Department of Social Policy Seminars

Thursday 29^th October 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm

(35-40 mins for presentation, 20-25 mins for Q and A).

Please note: All are welcome to stay on for informal post seminar conversations from 2.00pm-2.30pm.

Presenter: Professor Ozan Aksoy

Presentation Title: Fundamental British Values training and national identity: Evidence from natural and randomised experiments

Abstract: Can national identity be cultivated through education, and with what consequences for groups differently positioned within the nation? The multiple pathways through which national identities are formed make it difficult to isolate the causal effects of education. We address this challenge by examining the UK government’s introduction of the Fundamental British Values (FBV) policy in 2014, which requires schools to promote a set of civic values intended to foster Britishness. Drawing on two censuses and four surveys and employing four causal identification strategies based on difference-in-differences and dynamic panel models, we first present evidence consistent with the policy increasing British identification overall. Among Muslims, however, the policy appears to have reduced British identification, suggesting that state-led efforts to strengthen national belonging can have exclusionary or counterproductive effects among minority groups. We then conduct randomised experiments to assess the effects of FBV training in controlled settings. Preliminary experimental findings broadly corroborate the observational results: FBV training strengthens national identification, but only among the white British majority. Taken together, evidence from multiple surveys, censuses, and randomised experiments demonstrates that state-led nation-building through education can strengthen national identification at the population level without fostering, and potentially while weakening, national belonging among minorities.

Presenter bio: Ozan Aksoy is a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College and an Associate Professor in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. Prior to joining Oxford, he was an Associate Professor in Social Science at University College London. He has been an IOE Honorary Associate Professor at UCL since 2025. His research interests include cooperation, trust, religious behaviour, and the political sociology of religion. He uses game theory, statistical and computational methods, and laboratory and natural experiments as research tools. Ozan is the 2019 recipient of the Raymond Boudon Award of the European Academy of Sociology and the 2026 and 2018 Robert K. Merton awards of the International Network of Analytical Sociology. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology.

Chair: Professor Lucinda Platt

Attend in person- OLD 2.21

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Thursday 12 November 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm

(35-40 mins for presentation, 20-25 mins for Q and A).

Please note: All are welcome to stay on for informal post seminar conversations from 2.00pm-2.30pm.

Presenter: Rosemary Taylor (Tufts University)

Presentation Title: Putting a Price on Suffering: The Politics of Compensation for Contaminated Blood

Abstract: How do governments make decisions about whom to compensate and by how much when public authorities are thought to bear some responsibility for a disaster? Based on detailed archival data, this study analyzes that process in the case of viral contamination of the blood supply in Britain. The case yields more general insights about how governments develop the categories salient to policymaking and determine worth. In contrast to accounts that treat states as unitary actors, I show how decision-making moved through multiple arenas – the public-political, Civil Service, voluntary sector and legal spheres – each characterized by the meaning-systems of a distinctive institutional logic. The findings are illuminating for vexing questions about how institutions shape action, and they advance theories about classification and disaggregated policymaking in multifaceted modern states.

Presenter bio: Rosemary CR Taylor holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology, and Community Health, Tufts University. She is a political sociologist who studies the comparative history of disease and health policy. Her interests encompass the global governance of epidemics; the impact of cultural frameworks and social institutions on population health; the generation and international transfer of scientific knowledge; risk regulation in the face of scientific uncertainty and globalization; and how societies compensate their citizens for disasters. Her current projects explore the making of ‘disease identities', and a comparative history of two viruses, Hepatitis C and HIV, from the time of their identification to the development of pharmaceuticals and other remedies to address them.

Chair: Professor Hakan Seckinelgin (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

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Thursday 19 November 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm

(35-40 mins for presentation, 20-25 mins for Q and A).

Please note: All are welcome to stay on for informal post seminar conversations from 2.00pm-2.30pm.

Presenter: Dr Ben Goodair (CASE)

Presentation Title: Evaluating the privatisation of children’s homes in England

Abstract: How should we understand the consequences of private companies running public services? Over the past 30 years the delivery of children’s residential social care has shifted, so that now 80% of children’s homes are run for-profit. But what can evidence reveal about how this changes the experiences of care receipt? This presentation reports on a five-year research programme to observe: who is running children’s homes? What impact does that have on care quality? And how?

Presenter bio: Ben is a postdoctoral fellow focusing on the privatisation of health and social care services. Ben's work details the increasing rates of outsourcing of public services, the reasons for this, and the consequences for service users. At CASE, Ben evaluates how NHS privatisation in England impacts health outcomes for patients - analysing profit extraction of private companies; consequent health inequalities; and how existing problems with healthcare are exacerbated or alleviated by outsourcing. Previously, Ben has co-lead projects funded by the Nuffield Foundation evaluating the outsourcing of social care in England, based at the University of Oxford, where he also completed his PhD.

Chair: Professor Tania Burchardt (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

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Thursday 26 November 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm

(35-40 mins for presentation, 20-25 mins for Q and A).

Please note: All are welcome to stay on for informal post seminar conversations from 2.00pm-2.30pm.

Presenter: Dr Alice Levins

Presentation Title: The breadth of imprisonment

Abstract: The walls of the prison create a barrier that is replicated in the literature on the effects and after-effects of imprisonment. A great deal of research has charted either the pains and deprivations that are experienced by people in prison, or explored matters of desistance, resettlement and reintegration after release, generally focussing on the importance of housing, employment and shifts in self-narratives of the formerly incarcerated. However, these literatures tend to devote very little attention to the lasting role of the prison itself in the dynamics of post-release existence – the often seemingly small-scale, embodied or habitual ways in which people carry their specific experiences of custody with them. In this article, Alice Levins will draw on a large-scale mixed-method project carried out in England & Wales and Norway to describe and make sense of the ways in which those released from custody are changed in ways that are inscribed by the prison itself, and argue that imprisonment casts a shadow that is very hard to escape.

Presenter bio: Alice Ievins is a criminologist interested in punishment and the ways it is (and isn't) related to justice. Much of her work has been about prisons, with a particular focus on how men convicted of sex offences experience their imprisonment, and what it morally communicates to them about who they are and what they have done. Alice has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She was a Research Associate on the Comparative Penology project and has conducted ethnographic research in England & Wales and Norway in prisons holding women and prisons holding men convicted of sex offences.

Chair: Dr Johann Koehler (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

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Thursday 29^th October 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm

(35-40 mins for presentation, 20-25 mins for Q and A).

Please note: All are welcome to stay on for informal post seminar conversations from 2.00pm-2.30pm.

Presenter: Dr Nidal Al Haj Sleiman (LSE Middle East Centre)

Presentation Title: Education Reform and the Rise of Inequalities: Evidence from The Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Abstract: This seminar focuses on research taking place in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in 2024, examining the impact of education reform on the development of socially just education in K-12 schools. By analysing education policies introduced after 2003 and interviewing school leaders in public, local private and premium international schools, the study shows that twenty years of reform have led to increasing inequalities and elevated ethno-religious and socio-economic divide. Despite massive efforts and resources invested in systemic improvement, the reforms resulted in increased centralisation of the public sector, a massive wave of privatisation, technicist managerialism, and further segregation of local communities across ethnic, religious, linguistic, and socio-economic lines.

Presenter bio: Dr Nidal Al Haj Sleiman is a sociologist of education policy, leadership and international education. She is the Kuwait Research Officer at the LSE Middle East Centre. Her work generally draws on theories of policy sociology, social and cultural justice, critical leadership studies, critical and transformative pedagogies, particularly in West Asia: Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon and Palestine. Her publications broadly address interconnection of policy, leadership and society, the sociology of international education, the political economy of education, post-colonial and settler-colonial theory in education. Prior to her research career, Nidal worked as teacher and a school leader in Lebanon and Qatar, in public and international education settings.

Chair: Dr Sonia Exley (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

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Presenter 1: Dr Carter Koppelman

Presentation Title: (De)Politicizing Debt in São Paulo’s Social Housing

Abstract: In Brazil, state policies of subsidized homeownership and ‘financial inclusion’ have intertwined to produce social housing estates where individual and collective life are marked by widespread indebtedness. My current work examines the limits to citizens’ organizing around debt and its consequences in São Paulo, using two ethnographic case studies of collective efforts by social housing residents to contest debts perceived as unjust. It highlights the intertwining of multiple barriers to politicizing debt ‘from below’, including the fragmentation of risk through devolution to condominiums and households, the phenomenology of overindebtedness as a form of 'slow violence', and federal policies of debt management ‘from above’ that seek to sustain both financial solvency and a moral consensus that debts must be paid.

Presenter Bio: Dr Carter Koppelman is an Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy. A sociologist with interdisciplinary proclivities, he is broadly interested in how individuals and movements pursue dignity in unequal societies, and how these efforts are structured by broader political and economic forces. His research focuses primarily on the working-class peripheries of Latin American cities, using ethnographic methods to investigate the impacts of housing policies and related state interventions on people’s everyday lives, senses of citizenship, and engagements with state agencies.

Presenter 2: Dr Timothy Hildebrandt

Presentation Title: Altruism Without Democracy? Regime, Disposition and Culture in Authoritarian Civic Life

Abstract: Civic engagement is often assumed to go hand in hand with democratic values. Yet in China, many citizens with strongly authoritarian orientations are also highly altruistic. What explains this "authoritarian altruism": the regime, individual disposition, or shared culture? I present two proposed projects designed to find out. A cross-national survey of the US, Canada, UK and Germany tests whether authoritarian altruism appears within democracies. A paired survey of mainland China and Taiwan holds culture broadly constant while varying the regime. Together, they offer a comparative strategy for rethinking civic life under authoritarianism (broadly conceived).

Presenter Bio: Timothy Hildebrandt is Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development, Deputy Head of Department (Teaching), and co-Editor of The China Quarterly. His research examines state–society relations, citizenship and civic engagement, and the governance of civil society in authoritarian contexts, with a particular focus on China.

Thursday 15th October 2026, 1.00-2.30pm

Race Matters Seminar
Applying a life course lens to understand how racism patterns ethnic inequities in health
Presenter: Professor Laia Becares
Chair: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey

Thursday 8 October 2026

Immobility in a Distressed Region: Poverty Trap, Housing Lock, or Preferences?
Presenter: Professor Christopher Bollinger
Chair: Dr Iva Tasseva

Thursday 1 October 2026- Internal presentations. No recordings available.

Early-Career Job Displacement and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Brazil Presenter: Dr Kelly Santos
Chair: Professor Kitty Stewart

Democracy and taxation in developing countries
Presenter: Dr Guy Heilbrun
Chair: Professor Kitty Stewart

Catch up on our 2025/26 seminar series via our YouTube channel here.

Thursday 2 April 2026

Does Speed Improve Justice? Fast-Track Courts and Violence Against Women in India [joint work with Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich]
Mannheim Centre for Criminology seminar
Presenter: Dr Nirvikar Jassal (Department of Government, LSE)
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Thursday 26 March 2026

Segregation by the Dispossession of Aspirations: Young Muslim Professionals and the Politics of Othering in Rental Housing Markets, New Delhi, India
Presenters: Dr Sunil Kumar (Department of Social Policy, LSE) and Rifan Rahim (Development Practitioner)
Chair: Professor Hakan Seckinelgin

Thursday 19 March 2026

The Politics of Defensive Welfare Inclusion and Exclusion: The Case of Social Policy for the Self-Employed
Presenter: Dr Maxime Borg (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Chair: Dr Margaux Suteau

Decentralisation, bureaucratic politicisation, and environmental performance: How political capture shapes multi-level environmental governance
Presenter: Dr Santiago Quintero (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Chair: Dr Margaux Suteau

Thursday 19 February 2026

The Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty in the United States

CASE seminar

Presenter: Professor Zach Parolin (University of Oxford)
Chair: Professor Kitty Stewart (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Thursday 12 February 2026

Rainbow Trap: Diversity Policies, LGBTQ Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion

Global Sexual & Gender Identities Policy Lab Seminar

Presenter: Dr Kevin Guyan (University of Edinburgh)
Chair: Professor Hakan Seckinelgin (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Thursday 5 February 2026

Agenda-setting for selective schooling: A Swedish case study on the policy reframing of comprehensive education

Education Research and Policy Hub Seminar

Presenter: Dr Jonathan Lilliedahl (Linnaeus University)
Chair: Dr Sonia Exley (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Thursday 29 January 2026

How will we know if the AI revolution is happening?

Presenter: Professor Diane Coyle (Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Thursday 22 January 2026

The Precarious Refusal: The “Sanhe Gods” and The Search for Meaning among China’s Marginalized Youth

LSE Fudan Hub seminar

Presenter: Dr Zhuang Han (LSE)
Chair: Dr Tim Hildebrandt (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Thursday 11 December 2025

Working from Home and School Absence (joint work with Jonathan James)

Presenter: Dr Joanna Clifton-Sprigg (The University of Bath)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Thursday 4 December 2025

Research Reflections from Ofsted
Education Research and Policy Hub Seminar

Presenter: Dr Philip Noden (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Chair: Dr Sonia Exley (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Thursday 27 November 2025

Policing’s will to care and the bleeding heart of austerity welfare in England
Mannheim Centre for Criminology Seminar

Presenter: Dr Simon Tawfic (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Thursday 20 November 2025

Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across Time
Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub Seminar

Presenter: Professor Thomas Hale (University of Oxford)
Chair: Dr Liam Beiser-McGrath (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Thursday 13 November 2025

Philanthrocapitalism & Africa’s ecosystem of health research and policy-making: a decolonial critique

Presenter: Dr Eyob Gebremariam (University of Bristol)
Chair: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Thursday 30 October 2025

Understanding School Bulling Through the Eyes of the Aggressors: Lessons from Mexico

Presenter: Dr Kevin Zapata-Celestino (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Women's Employment: A Lifetime Perspective and Policy Impact

Presenter: Gillian Paull (CASE, LSE)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

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)
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27 March 2025

Inequalities in Applications and Offers to Graduate Recruitment Programmes
Presenter: Professor Lindsey Macmillan (UCL).
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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15 February 2024

Conflict-related migration: new insights from Ukraine
Presenter: Professor Lucinda Platt
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8 February 2024

Research similarity and Women in Academia
Presenter: Dr Alessandra Casarico
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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
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25 January 2024

Intergenerational Poverty Persistence in Europe - is there a Great Gatsby Curve for Poverty?
Presenter: Professor Brian Nolan
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18 January 2024

Kingdon at 40: Multiple Streams, Multiple Flaws
Presenter: Dr Fabio Battaglia
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7 December 2023

The Altruistic Authoritarian Citizen
Presenters:Professor Reza Hasmath (University of Alberta) and Dr Timothy Hildebrandt (LSE)
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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)
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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)
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9 November 2023

The Political Economy of Women's Work in Palestine under Settler Colonialism
Presenter: Dr Samia M Al-Botmeh (Birzeit University)
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26 October 2023

Energy Policy Support Increases through Policy Goal Communication
Presenter: Dr Gracia Bruckmann (University of Bern)
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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)
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5 October 2023

Imperial Development: The Humanitarian-Development Nexus in Jordan and Lebanon
Presenter: Dr Lama Tawakkol (University of Manchester)
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• 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

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23 March 2023

Zero poverty society: on how to lift the social floor

Speaker: Professor Ive Marx, University of Antwerp

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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

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26 January 2023

More driven? Experimental evidence on differences in cognitive effort by social origin

Speaker: Dr Jonas Radl, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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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.

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8 December 2022

Energy taxes, social policy, and economic vulnerability

Speaker: Professor Kenneth Nelson, SoFI, Stokholm University

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1 December 2022

What accounts for the recent 'tutoring revolution' in English education policy?

Speaker: Dr Sonia Exley, Department of Social Policy, LSE

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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

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10 November 2022

Why do we need data on sex?

Speaker: Professor Alice Sullivan, UCL

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20 October 2022

Disability and Trade Union Membership in the UK

Speaker: Professor Melanie Jones, Cardiff University

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13 October 2022

A Political Economy of Behavioural Public Policy

Speaker: Dr Adam Oliver, Department of Social Policy, LSE

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6 October 2022

Orderly Britain

Speaker: Professor Tim Newburn, Department of Social Policy, LSE

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• 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)

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12 May 2022

Family Goals and Behavior in an International Comparative Analysis

Speaker: Dr Alicia Adserà (Princeton University)

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24 March 2022

Forgotten Wives: an alternative history of LSE

Speaker: Professor Ann Oakley (UCL Social Research Institute)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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24 February 2022

PISA, Political Discourse, and Education Governance in the Age of Global Reference Societies

Speaker: Professor Louis Volante (Brock University)

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10 February 2022

Parental Skills, Assortative Mating, and the Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Speaker: Dr Chiara Orsini (University of Sheffield)

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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)

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27 January 2022

Income source confusion using the SILC

Speaker: Dr Iva Tasseva (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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11 November 2021

Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances (book talk)

Speaker: Professor Cynthia Crawford (University of Toronto)

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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)

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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)

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• 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)

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16 March 2021

Unidentical Twins? Comparing Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 in North America

Speaker: Professor Daniel Béland (McGill University)

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9 March 2021

Demographic Change and Perceptions of Racism

Speaker: Christopher Maggio (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

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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)

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23 February 2021

Tense times for young migrants: Temporality, life-course, and immigration status

Speaker: Dr Vanessa Hughes (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

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16 February 2021

Poverty, Not the Poor

Speaker: Professor David Brady (University of California, Riverside)

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9 February 2021

Does Incarceration Shape Trust in the State, Community Engagement, and Civic Participation?

Speaker: Professor Chris Wildeman (Duke University)

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2 February 2021

The normativity of marriage and the marriage premium for children’s outcomes

Speaker: Professor Florencia Torche (Stanford University)

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26 January 2021

Inequalities in Breastfeeding in the U.S. across the 20th Century

Speaker: Dr Vida Maralani (Cornell University)

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19 Jaunary 2021

Family structure and gender ideologies of youth in Britain

Speaker: Professor Pia Schober (University of Tübingen)

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8 December 2020

The Company We Keep
Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood

Speaker: Professor Grace Kao (Yale University)

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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)

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24 November 2020

How combination and sequence of weather events shape Mexico-U.S. migration flows

Speaker: Professor Filiz Garip (Cornell University)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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28 October 2020

Mechanisms of Matthew effects in social investment

Speaker: Dr Amelia Peterson (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

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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