Mike Savage

Mike is a Professorial Research Fellow at LSE's International Inequalities Institute, having been the institute's co-founder and director from 2015 to 2020. The institute hosts the Atlantic Fellows programme, the largest global programme devoted to challenging inequalities.

Mike joined LSE in 2012, was Head of the Department of Sociology between 2013 and 2016, and Martin White Professor of Sociology before retiring from the department in 2024. He has long-standing interests in analysing social stratification and inequality, and has played a major role in the revival of the sociology of social class in recent decades, so that it has once again become a central plank of the discipline.

Mike is one of the leading sociologists researching and writing about intensified economic inequality in recent decades, drawing out the broader systemic social challenges these have produced. He promotes the need for academic research to be co-produced with campaigning organisations, and is committed to a public-facing vision of sociology.