Dr Rajiv Prabhakar
Senior Lecturer In Personal Finance
Biography
Professional biography
Rajiv Prabhakar is Senior Lecturer in Personal Finance at the Economics discipline. He teaches on modules on DB125 You and Your Money and is on the production team for the upcoming module D112 You and Your World. He is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice.
Rajiv has been, and is currently, a Parliamentary Academic Fellow at the UK Parliament. He has been based at the House of Commons Library (2021-2022) and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Techology's Knowledge Exchange Unit (2022-2024). He is attached in 2025 to the Members' and Members' Staff Services Team. In 2024, he was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Knowledge Exchange Award for his work on the gender pension gap.
Publications
Book
Financial Inclusion: critique and alternatives (2021)
Book Chapter
What Lessons May Be Drawn from Media Reactions to a Universal Basic Income? (2022)
Personal Finance in Context (2018)
Why do the public oppose inheritance taxes? (2015)
Does the financial crisis create opportunities for wealth taxation? (2012)
Debating the 'death tax': the politics of inheritance tax in the UK (2011)
What is the legacy of New Labour? (2011)
Reforming public services: the views of the main parties (2010)
Digital Artefact
Tax Strategy and Government Policy (2021)
Covid-19 and the Child Trust Fund (2020)
What do the reactions to Covid-19 show so far about financial inclusion? (2020)
Journal Article
Evaluating Parliamentary Academic Fellows (2025)
Are temporary or permanent income payments better placed to boost demand during Covid-19? (2022)
What are the barriers to taxing wealth? The case of a wealth tax proposal in the UK (2021)
Covid-19 and the Child Trust Fund (2020)
Universal basic income and Covid 19 (2020)
Should Basic Payment Accounts be Extended? (2019)
Financial Inclusion: A Tale of Two Literatures (2019)
Are Basic Capital Versus Basic Income Debates Too Narrow? (2018)
A House Divided: Asset-Based Welfare and Housing Asset-Based Welfare (2018)
How did the Welsh government manage to reform council tax in 2005? (2016)
What are public attitudes towards financial capability? Evidence from focus groups in London (2014)
Asset-based welfare: financialization or financial inclusion? (2013)
What do people think of taxation? Evidence from a focus group study in England (2012)
The Child Trust Fund in the UK: How might opening rates by parents be increased? (2010)
Developing financial capability among the young through education and asset-based welfare (2010)
Can public opposition to inheritance tax be weakened? (2009)
What is the future for asset-based welfare? (2009)
The assets agenda and social policy (2009)
Assets, inequality and the crisis (2009)
The development of asset-based welfare: the case of the Child Trust Fund in the UK (2009)
Wealth taxes: stories, metaphors and public attitudes (2008)
Other
Asset-based welfare and child poverty: next steps for the Welsh Assembly (2010)
Report
Increasing Taxes on Wealth. Lessons from the Welsh government reforms of Council Tax (2019)
Better but cheaper? Reforming the Child Trust Fund (2010)
Teen and tweeneconomics: a study into the teenage and tweenage pound in Britain: chapter 2 (2009)
