Biography
Abigail McKnight is Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the LSE where she has worked since 1999. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Her research interests include inequality, poverty, low wage employment, wealth, social mobility, higher education and employment policy. She has recently held research grants from the Department for Work and Pensions, Itla Children's Foundation, the Low Pay Commission and the Nuffield Foundation.
Abigail McKnight's current research interests are:
- Poverty
- Multidimensional inequality
- Low wage employment and labour market inequality
- Evaluation of active labour market programmes
- Social mobility
- Asset based welfare policy
Abigail's latest projects include:
- Insecure lives and the policy disconnect
- Review of the UK material deprivation measures
- The impact of minimum wages on ethnic minorities and disabled people
- The Multidimensional Inequality Framework