Grants, awards, honours and prizes
We are successful in gaining external funding for our research and publish in leading academic outlets and in vital public fora.
The following is a selection of research funding grants, awards and special appointments received by the Department of Sociology.
2025
- Wellcome Trust Early-Career Award. Rewriting Latin America’s Healthcare History: Abortion Criminalisation and the Making of Contemporary Health Systems. Lessons from Ecuador. (Dr Andrea Espinoza Carvajal)
- Korea Foundation Field Fellowship. Sites of Postcolonialisms. Reading-through Coloniality in Korea. (Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa)
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. The growing role of digital technologies in housing and land, and the emerging forms of extraction, inequality and injustice. (Dr Tim White)
2024
- ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Political disempowerment and economic change in ex-industrial England (Sacha Hilhorst)
- LSE Sociology Seed Fund Award. Digital Funerals and the Digitisation of Grief. (Carrie Friese)
- LSE Sociology Seed Fund Award. Palestine: Spaces and Politics Introductory Curriculum. ( Dena Qaddumi)
- LSE Sociology Seed Fund Award. Play/ Work: Precarity, Creativity and Labour in a ‘play crisis’. (Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi)
- LSE Sociology Seed Fund Award. Sonic Lives: On the Radio and Anticolonial Solidarity. (Sara Salemand Mai Taha)
- LSE Sociology Impact Grant. Revolutionary Papers Traveling Exhibition. (Mahvish Ahmad)
- Understanding Society Research Data Fellowship. Understanding the effects of health and caregiving dynamics on credit usage and financial distress. Total: £70,000. (Ursula Henz)
- LSE KEI PhD Fund. A Tale of Two Towns (Sacha Hilhorst)
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Owners and Occupiers: The Politics of Housing Tenure. Total: £64,991. (David Madden)
- LSE KEI PhD Fund. A dialogue on dynamics of racism in Turkey. (Helen Mackreath)
- International Science Partnerships Fund. Social Lighting and Urban Design in Southeast Asia: Changing Professional Practices. (Don Slater)
- LSE Sociology Impact Grant. Pilot Community Engagement Project with London's Turkish-speaking LGBTI+ Migrants. (Hakan Sandal-Wilson)
- Global Research Fund. Reading-Through: towards a methodology for political sciences otherwise.(Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa)
2023
- Philip Leverhulme Prize. Commemorative Climates. Total: £100,000. (Rebecca Elliott)
- Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship Award, to host Professor Annette Lareau(University of Pennsylvania) in LSE Sociology from January to June 2024. Total: £109,360 (Professors Sam Friedmanand Mike Savage)
- LSE Sociology Seed Fund Award. Embodied Theory Lab Workshop I: Care Without Paternalism. (Jana Melkumova-Reynolds)
- LSE Sociology Seed Fund Award. Mapping generative AI: A material political economy approach. (Nils Peters)
- LSE Sociology Seed Fund Award. The Social Life of Climate Change – online hub. (Rebecca Elliott)
- LSE Sociology Impact Grant. Archive Stories.(Sara Salem and Mai Taha)
- BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant. Revolutionary Papers. (Mahvish Ahmad)
- LSE KEI Large Bid Fund. Social Lighting and Urban Design in Southeast Asia: Changing Professional Practices. Total: £29,843 (Don Slater)
- ESRC. Taxing the Super Rich.Total: £800,000. (Mike Savage)
2022
- Trans-Atlantic Platform and the ESRC. Taxing Ghosts: Closing Residency Loopholes to Fund Post-Pandemic Recovery Efforts.Total: €540,000. (Kristin Surak)
- Wellcome Trust. The Mosquito. Across Communities, Politics and Literatures.BA Academy/Wellcome Trust Conferences award. (Carrie Friese)
- LSE GNCA/ODA awards for UKRI awardees. Wealth inequality in Ghana. Total: £80,000. (Mike Savage)
2021
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship. (Human)itarianism through the Laboratory Animal: Hierarchy and Care in Britain.Total: £50,833. (Carrie Friese)
- LSE Academic Collaboration with Arab Universities Grant Middle East Centre, LSE. Urbanity in the Time of Pandemic: A study of infrastructures of care in Palestine during the Covid-19 crisis.Total: £67,003.53. (Suzanne Hall)
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Extraordinary deathwork.Total: £43,845. (Claire Moon)
- LSE KEI fund. Disembodied Territories.(Sara Salem)
2020
- LSE US Centre Programme. (Rebecca Elliott)
- European Research Council. Changing Elites: how social and institutional change has altered the processes of elite formation over time? Total: €1,200,000 (LSE Portion £38,000). (Sam Friedman)
- Social Mobility Commission. Social Mobility and Progression in the UK Civil Service.Total: £68,700. (Sam Friedman)
- ESRC. Exploring Racial and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis. Total: £2,462,013.75 (LSE Portion £20,172.54). (Suzanne Hall)
- City of London. The Culture Mile and the Barbican: Identity and Light.Total: £5,000 (Don Slater)
- Horizon 2020. ENLIGHTENme. Total: £56,390.00 (Don Slater)
- Southwark Council Great Estates Programme. Lighting Brandon.Total: £35,000. (Don Slater)
- UKRI. Transforming Social Inequalities through Inclusive Climate Acton.Total: £1,200,000. (Mike Savage)
2019
- The Sutton Trust. Pulling Away? A Social Analysis of Economic Elites in the UK. Total: £53,000. (Sam Friedman)
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Ideosyncratic ties: mission agencies and the future of transnational relations. Total: £50,939. (Monika Krause)
Honours | Prizes | Special Appointments
Honours
2023
- Dr David Madden delivered the "Residential Frontiers" Keynote at Wohngespräche, Technische Universitat, Vienna (2023). More here.
- Dr David Madden delivered the "Housing Politics in an Era of Intersecting Crises" Keynote at the 7th Congress of Urban Studies Association, Ankara (2023). More here.
- Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa delivered the "Decoloniality, Epistemic Blackness, and Academic Rigour" Keynote at the European University Institute, Italy (2023). More here.
2022
- Dr Ayça Çubukçu received a Resident Fellowship from the Transforming Solidarities Consortium at Humbolt University & Freie University, Berlin (2022). More here.
- Dr David Madden delivered the "The Housing Crisis" Keynote at the De Dependance public symposium, Rotterdam (2022). More here.
- Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa delivered the "Rethinking the (Economics) Curriculum" Keynote at the University of Hasselt, Belgium (2022). More here.
- Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa delivered the "Decolonising Home and Belonging" Keynote at the Association of Low Countries study Conference, Edinburgh (2022). More here.
- Professor Mike Savage received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Aalborg, Denmark (2022). More here.
2021
- Dr Sara Salem delivered the "(Re)Imagining SWANA Futurities" Keynote at York University, Canada (2021). More here.
- Dr Sara Salem delivered the "Intersectionality and Feminism" Keynote at the Central European University, Austria (2021).
2019
- Dr Ayça Çubukçu received a Senior Fellowship from The Fung Global Fellows Program, administered by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University (2019). More here.
- Professor Fran Tonkiss delivered the "Urban Inequalities" Keynote at the Oslo Urban Arena (2019).
- Professor Fran Tonkiss delivered the "Everyday Experiments" Keynote at La Triennale di Milan XXII, Milan (2019). More here.
Prizes
2022
- Dr Rebecca Elliott’s book Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States (2021) was awarded joint winner of the Viviana Zelizer Book Award from the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (2022) and received an Honorable Mention for the Alice Amsden Book Award from the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2022).
- Professor Suzanne Hall was awarded the LSE Excellence in Education Award (2022).
- Dr Monika Krause’s book Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (2021) received an Honorable Mention for the Theory Section’s Theory Prize from the American Sociological Association (2022).
- Dr Claire Moon’s research film Do the Dead Have Human Rights? (2022) was nominated for the Learning on Screen Awards for best film in the Education Film category (2022). More here.
- Professor Mike Savage was awarded the Seigfried Landshut Prize by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (2022).
- Dr Kristin Surak’s article "Millionaire Mobility and the Sale of Citizenship" in The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2021) was awarded the Best Publication Award by an International Scholar by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Global and Transnational Sociology (2022). Read the article here.
2021
- Professor Sam Friedman was awarded the LSE Excellence in Education Award (2021).
- Professor Suzanne Hall was awarded the LSE Excellence in Education Award (2021).
- Dr Sara Salem’s book Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (2020) was shortlisted for The British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize (2021) and The British International Association’s International Political Economy Group Prize (2021).
- Professor Mike Savage was awarded the Sage Prize for Innovation for his paper "Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain", Koch et al., in Sociology (2021). Read the article here.
2019
- Dr Monika Krause was awarded the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting from the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association (2019).
- Professor Sam Friedman was awarded the LSE Excellence in Education Award (2019).
Special Appointments
2024
- Professor Mike Savage has been named as an Affiliate of the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), hosted by the University of Cape Town, South Africa (2024). More here.
2023
- Professor Chetan Bhatt was appointed the Anthony Giddens Professor in Social Theory by the LSE (2023).
2022
- Professor Chetan Bhatt was appointed a panel member of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Violence in Leicester (2022). More here.
2020
- Dr Carrie Friese was appointed a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Tübingen Institute for Sociology (2020). More here.
- Dr Carrie Friese was awarded the Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna (2020). More here.
- Dr Carrie Friese was appointed Chair of the Interview Committee for Research Fellowships in Society and Ethics at the Wellcome Trust (2020-22).