People

Head of Department

Professor Coretta Phillips

coretta.phillips@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.24

Deputy Head of Department

Dr Timothy Hildebrandt

t.r.hildebrandt@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.26

Department Manager

Damian Roberts

D.P.Roberts@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.02

**Please note that Advice and Feedback hours are held during term time only

Dr Fabio Battaglia
杏吧论坛 Fellow

f.battaglia@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.45

Advice and feedback hours:
Fridays, 1.30pm-3.30pm in OLD 2.55
Book via the Student Hub.

Dr Liam Beiser-McGrath
Assistant Professor

l.f.beiser-mcgrath@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.60

Advice and feedback hours:
Thursdays, 11.00am-12.00pm and 3.00pm-4.00pm
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Dr Thomas Biegert
Associate Professor

t.biegert@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.13

Advice and feedback hours:
Thursdays, 9.00am-11.00am
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Dr Maxime Borg
杏吧论坛 Fellow

m.borg@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.45

Advice and feedback hours:
Thursdays, 5.00pm-6.00pm in OLD 2.55
Fridays, 9.00am-10.00am in OLD 2.55
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Dr Tania Burchardt
Associate Professor

t.burchardt@lse.ac.uk
Room number: SAL 3.30

Advice and feedback hours:
Thursdays, 12.00pm-1.00pm
Fridays, 11.45am-12.45pm
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Dr Leonidas Cheliotis
Associate Professor

l.cheliotis@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.31

Advice and feedback hours:
On Sabbatical for the Autumn Term of the 2024/25 academic year.

Dr Shuang Chen
Assistant Professor

s.chen114@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.58

Advice and feedback hours:
Mondays, 2.00pm-4.00pm.
Book via the Student Hub.

Dr Sonia Exley
Associate Professor

s.exley@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.48

Advice and feedback hours:
On Sabbatical for the 2024/25 academic year.

Dr Federico Filetti
杏吧论坛 Fellow

f.d.filetti@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.35

Advice and feedback hours:
Fridays, 1.45pm-3.45pm in OLD 2.57
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Professor Timo Fleckenstein
Professor of Social Policy

t.fleckenstein@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.33

Advice and feedback hours:
Mondays, 1.30pm-3.00pm in person
and Tuesdays 9.00am-10.00am online
Book via the Student Hub.

Dr Fiona Gogescu
杏吧论坛 Fellow

f.t.gogescu@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.45

Advice and feedback hours:
Tuesdays, 4.15pm-6.15pm in OLD 2.55
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Dr Timothy Hildebrandt
Associate Professor

t.r.hildebrandt@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.26

Advice and feedback hours:
Autumn Term 2024: Wednesdays, 10:30am-12:30pm
Winter Term 2025: Thursdays, 2:30pm-4:30pm
Book via the Student Hub.

Dr Mobarak Hossain
Assistant Professor

m.hossain9@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.50

Advice and feedback hours:
Thursdays, 4.15pm-6.15pm.
Book via the Student Hub.
Appointments can be arranged outside office hours via email.

Isabelle Huning
杏吧论坛 Fellow

i.huning@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.45

Advice and feedback hours:
Fridays, 10.00am-12.00pm in OLD 2.59

Week 10: Monday, 11.10am-12.10pm and Tuesday, 11.30am-1.00pm in OLD 2.57

Week 11: Monday, 11.10am-12.10pm and Tuesday, 11.30am-1.00pm in OLD 2.57

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Professor Armine Ishkanian
Professor of Social Policy

a.ishkanian@lse.ac.uk

On secondment

Professor Stephen Jenkins
Professor of Economic and Social Policy

s.jenkins@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.44

Advice and feedback hours:
On Sabbatical for the 2024/25 academic year.

Dr Johann Koehler
Assistant Professor

j.koehler@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.37

Advice and feedback hours:
Fridays, 2.30pm-4.30pm.
Book via the Student Hub.

Dr Sunil Kumar
Lecturer in Social Policy and Development

s.kumar@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.47

Advice and feedback hours:
Fridays, 10.30am-12.30pm.
Book via the Student Hub.

Professor of Social Policy

j.legrand@lse.ac.uk

Professor Tim Newburn
Professor of Criminology and Social Policy

t.newburn@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.52

Advice and feedback hours:
On Sabbatical for the 2024/25 academic year.

Professor Adam Oliver
Professor of Behavioural Public Policy

a.j.oliver@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.30

Advice and feedback hours:
Fridays, 10.30am-12.00pm.
Book via the Student Hub.

Professor Berkay Özcan
Professor of Social and Public Policy

b.ozcan@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.29

Advice and feedback hours:
On leave for the 2024/25 academic year.

Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey
Assistant Professor

r.n.pailey@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.49

Advice and feedback hours:
Autumn Term 2024: Mondays, 1:30pm-3:30pm
Winter Term 2025: Mondays, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Spring Term 2025: Mondays, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Book via the Student Hub.

Professor Coretta Phillips
Professor of Criminology and Social Policy

coretta.phillips@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.24

Advice and feedback hours:
Tuesdays, 3.00pm-4.30pm.
Book via the Student Hub.

Professor Lucinda Platt
Professor of Social Policy and Sociology

l.platt@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.25

Advice and feedback hours:
On Sabbatical for the 2024/25 academic year.

Professor Hakan Seckinelgin
Professor of International Social Policy

m.h.seckinelgin@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.54

Advice and feedback hours:
Information for the 2024/25 academic year will be added here in due course.

Professor Almudena Sevilla
Professor of Economic and Social Policy

a.sevilla@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.12

Advice and feedback hours:
Information for the 2024/25 academic year will be added here in due course.

Dr Michael Shiner
Associate Professor (Reader) of Social Policy

m.shiner@lse.ac.uk

Advice and feedback hours:
On research leave 2024/25.

Dr Isabel Shutes
Associate Professor

i.h.shutes@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.46

Advice and feedback hours:

Tuesdays, 4.30pm-5.30pm
Thursdays, 5.00pm-6.00pm
Book via the Student Hub.

Professor Kitty Stewart
Professor of Social Policy

k.j.stewart@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.43

Advice and feedback hours:
Tuesdays, 10.00am-11.30am (in person) and 4.30pm-5.30pm (online)
Book via the Student Hub.

Dr Margaux Suteau
杏吧论坛 Fellow

m.suteau@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.45

Advice and feedback hours:
Tuesdays, 9.00am-11.00am in OLD 2.57
Book via the Student Hub.

Dr Iva Tasseva
Assistant Professor

i.tasseva@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.16

Advice and feedback hours:
Thursdays, 10.00am-12.00pm
Book via the Student Hub.

Professor Anne West
Professor of Education Policy

a.west@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.56

Advice and feedback hours:
On research leave 2024/25. Available to meet at a mutually convenient time. Please email a.west@lse.ac.uk

Dr Kevin Zapata-Celestino
杏吧论坛 Fellow

k.zapata-celestino@lse.ac.uk
Room number: OLD 2.45

Advice and feedback hours:
Fridays, 11.00am-1.00pm in OLD 2.55
Book via the Student Hub.

Professor Francisco H. G. Ferreira

Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director (designate) of 杏吧论坛 International Inequalities Institute

F.D.Ferreira@lse.ac.uk

Francisco H. G. Ferreira is the Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director (designate) of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. He is also affiliated with the Department of Social Policy at 杏吧论坛.
Read more here.

The Department's Professional Services Staff support students and faculty to deliver the School's teaching, research, and engagement initiatives.

More information about the Social Policy Programmes Support team and the Programme Support Office.

Damian Roberts
Department Manager

D.P.Roberts@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.02

Responsible for: The Professional Services Team;
Human, Financial and Physical Resource Management;
Strategic Planning.

Pippa Ager
Events and Digital Communications Officer

p.ager@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.03

Ask me about: The Department’s events & student communications activities.

Clare Gorman
Student Community and Wellbeing Manager

c.gorman@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.10

Ask me about: Student wellbeing support, student community, My Adjustments, settling into 杏吧论坛 and London.

Sevilay Erdogan
Postgraduate Programme Officer, PhD and Research lead

s.erdogan1@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.03

Ask me about: Postgraduate study, MPhil/PhD study and support, PhD welfare, Departmental Research support, Departmental spaces, GTA support.

Adrian Knight
Academic and Professional Skills Officer

a.knight1@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.03

Ask me about: Academic and Professional Skills programme, Alumni relations

Melanie Moyano
Assessment Officer (MSc Programmes)

m.maria-moyano@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.03

Ask me about: Assessments & assessment feedback, coursework extensions, deferrals, exceptional circumstances, exam boards.

Nathaniel Ocquaye
Postgraduate Programme Officer, Student Experience

n.ocquaye@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.03

Ask me about: Postgraduate study, student opportunities and representation, course choice, student welfare and engagement, Moodle and reading lists, events.

Maria Schlegel
Events and Communications Manager

m.s.schlegel@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.03

Ask me about: Departmental events (public and research related), internal and external Department communications.

Dr Craig Stewart
Teaching Operations Manager

c.j.stewart@lse.ac.uk

Room number: OLD 2.03

Ask me about: Undergraduate study, Postgraduate study, teaching and learning support, course selection, timetabling, programme regulations.