Skip to main content
On the 31st of March we said goodbye to STICERD and CASE manager Jane Dickson who retired after 40 years of working at the LSE.Read more...
This month we welcome Annie-Rose Nicholas who will be taking over the management of STICERD and CASE. Read more...
An innovative study conducted in London and examining whether members of the public could identify and agree on a threshold above which a standard of living could be regarded as excessive, or harmful to wider society. Read more...
A new policy toolkit examines policies with a potential 'double dividend': policies that could lead to reductions in both poverty and inequality in the UK. Read more...
View Events
Kerris Cooper and Abigail McKnight
The more generous National Living Wage replaced the National Minimum Wage for employees aged 25 and over in April 2016. In April 2020 it is due to increase to 60% of the average wage. In this policy brief we assess the ...Read more...
Friday 06 March 2020
Tania Burchardt and Eleni Karagiannaki
In most research on living standards, material deprivation is measured using household-level material deprivation indicators. However, if resources are not shared equally within households, conventional material deprivat...Read more...
Monday 02 March 2020
Bert Provan
This report considers the impact of extending the "move-on" period (currently 28 days) which is allowed to refugees, once they are awarded Leave to Remain in the UK. This question arises for those refugees who were in re...Read more...
Tuesday 18 February 2020
Tania Burchardt, Abigail Davis, Ian Gough, Katharina Hecht, Donald Hirsch, Karen Rowlingson and Kate Summers
There is widespread public and political concern about economic inequality in the UK today but relatively little research exploring people’s opinions about high incomes, wealth and what it means to be rich. This innovati...Read more...
Friday 14 February 2020
London is home to vast and visible economic inequality, where the richest 10 per cent own 61 per cent of overall wealth, while at the same time four in ten Londoners do not earn enough for what is considered by the publi...Read more...
View Publications
On the 31st of March we said goodbye to STICERD and CASE manager Jane Dickson who retired after 40 years of working at the LSE. Jane managed STICERD for more than 30 years and CASE since its inception in 1997. Jane... Read more...
Wednesday 01 April 2020
This month we welcome Annie-Rose Nicholas who will be taking over the management of STICERD and CASE. Annie joins us from Imperial College, where she was Section Manager in the Centre for Inflammatory Disease. At ... Read more...
Due to the current coronavirus outbreak, our seminar series and events are postponed for the next term. Please check our website and Twitter feed for further updates. For further information please visit LSE's ... Read more...
Tuesday 17 March 2020
Recent LSE / Red Cross research into the support refugees receive after their application is accepted was referred to in a Westminster Hall debate by Thangham Debbonaire MP (Lab). She used the research by CASE's Dr Bert ... Read more...
Monday 09 March 2020
Liz Sayce, Chair of the Commission for Equality in Mental Health discusses the state of inequality in the UK, the impact it can have on mental health, and potential solutions to these systemic issues with Professor Sir ... Read more...
View News
