Dr Tania Burchardt

Dr Tania Burchardt is a Professor in the Department of Social Policy at LSE and an Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. She is spent her sabbatical as a visitor in DSPI in 2023/24.

Tania’s research interests lie in theories of justice, including the capability approach, measurement of inequality and applied welfare policy analysis. At present she is working mainly on two very different areas: inequalities in adult social care (mostly in the UK); and the development of an Extreme Wealth Line (internationally). She is also involved in collaborations on better use of children's information by local authorities, and on poverty among migrant families. See the CASE website for more details. She has held research grants from the British Academy, ESRC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Nuffield Foundation and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Funded research projects with which she is currently involved include: Extreme Wealth Line Initiative; Children’s Information Project. 

Recent outputs include ‘Reframing long-term care policy: from services to social determinants’, Journal of Social Policy; 'Determinants of the social risk of caring', International Journal of Care and Caring; 'Richness, insecurity and the state', Journal of Social Policy, with Katharina Hecht and Abigail Davis; 'The bottom line and the top line: insights from poverty measurement for developing an extreme wealth line', with Michael Vaughan and Ingrid Robeyns. 

Tania is a commissioning editor of the LSE Public Policy Review, a member of STICERD, an associate of the International Inequalities Institute and serves on the management committee of the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. In recent years, she has joined advisory/steering groups for the Department of Communities and Local Government, Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Resolution Foundation, Health Foundation, Trussell Trust, and Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management at Birmingham. 

Tania was educated at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia and completed her PhD in Social Policy at the LSE in 2005. Tania has worked at the LSE since 1995, when she joined CASE’s Welfare State Programme as a Research Officer. She became a Research Fellow in 2000, and Deputy Director of CASE in 2011 before her stint as Director 2016-2020. 

Visit Tania's profile on the CASE website.