Department diary

Tuesday 22nd November

LSE Library Public Lecture: Revisiting The Case for Family Allowances: what would Eleanor Rathbone have made of state support for children in 2016?

Time:  6.30-7.30pm 
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, NAB

Speaker: Dr Kitty Stewart

Wednesday 23rd November

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis seminar
The effect of motherhood and lone motherhood on income and poverty risks in the US and UK

Time: 1.00-2.00pm
Venue: Room 1.04, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields

Speaker: Susan Harkness (University of Bath)

Wednesday 23rd November

Global Welfare Futures seminar series
Re-imagining Civil Society Engagement: in search of social innovation 

Time:  2.00pm
Venue: The Wolfson Theatre, NAB

Speaker: Professor Maurizio Ferrera

Wednesday 23rd November

MT Research Committee Meeting

Time:  2.30pm
Venue: Webb Room

Thursday 24th November

Department of Social Policy William Plowden Fellowship Lecture
Fires, Focus and Force: the role of secondary school governors and social mobility

Time: 6.30pm-8.00pm
Venue: CLM 7.02, Clement House

Speaker: Dr Michael Cross
Chair: Professor Nicholas Deakin CBE

Tuesday 29th November

International Inequalities Institute / Sociology Department seminar
Redefining Support for Redistribution:  preferences for reducing economic inequality in the US and Sweden

Time: 12.15- 1.45pm
Venue: TW2 9.05

Speaker: Prof Leslie McCall (Northwestern University)

Wednesday 30th November

CASE Social Exclusion Seminar
Open Policy Making in Education: from Public to Private in the Formulation of Policy

Time:  4.30-6.00pm
Venue: Room 1.04, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields 

Speaker: Sonia Exley (Social Policy LSE)

Thursday 1st December

Climate Change, Inequality and Social Policy seminar series
Carbon and Inequality: from measurement to Policy

Time: 12.00-1.30pm
Venue: Room 1.04, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields

Speaker: Lucas Chancel, Research Fellow New Prosperity, IDDRI Paris 
Respondent: Dario Kenner, Visiting Feloow at Global Sustainability Institute

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Monday 5th December

Xmas Party for students and staff in the Department

Time: 6.00pm onwards
Venue: LSESU The Venue, Saw Swee Hock Student Centre

Wednesday 7th December

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis seminar
Improving the measurement of poverty in the US

Time: 1.00-2.00pm
Venue: Room 1.04, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields

Speaker: Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University School of Social Work, Visiting Professor CASE)

Wednesday 7th December 

MT Staff Committee Meeting

Time:  2.30pm
Venue: Vera Anstey Room

Wednesday 7th December

Mannheim Centre Seminar
Sexuality and Victimisation

Time: 6.30pm
Venue: 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, room LG.03

Speaker: Marian Duggan (Kent)
Chair: Insa Koch

Wednesday 11th January

Mannheim Centre Seminar
Women convicted of homicide

Time: 6.30pm
Venue: 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, room LG.03

Speaker: Annette Balinger (Keele)
Chair: Janet Foster

Tuesday 31st January

DGSP Cluster Meeting

Time: 10.30am
Venue: Webb Room

Wednesday 1st February

LT Undergraduate Staff-Student Liaison Committee Meeting

Time: 1.30pm
Venue: 32L 1.05

Wednesday 1st February

LT Professors' Meeting

Time: 2.30pm
Venue: Webb Room

Wednesday 8th February

Teaching Committee Meeting

Time: 10.30am
Venue: Webb Room

Wednesday 8th February

LT Postgraduate Staff-Student Committee Meeting

Time:  2.30pm
Venue: Graham Wallas Room

Wednesday 8th February

Mannheim Centre Seminar
Global crime and comparative penology

Time: 6.30pm
Venue: 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, room LG.03

Speaker: Sappho Xenakis (Birkbeck)
Chair: Janet Foster

Thursday 16th February

Climate Change, Inequality and Social Policy seminar series

Time: 12.00-1.30pm
Venue: Room 1.04, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields

The Health Co-benefits of the low carbon economy-
Speaker: Professor Sir Andy Haines (LSHTM)

Can the co-benefits of climate action help to deliver social equity?
Speaker: Dr Alison Smith (University of Oxford)

Can local carbon reduction programmes work in disadvantaged areas?
Speaker: Dr Ruth Mayne (Oxfam GB and University of Oxford)

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Wednesday 1st March

LT Teaching Committee Meeting

Time: 2.30pm
Venue: Webb Room

Wednesday 8th March

LT Research Committee Meeting

Time: 2.30pm
Venue: Webb Room

Wednesday 15th March

LT Staff Committee Meeting

Time: 2.30pm
Venue: Vera Anstey Room

Wednesday 15th March

Mannheim Centre Seminar
Communicating Criminology

Time: 6.30pm
Venue: 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, room LG.03

Speaker: Richard Garside (Centre for Crime and Justice)
Chair: Janet Foster

Tuesday 21st March

End of Lent Term party for students and staff in the Department

Time: 6.00pm onwards
Venue: LSESU The Venue, Saw Swee Hock Student Centre

Thursday 9th April

Climate Change, Inequality and Social Policy seminar series
Time, carbon and social policy

Time: 12.00-1.30pm
Venue: Room 1.04, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields

Speaker: Prof Angela Druckman (University of Surrey)

Wednesday 26th April

ST Undergraduate Staff-Student Liaison Committee Meeting

Time:2.30pm
Venue: Lionel Robbins Building R505

Thursday 27th April

Climate Change, Inequality and Social Policy seminar series
Would income redistribution result in higher aggregate emissions?

Time: 12.00-1.30pm
Venue: Room 1.04, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields

Speaker: Lutz Sagar, LSE

Wednesday 10th May

ST Research Committee Meeting

Time: 2.30pm
Venue: Webb Room

Wednesday 10th May

Mannheim Centre Seminar
Desistance

Time: 6.30pm
Venue: 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, room LG.03

Speaker: Beth Weaver (Strathclyde)
Chair: Janet Foster

Wednesday 17th May

ST Teaching Committee Meeting

Time: 2,30pm
Venue: Webb Room

Thursday 25th May

Climate Change, Inequality and Social Policy seminar series
Postgrowth and Wellbeing

Time: 12.00-1.30pm
Venue: Room 1.04, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields

Speakers: Prof Max Koch (Lund University) and Dr Milena Buchs (University of Leeds) 

Wednesday 31st May

ST Professors' Meeting

Time: 2.30pm
Venue: Webb Room

Wednesday 7th June 

ST Staff Committee Meeting

Time: 2.30pm
Venue: Vera Anstey Room

Wednesday 7th June

Mannheim Centre Seminar
Impact of pornography on the young

Time: 6.30pm
Venue: 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, room LG.03

Speaker: Joanna Adler (Middlesex)
Chair: Janet Foster