CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Wednesday 19 April 2023 12:00 - 13:00

Speaker: Berkay Ozcan, Associate Professor of Social Policy, LSE.

Strategic Gift Giving in Europe: the relationship between intergenerational family ties and financial incentives

This seminar draws on research on the relationship between intergenerational family ties and financial incentives, specifically whether the adult children's intensity of upstream social contact responds to strategic gift...Read more...

Wednesday 10 May 2023 12:00 - 13:00

Investing in social inclusion? Paradoxes and dilemmas of social investment

This seminar discusses some central paradoxes and dilemmas that emerge from the rise of “social investment” – one of the today dominant approaches in social policy, both as a policymaking discourse (endorsed e.g. by the ...Read more...

Wednesday 17 May 2023 12:00 - 13:00

Exploring the utility of structural competency in multi-agency responses to exploitation

This seminar will discuss the emerging concept of ‘structural competency’ as a framework to understand systemic gaps and suggest more effective multi-agency responses to exploitation affecting marginalised communities. I...Read more...

Wednesday 07 June 2023 12:00 - 13:00

Local economic inequality and household borrowing in the UK

This seminar focuses on research which investigates the relationship between economic inequality and household borrowing using the UK''''s Wealth and Assets Survey data and granular, neighbourhood-level estimates of ...Read more...

Wednesday 17 May 2023 12:00 - 13:00

Exploring the utility of structural competency in multi-agency responses to exploitation

This seminar will discuss the emerging concept of ‘structural competency’ as a framework to understand systemic gaps and suggest more effective multi-agency responses to exploitation affecting marginalised communities. I...Read more...

Wednesday 10 May 2023 12:00 - 13:00

Investing in social inclusion? Paradoxes and dilemmas of social investment

This seminar discusses some central paradoxes and dilemmas that emerge from the rise of “social investment” – one of the today dominant approaches in social policy, both as a policymaking discourse (endorsed e.g. by the ...Read more...

Wednesday 19 April 2023 12:00 - 13:00

Speaker: Berkay Ozcan, Associate Professor of Social Policy, LSE.

Strategic Gift Giving in Europe: the relationship between intergenerational family ties and financial incentives

This seminar draws on research on the relationship between intergenerational family ties and financial incentives, specifically whether the adult children's intensity of upstream social contact responds to strategic gift...Read more...

Friday 31 March 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Levelling Up: A US/UK comparison

National governments in both the US and the UK are trying to use the post pandemic period to reduce long standing disparities on economic performance across cities and metropolitan areas. These "Levelling Up" strategies ...Read more...

Wednesday 08 February 2023 12:00 - 13:00

Transport-related social exclusion in the North of England – it’s grim up North

This presentation looks at the issue of transport–related social exclusion (TRSE), which was a concept that was developed in the early 2000s in response to the then Labour government’s Neighbourhood Renewal Programme. T...Read more...

Wednesday 07 December 2022 12:00 - 13:00

The unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people's education and wellbeing: the first wave of the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities study (COSMO)

There is increasing evidence of the inequalities in pupils’ experiences of COVID-19 restrictions and how these have reflected and exacerbated existing gender, ethnic and socio-economic inequalities. The COVID Social Mobi...Read more...

Wednesday 23 November 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Hosted by CASE, the London School of Economics and Political Science

Trends in spatial labour income inequality in Canada, France, Germany and the UK 1975-2020: the Linking National and Regional Inequalities project

The Linking National and Regional Inequalities project is an ongoing initiative to build an open-access, international database of statistics on regional income inequality. Initially the project examines trends in geogra...Read more...

Wednesday 02 November 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Tackling Covid-19 in East London and what we learnt about inequalities

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed a wide range of social and health vulnerabilities in more deprived areas. This session will explore the way these manifested, contributory factors and what was done locally to tackle them. ...Read more...

Wednesday 15 June 2022 16:30 - 18:00

CASE

Fertility and the two-child limit: does cutting child benefits really affect fertility?

The two-child limit, introduced by the UK government from April 2017, restricts means-tested child-related social security support to the first two children in a household. It aimed to “to ensure that families in receipt...Read more...

Wednesday 08 June 2022 16:30 - 18:00

Migrant-origin children in Ireland: Language and reading development in early childhood

Ireland provides a useful case study into the experiences of second-generation migrants in a ‘new immigration country’ where relatively little is known about the Irish-born children of recent migrants. This talk will dis...Read more...

Wednesday 09 March 2022 16:30 - 18:00

Repeat performances: SEND, Exclusions and minority young people

This talk discusses the long history of children and young people from minority (especially Black Caribbean) backgrounds excluded from mainstream schooling. From the ESN scandals of the 19760s and 1970s to the numbers of...Read more...

Wednesday 02 February 2022 16:30 - 18:00

Neurodiversity at Work - Opportunity or Exploitation?

In this talk Dr Doyle, from the Centre for Neurodiversity Research at Work will discuss both sides of the Neurodiversity Movement coin. A seemingly new narrative in employment and the business press, the Neurodiversity p...Read more...

Wednesday 10 November 2021 16:30 - 18:00

The NHS, schools, and social care in the four nations of the UK: how do they compare?

Devolution afforded Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the opportunity to manage public services differently from the approach taken in England. The devolved governments have now had control of services for over twenty...Read more...

Wednesday 10 November 2021 16:30 - 18:00

The NHS, schools, and social care in the four nations of the UK: how do they compare?

Devolution afforded Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the opportunity to manage public services differently from the approach taken in England. The devolved governments have now had control of services for over twenty...Read more...

Wednesday 20 October 2021 16:30 - 18:00

The scale and drivers of inequalities in and by mental health

In this talk, some recent evidence related to the extent of inequalities in adolescent mental health by various different socio-demographic indicators (sex/gender, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic) will be presented, ...Read more...

Wednesday 20 October 2021 16:30 - 18:00

The scale and drivers of inequalities in and by mental health

In this talk, some recent evidence related to the extent of inequalities in adolescent mental health by various different socio-demographic indicators (sex/gender, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic) will be presented, ...Read more...

Wednesday 07 July 2021 16:30 - 18:00

Great Mistakes in Education Policy: and how to avoid them in the future

Can a clear view of what’s gone wrong in the past help forge a new consensus about the policy directions of the future? In this seminar, Ruth Lupton will talk about her new book with Debra Hayes: Great Mistakes in Educa...Read more...

Wednesday 16 June 2021 16:30 - 18:00

Children’s Life-histories In Primary Schooling [CLIPS]: Persevering in exclusion?

This presentation explores the experiences of children designated as ‘lower-attaining’ in British primary schooling. It draws on Nancy Fraser’s (2008) conceptualisation of a global shift from government via nation-state...Read more...

Wednesday 19 May 2021 16:30 - 18:00

Against the Odds: Why expecting schools to overcome disadvantage is doomed to failure

Since 2011 the government has invested £21bn into improving the academic achievements of children facing socio-economic disadvantage. The ‘pupil premium’ was intended to reduce the attainment gap between students from lo...Read more...

Wednesday 05 May 2021 16:30 - 18:00

Educational Inequalities and Post-pandemic Schools

Inequalities in attainment and experiences are long-established in the state school system in England, but ever-changing, particularly in this era of school disruption. This presentation will use findings from research p...Read more...