Johnny Runge is Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Institute at King’s College London. He is a qualitative researcher by training, with expertise in interviews, focus groups, participatory and deliberative methods, surveys, case studies, and evidence reviews. He is particularly experienced in evaluation, especially in designing and leading Implementation and Process Evaluations (IPEs), and works within the Evidence Development and Incubation Team (EDIT), a specialist evaluation unit within the Policy Institute.His research focuses on broadly three areas:

• Employment: workplace practices, recruitment and pay, with a focus on barriers and opportunities in the labour market for disadvantaged groups
• Financial and economic literacy: evaluating financial education programmes and exploring public understanding of the economy, including the economic impacts of migration
• Education: educational experiences and outcomes, including the evaluation of school-based interventions.

Before joining King’s, Johnny spent seven years at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He has also worked as a school teacher, as a Topic Lead for the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, and as an Academic Consultant at the Bank of England. He holds an MSc in Comparative Politics from LSE and a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Durham University.