Lucinda Platt CASE, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE, London School of Economics

Biography

Lucinda is currently working with colleagues at IFS on an ESRC-funded programme of research on Economic opportunities across racial and ethnic groups in the United Kingdom. She is also pursuing work on migrant selectivity, and on child disability. With co-editors, she is finalising an OUP handbook on Social Stratification. She has been a CASE Associate since 2013 and is also an Associate of ISER, University of Essex and IFS. In 2020 she was conferred as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was awarded an OBE for services to social science.

Lucinda Platt's current research interests are:

Ethnic inequalities
Migrant selectivity
Children's occupational aspirations
Disabled children's educational and life course outcomes

Lucinda's latest projects include:

Latest

CASEpapers

The changing distribution of individual incomes in the UK before and after the recession

30 September 2015

Eleni Karagiannaki and Lucinda Platt

While there has been substantial research on the impacts of the Great Recession on household incomes, there has been less attention paid to the effects on individual income. Using pooled data from the Family Resources Su... Read more...

CASEpapers

Mothers, parenting and the impact of separation

12 June 2015

Lucinda Platt, Tina Haux and Rachel Rosenberg

This paper investigates the impact of separation on mothers’ perception of their competence as parents. Using the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a largescale nationally representative cohort study of children born in the... Read more...

CASEpapers

Parenting and post-separation contact: what are the links?

12 June 2015

Tina Haux, Lucinda Platt and Rachel Rosenberg

High rates of parental separation and the extent to which non-resident fathers lose contact with their child have led to concerns about the involvement of fathers in their children’s lives. In this paper, we draw on a na... Read more...

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Trajectories and transitions of disabled children and young people.

28 November 2014

Lucinda Platt (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Bullying experiences among disabled children and young people: Evidence from two British longitudinal studies

07 May 2014

Lucinda Platt (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)

CASEpapers

Assessing the impact of illness, caring and ethnicity on social activity

01 March 2006

Lucinda Platt

It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty. Current concerns with the extent and distribution of social capital as both a measure of a good soc... Read more...

STICERD Work in Progress Seminars

Child poverty in the twentieth century

22 February 2006

Lucinda Platt (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars

Ethnic Minorities and the Experience of Poverty

24 October 2001

Lucinda Platt (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)