Tim White is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College London.

Prior to this, he was an Alex von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin. Tim gained his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2023, where he continues to be a Visiting Fellow. Before starting the PhD, he worked as a researcher at LSE Cities.

Research

• Housing
• Land
• Tech
• Finance
• Inequality

Tim’s work examines questions of power at the intersection of housing, land, tech and finance. He has a particular interest in the growing role of housing and land in processes of capital accumulation. His research draws connections between structures of ownership and control and everyday experiences and social relations. Lately, he has been looking at how the tech sector is seeking to ‘disrupt’ housing with forms financing, control and extraction we normally associate with digital platforms.

Tim is also interested in the political economy of land and the role of property in broader questions of inequality and wealth distribution. Tim takes an interdisciplinary social-scientific approach to these issues, drawing on fields including urban studies, economic sociology and critical political economy. His work has appeared in journals including Economy and Society and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and in newspapers including The Guardian.