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Steve Fothergill has been a professor within the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research since 1992. An economist by background, he is an experienced researcher with a track record extending back over thirty years at a number of academic institutions and a national and international reputation.
Expertise:
- Business and industry
- Labour markets
- Joblessness
- Local area studies
- Energy policy
- Benefits system
- Regeneration, particularly in northern communities
- Worklessness
- Incapacity benefit
- Coastal resorts
Notable media coverage:
Steve has extensive experience of media work and is available for both print and broadcast interviews.
- Channel 4 News [April 2013]
Economic miracle in Britain's former coalfields - The Economist [2012]
Coastal resorts: Beached and so hard to reach - Times Education Supplement [2013]
Waiting for a sea change - bbc.co.uk [16 November 2010]
Barnsley - where are the jobs? - New Statesman [17 March 2011]
Why rail against “benefits cheats” when the system encourages them? - bbc.co.uk [5 July 2011]
30,000 in Wales off benefits to no job, says report - bbc.co.uk [8 November 2011]
Benefit cuts hit Wales most, says Sheffield research -
Wales Online [4 September 2012]
Welsh unemployment much worse than official stats claims new report
