Dr. Akile Ahmet (Head of Inclusive Education, LSE Eden Centre for Educational Enhancement). With a research background in Geography and Sociology, Dr. Ahmet has developed innovative research projects examining spaces of power and resistance in Higher Education. She also leads the LSE's Inclusive Education Action Plan.
Dr. Paul Apostolidis (Associate Professorial Lecturer in Government). Dr. Apostolidis' research integrates empirical field research involving Latinx migrant workers in the United States with political and critical theory.
Dr. Manmit Bhambra (Research Officer in Religion & Global Society). Dr. Bhambra's research interests are centred around identity politics and formation, ethnic and national identities as well as the broader themes of Race, Inclusion and Minority rights.
Inderbir Bhullar (Curator for Economics and Social Policy, LSE Library) puts on exhibitions, writes blogs and attempts to connect the Library collections with academics, students and anyone with an interest in finding out more. He has curated exhibitions including 2016's Charles Booth's London.
Dr. Paolo Brunori (Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute). Dr. Brunori's research focuses on inequalities, and in particular, the type of inequality that people tend to perceive as unfair. His work asks the question: can we measure inequality of opportunity?
Prof. Bart Cammaerts (Professor of Politics and Communication). Prof. Cammaerts' current research focuses on the relationship between media, communication and resistance with particular emphasis on media strategies of activists, media representations of protest, alternative counter-cultures and broader issues relating to power, participation and public-ness.
Daniel Chandler (PhD Candidate in Economics). Mr. Chandler's is an economist and philosopher, based at LSE. His research is concerned with the study of inequalities in the contemporary world. He published his first book, Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?, with Penguin/Allen Lane in 2023.
Dr. Flora Cornish (Associate Professor in Research Methodology). Dr. Cornish's research is grounded in its transformative potential, examining the role of grassroots mobilisation in improving public health. Her current research looks at the process of community-led recovery in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire.
Prof. Ellen Helsper (Professor of Digital Inequalities). Prof. Helsper's current research interests include the links between social and digital inequalities; mediated interpersonal communication; participatory immersive digital spaces (VR, ER); and quantitative and qualitative methodological developments in media and communications research.
Dr. Armine Ishkanian (Associate Professor of Social Policy). Dr. Ishkanian's research examines the relationship between civil society, democracy, development, and social transformation. She has examined how civil society organisations and social movements engage in policy processes and transformative politics in a number of countries.
Prof. Naila Kabeer (Professor of Gender and Development). Prof. Kabeer's research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection and citizenship, and much of her research is focused on South and South East Asia.
Andrew McNeil (Department of Government) investigates how individuals’ intergenerational social mobility trajectories impact the tendency to vote for anti-establishment parties and more generally form cleavages within society.
Prof. Tim Newburn (Professor of Criminology and Social Policy). Prof. Newburn's research has spanned a number of areas including policing, restorative justice, youth justice, drugs and alcohol, comparative policy making and urban violence. He was the LSE’s lead on Reading the Riots, their prize-winning research with the Guardian on the 2011 disorder.
Prof. Coretta Phillips (Professor of Criminology and Social Policy). Prof. Phillips' research interests lie in the field of race, ethnicity, crime, criminal justice and social policy. She is also involved in a study with minority ethnic young people in London, including those involved in crime but not detected by the police, those deeply entrenched in the criminal justice system, and those uninvolved in crime at all.
Dr. Andrea Pia (Assistant Professor of Anthropology). Dr. Pia is a legal and environmental anthropologist working at the interface between political economy, development, and the critical study of the commons. His regional focus over the last 15 years has been the People’s Republic of China.
Prof. Mike Savage (Professor of Sociology). Prof. Savage's research focuses on the analysis of social stratification and inequality. He has played a major role in the revival of the sociology of social class in recent decades, working to foreground the intersectional and cultural dimensions of social inequalities.
Prof. Wendy Sigle (Professor of Gender and Family Studies). Prof. Sigle has worked on a variety of issues related to families and family policy in historical and contemporary societies. Her quantitative research applies both econometric and demographic methods to the analysis of secondary survey data or data drawn from official government records.
Dr. Andy Summers (Associate Professor of Law). Dr. Summers' research focuses on the taxation of wealth. His current research includes the examination of capital gains and measurements of inequality.