Kate Summers

CASE Associate and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Methodology, LSE

Expertise: interviews, focus groups, participatory approaches, thematic analysis

Email:

k.summers@lse.ac.uk

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LSE

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Biography

Kate Summers's current research interests are:

Poverty, riches and economic inequality in the UK
Working-age social security policy
Welfare reform
Sociology of money
Qualitative methods

Kate's latest projects include:

The allocation and use of social security money by working age recipients.

Latest

CASEreports

SUMMARY – Living on Different Incomes in London: Can public consensus identify a 'riches line'?

14 February 2020

Tania Burchardt, Abigail Davis, Ian Gough, Katharina Hecht, Donald Hirsch, Karen Rowlingson and Kate Summers

There is widespread public and political concern about economic inequality in the UK today but relatively little research exploring people’s opinions about high incomes, wealth and what it means to be rich. This innovati... Read more...

CASEreports

Living on Different Incomes in London: Can public consensus identify a 'riches line'?

14 February 2020

Abigail Davis, Katharina Hecht, Tania Burchardt, Ian Gough, Donald Hirsch, Karen Rowlingson and Kate Summers

London is home to vast and visible economic inequality, where the richest 10 per cent own 61 per cent of overall wealth, while at the same time four in ten Londoners do not earn enough for what is considered by the publi... Read more...

Journals

Universal simplicity? The alleged simplicity of Universal Credit from administrative and claimant perspectives

10 February 2020

Kate Summers and David Young

A key aim of Universal Credit is to simplify the social security system. While several aspects of its introduction have received critical attention, this overarching aim continues to receive acceptance and support. Drawi... Read more...

CASEreports

Understanding the relationship between inequalities and poverty: policy toolkit

04 February 2020

Irene Bucelli, Abigail McKnight and Kate Summers

This toolkit examines policies with a potential 'double dividend': policies that could lead to reductions in both poverty and inequality in the UK. The selection of policies has been informed by a larger research progra... Read more...

CASEreports

Launch of policy toolkit: poverty and inequality reduction policies

04 February 2020

Irene Bucelli, Abigail McKnight and Kate Summers

CASEbriefs

Money and Meaning: How working-age social security benefit recipients understand and use their money

13 December 2018

Kate Summers

This CASEBrief summarises Kate Summers’ doctoral research. The research aimed to develop a detailed picture of how working-age social security benefit recipients understand and use their money. Forty-three indepth, quali... Read more...

CASEreports

CASE Annual Report 2015

06 April 2016

Kitty Stewart and Kate Summers