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Thomas C. Stephens

Thomas C. Stephens

CASE Teaching Fellow at the LSE School of Public Policy


Biography

Dr Thomas C. Stephens is a Teaching Fellow at the LSE School of Public Policy, where he has taught on the "Public Management" (PP403) and "Public Policy Applications" (PP405) courses of the Masters' in Public Policy. He is also an Associate Fellow of the New Economics Foundation, where he he does (mainly quant) research on good work and early years education and care. Before turning to academic research he had a background in UK public policymaking and public affairs, both in the UK Parliament and in London local government. He holds a PhD in Social Policy at LSE, for a thesis on "Work and wellbeing in modern Britain: an application of the Capability Approach" (2024). His academic research focuses on exploring and the wider circumstances of workers in the labour market - such as care, family and health-related commitments they manage alongside work; and the choices they have over alternative labour market opportunities. However he also has an interest in wider labour market-related topics such as education, skills, worklessness, and the implications of modern technologies for worker wellbeing.

Thomas C. Stephens's current research interests are:

  • Education and skills
  • Job quality and working conditions
  • Multidimensional indices
  • Work-family and family-work conflict
  • Worker wellbeing
  • Unemployment and inactivity

Thomas C.'s latest projects include:

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