-Martinez is a Research Associate in the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University. Before joining CRSP, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. She completed her PhD in Social Policy at the University of Oxford.
