2019/20
29 January 2020
‘Emplaced’ Indian Construction Labour-Camps: The Architecture of Discipline and the Limits to Collective Action.
Speaker: Dr Sunil Kumar (LSE, Department of Social Policy)
11 December 2019
Experimental Criminology and the Free-Rider Problem
Speakers: Dr Johann Koehler (LSE, Department of Social Policy) and Tobias Smith (UC-Berkeley)
30th October 2019
Collaborative ethnography and its limitations: Researching young migrants in London
Speaker: Vanessa Hughes (LSE, Department of Social Policy)
2018/19
13 March 2019
Challenging dominant social policy assumptions; an apprenticeship for young people with multiple problems and needs.
Speakers: Alice Sampson and Femi Ade-Davis
27 February 2019
Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means
Speakers: Professor Pamela Herd and Professor Donald Moynihan
30 January 2019
Towards a New Social Contract - Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia
Speaker: Maurizio Bussolo
31 October 2018
How useful is Gillian Hart's Distinction between 'Little d' and 'Big D' Development? Theoretical Reflections, a Case Study, and some Lessons for Social Policy
Speaker: Professor David Lewis, LSE
2017/18
16 May 2018
Health implications of Economic Insecurity
Speaker: Professor Lars Osberg
7 March 2018
Police Reform and the Politics of Denial: An Academic's Journey into "Activism".
Speaker: Dr Michael Shiner, LSE
21 February 2018
Political Parties and Private Schools: A Comparative Analysis of Policy and Politics in England and Germany
Speaker: Dr Rita Nikolai, Humboldt University, Berlin
24 January 2018
The Kids Are Alright: The Rise in Non-Marital Births and Child Well-being
Speaker: Professor Christina Gibson-Davis, Duke University
10 January 2018
The Politics of Post-Crisis European Social Spending
Speaker: Dr Ian McManus, LSE
22 November 2017
Accumulation or Absorption? The Development of Household Non-Employment in Europe during the Great Recession
Speakers: Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Oxford, Dr Thomas Biegert, LSE
15 November 2017
Great Expectations: Long-term Poverty Reduction, Intergenerational Change and Young Beneficiaries’ Aspirations in Brazil’s Bolsa Família Programme
Speaker: Dr Hayley Jones, LSE
18 October 2017
Ethnic school composition and multiple ethnic identity formation of adolescents in the Netherlands
Speaker: Dr Gert-Jan Veerman, Ede Christian University of Applied Sciences
11 October 2017
Inter-ethnic relations of teenagers in England’s schools: the role of school and neighbourhood ethnic composition
Speaker: Professor Simon Burgess, University of Bristol