Department of Social Policy Seminars
International Social and Public Policy Seminar Series
The ISPP seminar series features international scholars and LSE Social Policy faculty presenting cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research on global social policy topics. Open to LSE staff, students, alumni, and the wider community, the series fosters collaboration and academic exchange across disciplines such as sociology, criminology, education, demography, anthropology, and economics.
Autumn Term 2025 Schedule
Thursday 30 October 2025
Presenter: Dr Kevin Zapata-Celestino (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Abstract: When we think about bullying in elementary and low secondary schools, we often focus on victims given the emotional toll they endure, the academic disruption they face, and the long-term scars that follow them into adulthood. While victim-centred research has been critical in shaping prevention strategies, there’s a perspective that is too often ignored: that of the aggressors themselves. There is a growing body of research that explores how students themselves understand and explain bullying, but very few explicitly address aggressors’ perspectives. Consequently, there has been an oversimplification that masks the complex social and psychological forces that drive such behaviour. Thus, in a recent qualitative study conducted in Mexico, thirteen former students who had once participated in bullying were interviewed to explore the deep roots of bullying. By delving into their life stories and memories from childhood and adolescence, the study uncovered critical insights into why school bullying and violence occur and are reproduced. What emerged from these conversations was not a portrait of monsters, but of children navigating harsh environments, social pressure, and emotional confusion. The findings challenge some of the myths that revolve around bullies and instead reveal how aggression is often learned, normalised, and rewarded.
Presenter Bio: Kevin is a specialised social science researcher, focused on qualitative methods. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently a fellow in the Department of Social Policy at LSE. His interests centre around violence and informal social protection in Mexico and Latin America.
Presenter: Gillian Paull (CASE, LSE)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Abstract: In recent decades, women’s role in formal paid employment has been supported by a variety of policy initiatives around the world. In the UK, women have benefited from greater equality in educational attainment and substantial and rising Government funding to reduce childcare costs. More recently, there has been increasing awareness of later career obstacles due to the menopause and the care needs of elderly relatives. This presentation will review some key evidence on these factors for the UK, covering:
- The design and impacts of childcare policy.
- The "U" shape in women's labour market inactivity with respect to family income.
- The impacts of the menopause on women's work.
- The impacts of responsibility for elderly parents on women's work.
The review will be used to consider how the different barriers to employment faced by women may interact over the working life. This research is in the initial stage of development and discussion at the seminar will be helpful to contribute additional perspectives and to consider how beneficial it could be to build a dynamic understanding of women’s employment patterns to complement research focused on specific segments such as around family formation.
Presenter Bio: Gillian has a PhD in Economics and an MPA from Princeton University and has previously worked at the IMF, World Bank, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Frontier Economics. Gillian’s research has focused on analysing and evaluating policy relating to early years, childcare, women’s employment and poverty, delivering academic articles as well as a wide range of policy-related reports for DWP, DfE and non-governmental organisations. She has also served as a Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Committee on Affordable Childcare.
Thursday 13 November 2025
Presenter: Dr Eyob Gebremariam (University of Bristol)
Chair: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Abstract: This paper proposes a decolonial meta-framework to critically examine the role of philanthrocapitalism in Africa’s ecosystem of health research and policy-making. The framework foregrounding coloniality and empire explains how health-related research and policy-making in Africa have continued to reinforce colonial epistemic orientations manifested through structural and institutional settings, as well as policies and practices. The paper then illustrates its arguments by examining how philanthrocapitalism builds upon and consolidates the logics of coloniality and the interests of empire. The four identified areas in which philanthrocapitalism reinforces coloniality and the workings of empire include: the promotion of neo-Malthusian narratives about Africa’s population growth, the normalisation of neoliberal institutions, policies and practices within the health sector, the imposition of vertical approaches in health-focused policies at the expense of horizontal and more systemic strategies, and the reinforcement of power asymmetries by consolidating governmentality and hierarchical structures over African societies without meaningful accountability.
Presenter Bio: Eyob Balcha Gebremariam is a Research Associate at the Perivoli Africa Research Centre (PARC), University of Bristol. His areas of interest include decolonial academic knowledge production, African political economy and the politics of development. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town (UCT), and a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa (UNISA). In addition to his Amharic and English blogs and newspaper contributions, his publications have appeared in the Journal of Northeast African Studies, IDS Bulletin, CODESRIA Bulletin, Global Social Challenges Journal, Africa Development, and the European Journal of Development Research.
Thursday 20 November 2025
Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub Seminar
Presenter: Professor Thomas Hale (University of Oxford)
Chair: Dr Liam Besier McGrath (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Abstract: Climate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate today, just as our actions shape the climate of tomorrow, while the effects of global warming will last thousands of years. Yet the priorities of the present dominate our climate policy and the politics surrounding it. Even the social science that attempts to frame the problem does not theorize time effectively. In this pathbreaking book, Thomas Hale examines the politics of climate change and other “long problems.” He shows why we find it hard to act before a problem’s effects are felt, why our future interests carry little weight in current debates, and why our institutions struggle to balance durability and adaptability. With long-term goals in mind, he outlines strategies for tilting the politics and policies of climate change toward better outcomes.
Presenter Bio: Thomas Hale is Professor in Public Policy (Global Public Policy) and the Director of the Master of Public Policy. Professor Hale’s research explores how we can manage transnational problems effectively and fairly. He seeks to explain how political institutions evolve – or not – to face the challenges raised by globalisation and interdependence, with a particular emphasis on environmental, economic and health issues. He holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, a master's degree in Global Politics from the London School of Economics, and an AB in public policy from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs.
His books include Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across Time (Princeton 2024), Beyond Gridlock (Polity 2017), Between Interests and Law: The Politics of Transnational Commercial Disputes (Cambridge 2015), Transnational Climate Change Governance (Cambridge 2014), and Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation Is Failing when We Need It Most (Polity 2013). Professor Hale co-leads the Net Zero Tracker and the Climate Policy Hub.
Thursday 27 November 2025
Mannheim Centre for Criminology Seminar
Presenter: Dr Simon Tawfic (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Abstract: This paper offers an ethnographic analysis of the emergence of British public protection policing, examining officials’ everyday pursuits to address the dual crises of austerity and police legitimacy. Since the early 2010s, Westminster governments have pledged to take ‘vulnerability’ seriously, while UK police forces, similarly beset by legitimacy crises, have also prioritised the ‘protection of vulnerable people from harm’, establishing public protection teams to signal this commitment. These crises serve as resources for officials to articulate a will to care that blends post-war welfarist sensibilities with contemporary humanitarian ends. Positioning themselves as a last resort against welfare retrenchment, public protection officials leverage discontent with austerity-stricken agencies, asserting the comparative advantage of their relational and compassionate style of working. They aspire to embody the nostalgic figure of the ‘noble bobby,’ assume personalised responsibility to alleviate suffering, idealise welfarist visions of reciprocal honesty and respectability, and embrace psychodynamic models that attribute criminality to disrupted familial attachments and trauma. By foregrounding these historically entrenched sensibilities, I argue that the vulnerability turn in policing is less a novel phenomenon than a re-enactment of enduring ideals about the role of policing and the welfare state. At its heart is a preoccupation to demonstrate care, promising to rebuild trust in policing while relying on state failure as its condition of possibility.
Presenter Bio: Simon Tawfic is an LSE Fellow in Social Policy. He was previously a research fellow on the Vulnerable State Project at Warwick Law School, having received his PhD in anthropology from LSE. He researches welfare and criminal justice in England from an ethnographic perspective, focusing on frontline officials' claims to care as a central ideal of their work. He has recently co-authored a comparative analysis of the will to care articulated by police and asylum officials in Theoretical Criminology, alongside co-editing and contributing to the forthcoming Embodied State edited collection.
Thursday 4 December 2025
Education Research and Policy Hub Seminar
Presenter: Dr Philip Noden (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Chair: Dr Sonia Exley (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Abstract: The seminar will illustrate some of the opportunities and challenges of carrying out research within Ofsted. This will be illustrated through discussion of completed research projects. These include, for example, an investigation of whether there was a relationship between school quality and the probability of imprisonment during early adulthood and a project focusing on pupil absence during inspections. The first of these projects, undertaken in collaboration with ONS, used newly available linked administrative data (linking the National Pupil Database to Ministry of Justice data) to investigate the relationship between school quality and subsequent imprisonment. The pupil absence project, using data from a single local authority, analysed absence data for year groups, within schools, for each half day during a period before and after a school inspection, to examine whether unusual school level variation could be identified. The seminar will discuss the two projects and also reflect on some of the differences between carrying out research within an academic institution compared with an inspectorate.
Presenter Bio: Philip Noden is an educational researcher. He works at Ofsted, the inspectorate responsible for the inspection of schools, early years providers, further education and skills providers and also children’s social care services. He is based in the Quantitative Research team at Ofsted which undertakes projects across any of Ofsted’s inspection remits. Prior to working at Ofsted, he was a researcher at LSE, working on numerous research projects funded by the Nuffield Foundation, Department for Education and other funders. As an academic researcher he had particular interests in social segregation between schools and educational quasi-markets. He is currently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Social Policy Department at LSE.
Thursday 11 December 2025
Presenter: Dr Joanna Clifton-Sprigg (The University of Bath)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Abstract: We investigate the relationship between parental working from home (WFH) and school absence in England following the COVID-19 pandemic. Using administrative data on school absence from local authorities between 2011 and 2023, we exploit variation in WFH potential – constructed from occupational data linked to the 2011 Census – in a difference-in-differences event study design. Contrary to recent claims by policymakers, we find that higher WFH potential leads to lower school absence rates. Areas with above-median WFH potential saw a reduction in overall absence by 0.3–0.35 percentage points (around 7%), with effects larger in secondary schools and driven almost entirely by decreases in unauthorised absences.
Presenter Bio: Joanna is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bath. In her research, she explores topics related to migration, education and gender inequalities, and she often works at the intersection of these areas. Her published work includes analysis of educational outcomes of children with migrant parents, international student mobility in the context of Brexit, and the role of parental and maternity leave policy design in take-up by parents. She has been supported by funding from ESRC, Research England, and the Nuffield Foundation. She is a keen advocate for equity and equality at Bath, leading on Widening Participation in the Department.
Thursday 16 October 2025
From Slavery to Crude Oil Pipelines: Tracing Gendered Extractive Geographies in the Niger Delta (Race Matters Seminar)
Presenter: Amina Adebisi Odofin (Ghent University)
Chair: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Thursday 9 October 2025
The Capability Approach as a Framework for Rethinking Employment and Labour Markets
Presenter: Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch (III, LSE)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Thursday 2 October 2025
Degrees of value: Cultivating privilege at an elite university
Presenter: Dr Fiona Gogescu (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
From Public Good to Residual Function: Adopting a Comparative Social Policy Approach to Understanding Shifts in Social Housing
Presenter: Professor Deirdre Howard-Wagner (The Australian National University)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Catch up on our 2024/25 seminar series via our YouTube channel here.
3 April 2025
The enduring effect of higher education on attitudes towards immigrants across generations and within the family
Presenter: Dr Victoria Donnaloja (University of Essex)
Watch the presentation here
27 March 2025
Inequalities in Applications and Offers to Graduate Recruitment Programmes
Presenter: Professor Lindsey Macmillan (UCL).
Watch the presentation here
20 March 2025
Family change and welfare provision in complex families: evidence from the UK and policy lessons from abroad
Presenter: Professor Susan Harkness (University of Bristol).
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20 February 2025
The Bystander Issue: Why Do We Take The Harassers' Side?
Presenter: Dr Margaux Suteau (LSE).
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13 February 2025
A Brief Introduction about the Young Lives Study and a Paper Presentation: "A Sound Methodology: Measuring Experiences of Violent Conflict through Audio Self-Interviews"
Presenter: Dr Marta Favara (University of Oxford)
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7 February 2025
Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
Presenter: Professor Sam Friedman (LSE)
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30 January 2025
Working with Hope: Reflections on Researching Child Poverty in Incredibly Hard Times
Presenter: Professor Ruth Patrick (University of York).
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23 January 2025
How Should we Conceptualize the Sposal Relationship of 'Mixed Race' People?
Presenter: Professor Miri Song (University of Kent)
No video available
5 December 2024
Status-Enforcing Criminal Laws
Presenter: Professor Jamelia Morgan (Northwestern University)
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28 November 2024
Neighbourhood Migration and the Air Pollution Disadvantage of Immigrant Minorities
Presenter: Dr Tobias Rüttenauer (University College London)
No video available
21 November 2024
The role of default options and financial and pension literacy for retirement saving in a fully funded system
Presenter: Dr Piera Bello (University of Bergamo)
No video available
14 November 2024
Aid’s Impact on Social Protection in the Global South
Presenter: Dr Miguel Niño-Zarazúa (SOAS, University of London)
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24 October 2024
Understanding Global Blackness: Indigeneity, Reparations and the Post-colonial State SPECIAL Race Matters Initiative (RMI) Seminar
Presenter: Dr Althea-Maria Rivas (SOAS, University of London)
No video available
17 October 2024
The Concentration of Children on Income Distribution and Its Consequences for Poverty and Inequality
Presenter: Professor Berkay Ozcan (LSE)
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10 October 2024
Analysis of Cybercrime Issues in Anglophone West Africa
Presenter: Dr Suleman Lazarus (LSE)
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Catch up on our 2023/24 seminar series via our YouTube channel here.
21 March 2024
Birth spacing and the health of mothers and fathers: an analysis of physical and mental health using individual- and sibling-fixed effects
Presenter: Dr Kieron Barclay
14 March 2024
Intergenerational educational mobility during the twentieth century in 77 low- and middle-income and 15 high-income countries
Presenter: Dr Mobarak Hossain
15 February 2024
Conflict-related migration: new insights from Ukraine
Presenter: Professor Lucinda Platt
8 February 2024
Research similarity and Women in Academia
Presenter: Dr Alessandra Casarico
1 February 2024
Colonization and Social Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Social Policy Development in South Asia; Pre to Post Colonial Era
Presenter: Dr Zahid Mumtaz
25 January 2024
Intergenerational Poverty Persistence in Europe - is there a Great Gatsby Curve for Poverty?
Presenter: Professor Brian Nolan
18 January 2024
Kingdon at 40: Multiple Streams, Multiple Flaws
Presenter: Dr Fabio Battaglia
No video available
7 December 2023
The Altruistic Authoritarian Citizen
Presenters:Professor Reza Hasmath (University of Alberta) and Dr Timothy Hildebrandt (LSE)
23 November 2023
Formal Trade, Informal State: Public Authority and the Governance of Informal Cross-Border Trade in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Presenter: Dr Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa (SOAS, University of London)
16 November 2023
Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research
Presenters: Professor Mario Small (Columbia University) and Dr Jessica Calarco (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
9 November 2023
The Political Economy of Women's Work in Palestine under Settler Colonialism
Presenter: Dr Samia M Al-Botmeh (Birzeit University)
26 October 2023
Energy Policy Support Increases through Policy Goal Communication
Presenter: Dr Gracia Bruckmann (University of Bern)
No video available
12 October 2023
Marketing Development Studies in the Neoliberal University and How to Be Cosmopolitan
SPECIAL Race Matters Initiative (RMI) Seminar
Presenter: Dr Kamna Patel (University College London)
5 October 2023
Imperial Development: The Humanitarian-Development Nexus in Jordan and Lebanon
Presenter: Dr Lama Tawakkol (University of Manchester)
- Catch up on our 2022/23 seminar series via our YouTube channel here.
30 March 2023
Social and academic embeddedness as buffers against school closure effects on schooling outcomes
Speaker: Professor Herman van de Werfhorst, European University Institute
23 March 2023
Zero poverty society: on how to lift the social floor
Speaker: Professor Ive Marx, University of Antwerp
2 February 2023
When the burden lifts: The effect of school and day care re-openings on parent’s employment and life satisfaction
Speaker: Professor Marita Jacob, University of Cologne
26 January 2023
More driven? Experimental evidence on differences in cognitive effort by social origin
Speaker: Dr Jonas Radl, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
19 January 2023
An historical analysis of NGO registration in contemporary China
Speakers: Dr Tim Hildebrandt, Department of Social Policy, LSE, Dr Blake Miller, Department of Methodology, LSE, and Guodong Ju, Department of Social Policy, LSE.
Video not available
8 December 2022
Energy taxes, social policy, and economic vulnerability
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Nelson, SoFI, Stokholm University
Video not available
1 December 2022
What accounts for the recent 'tutoring revolution' in English education policy?
Speaker: Dr Sonia Exley, Department of Social Policy, LSE
Video not available
17 November 2022
Why research (does not) affect policy: experimental evidence on the role of perceived political bias
Speaker: Dr Berkay Ozcan, Department of Social Policy, LSE
Video not available
10 November 2022
Why do we need data on sex?
Speaker: Professor Alice Sullivan, UCL
20 October 2022
Disability and Trade Union Membership in the UK
Speaker: Professor Melanie Jones, Cardiff University
13 October 2022
A Political Economy of Behavioural Public Policy
Speaker: Dr Adam Oliver, Department of Social Policy, LSE
6 October 2022
Orderly Britain
Speaker: Professor Tim Newburn, Department of Social Policy, LSE
- Catch up on all of our 2021/22 seminar series via our YouTube channel here.
19 May 2022
Wellbeing and Do-gooding? Critical understandings of individual altruism and human sociality
Speaker: Professor Hartley Dean (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
12 May 2022
Family Goals and Behavior in an International Comparative Analysis
Speaker: Dr Alicia Adserà (Princeton University)
Video not available
24 March 2022
Forgotten Wives: an alternative history of LSE
Speaker: Professor Ann Oakley (UCL Social Research Institute)
17 March 2022
Diversity in Seminar and Study Groups and Student Outcomes: Evidence from SP401
Speakers: Dr Berkay Ozcan and Valentina Contreras (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
10 March 2022
The Contours of Political Manipulation: Inside Richard Nixon’s ‘Law and Order’ Campaign
Speaker: Dr Leonidas Cheliotis (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Video not available
3 March 2022
Leaving Fathers Behind? The Politics of Departing from the Male Breadwinner Model in Germany and the UK
Speaker: Dr Sam Mohun-Himmelweit (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
24 February 2022
PISA, Political Discourse, and Education Governance in the Age of Global Reference Societies
Speaker: Professor Louis Volante (Brock University)
10 February 2022
Parental Skills, Assortative Mating, and the Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Speaker: Dr Chiara Orsini (University of Sheffield)
Video not available
3 February 2022
Policy capacity matters for education reforms: A diverging tale of two Brazilian states
Speaker: Dr Yifei Yan (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
27 January 2022
Income source confusion using the SILC
Speaker: Dr Iva Tasseva (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
9 December 2021
The Schumpeterian consensus: the new logic of global social policy to face the fourth industrial revolution
Speaker: Dr Vicente Silva (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
25 November 2021
Tracking system in education and inequalities. A longitudinal analysis of two school reforms in Switzerland
Speaker: Professor Georges Felouzis (University of Geneva)
18 November 2021
After Covid-19: what have we learned about the UK's labour market, inequality and the welfare system
Speaker: Dr Mike Brewer (Resolution Foundation)
11 November 2021
Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances (book talk)
Speaker: Professor Cynthia Crawford (University of Toronto)
4 November 2021
The Positive Effect of Women’s Education on Fertility in Low-Fertility China
Speaker: Dr Shuang Chen (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
7 October 2021
SLEEPWALKING INTO THE ‘POST-RACIAL’: SOCIAL POLICY AND THE STUDY OF RACE
Seminar based on joint Paper by Professor Coretta Phillips (Department of Social Policy, LSE) and Professor Fiona Williams (University of Leeds)
Speaker: Professor Coretta Phillips (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
- Catch up on all of our 2020/21 seminar series via our YouTube channel here.
23 March 2021
Which integration policies work? The heterogeneous impact of policies and institutions on immigrants’ labor market success in Europe
Speaker: Professor Lucinda Platt (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
16 March 2021
Unidentical Twins? Comparing Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 in North America
Speaker: Professor Daniel Béland (McGill University)
9 March 2021
Demographic Change and Perceptions of Racism
Speaker: Christopher Maggio (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
2 March 2021
Poverty Among the Working Age Population in Post-Industrial Democracies (with some comments on inequality)
Speaker: Professor Evelyne Huber (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
23 February 2021
Tense times for young migrants: Temporality, life-course, and immigration status
Speaker: Dr Vanessa Hughes (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
16 February 2021
Poverty, Not the Poor
Speaker: Professor David Brady (University of California, Riverside)
9 February 2021
Does Incarceration Shape Trust in the State, Community Engagement, and Civic Participation?
Speaker: Professor Chris Wildeman (Duke University)
2 February 2021
The normativity of marriage and the marriage premium for children’s outcomes
Speaker: Professor Florencia Torche (Stanford University)
26 January 2021
Inequalities in Breastfeeding in the U.S. across the 20th Century
Speaker: Dr Vida Maralani (Cornell University)
19 Jaunary 2021
Family structure and gender ideologies of youth in Britain
Speaker: Professor Pia Schober (University of Tübingen)
8 December 2020
The Company We Keep
Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood
Speaker: Professor Grace Kao (Yale University)
1 December 2020
They Can’t All Be Stars: The Matthew Effect, Status Bias, and Status Persistence in NBA All-Star Elections
Speaker: Dr Thomas Biegert (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
24 November 2020
How combination and sequence of weather events shape Mexico-U.S. migration flows
Speaker: Professor Filiz Garip (Cornell University)
17 November 2020
Policy Capacity Matters for Capacity Development: Comparing Teacher In-service Training and Career Advancement in Basic Education Systems of India and China
Speaker: Dr Yifei Yan (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
10 November 2020
Social class inequalities in school GCSE attainment – Mis-reading cultural capital
Speakers: Professor Vernon Gayle (University of Edinburgh), Dr Sarah Stopforth (University of Sussex)
3 November 2020
From the Local to the Global: Care Chains, Ageing and Futurity through the Indian Ayah
Speaker: Dr Shalini Grover (International Inequalities Institute, LSE)
28 October 2020
Mechanisms of Matthew effects in social investment
Speaker: Dr Amelia Peterson (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
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