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Four Research to Policy Fellows were embedded within various teams in the Ministry of Housing, Community, and Local Government (MHCLG) between January and July 2026.
Meet the 2024-25 Policy Fellows
Professor in Real Estate Finance, Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction
Stani’s research spans across various areas from financial economics, asset pricing, spatial econometrics, housing economics, private equity and infrastructure finance. Stani is active in shaping housing policy in the UK. She is the director of the Affordable Housing Group at UCL and the founder of the Shared Ownership Data Initiative. She has secured a number of research funding grants and is the author of various policy reports on affordable housing. View Stani’s UCL Profile.
Fellowship: Based within the Housing Strategy Institutional Investment & Hosing Guarantees Team, Stanimira’s project feeds into the development of the Long-term housing strategy.
Principal Research Fellow and Director of Social Policy at the Institute for Global Prosperity, where she is Executive Lead for the Prosperity Co-Lab (PROCOL) UK. She is Bartlett Faculty Lead for Public Policy.
Saffron's research focuses on understanding lived experiences of community, shared prosperity, and inequality in urban neighbourhoods, and developing new forms of citizen-led policy-relevant evidence. She leads the Prosperity in east London 2021-2031 Longitudinal Study, using the Citizen Prosperity Index to investigate the prosperity gains from regeneration. Saffron is Co-Chair of the London Prosperity Board, a long-term research and innovation partnership with government, business, community organisations, and citizen scientists, working together to redefine prosperity with communities and change the way decisionmakers think and act for shared prosperity. View Saffron’s UCL Profile.
Fellowship: Saffron’s fellowship is focused on brigading detailed knowledge on Local Government interventions which work, in which context, to help steer how MHCLG’s evaluation strategy work going forward.
Tom was a Senior Research Associate, Department of Civil, Environment & Geomatic Engineering.
Tom specialises in exploring the climate emergency as a complex, interdependent set of global challenges, with a particular focus on:
- Decarbonisation: Achieving global net zero emissions by 2050
- Resilience: Enhancing systemic and societal resilience to climate impacts
- Sustainability: Promoting long-term global sustainability
Central to his work is the transformative potential of infrastructure systems—positioned as globally scalable leverage points within climate strategy. He is particularly interested in:
- Developing outcome-oriented governance frameworks that align infrastructure decision-making with urgent social priorities
- Embedding a culture of Net Resilience Gain in the infrastructure sector, to deliver long-term societal and economic value
Fellowship: Tom was doing a Resilience and Recovery Fellowship
Research Fellow in Health Economics, Primary Care & Population Health
Lina is responsible for providing advice on health economics issues to academics and clinicians, who are developing proposals for funding, and undertaking cost-effectiveness analyses for funded projects requiring a health economic evaluation. She is involved in large randomised controlled trials in various disease areas as a health economist conducting economic evaluations and decision analytic modelling.
Fellowship: Lina Fellowship was working on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping
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