Meet Our LSE ESRC DTP Students

Each year, LSE ESRC DTP welcomes new funded students, supported by the ESRC. The DTP is proud of its students, their energy and dedication to their research. We, alongside their departments, support them in completing their research projects and developing as individuals.

From this page you can find our students, their research project and a link to their departmental page (where available) starting from our 2024/25 entry cohort.

2025/26

Alice Bell - Department of Gender Studies

Research interests: Communities, participation, empowerment, care and welfare, and analysing scales of governance

Jose Antonio Belso Cervantes - Department of Geography and Environment

Juliana Oliveira Cunha - Department of Geography and Environment

Aaron Coomer - Department of Methodology

Gillian Datlen - Department of Methodology

Benjamin Ginsburg Hix - Department of Government

Daniel Hayton - Department of Government

Gillian Hollebone - Department of Economic History

Salma Aly Salem Ibrahim - International Development

Amy Jones - Department of Management

Research interests: Innovative finance and digital transformation in cities to support climate action

Katie Mulkowsky - Department of Geography and Environment

Pedram Noohi - Department of Mathematics

Research interests: Discrete Mathematics

Mattie Rowlands - Department of Anthropology

Research interests: Sex hormones (testosterone); the body, care and the welfare state; neoliberalism, the self, and political subjectivity

Daniela Montanari Sanchez - Department of Social Policy

Diarmuid Schlink-Mcdonald - Department of Media and Communications

Research interests: The role of new office practices, typically those associated with tech and creative industries, in shaping the subjectivity of workers. 

Luca Siepmann - European Institute

Research interests: Party Politics, Legislative Studies, British Politics

Sonali Silva - Department of Methodology

Constance Viehbeck - Department of Health Policy

Delilah Wallbank - Department of Sociology

Ethan Ward - Department of Economics

Felix Willuweit - Department of International Development 

Nimar Zhao - Department of Finance

Research interests: Mathematical and statistical techniques to understand topics across finance and economics.

2024/25

William Byrd - Department of Social Policy  

Research interests: Care, Trade unions, Inequalities 

Claire Calvel - Department of Methodology 

Research interests: Global health, development, inequality, demography, weight stigma 

Alice Chilcott - Department of International Development 

Research interests: Grassroots Organisations; Women; Health 

Honor Gitsham - Department of Anthropology 

Research interests: Queer Reproductive Practices; Gender, Sexuality and Kinship; (In)Justice; Sensory Ethnographic Methods; Creative Writing and Poetic Forms 

Aristeidis Grivokostopoulos - Department of Economic History 

Research interests: Monetary and fiscal history of Greece, the Balkans and Southern Europe, before WWI. 

Erik Hummel - Department of Geography and Environment 

Research interests: Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, Real Estate Finance

Xinhui Liu - Department of Statistics 

Research interests: Data Science 

Mina Mahmoudzadeh - Department of Sociology 

Research interests: Sociology, Social Mobility 

Agnes Norris Keiller - Department of Economics 

Research interests: Environmental economics, Development economics 

Johann Ohler - Department of Economic History 

Research interests: Economic history; population economics, political economy 

Ranieri Omenetto Arcella - Department of Finance 

Research interests: Finance 

Lekshmi Prasannan Reeba - Department of Methodology 

Research interests: Demography  

Sramana Sabnam - Department of Media and Communications 

Research interests: Digital gender disparities, education of adolescent girls, family sociology 

Leon Sinfield - Department of International Relations 

Research interests: Russian foreign policy, Chinese foreign policy, international order 

Andrea Luigi Telò - European Institute 

Research interests: Trade Politics; EU Institutions; Politics of the EU; International Political Economy; Comparative Political Economy 

Yechi Wang - Department of Methodology 

Research interests: Political Sociology, Qualitative Text Analytics 

Jack Wilkinson - Department of Government  

Research interests: Political theory, government  

Sabrina Wimmer - Department of Health Policy 

Research interests: Health Policy and Economics, Global Surgery, Pharmaceutical Policy