Author profile

Kate Pickett

Kate Pickett is Professor of Epidemiology and director of the Born in Bradford Centre for Social Change at the University of York, and co-director of Health Equity North. She is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of The Spirit Level (2009) and The Inner Level (2018), and author of The Good Society (2026).

Fissures that tear us apart and pressures that weigh us all down

Kate Pickett

Kate Pickett contends in a new Social Europe column that inequalities go together—and so their opponents shouldn’t get drawn into rivalry.

Greater equality: our guide through Covid-19 to sustainable wellbeing

Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson

The pandemic has reinforced the case for egalitarianism to define the ethos of the welfare state.

The True – and False – Costs Of Inequality

Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson

The first research papers showing that health was worse and violence more common in societies with large income differences were published in the 1970s. Since

Why Inequality Is Bad For Health

Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson

Many of us remember the 1970s for its music and fashion, but we should also take a lesson from its mistaken beliefs. Without easy access