The LSE Festival is an intellectually stimulating series of events, which engages a wide public audience with LSE research and expertise. It brings together global leaders, innovators and change makers to investigate how we can learn lessons from the past, tackle the challenges of today and shape the future. The Festival draws on key thinkers as well as world-class LSE academics. All events are free to attend and open to all.

The 2025 Festival will take place from Monday 16 to Saturday 21 June 2025 on the theme of "Visions for the Future". How will AI, new technologies and innovation shape our societies? How will we confront the global challenges of climate change and inequality? And, after an historic year of elections, will our political reality change? 

CASE researchers are taking part in the festival events: 

A society free from poverty: how do we get there and what would it look like? 
A public lecture by Abigail McKnight (CASE, LSE), Abby Jitendra (Joseph Rowntree Foundation), Thomas Stephens (LSE) .
The speakers will discuss some of the key policies and strategies that can bring a society free from poverty into reality, including re-thinking care and tackling inter-generational inequalities
Monday 16 June 2025 at 1pm.

Insecure lives, secure futures? 
Part of the LSE Festival Exhibition in the Marshall Building
A multidisciplinary team of researchers, led by Professor Becky Tunstall and including LSE’s Laura Lane, Abigail McKnight and Irene Bucelli, have explored how multiple insecurities affect life chances and wellbeing and how joined-up policy could help. As part of their research, they spoke to 36 people experiencing multiple insecurities in four deprived neighbourhoods in Sheffield, Milton Keynes, and Mablethorpe. Artist Laura Sorvala’s illustrations capture the impact of insecure lives and the policy interventions that could help build more secure futures.

Find out more about the LSE Festival.