Professor Adele Atkinson
Professor of Practice in Financial Literacy and Wellbeing (CHASM)
Professor Atkinson's research interests are primarily around understanding the needs of financial consumers.
Financial Inclusion Monitor
The UK government has created a new Minister-chaired Financial Inclusion Committee, tasked with creating a UK National Strategy for Financial Inclusion and The Financial Conduct Authority has a new ‘must have regard’ to reinforcing financial inclusion remit. To help shape this new strategy and future regulatory and business activity, as well as monitor progress, CHASM is developing a new Financial Inclusion Monitor for the UK.
Once the Government has finalised its plans for a national strategy, the data that monitors its progress towards implementing and meeting its targets will be key. CHASM’s Financial Inclusion Monitor will ensure there is a robust measurement of what it means to be financially included in the UK today, through new survey data and secondary analysis, which will also be mapped to the new Financial Inclusion Strategy to provide a comprehensive measure of progress. It responds to the needs of Government and other stakeholders for a reliable compilation of statistics that can be used to assess progress towards key targets.
CHASM has a range of external stakeholders working with/alongside us to help hold organisations to account for implementing the new FI strategy, and creating wider financial inclusion.
Research objectives
Research objectives
The creation of a new tool for measuring financial inclusion that is recognised by those with the power to make the changes we need to see.
Establish a five-year progress tracker to hold government, regulators, and businesses accountable for reducing exclusion and poverty premiums. Via collaboration and influencing activity, civil society allies will use this tool as leverage for further reforms.
Improved Financial Inclusion: A Monitor Series that ultimately contributes to a measurable reduction in financial exclusion and associated poverty premiums in the UK.
Outputs and impact
Outputs and impact
Annual Financial Monitor reports and analysis for five years.
Partner organisations and sponsors
Partner organisations and sponsors
Funders:
Trust for London
Andrew Fisher and Caroline Fisher
Professor Martin Coppack
Professor of Practice in Financial Inclusion and Consumer Policy (CHASM)
Martin uses research and advocacy to create change for consumers. He’s held a range of positions, all with the common objective of placing low income and vulnerable consumers at the heart of policy-making within essential services.
Mhairi Webster
Research Fellow
Mhairi Webster is a Research Fellow for the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM), in the School of Social Policy and Society at the University of Birmingham.