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Lucinda Platt

Lucinda Platt

CASE Associate and Professor of Social Policy and Sociology

Expertise: migration, ethnicity, disability, inequality, child poverty, child development

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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

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