Head of Department

Professor Lucinda Platt

Room OLD 2.25
+44 (0)20 7955 6829
l.platt@lse.ac.uk

Deputy Head of Department

Dr Kitty Stewart

Room OLD 2.36
+44 (0)20 7955 7343
k.j.stewart@lse.ac.uk

Department Manager

Damian Roberts

Room OLD 2.46
+44 (0)20 7955 7345
D.P.Roberts@lse.ac.uk

**Please note that Advice and Feedback hours are held during term time only

Dr Thomas Biegert

Assistant Professor

Room OLD 2.54
+44 (0)20 7955 7476
t.biegert@lse.ac.uk

Dr Tania Burchardt

Associate Professor

Room 32L 3.30
+44 (0)20 7955 6700
t.burchardt@lse.ac.uk

Dr Leonidas Cheliotis

Associate Professor

Room OLD 2.51
+44 (0)20 7955 7698
l.cheliotis@lse.ac.uk

Dr Divya Deepthi

LSE Fellow

Room OLD 2.50
+44 (0)20 7955 6169
d.deepthi@lse.ac.uk

Dr Sonia Exley

Associate Professor

Room OLD 2.64
+44 (0)20 7955 7348
s.exley@lse.ac.uk

Dr Timo Fleckenstein

Associate Professor

Room OLD 2.60
+44 (0)20 7955 6994
t.fleckenstein@lse.ac.uk

Dr Timothy Hildebrandt

Associate Professor

Room OLD 2.56
+44 (0)20 7955 7344
t.r.hildebrandt@lse.ac.uk

Dr Vanessa Hughes

LSE Fellow

Room OLD 2.38
+44 (0)20 7955 6582
v.hughes@lse.ac.uk

Dr Armine Ishkanian

Associate Professor

a.ishkanian@lse.ac.uk

Advice and feedback hours:
On secondment

Professor Stephen Jenkins

Professor of Economic and Social Policy

Room OLD 2.29
+44 (0)20 7955 6527
s.jenkins@lse.ac.uk

Dr Johann Koehler

Assistant Professor

Room OLD 2.59
+44 (0)20 7955 6184
j.koehler@lse.ac.uk

Dr Sunil Kumar

Lecturer in Social Policy and Development

Room OLD 2.55
+44 (0)20 7955 6195
s.kumar@lse.ac.uk

Professor Sir Julian Le Grand

Professor of Social Policy

+44 (0)20 7107 7353
j.legrand@lse.ac.uk

Professor David Lewis

Professor David Lewis has moved to the Department of International Development.

View his profile here.

Dr Christopher Maggio

LSE Fellow

c.maggio@lse.ac.uk

Professor Michael Murphy

Professor of Demography

Room OLD 2.61
+44 (0)20 7955 7661
m.murphy@lse.ac.uk

Professor Tim Newburn

Professor of Criminology and Social Policy

Room OLD 2.40a
+44 (0)20 7955 6220
t.newburn@lse.ac.uk

Dr Adam Oliver

Associate Professor (Reader)

Room OLD 2.35
+44 (0)20 7955 6471
a.j.oliver@lse.ac.uk

On sabbatical leave for 2021/22 academic year

Dr Berkay Özcan

Associate Professor

Room OLD 2.32
+44 (0)20 7955 6867
b.ozcan@lse.ac.uk

On sabbatical leave for Michaelmas Term of the 2021/22 academic year.

Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey

Assistant Professor

Room OLD 2.53
+44 (0)20 7955 7744
r.n.pailey@lse.ac.uk

Dr Amelia Peterson

LSE Fellow

Room OLD 2.38
+44 (0) 7955 6754
a.peterson1@lse.ac.uk

Professor Coretta Phillips

Professor of Criminology and Social Policy

Room OLD 2.28
+44 (0)20 7955 7974
coretta.phillips@lse.ac.uk

Professor Lucinda Platt

Professor of Social Policy and Sociology

Room OLD 2.25
+44 (0)20 7955 6829
l.platt@lse.ac.uk

Dr Hakan Seckinelgin

Associate Professor (Reader)

Room OLD 2.27
+44 (0)20 7955 6038
m.h.seckinelgin@lse.ac.uk

Dr Amanda Sheely

Assistant Professor

Room OLD 2.52
+44 (0)20 7955 7348
a.sheely@lse.ac.uk

Dr Michael Shiner

Associate Professor

Room OLD 2.34
+44 (0)20 7955 6355
m.shiner@lse.ac.uk

Dr Isabel Shutes

Associate Professor

Room OLD 2.58
+44 (0)20 7955 7364
i.h.shutes@lse.ac.uk

Dr Kitty Stewart

Associate Professor

Room OLD 2.36
+44 (0)20 7955 7343
k.j.stewart@lse.ac.uk

Dr Iva Tasseva

LSE Fellow

Room OLD 2.50
i.tasseva@lse.ac.uk

Professor Anne West

Professor of Education Policy

Room OLD 2.30
+44 (0)20 7955 7269
a.west@lse.ac.uk

On sabbatical leave for 2021/22 academic year

Dr Yifei Yan

LSE Fellow

Room OLD 2.38
+44 (0)20 3486 2908
y.yan10@lse.ac.uk

Professor Francisco H. G. Ferreira

Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director (designate) of LSE International Inequalities Institute

F.D.Ferreira@lse.ac.uk

Francisco H. G. Ferreira is the Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director (designate) of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. He is also affiliated with the Department of Social Policy at LSE.
Read more here.

The Professional Services team supports students and faculty to deliver the School's teaching, research, and engagement initiatives.

More information about the Social Policy Programme Support teams and the Programme Support Office

Damian Roberts
Department Manager

D.P.Roberts@lse.ac.uk

Responsible for: The Professional Services Team;
Human, Financial and Physical Resource Management;
Strategic Planning

Abi Black
PhD and Departmental Research Administrator

a.a.black@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: All aspects of PhD study in the Department, Department Blog, Department Working Paper Series, research related activity.

Clare Gorman
Undergraduate Programmes Manager

c.gorman@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Undergraduate study:
student welfare, course choice, timetabling, exams and assessment and programme regulations

Rosie Jones
Student Engagement Officer

r.r.jones@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Alumni Mentoring, Summer Internship Programme, Academic and Professional Skills Development workshops and events

Chris Kennedy
MSc Administrator

c.kennedy3@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: MSc study:
Moodle, reading lists, events and SSLC

Maria Schlegel,
Events and Communications Officer

m.s.schlegel@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Departmental events and seminars, internal and external Department communications

Dr Craig Stewart,
Teaching Operations Manager (Postgraduate)

c.j.stewart@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: MSc and PhD study:
student welfare, course choice, timetabling and programme regulations; Departmental workload planning