Please also refer to the web pages for the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion| and LSE Health and Social Care| for further listings of research staff within the Department.
Research staff
Carrier, Dr John
Contact details: Room OLD 2.24, 020 7955 6707, j.carrier@lse.ac.uk|
Hind, Audrey - Programmer, Education Research Group
|Contact details: Room OLD 2.24, 020 7955 7810, a.hind@lse.ac.uk| (Tuesdays only)
Noden, Dr Phillip - Research Fellow, Education Research Group
More information: LSE Experts|, Education Research Group|
Contact details: Room OLD 2.24, 020 7955 7381, p.noden@lse.ac.uk|
Emeritus
Downes, Professor David - Emeritus Professor of Social Policy
Research interests: Causes, character and consequences of mass imprisonment in the USA, comparative trends in crime, inequality, the regulation of drug use, welfare services and criminal justice.
More information: LSE Experts|, Mannheim Centre for Criminology|
Contact details: Room OLD 2.53, 020 7955 6445, d.downes@lse.ac.uk|
Glennerster, Professor Howard - Emeritus Professor of Social Policy
Associate, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
|Research interests: The economics and finance of health education and long term care and other aspects of social welfare the allocation of resources between areas; the history of social policy; the comparative study of social policy especially in respect to the United States
More information: LSE Experts|
Contact details: Room LRB R5z27B, 020 7955 6003, h.glennerster@lse.ac.uk|
Langford, Dr Chris - Emeritus Reader in Demography
Research interests: Fertility in Britain and Greece;influenza pandemic, 1918-19;mortality, Sri Lanka;marriage patterns;general demography.
More information: LSE Experts|, Population at LSE|
Contact details: Room OLD 2.24, 020 7955 6159, c.langford@lse.ac.uk|
Sainsbury, Miss Sally - Emeritus Reader in Social Policy
Research interests: Community care planning; community care practice; deaf people; disability; disability compensation; income maintenance; industrial injuries pensioners; integration; learning disability; local authority policies; normality; residential homes; segregation; social policy; and war pensioners.
More information: LSE Experts|
Contact details: Room OLD 2.24, 020 7955 7363, s.sainsbury@lse.ac.uk|
Wilson, Dr Gail - Emeritus Reader in Social Policy
Research interests: Ageing; ethnicity; migration; health and social services; and gender. Recent projects include covert resistance in intergenerational oppression; the secondary analysis of life histories of pioneer geriatricians in UK (with Professor Joanna Bornat, Open University); ethics in qualitative research; and the contribution of migrant doctors to the NHS.
Contact details: Room OLD 2.24, 020 7955 7347, g.wilson@lse.ac.uk|
Visiting
Please refer to Human Resources web pages for more information about visiting appointments|.
Brown, Professor Jennifer - Visiting Professor, Mannheim Centre for Criminology
|Research interests: Police occupational culture (stress experienced by officers, diversity and coping strategies); Investigation of rape; decision making in murder enquiries. Contact details: Room OLD 2.53, 020 7955 6445, j.brown5@lse.ac.uk|
Craig, Dr Ian - Visiting Professor
Research interests: Schooling systems and structures
Contact details: Room OLD 2.31, 020 7955 7355, i.craig1@lse.ac.uk|
Li, Hang - Visiting Fellow, Chevening Fellowship
Research interests: UK social policy, specifically the impact of ageing on welfare systems and the social policy reforms to cope with the issues raised by having an ageing population, as well as the housing policy to address the challenges coming from rapid urbanization.
Contact details: Room OLD 2.24, 020 7955 7670
Lobato, Professor Lenaura - Visiting Senior Fellow
Research interests: Brazilian social policies, with focus on health, social assistance and social security.
Contact details: Room OLD 2.24, 020 7955 6744, l.lobato@lse.ac.uk|
Macnicol, Professor John - Visiting Professor
Research interests: Age discrimination, ageing and social policy, retirement, pensions. Poverty, social exclusion and the history of the 'underclass' idea. Professor Macnicol has recently been awarded a two year Leverhulme fellowship for a project entitled 'From "Underclass" to "Social Exclusion"'.
More information: Curriculum Vitae| (PDF)
Contact details: Room OLD 2.24, 020 7955 7744, j.macnicol@lse.ac.uk|
Shalev, Dr Sharon - Visiting Fellow, Mannheim Centre for Criminology|
Research interests: Human rights, criminology, supermax prisons, solitary confinement
More information: Personal Web Page|
Contact details: Room OLD 2.53, 020 7955 6445, s.shalev@lse.ac.uk|
Torry, Malcolm - Visiting Fellow
Research interests: Citizen's Income
Contact details: Room OLD 2.24, 020 7955, 7608, m.n.torry@lse.ac.uk|