Dr Lea Sitkin
I received my DPhil in Criminology from the University of Oxford in 2014 and joined the University of Westminster the same year. Since 2024, I have been Assistant Head of School for the School of Social Sciences, leading on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), Recruitment, and Employability, alongside my teaching and research in Criminology.
My research and teaching interests include immigration control, labour market relations, state-corporate crime/harm and financialisation/privatisation within the statutory housing sector
My research to date has focused on immigration control and labour market relations through the lens of critical political economy and border criminology. I am the author of Re-thinking the Political Economy of Immigration Control: A Comparative Analysis (Routledge, 2019). My most recent publication, “Labour Shortages, Automation and Technological Adoption in Post-Brexit UK’s Logistics Industry,” appears in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy (ed. John D. Haskell, Edward Elgar, 2025).
My current research examines profiteering and financialisation within the temporary accommodation sector in London. I strongly welcome enquiries from academics, policymakers, and media organisations interested in this area