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Andy Hull

Andy Hull
Senior Research Fellow
+44 (0)20 7470 0021
a.hull@ippr.org

Teams
Global Change, Citizens Society and Economy

Areas of Expertise

Press experience

Broadcast

• Andy has appeared on Channel 4 News, BBC Radio 4 (The Today Programme and Woman's Hour), BBC World Service (Analysis), BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales, BBC London News, ITV London News, LBC News, Radio New Zealand and various local and community television and radio stations.
• Andy’s work has been covered by BBC Radio 4 (The Today Programme and The World Tonight), BBC World News (HARDtalk), BBC1 (One O’Clock, Six O’Clock and Ten O’Clock News), BBC2 (Daily Politics), Channel 4 News, Sky News, NBC News, Al Jazeera, and various local and community television and radio stations. 

Print

• Andy has written for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Public Policy Research, Contingency Today, Public Finance, Progress, Comment is Free, Policy Critical, Left Foot Forward and various local and community newspapers and magazines, blogs and websites.
• Andy’s work has been covered by Le Monde, Newsweek, Le Figaro, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Observer, The Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Express, The Evening Standard, Private Eye, New Statesman, The Morning Star, Metro, The Muslim News, and various local and community newspapers and magazines, blogs and websites.

Previous work

Andy has worked as a Senior Research Fellow at ippr since June 2008. He recently returned from a four month secondment as an Expert Analyst at the Ministry of Justice, where he coordinated the department’s Security and the Legal Domain horizon-scanning project. He is currently working on the lessons for progressives from New Labour’s period in power; irregular migration; and parents’ attitudes towards childcare and early years education. Previously, Andy led the Secretariat for ippr’s independent, all-party Commission on National Security in the 21^st Century.

Prior to joining ippr, Andy worked as a Policy Officer on community engagement and counter-terrorism for the Metropolitan Police Authority. Before this, he worked for the Metropolitan Police Service, managing an award-winning multi-agency project to reduce truancy, exclusion and youth crime in the London Borough of Southwark. Before that, Andy studied for a BA in Classics at the University of Oxford, where he specialised in philosophy.

Other publications

• Visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau (Public Policy Research, 2010)
• We need convincing on continued presence in Afghanistan (Policy Critical, 2009)
• UK security officials should speak out against foreign security forces using torture (Jurist, 2009)
• A public inquiry? (Progress Online, 2009)
• Defence - a reality check with General Lord Charles Guthrie in Opportunities in an Age of Austerity: smart ways of dealing with the UK's fiscal deficit (ippr, 2009)
• Youth Tracker, Issue 2, Autumn 2009 (ed) (ippr, 2009)
• Torture equals terror (The Guardian, 2009)
• Shared Responsibilities: a national security strategy for the United Kingdom with ippr colleagues and commissioners (ippr, 2009)
• Torture uses the body against the soul with General Lord Charles Guthrie (The Times, 2009)
• Justice on the rack (Public Policy Research, 2009)
• Stopping bombs and standing up for what we believe in with Dr Ian Kearns (ippr, 2009)
• A stitch in time with Professor Jim Norton (Contingency Today, 2009)
• Reap what we sow with Carey Oppenheim (Public Finance, 2009)
• Shared Destinies: Security in a globalised world with ippr colleagues and commissioners (ippr, 2008)
• Counter-Terrorism: The London Debate (MPA, 2007)
• Seen and Heard - Young People, Policing and Crime with Hamera Asfa Davey (MPA, 2008)

Andy is also an elected Councillor in the London Borough of Islington, where he is Vice Chair of the Islington Fairness Commission.