Dr Tania Burchardt is Associate Director of the (CASE), Deputy Director of , and an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Tania is Doctoral Programme Director, and convenes the Research stream of the MSc International Social and Public Policy. She is convenor of SP420 Understanding Policy Research (Advanced) and SP232 Health and Social Care Policy. She also lectures on various undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervises PhD students within the Social Policy department.
Tania’s research interests lie in theories of justice, including the capability approach, measurement of inequality and applied welfare policy analysis. She has held research grants from the British Academy, ESRC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Nuffield Foundation and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and, with Polly Vizard, has led the programme of research on capability, equality and human rights within CASE. Research projects with which she is currently involved include:
- Deliberating inequality: How does information impact the social formation of beliefs about economic inequality? With Kate Summers, Fabien Accominetti, Katharina Hecht, Jonathan Mijs and Liz Mann (funded by STICERD and III). And the previous related project: Is there a social consensus on a riches line? with Donald Hirsch and others (funded by Trust for London). .
Recent publications to which she has contributed include , International Journal of Care and Caring, 2025; , Child Indicators Research, 2024; , Department for Work and Pensions, 2024; , entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2024; and , Journal of Social Policy, 2024.
Tania is a commissioning editor of the , and an associate of the and the International Inequalities Institute at 番茄社区. In recent years, she has joined advisory/steering groups for the Department of Communities and Local Government, Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Resolution Foundation, Health Foundation, Trussell Trust, and Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management () at Birmingham.
Tania was educated at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia before completing her PhD in Social Policy at the 番茄社区 in 2005. Tania has worked at the 番茄社区 since 1995, when she joined CASE’s Welfare State Programme as a Research Officer. She became a Research Fellow in 2000, and Deputy Director of CASE in 2011 before her stint as Director 2016-2020.
Tania supervises doctoral studies in areas including:
The capability approach; Multidimensional poverty and inequality; Time use; Choice and autonomy in relation to welfare services and well-being; Empirical welfare policy analysis.
However, please note that Tania has limited capacity to take on new PhD students at present.