People
Dr Timothy Hildebrandt (he/them)
Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development, Department of Social Policy.
Professor Hakan Seckinelgin (they/them)
Professor of International Social Policy, Department of Social Policy.
Dr Kevin Zapata-Celestino (he/him)
Dr Kevin Zapata-Celestino is an LSE Fellow in the Department of Social Policy. He has relevant experience working on individual and multidisciplinary research projects with a strong focus on social and public policy in Latin America. For his doctoral thesis, he investigated how a policy community populated by renowned scholars, domestic policymakers and international consultants was able to frame Mexico’s antipoverty agenda for more than two decades by exercising direct influence on the policy elite.
Guodong Ju (he/him)
Guodong Ju is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Policy at LSE. His research employs Big Data and uses advanced quantitative methods to understand general public’s attitudes toward LGBTQ+ people in China, and the extent to which there is a unified ‘imagined community’ of sexual minorities in the country.