Dr. Emma Stone becomes new JRF Director of Policy and Research
Dr. Emma Stone has been appointed Director of Policy and Research at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), strengthening the organisation’s intellectual and research management capability. She succeeds Anne Harrop, who left earlier in the year for the Aga Khan Foundation. Emma takes up this post from 1st December 2010.
Emma joined the JRF in 1998 as a Programme Manager, running various programmes including Immigration and Inclusion and the Task Force on Disabled Parents. She became Assistant Director for Policy and Research in 2008.
With both a PhD, and an MA in International Development Studies, she previously worked as a researcher at the University of Leeds, and before that in China, where she combined research for her PhD with working for Save the Children Fund UK and UNICEF.
Julia Unwin, JRF Chief Executive, said: "I am delighted with Emma’s appointment. With 12 years' experience at the JRF, the depth of her research management experience, as well as her insight and ability, she will, I know, make a major contribution to the direction of JRF in the years ahead."
Emma Stone said: "At a time when the relationship between the state and society is being redrawn and public spending is being severely reduced, I am delighted to have the chance to help JRF drive forward a vision for persistence in tackling poverty and disadvantage.
"This is a time to raise the credible and clear voice of this organisation, speaking from evidence to inform and influence change, and working in partnership with others to create a more just society."
Emma Stone is also a trustee of Y Care International, a development agency working with disadvantaged young people in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and UK and of DORS, a UK charity undertaking integrated and participatory poverty alleviation in rural remote China.
