About
Tania Burchardt is a Professor in the Department of Social Policy at LSE and an Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE).
Tania is a commissioning editor of the LSE Public Policy Review, a member of STICERD, an associate of the International Inequalities Institute and serves on the management committee of the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. In recent years, she has joined advisory/steering groups for the Department of Communities and Local Government, Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Resolution Foundation, Health Foundation, Trussell Trust, and Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management at Birmingham.
Tania was educated at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia and completed her PhD in Social Policy at the LSE in 2005. Tania has worked at the LSE since 1995, when she joined CASE’s Welfare State Programme as a Research Officer. She became a Research Fellow in 2000, and Deputy Director of CASE in 2011 before her stint as Director 2016-2020.
Research
Tania’s research interests lie in theories of justice, including the capability approach, measurement of inequality and applied welfare policy analysis. At present she is working mainly on two very different areas: inequalities in adult social care (mostly in the UK); and the development of an Extreme Wealth Line (internationally). She is also involved in collaborations on better use of children's information by local authorities, and on poverty among migrant families. See the CASE website for more details. She has held research grants from the British Academy, ESRC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Nuffield Foundation and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Funded research projects with which she is currently involved include:
Teaching
Tania is Doctoral Programme Director, and convenes the Research stream of the MSc International Social and Public Policy.
She is convenor of SP420 Understanding Policy Research (Advanced) and SP232 Health and Social Care Policy.
She also lectures on various undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervises PhD students within the Social Policy department.
Tania supervises doctoral studies in areas including:
The capability approach; Multidimensional poverty and inequality; Time use; Choice and autonomy in relation to welfare services and well-being; Empirical welfare policy analysis.
However, please note that Tania has limited capacity to take on new PhD students at present.