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Professor Lucinda Platt

Professor Lucinda Platt

Professor of Social Policy and Sociology, Department of Social Policy, LSE, and CASE Associate

Expertise: migration, ethnicity, poverty, inequality, social mobility, disability, child wellbeing, gender, identity, longitudinal research

Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7955 6829
Email:
l.platt@lse.ac.uk
Connect:
Website
Links:
LSE Social Policy

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:

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

Tina Haux, Lucinda Platt 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)

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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)

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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)

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