Biography
Abigail McKnight is Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the LSE where she has worked since 1999. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Her research interests include inequality, poverty, wealth, social mobility, higher education and employment policy. She has recently held research grants from the Low Pay Commission, the Nuffield Foundation, the European Commission and the Social Mobility Commission. She organises CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars and is an editorial board member of Social Inclusion.
Abigail McKnight's current research interests are:
- Poverty
- Multidimensional inequality
- Low wage employment and labour market inequality
- The distribution of wealth and asset-based welfare
- Social mobility (especially downward mobility)
- Employment policy
Abigail's latest projects include:
- Review of Material Deprivation Questions and Methodology
- The Impact of Minimum Wages on Ethnic Minorities and Disabled People
- The Multidimensional Inequality Framework
- Financial Resilience of Households in Europe
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