Daniel Edmiston

Daniel Edmiston is a Research Fellow at CASE (Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion) within the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He serves as Principal Investigator for the WHOCOUNTS project at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Research Focus:

• Poverty dynamics and measurement
• Inequality analysis
• Social security systems
• Welfare citizenship
• Social innovation in poverty contexts

Recent publications examine:

• Deep poverty during permacrisis
• Methodological limitations in poverty measurement
• Welfare disciplining through benefit deductions
• Changing socio-demographic profiles of poverty
• Local support ecosystems in social security

Key findings demonstrate:

• Increasing poverty depth in UK since 2010
• Structural shifts in poverty composition (gender, ethnicity, family size)
• Critical limitations in traditional threshold-based poverty analysis
• Systematic intersections between social difference and financial hardship

Scientific Awards:

• British Academy Wolfson Fellowship