Kerris Cooper

Kerris Cooper is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics and Political Science, and concurrently serves as Senior Researcher in Early Years and Inequalities at the Education Policy Institute (EPI). Her research employs mixed methodologies to investigate UK poverty dynamics, with emphasis on child development, food insecurity, welfare systems, and violence measurement.

Research Focus: Cooper's work spans multidimensional poverty analysis, particularly examining how economic hardship intersects with parenting practices, early childhood outcomes, and policy effectiveness. Her recent projects include:

• Food poverty interventions for under-fives
• Free School Meals policy evaluation
• Gendered violence data gaps
• Ethnic wealth disparities
• Brexit's social policy consequences

Publication Trends: Her 14 most recent articles (2019-2022) reveal consistent focus on policy evaluation through rigorous statistical analysis. Dominant themes include welfare reform impacts, measurement of inequality (ethnic, gender, economic), and longitudinal assessment of government policies. Methodologically, she favors large-scale dataset analysis complemented by structural critique.

Collaborative Networks: Cooper frequently co-authors with LSE colleagues including Polina Obolenskaya, Abigail McKnight, and Tania Burchardt. Her work appears in high-impact journals like British Journal of Criminology, Journal of European Social Policy, and Social Policy and Administration.