Dr. Ellie Suh is an Assistant Professor of Social Policy, focusing on understanding and addressing economic inequality and wealth disparities. Her work examines the interaction between individuals and broader socio-economic structures, emphasizing how policies and societal factors influence asset-building opportunities, social mobility, and the reproduction of economic inequality.
Her research has been published in top-tier academic journals, including Ageing & Society and Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. The latter featured one of her articles as one of the five most-read of the year. Ellie is also actively engaged in policy debates and is a founding member of the Social Policy Association (SPA) Pensions Policy Working Group, which is funded by the SPA.
Before joining the department, she was a Research Fellow at the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM) at the University of Birmingham, where she led the Wealth and Assets Inequality research theme. She also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, where she researched the concepts of money and cost-effectiveness in the context of Children’s Services and secured a grant to establish a social enterprise for a cost calculator. Ellie earned her PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE), where her research explored how social class and origin shape young adults' economic outcomes, contributing to inequalities that persist across generations.