Dr Christine Corlet Walker
Research Fellow
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Christine is a CUSP Research Fellow, working within our systems analysis theme, focusing on the question of how to deliver societal well-being in a post-growth economy.
Christine is a political economist who specialises in postgrowth economics and the privatisation of social care. Her research with the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity asks how we can build resilient welfare systems that meet the needs of all within the means of the planet. Most recently, she has looked at how predatory financing in the care sector has been driving poor outcomes for care workers and service users.
She has presented her work on growth dependency to policymakers at the European Commission, and is engaged in an ongoing capacity with the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth. Christine drafted a series of amendments to the Health & Care Bill that were debated in the House of Lords in early 2022, as well as co-developing a House of Commons Early Day Motion on the financialisation of adult social care. Her work has featured in The Morning Star, The Daily Express, The Guardian, The Conversation, BBC Radio Surrey and on a recent episode of BBC Panorama’s Crisis in Care series.
Alongside her core PhD research, Christine has collaborated with national and international charities, NGOs and research institutes on projects addressing alternative indicators of wellbeing beyond GDP, the UK’s housing crisis, wellbeing economics, and nature restoration. Prior to CUSP, she worked for several years as a third sector consultant and researcher. Christine holds an MSc in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh, and an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.
Publications
Corlet Walker C, Kotecha V, Druckman A and T Jackson 2022. Held to ransom: What happens when investment firms take over UK care homes. CUSP Working Paper, No 35. Guildford: Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity.
Corlet Walker C, Druckman A and T Jackson 2022. A critique of the marketisation of long-term residential and nursing home care. The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 3(4). Available at: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(22)00040-X/fulltext
Corlet Walker C and T Jackson 2021. Tackling growth dependency—the case of adult social care. CUSP Working Paper No 28. Guildford: Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity.
Corlet Walker C, Druckman A and T Jackson 2021. Welfare systems without economic growth: A review of the challenges and next steps for the field. In: Ecological Economics, Vol 186, 2021, 107066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107066.
Corlet Walker C, Druckman A and T Jackson 2021. Careless finance: Operational and economic fragility in adult social care. CUSP Working Paper No 26. Guildford: Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity.
Corlet Walker C, Druckman A and C Cattaneo C 2020. Understanding the (non-)use of societal wellbeing indicators in national policy development: What can we learn from civil servants? A UK case study. Social Indicators Research, pp.1-43.
Corlet Walker C, and Jackson T 2019. Measuring Prosperity: Navigating the Options. CUSP Working Paper Series, No. 20.
Corlet Walker C 2018. Review: In Defense of Degrowth: Opinions and Manifestos, by Giorgos Kallis, edited by Aaron Vansintjan, Uneven Earth Press, 2018 (Ecological Economics)
Corlet Walker C, Mair, S. and Druckman, A., 2018. A Theory of Change Approach for Measuring Economic Welfare Beyond GDP. CUSP Working Paper Series, No. 10.
Tayleur C, Balmford A, Buchanan G M, Butchart SH, Corlet Walker C, Ducharme H, Green R E, Milder J C, Sanderson F J, Thomas D H and Tracewski L, 2018. Where are commodity crops certified, and what does it mean for conservation and poverty alleviation?. Biological Conservation, 217, pp.36-46.
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