Tania Burchardt
Associate Director of CASE, Deputy Director of STICERD, and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at LSE
Expertise: theories of justice, capability approach, measurement of inequality, applied welfare policy analysis
Biography
Dr Tania Burchardt is Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), Deputy Director of STICERD, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Tania's research interests lie in theories of justice, including the capability approach, measurement of inequality and applied welfare policy analysis. She has held research grants from the British Academy, ESRC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Nuffield Foundation and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and, with Polly Vizard, has led the programme of research on capability, equality and human rights within CASE.
Tania's latest projects include:
- Living on Different Incomes in London: Can public consensus identify a 'riches line'?
- Intra-household allocation of resources: implications for poverty, deprivation and inequality in the European Union
- Improving the Evidence Base for Understanding the Links between Inequalities and Poverty
- Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes in a Changing Britain