Tim White is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in Sociology at the Free University of Berlin. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and the Technical University of Vienna. Tim gained his PhD in Sociology from the LSE in 2023.

Tim’s work centres on property and power. He is particularly interested in emerging forms of corporate extraction and rent-seeking in the city. This includes processes of assetization and financialization, and the intersection between housing markets and the digital economy. Tim also studies the political economy of land and is concerned with the role of property in broader questions of inequality and wealth distribution. 

Tim takes an interdisciplinary social-scientific approach, drawing on fields including economic sociology, urban geography and critical political economy. His work has been published in journals including EPA: Economy and Space and Economy and Society, 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.