Dr Katy Morris
- Position: Lecturer in Quantitative Social Research
- Areas of expertise: spatial inequality; structural change; social stratification; youth labour market; inequality beliefs; political behaviour
- Email: K.M.Morris@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 11.24 Social Sciences Building
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Profile
I joined the School of Sociology and Social Policy in June 2026.
I hold a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute. Prior to commencing my PhD, I worked in education, employment and skills policy in the United Kingdom.
After completing my doctoral studies, I was a Junior Lecturer within Centre LIVES and the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne, and then a Presidential Fellow at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University.
Research interests
My research interests centre on the social and political consequences of spatial inequality, understood as the unequal division of opportunities and risks between different localities within a country. I investigate how local occupational structures have evolved over time, and how and why this and other dimensions of spatial inequality shape social stratification in the labour market, inequality beliefs, and political behaviour.