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This project, funded by the Aberdeen Financial Fairness Trust, will explore the impact on household financial well-being, aiming to inform future policy and decision-making.Read more...
This project aims to provide the academic expertise they need to enhance the evidence base on which they are basing their services, which will in turn contribute to addressing the key regional economic priority of reducing problem debt. Read more...
Will Hutton, the chair of Fairness Foundation Editorial Board, and Tania Burchardt, CASE Associate Director, are discussing wealth inequality and how to tackle it. Read more...
A working paper and an animated video reporting on research that uncovers the extent to which social security and the wider infrastructure routinely fails individuals and their families. Read more...
Eleni Karagiannaki uses data from Understanding Society to analyse how young people's transitions into adulthood in the UK are shaped by social and economic conditions.Read more...
Mann and Glen Loutzenhiser summarise findings from their work which attempted to assist the Commission in addressing the question of whether the UK should have a net wealth tax. Read more...
The transition to Net Zero marks a radical reshaping of many aspects of everyday life. It also has the potential to influence positively several social challenges: improving public health, reducing the effects of poverty... Read more...
Lucie Middlemiss (University of Leeds)
Wednesday 04 December 2024 12:00 - 13:00
Modern economies rely on economic growth for stability and prosperity. Further, periods of stagnation and recession are currently associated with poor health and wellbeing outcomes for citizens. However, 50 years of rese... Read more...
Christine Corlet-Walker (University of Surrey)
Wednesday 27 November 2024 12:00 - 13:00
Since the early 2000s welfare states in Europe have shifted their primary focus from providing social protection against labour market risks to the activation of all individuals into employment. This adult worker paradig... Read more...
Silvia Avram (Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex)
Wednesday 13 November 2024 12:00 - 13:00
This event is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2024, taking place from 19 October to 9 November with events across the UK. ... Read more...
Tania Burchardt (CASE, LSE), Alicia Walker (Shelter), Ellie Benton (LSE Housing and Communities), Meghan Roach (New Horizon Youth Centre)
Thursday 07 November 2024 18:30 - 20:00
Absence from school is a serious problem with damaging consequences for young people’s education, health, and welfare. With absence rates soaring in the wake of the pandemic, the search is on for effective solutions. ... Read more...
Moira Wallace (LSE), Anne Longfield (Centre for Young Lives)
Wednesday 16 October 2024 11:30 - 12:45
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Ellie Benton
This research aims to act as a preliminary piece of work that sets out an up-to-date picture of under-occupation in London, identifying which geographic areas, tenures, household types and ethnic groups are most likely t...Read more...
Thursday 31 October 2024
Amanda Light and Ruth Patrick
The UK’s social security landscape and public services infrastructure have been transformed since the Conservatives took office in 2010, initially as part of a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. The collision of auste...Read more...
Friday 25 October 2024
Eleni Karagiannaki, Tania Burchardt and Xingna Zhang
How do patterns of intergenerational support vary across social class groups and by upwards or downwards social mobility? Are the patterns observed consistent with reciprocity, altruism, status reproduction or something ...Read more...
Tuesday 08 October 2024
The 2023 CASE Annual Report includes an overview of our Centre’s work, updates from our staff, PhDs, visitors and associates, and summaries of publications and events from last year. It includes a set of articles showcas...Read more...
Friday 02 August 2024
Mark Fransham, Kate Andersen, Ruth Patrick, Aaron Reeves and Kitty Stewart
The benefit cap places an upper limit on the total amount a family can receive in financial support from the government in a given year. Many of those subject to the cap live in high rent properties and one stated goal f...Read more...
Wednesday 31 July 2024
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The Fairness Foundation have launched a Wealth Gap Risk Register – an online evidence resource about the impacts of wealth inequality, how to reduce it and mitigate its impacts, and public attitudes to it. To mark... Read more...
Tuesday 22 October 2024
The project 'Welfare reform and larger families' has been looking into the two-child benefit limit. Read about the project itself and its impact in the latest discussions on the benefit cap. Project page Big Iss... Read more...
Wednesday 07 August 2024
Ellie Benton and Ruby Russell from LSE Housing and Communities recently facilitated a series of knowledge exchange workshops with built environment professionals, leading to the publication of two blogs in the LSE London... Read more...
The paper “Living Arrangements, Intra-Household Inequality and Children’s Deprivation: Evidence from EU-SILC” by Eleni Karagiannaki and Tania Burchardt has been published in the Child Indicators Researc... Read more...
Friday 14 June 2024
A new Understanding Society working paper authored by Eleni Karagiannaki analyses how young people’s transitions into adulthood in the UK have changed over time and how these changes are shaped by social and econom... Read more...
Wednesday 05 June 2024
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