Tim White is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. Tim gained his PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics in 2023, since which he has held positions at the Free University of Berlin and Cardiff University. 

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. Tim also studies the political economy of land and is concerned with the connection between property and 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 Economy and Society and EPA: Economy and Space, and in newspapers including The Guardian.

-          Urban Studies

-          Housing Studies

-          Economic Sociology

-          Political Economy

Recent publications:

• 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., 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. (2024). From Tenants to Subscribers: Digital Experiments in Residential Rent Extraction. 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.