PhD destinations

PhD Destinations

Our PhD students go onto jobs in academia and policy.

This is a list of the initial positions that some of our recent research students went on to secure after they successfully completed their PhD in the Department of Social Policy. 

 

PhD completion 2022

Victoria Donnalojo
Max Weber Fellow, EUI

Aapo Hiilamo
Specialist Researcher, Itla Children's Foundation

Rana Khazbak
Research Fellow, University of Nottingham 

Philippa Mullins
Assistant Professor, American University of Armenia, College of Humanities and Social Science

Orsola Torrisi
Postdoctoral Associate, New York University Abu Dhabi

 

PhD completion 2021

Aveek Bhattacharya
Cheif Economist, Social Market Foundation

Rafael Carranza
Postdoctoral Research Officer, International Inequalities Institute LSE, Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford

Valentina Iemmi
LSE Fellow, Department of Health Policy, LSE

Nicholas Mathers
Global Social Policy Consultant

Sam Mohun Himmelweit
LSE Fellow, Department of Social Policy, LSE

Julia Philipp
Research Director, NatCem

 

PhD completion 2020

Antoneall Bancalari Valderrama
Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews

Daniel Fujiwara
CEO/Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science LSE, Simetrica-Jacobs

Tasseli McKay
Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Duke University

Rishita Nandagiri
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Methodology, LSE

Marco Palillo
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sciences Po

Melissa Shannon
Research Scientist, AP-NORC

Laura Sochas
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Social Policy, University of Oxford

Ellie Suh
Postdoctoral Research Officer, Department of Education, University of Oxford

Filippo Temporin
Teacher, Collegio Vescovile Pio X

 

PhD completion 2019

Diego Alburez Gutierrez
Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Ewa Batyra
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania

Miranda Bevan
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, LSE

Vanessa Davey
Postdoctoral Researcher, Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili

Ginerva Floridi
Research Associate, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Kings College London

Wilson Guzman
Assistant Professor, Universidad de Las Américas

Gabriel Heller Sahlgren
Research Fellow, Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Lamia Irfan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SOAS University of London

Klara Lorenz
Research Officer, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE

Tze Ming Mok
Data and Insights Lead, Co-Design Lab (TSI)

Alexis Palfreyman
Research Fellow, University College London

Tatiana Paredes-Torres
Research Fellow, University College London

Nora Ratzmann
Research Fellow, DeZIM-Institut