Biography
Dr Polly Vizard is Associate Director and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at LSE. Her research focuses on multidimensional poverty and inequality, the analysis of deprivation and distributional outcomes using social surveys and administrative data, social policy analysis, social indicators, Sen’s capability framework, human rights-based approaches, and equality and human rights monitoring. She has more than 20 years of experience delivering high quality research building up new evidence on social disadvantage across different critical domains, including in relation to living standards, health, education, physical safety and security and different dimensions of social and individual life. Her research interests include using new and innovative analysis and methods to extend and deepen the evidence base on ‘hard to reach’ population groups and to address novel equality and human rights concerns. She was previously principal investigator on the CASE research programme Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes in a Changing Britain, and is currently a co-investigator on the Children’s Information Project.
Polly Vizard's current research interests are:
- Poverty and inequality
- Multidimensional disadvantage
- Hard to reach groups
- Social policy analysis
- Amartya Sen's capability approach
- Social and economic rights as human rights
Polly's latest projects include:
- The Children's Information Project
- Testing and demonstrating the value of the Growing Up in England Dataset: Gypsy, Traveller and Roma case study
- Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes in a Changing Britain
- Multidimensional child poverty and disadvantage