🎉 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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📣 In our seminar this week, @zparolin.bsky.social will present evidence on why certain cash transfers toward families with children have failed to reduce intergenerational poverty.
📆 19 Feb
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📢 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, @kevinguyan.bsky.social reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.
📆 12 Feb
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How will we know if the AI revolution is happening?
In our Department seminar last week, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk talked about her research and what economic statistics could reveal as AI becomes transformative.
🎙️ Catch up here: buff.ly/pkRvKiH
📣 In our seminar this week, Jonathan Lilliedahl will examine why and how selective institutions & elite secondary schooling have acquired legitimacy within education systems committed to egalitarian principles, focusing on the changing Swedish educational landscape.
📆 5 Feb
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🌏 Upcoming event | Governing with nature: towards transformative change?
Find out how nature‑based solutions are reshaping urban governance and what this means for climate action, social justice, and cities.
📅 11 Feb | 🕡 6.30pm | 📍 In person & online
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📄 Read the latest in our Working Paper Series:
Caregiving Across Generations
by Joan Costa-Font, Chiara Orsini, Nilesh Raut
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Minds that Dare – liberation of thought and expression: The ALM and Academic Freedom
Join us this week to hear Prof Paul Frijters share his experiences in academia that led him to set up Academia Libera Mentis (ALM).
📆 Wednesday 28 Jan, 6.00pm-7.30pm
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📄 Read the latest in our Working Paper Series:
Bridging the Wealth Divide? Examining the Role of Stocks and Shares ISAs in Reducing Wealth Inequality in the UK
by George Rushworth
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📣 Our seminar this week features Dr Zhuang Han investigating how structural economic change and cultural transformation shape the lives and aspirations of marginalized youth in post-reform China.
📆 22 Jan
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NEW✨ The public-health approach to violence prevention triumphed in Scotland – why isn't it working in England & Wales?
Supraja M. reviews Preventing Violence by Keir Irwin-Rogers @lbilli91.bsky.social, @fraser81.bsky.social Fern Gillon Susan McVie & @timnewburn.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social
We've got a fantastic line-up of events coming up!
Come and join the conversations!
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📢 New publication by Dr Mobarak Hossain in American Journal of Education investigating the link between authoritarianism and the World Bank’s promotion of decentralization reforms in educational systems across low- and middle-income countries.
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🌍 Upcoming event | Sociology of hope
In his new book, sociologist Adrián Scribano presents a theory connecting hope to classical sociological traditions, revolutions, utopia, social change, collective action, and more.
📅 Wed 21 Jan 2026
⏰ 6.30pm
📍 Online
📢 Public Event Announcement
Join us for Professor Hertog's inaugural lecture: "How oil rents fuel populist foreign policy" on 21 January 2026 at 6.30pm
In-person and online tickets available 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/events/21-ja...
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@lseevents.bsky.social @shertog.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to NHH PhD candidate Pallavi Prabhakar and LSE PhD candidate Diwakar Kishore (co-author) for winning the Best Paper Award at the Meeting of the Norwegian Association of Economists (47th edition of "Samfunnsøkonomenens forskermøte”).
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We are delighted to be joined by humanitarian, author and media host Zainab Salbi.
At this exciting public lecture, she will discuss how women’s leadership is providing new pathways to address the climate crisis.
Registration is now open ⬇️
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