The following is a selection of research funding grants, awards and special appointments received by the Department of Sociology.
2025
- Wellcome Trust Early-Career Award. Rewriting Latin America’s Healthcare History: Abortion Criminalisation and the Making of Contemporary Health Systems. Lessons from Ecuador. (Dr Andrea Espinoza Carvajal)
- Korea Foundation Field Fellowship. Sites of Postcolonialisms. Reading-through Coloniality in Korea. (Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa)
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. The growing role of digital technologies in housing and land, and the emerging forms of extraction, inequality and injustice. (Dr Tim White)
2024
2023
2022
- Trans-Atlantic Platform and the ESRC. Total: €540,000. (Kristin Surak)
- Wellcome Trust. BA Academy/Wellcome Trust Conferences award. (Carrie Friese)
- LSE GNCA/ODA awards for UKRI awardees. Wealth inequality in Ghana. Total: £80,000. (Mike Savage)
2021
2020
- LSE US Centre Programme. Charismatic Infrastructure for Climate Change Adaption in the US. (Rebecca Elliott)
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European Research Council. Total: €1,200,000 (LSE Portion £38,000). (Sam Friedman)
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Social Mobility Commission. Total: £68,700. (Sam Friedman)
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ESRC. . Total: £2,462,013.75 (LSE Portion £20,172.54). (Suzanne Hall)
- City of London. Total: £5,000 (Don Slater)
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Horizon 2020. . Total: £56,390.00 (Don Slater)
- Southwark Council Great Estates Programme. Total: £35,000. (Don Slater)
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UKRI. Transforming Social Inequalities through Inclusive Climate Acton. Total: £1,200,000. (Mike Savage)
2019
2025
- Dr Kristin Surak participated in high-level intergovernmental discussions between Japan and the UK at Wilton Park, during which the two countries organised strategies concerning bilateral trade and security relationships. The closed-door event was held by the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (2025).
- Dr Ayça Çubukçu delivered the “On Left Internationalism” Keynote at the University of Edinburgh (2025).
- Dr Kristin Surak spoke at the UN about her research on investment migration as part the "Hidden Assets: From Illicit Finance to Development Gains" session hosted by UNCTAD (2025).
- Dr Kristin Surak presented her research at a special event at the United Nations in Geneva hosted by . She also delivered talks at the British Sociological Association's , the International Workshop on the Cultural Sociology of Transnational and Global Inequalities at Bamberg University and The Offshore Group Workshop in Annecy, France (2025).
2023
- Dr David Madden delivered the “Residential Frontiers” Keynote at Wohngespräche, Technische Universitat, Vienna (2023).
- Dr David Madden delivered the “Housing Politics in an Era of Intersecting Crises” Keynote at the 7th Congress of Urban Studies Association, Ankara (2023).
- Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa delivered the “Decoloniality, Epistemic Blackness, and Academic Rigour” Keynote at the European University Institute, Italy (2023).
2022
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Dr Ayça Çubukçu received a Resident Fellowship from the Transforming Solidarities Consortium at Humbolt University & Freie University, Berlin (2022).
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Dr David Madden delivered the “The Housing Crisis” Keynote at the De Dependance public symposium, Rotterdam (2022).
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Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa delivered the “Rethinking the (Economics) Curriculum” Keynote at the University of Hasselt, Belgium (2022).
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Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa delivered the “Decolonising Home and Belonging” Keynote at the Association of Low Countries study Conference, Edinburgh (2022).
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Professor Mike Savage received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Aalborg, Denmark (2022).
2021
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Dr Sara Salem delivered the “(Re)Imagining SWANA Futurities” Keynote at York University, Canada (2021).
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Dr Sara Salem delivered the “Intersectionality and Feminism” Keynote at the Central European University, Austria (2021).
2019
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Dr Ayça Çubukçu received a Senior Fellowship from The Fung Global Fellows Program, administered by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University (2019).
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Professor Fran Tonkiss delivered the “Urban Inequalities” Keynote at the Oslo Urban Arena (2019).
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Professor Fran Tonkiss delivered the “Everyday Experiments” Keynote at La Triennale di Milan XXII, Milan (2019).
2025
- Dr Kristin Surak's book, "", received an Honourable Mention for the International Studies Association's ENIMSA Outstanding Book Award (2025).
- Professor Emeritus Judy Wajcman awarded a Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (2025).
- Professor Sam Friedman and Professor Aaron Reeves have been awarded the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Culture Mary Douglas Prize for their book Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite (2025).
2022
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Dr Rebecca Elliott’s book (2021) was awarded joint winner of the from the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (2022) and received an Honorable Mention for the from the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2022).
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Professor Suzanne Hall was awarded the LSE Excellence in Education Award (2022).
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Dr Monika Krause’s book (2021) received an Honorable Mention for the from the American Sociological Association (2022).
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Dr Claire Moon’s research film Do the Dead Have Human Rights? (2022) was nominated for the Learning on Screen Awards for best film in the Education Film category (2022).
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Professor Mike Savage was awarded the by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (2022).
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Dr Kristin Surak’s article “Millionaire Mobility and the Sale of Citizenship” in The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2021) was awarded the Best Publication Award by an International Scholar by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Global and Transnational Sociology (2022).
2021
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Professor Sam Friedman was awarded the LSE Excellence in Education Award (2021).
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Professor Suzanne Hall was awarded the LSE Excellence in Education Award (2021).
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Dr Sara Salem’s book (2020) was shortlisted for The British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize (2021) and The British International Association’s International Political Economy Group Prize (2021).
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Professor Mike Savage was awarded the for his paper “Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain”, Koch et al., in Sociology (2021).
2019
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Dr Monika Krause was awarded the for Theoretical Agenda Setting from the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association (2019).
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Professor Sam Friedman was awarded the LSE Excellence in Education Award (2019).
2025
2024
- Professor Mike Savage has been named as an Affiliate of the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), hosted by the University of Cape Town, South Africa (2024).
2023
2022
2020
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Dr Carrie Friese was appointed a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Tübingen Institute for Sociology (2020).
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Dr Carrie Friese was awarded the Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna (2020).
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Dr Carrie Friese was appointed Chair of the Interview Committee for Research Fellowships in Society and Ethics at the Wellcome Trust (2020-22).