CASE Special Events

For further information and papers, when available, please contact:

The CASE team, Email: case@lse.ac.uk.

Tuesday 03 March 2026 19:00 - 20:30

LSE Housing and Communities

The Care Economy and Social Housing

To discuss how the care economy and housing sectors depend on one another, housing expert Anne Power and ecological economist Tim Jackson will be discussing findings from their new books Beyond Bricks and Mortar and The ...Read more...

Anne Power (CASE/ LSE Housing and Communities), Tim Jackson (Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), Jonathon Porritt

This event is both online and in person

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM 01, Ground Floor, Clement House, LSE, 99 Aldwych, London WC2B 4JF

Tuesday 04 November 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Hosted by the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)

Joyful revolution: poverty, social justice and a pioneer of participation

Tackling poverty and campaigning for social justice must be with, not just for, people in poverty. This key insight will be explored by speakers and lived-experience activists at this event, through reflections on the li...Read more...

Diana Skelton (ATD Fourth World International), Eileen Alexander (LSE), Fran Bennett (Oxford), Kate Evans (ATD Fourth World Trust), Elaine Li Quan

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Monday 16 June 2025 13:00 - 14:00

The LSE Festival: Visions for the Future

A society free from poverty: how do we get there and what would it look like?

The event challenges the old adage, 'The poor will always be with us', by envisaging a future free from poverty. The speakers will identify the gains for children and for society as a whole from ending child poverty and ...Read more...

Abigail McKnight (CASE, LSE), Abby Jitendra (Joseph Rowntree Foundation), Thomas Stephens (LSE)

MAR, Ground Floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Thursday 27 March 2025 17:30 - 19:00

Insecure Lives - Exploring Multiple Insecurities

This is a CASE Special Event to launch the findings of the Insecure Lives study with a panel discussion....Read more...

Various speakers

This event is both online and in person

CBG, Centre Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Thursday 07 November 2024 18:30 - 20:00

Co-hosted by LSE Housing and Communities (CASE) and the LSE Homelessness Initiative

Homelessness in London: Why youth homelessness needs its own solution

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)

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM 01, Ground Floor, Clement House, LSE, 99 Aldwych, London WC2B 4JF

Wednesday 10 April 2024 11:30 - 13:00

CASE

The Review of the UK Material Deprivation Measures

On Thursday 21 March the Department for Work and Pensions published the outcome from the Review of UK Material Deprivation Measures conducted by Abigail McKnight, Irene Bucelli, Tania Burchardt and Eleni Karagiannaki. Ke...Read more...

Abigail McKnight (CASE, LSE), Lottie Devaney (DWP), joint with other members of the CASE team

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 31 January 2024 18:30 - 20:00

Hosted by CASE, the Department of Government, and the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism

Limitarianism: the case against extreme wealth

It’s often said that there shouldn’t be any billionaires. But this is a mistake. What we need is a world without decamillionaires – people having more than ten million pounds. That is what the philosopher Ingrid Robeyns ...Read more...

Professor Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht University), Martin Sandbu (Financial Times), Professor Lea Ypi (London School of Economics)

CBG, Centre Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Tuesday 24 May 2022 11:30 - 12:45

Conscious hedonism and basic needs. A thriving life that does not cost the Earth

Our model of progress appears to fail: there is no single country on Earth that has achieved a social minimum while also remaining below the ecological ceiling. The recent International Panel on Climate Change (ICPP) rep...Read more...

Orsolya Lelkes (CASE, LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 07 October 2021 11:00 - 12:00

Stick or Shift? Attitudes towards inequality, the Welfare State and social security benefits during COVID-19

What can we learn about (public) attitudes towards aspects of the welfare state in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic? It is a now well-rehearsed observation that the pandemic has created unprecedented social condition...Read more...

Various speakers

ONLINE

Monday 22 February 2021 11:30 - 13:15

What needs fixing to build back better: fault lines in the British welfare state on the eve of the pandemic

Launching the publication of a new report, The Conservative Governments' Record on Social Policy from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020, this event will reflect on the welfare state and public services on the eve of the COVID-1...Read more...

Various speakers

ONLINE

Friday 14 February 2020 10:00 - 12:30

Can public consensus identify a 'riches line'?

Exploring Londoners' values and opinions about higher living standards: This event marks the launch of a report on an innovative study conducted in London examining whether members of the public could identify and agree ...Read more...

ONLINE

Friday 16 November 2018

Co-hosted by CASE, ATD Fourth World and Goethe University

From Input to Influence: How can the participation of people in poverty shape research and public policy?

This seminar explored the relationship between participatory research and participation in policymaking, using the approach of ATD Fourth World as an example....Read more...

Various speakers

STICERD, London School of Economics

Friday 02 November 2018

An LSE and IMF Joint Workshop

Social protection in a changing world

LSE and IMF jointly sponsored a workshop on 'Social Protection in a Changing World'....Read more...

Various speakers

STICERD, London School of Economics

Tuesday 12 June 2018 14:00 - 16:30

The power of measurement: equality audits and frameworks

This seminar will explore three current and recent models used by statutory bodies, NGOs and independent researchers in the UK and internationally to analyse and measure different aspects of social and economic inequalit...Read more...

KSW 1.04, 20 Kingsway Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2B 6LH

Wednesday 08 February 2017 18:30 - 20:00

The Relationship between Inequality and Poverty: mechanisms and policy options - Dr Eleni Karagiannaki and Dr Abigail McKnight

This lecture examines the empirical relationship between economic inequality and poverty across countries and over time, paying attention to different measurement issues. It then considers a range of potential mechanisms...Read more...

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM 01, Ground Floor, Clement House, LSE, 99 Aldwych, London WC2B 4JF

Wednesday 27 April 2016 15:00 - 18:00

CASE Public Lecture: What was the Impact of the Coalition Government on Social Policy Outcomes and Welfare Governance?

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM 01, Ground Floor, Clement House, LSE, 99 Aldwych, London WC2B 4JF

Tuesday 28 June 2011 09:30 - 18:00

LSE Housing Special Event - Breakfast Seminar: Community Assets and the Big Society - who carries the cost?

Many ideas about the 'Big Society' originate from the 19th Century when co-operatives, friendly societies and mutual aid were the survival strategies of the poor, underpinning families and communities in the face of hars...Read more...

ONLINE

Tuesday 16 March 2010 18:00 - 19:45