Visiting Fellow

Housing | Inequality | financialization | digital transformations

Tim White is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. Tim gained his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2023, and also holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and King's College London. Prior to the PhD, Tim 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 the intersection between digital technologies and real property, and the emerging forms of extraction, inequality and injustice 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 including EPA: Economy and Space and Economy and Society, and in newspapers including The Guardian.

Harris, E., Nowicki, M., & White, T. (2025). Reconstructing the American Dream: Life Inside the Tiny House Nation. Intellect Books.

 

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.