Dr Kate  Steward

Dr Kate Steward

Project Manager

International Inequalities Institute

Languages
English
Key Expertise
Criminology, gender justice

About me

Kate Steward is a Project Manager at the International Inequalities Institute at the LSE, working with Professor Naila Kabeer on the Gender Justice and the Wellbeing Economy programme.  

Kate holds a PhD in Criminology from the LSE. She worked as a practitioner and researcher with women in the criminal justice system, alongside lecturing at City, University of London. More recently, Kate was Programmes Manager at the Department of Gender Studies, LSE. 

Expertise Details

Criminology; gender justice

Recent Publications

  • Trevisan, F., Vaughan, M. & Vromen, A. (2025). Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy. University of Michigan Press. 
  • Vaughan, M. & Schieferdecker, D. (2025), 'Seeing a New Type of Economic Inequality Discourse: Inequality as Spectacle in the “Billionaire Space Race”', International Journal of Communication, 19 (1), 348-369 
  • Vaughan, M., & Kerr, S. (2025). Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication. Visual Communication.
  • Vaughan, M., Gruber, J. B., & Langer, A. I. (2025). The tension between connective action and platformisation: Disconnected action in the GameStop short squeeze. New Media & Society, 27(2), 632-654.