Biography
John Hills is former Director of the LSE's Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), having stepped down after over 17 years to become Co-Director of LSE's International Inequalities Institute between 2015 and 2018. He remains as Chair of CASE and collaborates on several of our research projects. His research interests include income and wealth distribution, the welfare state, social security, housing and taxation. His latest books are Good Times, Bad Times: the welfare myth of them and us (2014/2017) and Social Policy in a Cold Climate (coedited with Ruth Lupton and others, 2016). Decent Incomes for All, which he has co-edited with Bea Cantillon and Tim Goedeme was published by Oxford University Press in 2018.
Professor John Hills's current research interests are:
- Welfare state and public attitudes
- Social security
- Pensions policy
- Income and wealth distribution
- Social policy and the life cycle
- Fuel poverty
John's latest projects include:
- The relationships between poverty and inequality
- Social policy developments and distributional outcomes in the UK since 2015