Timothy Monteath
Timothy Monteath
My research is located at the intersections of economic sociology and financial geography. Broadly conceived, I am interested in the infrastructure of data and information, and how these infrastructures can be understood and used to further social scientific enquiry. More specifically, my work has focused on land ownership and registration in the UK, elites and the super-rich, and financialisation and the power of finance. I have worked extensively with a wide variety of big datasets - programming mostly in R and Python.
My research often contains a visual and spatial element, incorporating novel GIS and data visualization methods as part of my research. I previously taught Cartography and Data Visualisation at UCL and am a co-author of the forthcoming Atlas of Finance.
Academic profile
I joined CIM as an Assistant Professor in 2023. Prior to which I was an Associate Lecturer in Human Geography and Data Visualisation at UCL and a CIVICA Open Social Science Researcher at the LSE. I was also a post-doc Research Associate in Finance and Geography at the University of Oxford. I received my PhD in Sociology from the LSE which focused on the Information Infrastructure of Land Registration in England. I have an MPhil in Modern Global Transformation from Cambridge University and a BA in International Relations and Security Studies from Bradford University.
Research
Books
, with Patrick Dunleavy, (Forthcoming late 2025), LSE Press.
with , Dariusz W贸jcik, Panagiotis Iliopoulos, Stefanos Ioannou, Liam Keenan, Julien Migozzi, Timothy Monteath, Vladim铆r Pa啪itka, Morag Torrance, Michael Urban, James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti, (2024), .
Articles
, with Liam Keenan and Dariusz W贸jcik, (2025), Global Networks, doi:
with Liam Keenan and Dariusz W贸jcik, (2023), Geoforum, doi:
with Liam Keenan and Dariusz W贸jcik, (2022), Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, doi:
, with Liam Keenan and Dariusz W贸jcik, (2022), Competition & Change, doi:
Book Chapters
鈥淐hallenging the Dogma of the Self-made Man: The Sunday Times Rich List Reexamined鈥� with Elizabeth Schimpfoessl, (2022), in: eds, Sam Burgum and Katie Higgins, 鈥淗ow the Other Half Lives: Inter-connecting socio-spatial inequalities鈥�, Manchester University Press;
with Elizabeth Schimpfoessl (2019), in: eds, Peter Duncan and Elizabeth Schimpfoessl, 鈥淪ocialism, Capitalism and Alternatives: Area Studies and Global Theories鈥�, London: UCL Press, (2019); OA
