Professor Louise Waite

Louise is the Director of LSSI.  In this role she has leadership responsibility for LSSI’s main areas of activity (developing interdisciplinary research for the social sciences, maximising impact and skills training & capacity building) and oversight of all governance, financial and communication matters for LSSI.  She is also the Principle Investigator for LSSI's ESRC funded Impact Acceleration Account.  

As a Professor of Human Geography, her research interests span migration and contemporary slavery, with a particular focus on discourses of ‘modern slavery’, unfreedom in labor relations, and the politics of solidarity.