Biography

Liz is ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in CASE at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research interests centre on wealth and wealth inequality in the UK from a policy perspective. She is particularly interested in the gendered allocation of wealth, and how wealth is managed within the household. Her thesis, ‘Wealth Matters: a UK policy perspective’ completed in the Department of Social Policy also at the LSE, and supported by the Leverhulme Trust, took a multi-method approach to consider these issues. Liz also has an active interest in the taxation of wealth, and attitudes to inequality in the UK. Liz was a contributing author for the Wealth Tax Commission, and participates in the ‘Wealth, elites and tax justice’ research stream at the International Inequalities Institute.