- I am lucky to be involved with a group of interesting and passionate PhD students. Below is a list of their names (current and graduated). Please, check out their pages and dissertations to learn about their exciting projects.
- [NB: 1. Future applicants to our PhD programme, please, check the websites and dissertation to learn about the sort of things that I am interested in supervising. 2. I will not take any new PhD students for the year 2021-2022 Academic year]
Current PhD Students
- Orsola Torrisi (Co-Supervising with Arjan Gjonca) (2017- )
- Grace Chang (Co-Supervising with Stephen Jenkins) (2018- )
- Valentina Contreras Silva (Co-Supervising with Stephen Jenkins) (2018 – )
- Michaela Sedovic (Co-Supervising with Lucinda Platt) (2018 – )
- Dijana Spasenoska (Co-Supervising with Arjan Gjonca) (2019- )
- Mary-Alice Doyle (Co-Supervising with Stephen Jenkins) (2019- )
- Magdalena Rosetti (Co-Supervising with Stephen Jenkins) (2020- )
Completed:
- Julia K Philipp (Co-Supervised with Joan Costa-Font) (2015- 2021)
- Thesis title: Essays on Gender Inequality in the Labour Market Essays on Gender Inequality in the Labour Market
- Examiners: Prof. Lucinda Platt and Prof. Almudena Sevilla
- Current job: Research Director, NatCen Social Research
- Rafael Carranza (Co-Supervised with Stephen Jenkins) (2017 – 2021)
- Thesis title: Essays on inequality of opportunity: measurement, drivers and consequences.
- Examiners: Prof. Francisco (Chico) Ferreira, Prof. Xavi Ramos
- Current job: Post-Doctoral Researcher, at the Department of Social Policy and the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET), University of Oxford.
- Antonella Bancalari (Co-Supervised with Joan Costa-Font) (2016 – 2020)
- Thesis title: Public infrastructure and health in low- and middle-income countries.
- Examiners: Dr Sandra Sequira, Prof Sebastian Galiani
- Current job: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of St Andrews
- Wilson Guzman (Co-Supervised with Stephen Jenkins) (2014-2019)
- Thesis title: Social policies in Ecuador: the effects of minimum wages and cash transfers.
- Examiners: Prof. Climent Quintana Domeque, Dr. Joana Naritomi
- Current job: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad de Las Americas (Ecuador)
- Elena Mariani (Co-Supervised with Stephen Jenkins) (2013- 2017)
- Thesis title: Incomes, functionings and capabilities: the well-being of disabled people in Britain.
- Examiners: Prof. Andrew Clarke, Prof. John Ermisch
- Current job: Senior Statistician at Pearson.
Examiner [External or Internal] OF the Dissertations
- Karen Jeffery, PhD in Political Economy, (2021), Kings College London (KCL), Title: “The Essays on the Political Economy of Automation”
- Filippo Temporin, PhD in Demography/ Population Studies, LSE (2019) Title: “What matters most for new-borns survival? Patterns of socioeconomic determinants of neonatal and post-neonatal mortality in Bolivia”
- Javiera Paz Reyes Brito, Ph.D. in Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (2018). Title: “The second half of the gender revolution: The case of Chilean couples and international comparisons”