Rosie Collington is a PhD candidate at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, where she researches the political economy of outsourcing. She has written on this subject and others for publications including The Guardian, OpenDemocracy, and The Independent. Her academic research has been published by New Political Economy (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) and the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and she has conducted policy research for a number of organisations including Common Wealth and the British Heart Foundation, where she also previously worked within an outsourced team from Deloitte.