Kate Alexander-Shaw is a Research Officer on the ERC-funded project SOLID – Policy Crisis and Crisis Politics: Sovereignty, Solidarity and Identity in the EU post-2008, led by Prof.Waltraud Schelkle.

She specialises in British and EU politics and comparative political economy, with a particular interest in the politics of economic ideas, and the politics of crisis. She gained her PhD in 2018 from the LSE’s Department of Government. Her doctoral work developed a theory of the life-cycle of economic policy narratives under conditions of both stability and crisis, looking particularly at the New Labour government of the UK (1997-2010). 

She has previously been a visiting fellow at Brown University, and an affiliate researcher at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI).  Kate has published on topics including the Covid-19 crisis, economic policy in the UK, income inequality in Britain and the comparative politics of intergenerational fairness in post-crisis Europe. 

Kate holds an MRes in qualitative political science research methods from the LSE, and a BA in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a senior policy analyst at the Greater London Authority and at HM Treasury.