Jennifer Rubin

Jennifer Rubin is a British social scientist and policy analyst who is professor of public policy at King's College London. A graduate and doctorate in social and political sciences, her research covers a wide area including research policy, government policy, public health and social care. She is elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is currently the Chief Scientific Officer at the UK Home office. Education Rubin studied B.A. in European politics at the Loughborough University and graduated in 1990 in first class honours. Enroling for Ph.D. in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge, she earned her doctorate in 1995. That year, she was awarded the Opportunity Research Scholars' Program (ORS) by which she worked at King's College London. Her thesis was Selecting gender : women, management and the corporate interview, which she partially published as "Gender, Equality and the Culture of Organizational Assessment" in the book Gender, Work & Organization in 1997. Career In 1993, Rubin worked as a lecturer of sociology and politics at the Anglia Ruskin University, and as lecturer of psychology at the Middlesex University. In 2006, she joined RAND Europe, a non-profit research institute in Cambridge, as an analyst, and became the director of Communities, Safety and Justice Programme in 2010. Since 2007, she sits on the board of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research. In May 2015, she was appointed Director of the Policy Institute at King's College London, and continues to serve as its professor.