Katy MorrisForskare

Om mig

I am a quantitative sociologist and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. 

My research interests centre on the social and political consequences of spatial inequality, understood as the unequal division of opportunities and risks between different localities within a country. I investigate how local occupational structures have evolved over time, and how and why this and other dimensions of spatial inequality shape social stratification in the labour market, intergenerational mobility, inequality beliefs, and political behaviour.

Prior to commencing my PhD at the European University Institute, I worked in education, employment and skills policy in the United Kingdom. 

Publications

Oesch, D., Lipps, O., Shabazian, R., Bihagen, E. & Morris, K. (2025) Occupational Earning Potential: A new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the United States. European Sociological Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf035

Morris, K. (2025) A Tale of Two Cities: Occupational change in London 1991 – 2021. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 11; https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251329409

Morris, K. & Oesch, D. (2025) Uneven Shifts: The geography of occupational change in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom 1992 – 2018. European Societies 27 (1): 4-30; https://doi.org/10.1162/euso_a_00015

Morris, K. (2025) Getting A Foot In The Door: Local labour markets and the school-to-work transition. Journal of Youth Studies 28(1): 137-157; https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2248905

Morris, K. & Lampropoulos, D. (2024) The Progressive Place Paradox: Status-based health inequalities are magnified in more economically progressive Swiss localities. Health and Place 86: 103215; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103215  

Morris, K. (2023) Where DESO Disappears: Spatial inequality and social stratification at labour market entry. European Sociological Review 39 (1): 85-103; https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac027

Morris, K., Bühlmann, F., Sommet, N. & Vandecasteele, L. (2022) The Paradox of Local Inequality: Meritocratic beliefs in unequal localities, British Journal of Sociology 73(2): 421-460, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12930

Lee, N., Morris, K. & Kemeny, T. (2018) Immobility and the Brexit Vote, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 11(1): 143-163, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsx027