Improving the evidence base for understanding the links between inequalities and poverty
People

Dr Irene Bucelli
Irene Bucelli is Research Officer at CASE. Her research focuses on forms of inequality: their relationships, causes and consequences, education policy, applied philosophy, and philosophy of action.

Professor Sir John Hills
John Hills was Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, LSE and Chair of CASE. He was co-director of the LSE's interdisciplinary International Inequalities Institute from 2015-2018 and was director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) from 1997 to 2016. John's research focused on inequality, the welfare state, and the role of social policy over the life course. His interests also included public attitudes to the welfare state; social security; pensions policy; income and wealth distribution and fuel poverty.

Dr Eleni Karagiannaki
Eleni Karagiannaki is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at CASE. Eleni's research focuses on income and wealth inequality, poverty and socio-economic mobility. She is also involved in other CASE projects: Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes in a Changing Britain, Methods for the Analysis of Longitudinal Dyadic Data, with Applications to Intergenerational Exchanges of Family Support, and Improving the Evidence Base for Understanding the Links between Inequalities and Poverty.

Dr Abigail McKnight
Abigail McKnight is Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the LSE where she has worked since 1999. Her research interests include inequality, poverty, wealth, social mobility and employment policy. She has recently held research grants from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Nuffield Foundation, the European Commission and the Social Mobility Commission. She organises CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars and is an editorial board member of Social Inclusion.

Dr Polly Vizard
Polly Vizard is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow and Associate Director of Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. Her research focuses on multidimensional poverty and inequality, the analysis of deprivation and distributional outcomes using social surveys and administrative data, social and public policy, social indicators, Sen's capability framework, human rights-based approaches, and equality and human rights monitoring. She is currently principal investigator on the CASE research programme Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes in a Changing Britain, which runs from October 2017-October 2020.