Senior Social Researcher

Johnny Runge

Senior Social Researcher Email: j.runge [at] niesr.ac.uk Twitter: @JohnnyRunge

Research interests:

Johnny Runge is a Senior Social Researcher at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) and Research Associate at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE). He is mainly a qualitative researcher, with expertise in interviews, focus groups, survey, evaluation, content analysis and evidence reviews. His main interest is in the area of public perceptions, especially on immigration attitudes and how people think about the economy and economic concepts. He also researches education and labour market disadvantage, including on issues related to barriers to employment and educational achievement, low pay, recruitment, welfare reform and disadvantaged groups. His research has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, Low Pay Commission, Office of Manpower Economics, Equality and Human Rights Commission, and Education Endowment Foundation.

Education:

MSc Comparative Political Economy (Distinction) at LSE (2014-15)

BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economics (First Class) at Durham University (2010-13)

Employment:

Senior Social Researcher at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (2019 – Present)

Research Associate at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (2018 – Present)

Social Researcher at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (2016 – 2019)

EU Researcher at Policy Network (2016)

Research Intern at the Constitution Unit, University College London (2015-16)

Political and Economic Trainee at Danish Embassy in Greece, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013-14)

Primary and Secondary School Teacher at Bjørnehøjskolen (2009-10)

Additional information:

Current projects

Public Understanding of Economic Statistics, for the Economist Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE)

Experiences of recruitment among older workers, for Centre for Ageing Better

Recruitment of workers into low-paid occupations and industries: An evidence review, for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)

Modelling and Communicating Data Uncertainty, for the Economics Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE)

Evaluation of Is Britain Fairer? 2018, for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Evaluation of Tips by Text, for the Education Endowment Foundation.

Publications

Dawson, A, Stokes, L., Huxley, C., Runge, J., Takala, H., Manzoni, C., Hudson-Sharp, N., Williams, C. (2020) Early Years Toolbox: Pilot evaluation report, Education Endowment Foundation, NIESR and IES.

Wright, H. Carr, C., Wiese, J., Stokes, L., Runge, J., Dorsett, R., Heal, J., Anders, J. (2020) URLEY: Evaluation report, Education Endowment Foundation, NIESR and BIT.

Rolfe, H., Runge, J., Srinivisan, S. (2020) The value of economic statistics: Baseline report, ESCoE Technical Report.

Galvao, A., Mitchell, J., Runge, J. (2019) Communicating Data Uncertainty: Experimental Evidence for U.K. GDP, ESCoE Discussion Paper.

Hudson-Sharp, N., Manzoni, C., Rolfe, H., Runge, J. (2019) Understanding employers’ use of the National Minimum Wage youth rates, Low Pay Commission, NIESR.

Runge, J., Munro-Lott, N., & Buzzeo, J. (2019) Pilot report: Embedding contextualisation in English and Maths GCSE post-16 teaching, Education Endowment Evaluation, NIESR.

Foliano, F., Rolfe, H., Buzzeo, J., Runge, J., & Wilkinson, D. (2019) Evaluation report: Changing mindset: Effectiveness trial, Education Endowment Foundation, NIESR.

Rolfe, H., Runge, J., & Hudson-Sharp, N. (2019) Immigration Policy from Post-War to Post-Brexit: How New Immigration Policy can Reconcile Public Attitudes and Employer Preferences, National Institute Economic Review, 248(1).

Wright, H., Dorsett, R., Anders, J., Buzzeo, J., Runge, J. and Sanders, M. (2019) Improving Working Memory: Evaluation Report, Education Endowment Foundation, BIT.

Rolfe, H., Ahlstrom-Vij, K., Hudson-Sharp, N. and Runge, J. (2018) Post-Brexit immigration policy: Reconciling public attitudes with economic evidence, Leverhulme Trust, NIESR.

Hudson-Sharp, N., Munro-Lott, N., Rolfe, H, and Runge, J. (2018) The impact of welfare reform and welfare-to-work programmes: an evidence review, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Research report 111, NIESR.

Speckesser, S., Runge, J., Foliano, F., Bursnall, M., Hudson-Sharp, N., Rolfe, H., Anders, J. (2018) Embedding Formative Assessment: Evaluation report, Education Endowment Foundation, NIESR.

Runge, J., Hudson-Sharp, N. and Rolfe, H. (2017) Use of agency workers in the public sector, Office of Manpower Economics, NIESR.

Runge, J. (2017) The changing world of work, Unions21, NIESR.

Hudson-Sharp, N. and Runge, J. (2017) International trends in insecure work, TUC, NIESR.