Lucinda Platt is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Associate at ISER, University of Essex. She is former director of the Millennium Cohort Study and is Co-Investigator on Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Her research focuses on ethnicity,migration, disability, gender inequality, and child poverty and development.