Ms Sharon Collard

Biography

Sharon Collard is the Director of the Personal Finance Research Centre.

She has extensive experience of conducting social research in a policy context and specialises in qualitative research techniques. Much of her research is around money management and credit use among low-income households. She has undertaken research with vulnerable groups, including a study of financially excluded people who use outreach money advice services and several research studies exploring people's views and experiences of the Social Fund. She has in-depth knowledge of policy around debt, financial exclusion and financial capability.

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Links

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Recent publications

• Collard, SB, Finney, AD & Kempson, HE 2013, ‘The Impact on Business and Consumers of a Cap on the Total Cost of Credit’. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
• Collard, SB 2013, ‘Workplace pension reform: lessons from pension reform in Australia and New Zealand’. Social Policy & Society, vol 12.

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