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Dr Tim White

Tim

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Email: tim.white@qmul.ac.uk

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Tim White is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. He is also affiliated with the London School of Economics, the Technical University of Vienna, and the Free University of Berlin. Tim gained his PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2023. Prior to the PhD, he worked as a researcher at LSE Cities.
Tim’s work centres on housing, land, property, and power. 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, including financial logics and strategies, and everyday experiences and social relations. His current project examines how digital technologies are reshaping housing systems and the emerging forms of extraction, inequality, and injustice that this is driving. Tim also studies the political economy of land and is concerned with the role of property in broader questions of inequality and wealth distribution.
Tim takes an interdisciplinary social-scientific approach, drawing on fields including urban studies, economic sociology, and critical political economy. His work has been published in journals such as Economy and Society and EPA: Economy and Space, as well as in newspapers including The Guardian.

Research

Publications

  • Harris, E., Nowicki, M., & White, T. (2025). Reconstructing the American Dream: Life Inside the Tiny House Nation. Intellect Books. Photography by Cian Oba-Smith.
  • Lord, A., Shepherd, E., & White, T. (2025). Language Value Capture? Redefining Terms for the Debate on Land’s Public Value. Planning Theory & Practice.
  • White, T. (2024). From Tenants to Subscribers: Digital Experiments in Residential Rent Extraction. Digital Geography and Society.
  • White, T., Rogers, D. & Maalsen, S. (2024). Housing Disruptions: Six Conceptual Entry Points for Analysing the Digital Transformation of Housing and Home. Digital Geography and Society.
  • White, T. & Madden, D. (2024). Housing Ideology and Urban Residential Change: The Rise of Co-living in the Financialized City. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
  • White, T. (2024). Beds for Rent. Economy and Society.
  • Harris, E., Nowicki, M. & White, T. (eds) (2023). The Growing Trend of Living Small: A Critical Approach to Shrinking Domesticities. Routledge.
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