Experts on diversity at LSE

Professor Catherine Allerton 

Interest areas: Southeast Asia; children and childhood; education; houses; illegality; kinship and marriage; migration; place and landscape 

Dr Fenella Cannell

Interest areas: Catholicism; Mormonism; anthropology of Christianity; genealogy, gender healing and mediumship; kinship; religion; secularism; the lowland Philippines

Dr Clara Devlieger

Interest areas: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Central Africa; disability; distribution; urban livelihoods; rights and responsibilities 

Dr Mukulika Banerjee

Interest areas: South Asia; Pakistan and India; political anthropology; election cultures, popular perceptions and democracy; citizenship and ritual; state and civil society; anthro-political histories of South Asia; Islam and Muslim societies; fashion, public culture and modernity; contemporary identity and life histories 

Professor Katy Gardner

Interest areas: Bangladesh; globalisation; migration; economic change  

Professor Deborah James

Interest areas: South Africa; political economy; civil society and the state; land reform and property regimes; development and migration; ethnicity; ethnomusicology; HIV/AIDS and reproductive health 

Dr Nick Long

Interest areas: Indonesia and the Malay World; the politics of multiculturalism; experience of self, agency, and relations with others; processes of political and cultural change

Professor Mathijs Pelkmans

Interest areas: Caucasus (Republic of Georgia); Central Asia (Kyrgyz Republic); anthropology of borders; political anthropology; anthropology of religion  

Professor Alpa Shah

Interest areas: agrarian transitions and labour; caste and class; ethnicity; indigeneity; inequality and poverty; political and economic anthropology; the state, citizenship and revolutionary struggle 

Dr Harry Walker

Interest areas: Latin America; the indigenous peoples of Amazonia; selfhood; shamanism; law; materiality; sport; bureaucracy; egalitarianism; happiness; the commons; experiences of justice and injustice

Professor Christopher Minns

Interest areas: wages, work time, and labour market regulation in international perspective; the emergence of national markets in Canada, 1870-1940; schooling and school finance in North America, 1871-1971; apprenticeship in pre-modern Europe

Professor Jörn-Steffen Pischke 

Interest areas: education policy; empirical methodology; human capital; labour economics; training 

Professor Robin Burgess 

Interest areas: China; India; development economics; growth; labour economics; political economy; poverty; public economics; public policy 

Professor Oriana Bandiera

Interest areas: development economics; international trade; public sector 

Professor Frank Cowell

Interest areas: dynamics; income distribution; inequality; poverty; shadow economy; tax evasion 

Professor Alan Manning

Interest areas: labour markets; unemployment; minimum wages; monopsony; immigration; gender wage gap 

Dr Jennifer Jackson-Preece 

Interest areas: Europe; European security; European states system; North America; ethnic conflict; history; irredentism; minority rights; multiculturalism; nationalism; secession

Professor Mary Evans 

Interest areas: class and inequality; feminism; gender; higher education in the UK 

Dr Sadie Wearing

Interest areas: gender and feminist theory; aging and subjectivity in literature, culture and media; feminist film theory; gender and feminist theory; representation 

Professor Diane Perrons 

Interest areas: economic crises; gender; globalisation; inequality; labour markets, care and social reproduction; regional development and social sustainability 

Dr Sumi Madhok

Interest areas: South Asian politics; agency and coercion; citizenship; developmentalism; feminist political theory; human rights; postcoloniality; social movements; transnational gender politics; vernacular rights cultures 

Professor Wendy Sigle

Interest areas: childcare; family; gender; poverty 

Dr Ania Plomien

Interest areas: Central Eastern Europe; EU accession; EU labour market and social policies; Europeanisation; Poland; employment; gender; inequality; labour market policy; labour market; post-socialism; work and care 

Professor Clare Hemmings 

Interest areas: feminist epistemology and methodology; feminist theory; interdisciplinarity; transnational sexuality studies 

Professor Naila Kabeer

Interest areas: gender; poverty; social exclusion; labour markets and livelihoods; social protection; citizenship; South and South East Asia 

Professor Nicola Lacey 

Interest areas: criminal law and criminal justice with focus on comparative and historical scholarship; development of ideas of criminal responsibility in England since the 18th Century; comparative political economy of punishment; American exceptionalism in crime, punishment, and social policy; how criminal justice institutions may be designed so as to hold offenders responsible without engaging in stigmatising blame; legal and social theory; feminist analysis of law; law and literature; biography 

Dr Leticia Sabsay

Interest areas: feminist and queer theory; subject formations, performativity, bodies and sexuality; citizenship and postcoloniality; psychoanalytic theory; theories of discourse; visual cultures and media 

Professor Claire Mercer 

Interest areas: Africa; NGOs; Tanzania; civil society; development; diaspora; middle class; migration 

Dr Romola Sanyal

Interest areas: law; policy and regulatory bodies; public administration 

Professor Gareth Jones

Interest areas: cities; gated communities; gentrification; identities; international urban policy; urbanism; violence; youth 

Dr Austin Zeiderman

Interest areas: cities; citizenship; colonial and postcolonial history; development; disaster; environment; ethnography; globalization; law; race/ethnicity; rights; risk; science and technology; security; social theory; the state; uncertainty; urban governance; urban politics; urbanism 

Professor Hyun Shin 

Interest areas: China; East Asia; Korea; Olympic games; Southeast Asia; cities; comparative studies; displacement;  gentrification;  governance;  housing; mega-events; post-socialist transition; urban conservation; urban development; urban policy; urban politics; urban regeneration; urbanisation; urbanism 

Dr John Hutchinson

Interest areas: Irish nationalism; cultural nationalism; theories of nationalism; warfare and national identity 

Professor Catherine Boone 

Interest areas: Africa; comparative politics; political science; economic development; institutions; property rights 

Professor Katrin Flikschuh

Interest areas: Immanuel Kant; cosmopolitanism; freedom; global justice; justice; liberal political morality; philosophy of right; political responsibility 

Professor Francisco Panizza 

Interest areas: Latin American politics; democracy; human rights; left of centre governments; politics and economic change; politics and economy of the countries of Mercosur; populism 

Professor Leigh Jenco

Interest areas: Asian values; Chinese political thought; Confucianism; intercultural studies; interpretive methods 

Dr Eiko Thielemann

Interest areas: European Union; asylum; comparative politics and policy; immigration; international co-operation (burden sharing); migration 

Professor Jonathan Hopkin

Interest areas: British politics; southern European politics; inequality; political parties; redistribution; welfare states 

Dr Omar Mcdoom

Interest areas: African politics; Burundi; Democratic Republic of Congo; Great Lakes; Rwanda; Uganda; civil wars; ethnic conflict; genocide; insurgency; international development; political violence; terrorism 

Professor Anne Phillips 

Interest areas: democracy and representation; equality; feminism; human rights; multiculturalism 

Dr Sarah Goff

Interest areas: global justice; gender equality; economic justice 

Professor John Sidel

Interest areas: Indonesia; Islam; Philippines; Southeast Asia; democratisation; development; local politics; nationalism; religion; revolutions; terrorism; violence 

Dr Elliott Green 

Interest areas: decentralisation; ethnic conflict and ethnic politics; land reform; local government and federalism; nationalism; political demography; politics and history of Uganda; sub-Saharan Africa; urbanisation 

Professor Thandika Mkandawire

Interest areas: development theory; development; economic policy; political economy of development in Africa; social policy in developing countries 

Dr Philipa Mladovsky

Interest areas: European health systems; Ghana; India; Senegal; community health insurance; comparative health policy; developing countries; financial crisis; health financing; migrant health; social capital; social exclusion 

Dr Stuart Gordon

Interest areas: Afghanistan; health and conflict; military roles in development and natural disaster; stabilisation; state-building 

Professor Mary Kaldor

Interest areas: Afghanistan; Balkans; European security; Syria; global civil society; human security; new wars; oil and conflict

Professor David Keen

Interest areas: northern Iraq; Sierra Leone; Sudan; civil war; famine; human rights 

Professor Tim Allen

Interest areas: complex emergencies; development aid and agencies; ethics of aid; ethnic conflict; forced migration; justice and security in fragile and conflict-affected regions; local conceptions of health and healing; neglected tropical diseases (especially Schistosomiasis and Lymphatic Filariasis); role of the media in fragile and conflict-affected regions; the International Criminal Court; the Lord's Resistance Army 

Professor Timothy Dyson  

Interest areas: HIV epidemic; India; agricultural production; aids epidemic; developing world; family planning programmes; famines; fertility trends; global population trends; population trends; world food 

Professor Joanna Lewis

Interest areas: British Empire; British monarchy; David Livingstone; Harold Macmillan; colonial rule in Africa; governance in Africa; history of class and gender in Britain; popular culture; state funerals and commemorations; welfare and development 

Professor Carola Frege

Interest areas: comparative employment relations; German employment relations; workplace democracy, voice, employee participation, works councils; trade unions; employment theory; racism 

Professor Christopher Brown

Interest areas: international political theory/international ethics; ethics and warfare; justice and international relations; ethics, morality and foreign policy; human rights 

Dr Katerina Dalacoura

Interest areas: Western policy and the Middle East; culture in international relations; ethics; human rights in the Middle East; international relations theory; political Islam 

Dr Kirsten Ainley

Interest areas: human rights; humanitarian intervention; international ethics; international political theory; the politics of international law, in particular international criminal law and war crimes trials 

Dr Astrid Sanders

Interest areas: Labour law; employment law; relationship between labour law and contract and tort; relationship between labour law and human rights 

Professor Stephen Humphreys

Interest areas: climate change; crimes against humanity; environmental law; food security; human rights; International Criminal Court; international criminal law; international justice; war crimes 

Professor Conor Gearty 

Interest areas: terrorism; human rights; civil liberties

Professor Kai Moller 

Interest areas: comparative constitutional law; constitutional theory; human rights law; moral, political and legal philosophy

Professor Christine Chinkin

Interest areas: United Nations law; dispute resolution; feminist legal issues; human rights law and institutions; international dispute resolution; international human rights; public international law; women's human rights 

Professor Jill Peay 

Interest areas: mental health law; mentally disordered offenders 

Dr Margot Salomon

Interest areas: poverty, inequality, development and the law of international cooperation; legal rights, dispossession and the global economy; economic self-determination; socio-economic and development rights; the rights of indigenous peoples; land rights; UN; international financial institutions; European Union; environmental justice 

Dr Hyun-Jung Lee

Interest areas: cross-cultural management; emotion and mood in the workplace; workplace diversity 

Professor Yona Rubinstein

Interest areas: formation of human capital; earnings inequality and the gender gaps in labour market outcomes; evaluation of social programmes; the formation of trade partners; trade flows and the evaluation of trade barriers; the economics of fear and peoples' response to terrorism 

Dr Jonathan E. Booth

Interest areas: workplace aggression and victimisation; cognitive and emotional appraisals and coping processes; role of core-self evaluations; leadership, team and organisational structure influences; forgiveness; dirty work; conflict management, dispute resolution and arbitral decision making; union membership and participation; youth-adult differences and never-membership; corporate social responsibility and employee volunteer programmes 

Professor Shakuntala Banaji 

Interest areas: Bollywood; Hindi cinema; South Asia; audiences; children; creativity; film studies; media education; media literacy; media; online participation; political contexts; young people; youth civic participation 

Professor Myria Georgiou 

Interest areas: audience research; diaspora, migration, and the media; identity and the media; media and the city; transnational communities and networks

Professor Ellen Helsper

Interest areas: links between social and digital exclusion; mediated interpersonal and social relationships: social identity, intimacy and psychological wellbeing; cross-cultural comparisons of media in everyday life; quantitative methods in media and communications research 

Professor Robin Mansell

Interest areas: social and organisational transformation and new technologies; knowledge networks and innovation systems; information and communications technologies; development and inequality; information and communication policy and regulation 

Dr Flora Cornish 

Interest areas: community mobilisation; HIV/AIDS; collective action; community engagement and participation; community health interventions; dialogue; ethnography; evidence and evaluation in health research and policy; qualitative research methodologies; social movements; transnational development management 

Dr Chana Teeger 

Interest areas: race 

Professor Alexander Voorhoeve

Interest areas: health care allocation; moral and political philosophy; moral psychology; rational choice 

Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch

Interest areas: Brazil; Brazilian public sphere; belief systems; community development; dialogue and communication; health; inter-cultural dialogue; knowledge processes; participation; public sphere; social representations 

Dr Caroline Howarth

Interest areas: community; ethnicity; identity; intercultural relations;  interfaith; multiculturism; racism; school exclusion; whiteness; youth 

Professor Catherine Campbell

Interest areas: 'social capital'; HIV/AIDS; agency; capacity building; care and caring relationships; collective action; community participation; education; gender; health-enabling schools; mental health; partnerships; power and empowerment; public health and health promotion; sexuality; social change; social development; social exclusion and social inequalities, with particular attention to the way in which health inequalities are shaped by social identities relating to gender, ethnicity, age/youth and socio-economic position; social movements; stigma 

Professor Coretta Phillips

Interest areas: crime; criminology; ethnic inequality; ethnicity and criminal justice; minority perspectives; racism, racial discrimination, criminal justice

Dr Patrick McGovern 

Interest areas: economic sociology; employment relations; immigration; work 

Dr Ursula Henz 

Interest areas: demography; family sociology; informal caring; life course; quantitative methods; social stratification 

Professor Michael Savage 

Interest areas: academic; consultant to organisations in cultural sector; media 

Dr Suki Ali

Interest areas: feminist postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, research methodologies, visual culture, and theories of identification and embodiment. Her work centralises the interplay between gender, sexualities, 'race' and class  

Dr Robin Archer

Interest areas: labour movements; labour politics; social movements, in questions of social and political philosophy (particularly questions concerning liberalism, socialism, freedom and democracy), in questions of comparative political economy (particularly concerning industrial relations, and the development of welfare states), in questions of political culture (particularly those concerning the impact of liberal, racial and religious ideas), and in the effects of political institutions 

Dr Tina Basi

Interest areas: identity; postcolonialism; feminist theory; feminist cultural studies; qualitative research methodologies; material culture 

Professor Chetan Bhatt

Interest areas: South Asia; human rights; minorities; nationalism; religious extremism and violence; social theory and philosophy; terrorism studies 

Dr Ayça Çubukçu

Interest areas: social and political theory; human rights; cosmopolitanism; secularism; postcolonial studies and transnational social movement 

Dr Claire Moon

Interest areas: South Africa; atrocities; discourse and narrative theories; forgiveness; political apologies; post-conflict reconciliation; reparations; social constructivism; socio-legal studies; therapy; transitional justice; truth commissions; war trauma 

Professor Emeritus Eileen Barker

Interest areas: cults; minority rights; new religious movements; religion; sects 

Reader Emeritus Christopher Husbands 

Interest areas: United Kingdom; Western Europe; assessment; extreme right; higher education; nationalism; political asylum; politics; race; racist attacks; racist politics; teaching quality