PhD Destinations
Our PhD students go onto jobs in academia and policy.
This is a list of the initial positions that some of our recent research students went on to secure after they successfully completed their PhD in the Department of Social Policy.
PhD completion 2025
Thomas Stephens
Postdoctoral Fellow, LSE School of Public Policy
Magdalena Rossetti Youlton
Economics Research Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank
Dijana Spasenoska
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, University of Oxford
Thelma Obiakor
ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
Toni Roldan Mones
Director, EsadeEcPol, Center for Economic Policy
Mary-Alice Doyle
Principal Researcher, Nesta
Ceri Hughes
Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Guodong Ju
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, China Institute at University of Alberta, Canada
Katy Footman-Bamber
Independent research consultant
Chiara De Poli
Research Fellow, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE
Eugenia Bilbao-Goyoaga
Advisor, Spanish President’s Office
PhD completion 2024
Joe Strong
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
Michaela Sedovicova
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University College London
Fiona Gogescu
LSE Fellow, Deptartment of Social Policy, LSE
Grace Chang
Principal Research Officer, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford.
Gemma Williams
Technical Officer, The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Liz Mann
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE
Mario Battaglini
Senior Consultant, ICF
Ilona Pinter
Research Assistant, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE
Eliz Wong
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PhD completion 2023
Valentina Contreras Silva
Economist, Employability Division, OECD, Paris Research Officer
Nicola Brimblecombe
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE
PhD completion 2022
Victoria Donnaloja
Leverhulme Eary Career Fellow, Sociology Department, University of Essex
Aapo Hiilamo
Specialist Researcher, Itla Children's Foundation
Rana Khazbak
Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
Philippa Mullins
Assistant Professor, American University of Armenia, College of Humanities and Social Science
Orsola Torrisi
Postdoctoral Associate, New York University Abu Dhabi
PhD completion 2021
Aveek Bhattacharya
Cheif Economist, Social Market Foundation
Rafael Carranza
Assistant Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC Chile)'s School of Government
Valentina Iemmi
LSE Fellow, Department of Health Policy, LSE
Nicholas Mathers
Global Social Policy Consultant
Sam Mohun Himmelweit
Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Bristol
Julia Philipp
Research Director, NatCen
Joaquin Prieto-Suarez
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Government at the University of Chile and Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the LSE
PhD completion 2020
Antonella Bancalari Valderrama
Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London
Daniel Fujiwara
CEO/Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science LSE, Simetrica-Jacobs
Tasseli McKay
Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Duke University
Rishita Nandagiri
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Methodology, LSE
Marco Palillo
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sciences Po
Melissa Shannon
Research Scientist, AP-NORC
Laura Sochas
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Social Policy, University of Oxford
Ellie Suh
Postdoctoral Research Officer, Department of Education, University of Oxford
Filippo Temporin
Teacher, Collegio Vescovile Pio X
PhD completion 2019
Diego Alburez Gutierrez
Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Ewa Batyra
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center,University of Pennsylvania
Miranda Bevan
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, LSE
Vanessa Davey
Postdoctoral Researcher, Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili
Ginerva Floridi
Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Wilson Guzman
Professor, Universidad Católica de Cuenca, Ecuador
Gabriel Heller Sahlgren
Research Fellow, Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Lamia Irfan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SOAS University of London
Klara Lorenz
Research Officer, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE
Tze Ming Mok
Data and Insights Lead, Co-Design Lab (TSI)
Alexis Palfreyman
Research Fellow, University College London
Tatiana Paredes-Torres
Research Fellow, University College London
Nora Ratzmann
Research Fellow, DeZIM-Institut
PhD completion 2018
Edward Barnett
Chargé d’Affaires (Deputy High Commissioner) to Kenya & Permanent Representative to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN Habitat