🌎 Migration as anti-fascist movement? Rethinking the question of solidarity
Join us for our Annual Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Lecture, exploring migration, social relations, and transnational solidarity.
🚨New paper klaxon!🚨
How does a police department manage to claim that it's "making progress"? And how does it do so even when people complain about its poor performance, corruption, or whatever else?
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... @chicagopolice.bsky.social
The Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub is hosting its 2nd annual workshop on 2nd June, bringing together researchers who are working on the social dimensions of climate change and the environment, and policy responses to these challenges.
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Does Speed Improve Justice? Fast-Track Courts and Violence Against Women in India
Join us for our last seminar of this term, with Dr Nirvikar Jassal presenting.
📆 2 April
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Dr Kevin Zapatan Celestino's research aims to tackle school bullying as an urgent policy issue in Mexico by better understanding what motivates students to become bullies.
Read about this research and watch the lecture here: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...
China’s controversial one‑child policy may have ended over a decade ago, but its legacy continues to shape Chinese society. Shuang Chen's research reveals decades of birth restrictions have reshaped family aspirations.
Read about this research here: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...
Segregation by the Dispossession of Aspirations: Young Muslim Professionals and the Politics of Othering in Rental Housing Markets, New Delhi, India
Join our seminar this week with Dr Sunil Kumar & Rifan Rahim presenting
📆 26 March
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📢 New Elsevier publication featuring Prof. Stephen Jenkins, Assistant Prof. Iva Tasseva and Visiting Senior Fellow Dr Fernando Rios‑Avila from the Social Policy Department at LSE alongside co‑author Christopher R. Bollinger from the University of Kentucky.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In our department seminar this week, Dr Santiago Quintero, LSE Fellow, presented on ‘Decentralisation, bureaucratic politicisation, and environmental performance: How political capture shapes multi-level environmental governance’
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In our department seminar this week, @maximeborg.bsky.social presented on ‘The Politics of Defensive Welfare Inclusion & Exclusion: The Case of Social Policy for the Self-Employed’
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📢 New publication by Dr Mobarak Hossain in @bjsociology.bsky.social documents changes in global inequality of opportunity in education for women and men born between 1941 and 1983 with results showing a decline in global inequality of opportunity.
Open Access
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2026 Annual LSE Behavioural Public Policy Lecture.
Professor Ching Leong explored how behavioural insights on policy formulation shape water consumption, policy, and public understanding.
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📣 Line-up this week!
The Politics of Defensive Welfare Inclusion & Exclusion: The Case of Social Policy for the Self-Employed
Decentralisation, bureaucratic politicisation, & environmental performance: How political capture shapes multi-level environmental governance
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📢 We are looking forward to the AFSEE Keynote Lecture on Wednesday 18 March!
In the event, Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak and AFSEE Fellow Lily Jamaludin will discuss our world today, the stories that bring us together & the silences that keep us apart.
📺 Satellite images, geolocated videos, data dashboards — visibility has become a promise of justice. But is more evidence really leading to accountability?
Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the limits of “evidence revolutions.”
📅 Wed 18 March | 🕠 5.30pm | 📍 LSE | With @aycacu.bsky.social
Join us today for a Book launch event: Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean
📆 Tuesday 10 March 2026, 5.30pm - 6.30pm
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🎉 Congratulations to Professor Almudena Sevilla on becoming a Fellow of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social Wonderful recognition of her contributions to advancing equal opportunities in education and gender.
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Book launch event: Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean
📆 Tuesday 10 March 2026, 5.30pm - 6.30pm
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Book launch event: Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean
📆 Tuesday 10 March 2026, 5.30pm - 6.30pm
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Police & People in London — What’s Changed in 40 Years?
Join the LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology & UCL’s Centre for Global City Policing today for an afternoon event that reflects on four decades of change in policing.
📆 2pm - 5pm- In-person event, LSE
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Police & People in London — What’s Changed in 40 Years?
Join the LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology and UCL’s Centre for Global City Policing for an afternoon event that reflects on four decades of change in policing.
📆 Friday 6 March 2026, 2pm - 5pm- In-person event, LSE
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A new school of government to train up civil servants might sound good in theory. But Kevin Zapata-Celestino warns that if this signals a return to the New Public Management logic of the New Labour era, this project needs careful rethinking.
📢 Upcoming event
Professor Ching Leong will deliver the 2026 Annual LSE Behavioural Public Policy Lecture “Not a Drop to Drink: How Behavioural Biases Keep Us from the Water We Need, and How We Can Fix It.”
🗓️ 5 March | 6.45pm 📍Wolfson Theatre & Online
In our seminar this week, @zparolin.bsky.social presented evidence on why certain cash transfers toward families with children have failed to reduce intergenerational poverty.
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🎉 Congratulations to Department of Social Policy PhD alumnus tcstephens.bsky.social who has been awarded funding by the EU Commission under its Horizon Europe programme, for a 2.5-year Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship.
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❓️ Are you a researcher working on the social dimensions of climate change & the environment?
The Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub at LSE are hosting its second annual workshop on Tuesday 2nd June 2026.
Call for papers is now open!
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📢 Workshop: Closing Gender Gaps
This workshop brings together researchers tackling why these inequalities endure and how we can address them, both through the persistence of gender gaps and potential policy solutions.
📆 12 March
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In our seminar last week, @kevinguyan.bsky.social revealed how the fight for LGBTQ equalities is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.
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