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You are here Our people Rick Muir
 
Rick Muir

Rick Muir

Associate Director for Public Services

Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6168
Email: r.muir@ippr.org
Twitter: @rickmuir1
 

Areas of expertise:

  • Public service reform
  • Education
  • Health
  • Crime and policing

Rick leads IPPR's work on improving and reforming public services. He comments regularly on these issues in the print and broadcast media. He has recently appeared on the Today Programme, PM, Newsnight, BBC News Channel and Sky News and has written for The Times, Guardian, Independent and Daily Telegraph.

Rick has a DPhil in politics from Oxford University, where he was a departmental lecturer in politics. He is a councillor in Hackney, London, and a member of the advisory board of Linden Children’s Centre.

In a personal capacity Rick is a member of the Independent Commission on Policing.

 

Publications

The impact of league table reform on vocational education in schools

Author(s) : Rick Muir

28 Jan 2013

The relational state: How recognising the importance of human relationships could revolutionise the role of the state

12 Nov 2012

Not for profit: The role of the private sector in England’s schools

Author(s) : Rick Muir

07 Aug 2012

Open justice: Empowering victims through data and technology

Author(s) : Rick Muir

05 Jun 2012

The long view: Public services and public spending in 2030

Author(s) : Rick Muir

04 Jun 2012

Pubs and places: The social value of community pubs (2nd ed, 2012)

Author(s) : Rick Muir

24 Jan 2012

Tied down: The beer tie and its impact on Britain's pubs

Author(s) : Glenn Gottfried, Rick Muir

29 Aug 2011

Redesigning justice: Reducing crime through justice reinvestment

Author(s) : Ian Loader, Rick Muir, Tess Lanning

29 Jul 2011

Room for Improvement: ippr's response to the schools white paper

Author(s) : Rick Muir, Jonathan Clifton

03 Dec 2010

Devolution in Practice 2010

28 May 2010

Identity, Politics and Public Policy

Author(s) : Rick Muir, Margaret Wetherell

09 Apr 2010

Tomorrow’s Prisons: Designing the future prison estate

Author(s) : Ian Loader, Rick Muir

01 Apr 2010

Crime and Justice after Devolution

Author(s) : Rick Muir

22 Mar 2010

Opportunities in an Age of Austerity: Smart ways of dealing with the UK’s fiscal deficit

03 Dec 2009

Arrested Development: Unlocking change in the police service

Author(s) : Rick Muir

26 Nov 2009

A Future For Politics: Ways to reform our political system

03 Nov 2009

Pubs and Places: The social value of community pubs

Author(s) : Rick Muir

31 Mar 2009

A New Beat: Options for more accountable policing

Author(s) : Guy Lodge, Rick Muir

17 Jun 2008

One London? Change and cohesion in three London boroughs

Author(s) : Rick Muir

26 Mar 2008

The Power of Belonging: Identity, citizenship and community cohesion

Author(s) : Ben Rogers, Rick Muir

17 Jan 2008

Politics for a New Generation

14 May 2007

Who Are We? Identities in Britain, 2007

Author(s) : Lucy Stone, Rick Muir

18 Feb 2007

The New Identity Politics 2007

Author(s) : Rick Muir

18 Feb 2007

Public Policy Research volume 13 issue 4: Power

Author(s) : Rick Muir, Ian Kearns

16 Jan 2007

Sticking Together. Social capital and local government

07 Mar 2006

Sticking Together. Social capital and local government

07 Mar 2006

 

Articles

Why is the American right closing prisons? - 18 Apr 2013

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Cut in beer duty is welcome tonic for Britain's suffering pubs - 20 Mar 2013

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Courting controversy? - 11 Mar 2013

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Understanding Hugo Chavez - 06 Mar 2013

Author(s) : Rick Muir

The relational state - 23 Jan 2013

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Two cheers for Vince - 11 Jan 2013

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Independent View: two cheers for Vince - 11 Jan 2013

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Dismal turnout in the PCC elections must not mean an end to reform - 19 Nov 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Labour's next big idea: the 'relational state' - 12 Nov 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir, Graeme Cooke

Cameron's "rehabilitation revolution" will struggle at a time of cuts - 22 Oct 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Nick Clegg plays catch-up on tuition in conference speech - 26 Sep 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

No evidence for school privatisation - 18 Sep 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Hackney's education success story: How Labour improved inner city schools - 26 Aug 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Private profit is at odds with role of schools in society - 23 Aug 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

The ideological row over profit-making schools - 15 Aug 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Handing schools over to private sector would be a mistake - 07 Aug 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

For-profit schools would not raise standards - 07 Aug 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

After the G4S debacle, it's time to re-think the role of the private sector - 17 Jul 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

The care crisis - 02 Jul 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

In defence of the GCSE - 22 Jun 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

How Labour can redefine the public sector debate - 04 Jun 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Closing time? - 17 May 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

The Independent View: Clegg’s Pupil Premium could be wasted - 15 May 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

The missing middle - 10 Apr 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

The case against for-profit schools - 20 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Time for Schools Commissioners - 28 Dec 2011

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Police futures - 08 Dec 2011

Author(s) : Rick Muir

An open letter to Labour's new shadow education and health secretaries - 07 Oct 2011

Author(s) : Rick Muir

Progressive police and crime commissioners: An opportunity for the centre-left - 14 Sep 2011

Author(s) : Rick Muir, Ian Loader

Osborne’s slashing of police budgets will hinder reform - 25 Jul 2011

Author(s) : Rick Muir

 

Projects

Frontline – improving the children’s social work profession

Redesigning justice: a new architecture for criminal justice

Policing 2.0

Towards a Smarter State

Police reform

Community Pubs

Who runs Britain?

Identity, Culture and the Challenge of Diversity

Research partnership with London Borough of Camden

Unequal voter participation

Empowering victims in the criminal justice system

The long view: Public services and public spending in 2030

New directions in public service reform: A seminar series from PwC and IPPR