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 shifting structures of ownership and control and everyday experiences and social relations. Lately, Tim has been looking at how Silicon Valley is seeking to ‘disrupt’ housing systems with forms financing, control and extraction associated with tech platforms. He 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, geography, sociology and critical political economy. He is the author of The Capitalist Commune (forthcoming with Princeton University Press) and co-author (with Ella Harris and Mel Nowicki) of Reconstructing the American Dream (Intellect/Chicago University Press, 2026). His work has appeared in journals including Economy and Society, EPA: Economy and Space and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and in newspapers including The Guardian.

Further details

See Tim's research profile