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Events on or after 17 December 2020

Monday 22 February 2021 11:30 - 13:15

CASE Special Events
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 - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Wednesday 10 March 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Blood, Threats and Fears: The Hidden Worlds of Hate Crime Victims

The need for improved support for victims of hate crime has become all the more apparent at a time when numbers of incidents have risen to record levels, both within the UK and beyond. This sharp increase – and the assoc...Read more...

Neil Chakraborti (University of Leicester)

ONLINE - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Wednesday 24 March 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Black women Violence and Abuse: Working at the intersections of race, gender and other oppressions

Black British women are absent or less present in research on violence/abuse. The missing-ness or minimal presence is not only within the field of violence research, but in mental health, maternity care, history and so o...Read more...

Ava Kanyeredzi (University of East London)

ONLINE - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Wednesday 05 May 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Alice Bradbury (Institute of Education, University College London)

ONLINE - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Wednesday 19 May 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Sally Riordan (Education Observatory, University of Wolverhampton)

ONLINE - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Wednesday 16 June 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Eleanore Hargreaves (Institute of Education, University College London)

ONLINE - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Wednesday 07 July 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Ruth Lupton (University of Manchester)

ONLINE - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Thursday 07 October 2021 11:00 - 12:00

CASE Special Events
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 - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Wednesday 20 October 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Praveetha Patalay (Centre for Longitudinal Studies and MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL)

ONLINE - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Wednesday 10 November 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Graham Atkins (Institute for Government)

ONLINE - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Wednesday 02 February 2022 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Nancy Doyle (Genius Within)

ONLINE - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Wednesday 09 March 2022 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Sally Tomlinson (Goldsmiths, University of London)

ONLINE - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Tuesday 24 May 2022 11:30 - 12:45

CASE Special Events
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

Wednesday 08 June 2022 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Frances McGinnity (Trinity College Dublin and the Economic and Social Research Institute)

ONLINE - Registration required. Registration closes at 10am on the day of the seminar.

Wednesday 15 June 2022 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Mary Reader (CASE, LSE), Jonathan Portes (King’s College London), Ruth Patrick (University of York), Kate Andersen (University of York)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 02 November 2022 12:00 - 13:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Jason Strelitz (Director of Public Health, London Borough of Newham)

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

Wednesday 23 November 2022 12:00 - 13:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Mark Fransham (International Inequalities Institute, 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

Wednesday 07 December 2022 12:00 - 13:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Jake Anders (Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities, University College London)

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

Wednesday 08 February 2023 12:00 - 13:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Karen Lucas (University of Manchester)

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

Friday 31 March 2023 15:30 - 17:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
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...

Bruce Katz (The Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation), Mark Fransham (International Inequalities Institute, LSE)

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH