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

Biography

Professor Lucinda Platt's current research interests are:

Ethnicity and immigration
Child poverty and well-being
Disability
Social stratification and inequalities

Lucinda's latest projects include:

Early child outcomes in cross-national perspective (a research strand of the ESRC Research Centre LLAKES, UCL Institute of Education)
Educational and occupational aspirations of young people: Influences and outcomes (research strand of ESRC-funded Centre for Longitudinal Studies Research Programme)

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

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...

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...

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)

Selected Work:

(with Y Khoudja). Labour market transitions among women from different origin countries in the UK. Social Science Research. 69: 1-18. (2018)
(with S Chatzitheochari) Disability Differentials in Educational Attainment in England: Primary and Secondary Effects. British Journal of Sociology. DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12372. (2018)
(with C Zuccotti) Does neighbourhood ethnic concentration in early life affect subsequent labour market outcomes? A study across ethnic groups in England and Wales. Population, Space and Place 23(6). DOI: 10.1002/psp.2041. (2017)
(with R Luthra and J Salamonska) Types of Migration: The Motivations, Composition, and Early Integration Patterns of “New Migrants” in Europe. International Migration Review. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12293.
(with J Polavieja), Nurse or mechanic? Explaining sex-typed occupational aspirations amongst children, Social Forces, 93(1): 31-61 (2014)