People

Dr Timothy Hildebrandt (he/them)

Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development, Department of Social Policy. 

Dr Blake Miller (he/him)

Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, Department of Methodology.

Professor Hakan Seckinelgin (they/them)

Professor of International Social Policy, Department of Social Policy.

Dr Kevin Zapata-Celestino (he/him)

Dr Kevin Zapata-Celestino is an LSE Fellow in the Department of Social Policy. He has relevant experience working on individual and multidisciplinary research projects with a strong focus on social and public policy in Latin America. For his doctoral thesis, he investigated how a policy community populated by renowned scholars, domestic policymakers and international consultants was able to frame Mexico’s antipoverty agenda for more than two decades by exercising direct influence on the policy elite.

Eliz Wong (she/her)

Eliz Wong is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Social Policy at LSE. Her research areas focus on policies related to sexual and gender minorities and their impacts on this marginalised population. Her PhD research explores the power and limits of same-sex marriage legalisation in Asia, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between the policy, family and sexuality.

https://www.elizwongmiuyin.com

Guodong Ju (he/him)

Guodong Ju is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Policy at LSE. His research employs Big Data and uses advanced quantitative methods to understand general public’s attitudes toward LGBTQ+ people in China, and the extent to which there is a unified ‘imagined community’ of sexual minorities in the country. 

Songyin Liu (he/him)

Songyin Liu (pronouns) is a final-year PhD student in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. His primary research interests are gender and communication theories, digital culture, and queer theories in the Chinese context. Songyin’s doctoral research focuses specifically on the performative authenticity negotiation of transgender people in their everyday engagements online and offline.

Joe Strong (he/him)

Joe Strong is a PhD candidate and researcher. His research focuses on men and how constructions of masculinities shape sexual and reproductive health, particularly around emergency contraception and abortion. He uses this to grapple and interrogate how men (re)shape conditions and environments of reproductive (in)justice.

https://www.masculinitiesproject.org/