Dr Tim White

Tim White is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. He is also affiliated with the London School of Economics, the Technical University of Vienna and the Free University of Berlin. Tim gained his PhD in Sociology from LSE in 2023. Prior to the PhD, he worked as a researcher at LSE Cities.

Tim’s work centres on housing, land, property and power. He has a particular interest in the growing role of housing and land in processes of capital accumulation. His research draws connections between structures of ownership and control, including financial logics and strategies, and everyday experiences and social relations. His current project examines the growing role of digital technologies in housing and land, and the emerging forms of extraction, inequality and injustice this is driving. Tim also studies the political economy of land and is concerned with the role of property in broader questions of inequality and wealth distribution.

Tim takes an interdisciplinary social-scientific approach, drawing on fields including urban studies, economic sociology and critical political economy. His work has been published in journals including Economy and Society and EPA: Economy and Space, and in newspapers including The Guardian.

Expertise

Housing, Land, Financialisation, Inequality, Political Economy