Dr Sarah Kerr

Dr Sarah Kerr

Research Fellow

International Inequalities Institute

Languages
English, Italian
Key Expertise
Historical Policy Sociology; Contemporary Policy-Making; Epistemic Justice

About me

Sarah Kerr is a Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute. She completed her PhD at the UCL on the long legislative history of inequality between richer and poorer people. Her research interests include forms of justice-making, power, and the historical sociology of wealth.

Expertise Details

Historical Policy Sociology; Contemporary Policy-Making Practices; Epistemic 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.