Jane Millar

Jane Millar is Professor of Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, UK. Her research interests include the design, implementation and impact of social policy, and comparative research on family policy, social security and employment policy, with particular reference to gender and changing family patterns. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Academy of Social Sciences, and is the current chair of the Social Policy Association. She was Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute in Feb 2017.

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Website : http://www.bath.ac.uk/ipr/our-experts/jane-millar.html


  • Social Security and COVID-19: Exposing the Limits of Social Protection?, 20 Apr 2020
  • Policy Choices and Automation: How Benefits Systems Can Create Unjust Debts, 20 Feb 2020
  • Timing It Wrong, Part Two: Universal Credit Inherits Overpayments from Tax Credits, 15 Aug 2019
  • A ‘Fresh Approach to Universal Credit’ – Are There Lessons from Australia?, 29 Apr 2019
  • Timing It Wrong: Benefits, Income Tests, Overpayments and Debts, 02 Mar 2017