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Tania Burchardt among LSE academics elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences

Tania Burchardt, Professor in the Department of Social Policy and Associate Director of CASE, was elected to the Academy for her work on inequalities and the welfare state. Read more...

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Impacts of increases in the minimum wage on delivery costs for early years providers

Gillian Paull discusses the recent increase in the minimum wage and its implications for delivering Government-funded preschool places, in an article published by the Early Education and Childcare Coalition. Read more...

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New research for Prince William's Homewards programme on preventing family homelessness

New research has identified how community-based, multi-agency hubs can help prevent homelessness, reduce isolation and improve outcomes for lone-parent families facing housing insecurity.Read more...

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LSE Research for the World article by Laura Lane

How empty buildings could help solve Britain’s housing crisis Successive governments have failed to address the UK’s housing shortage. Instead of aiming to build more and faster, the repurposing of empty bui... Read more...

26 May 2026

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LSE Inequalities blog post by Tania Burchardt

"Social inequality should be at the heart of the Casey Commission on Adult Social Care in the UK"LSE Inequalities blog post The Casey Commission will consider wholesale reforms to the UK’s long-term care system. B... Read more...

6 May 2026

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Ilona Pinter gives evidence to the APPGs inquiry into the Impact of Recent Immigration and Asylum Rule Changes on Poverty

Ilona Pinter gave oral evidence to the APPGs inquiry into the Impact of Recent Immigration and Asylum Rule Changes on Poverty. According to the evidence Proposals for 'earned settlement' include excluding children and ... Read more...

22 April 2026

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LSE Research for the World article by Ben Goodair

Aspects of health and social care were first outsourced to the private sector with the intention of creating a market of socially motivated providers who would compete to provide the best quality care. Benjamin Goodair e... Read more...

25 March 2026

CASE News

Vacancy: Research Officer

We have an exciting opportunity for a Research Officer to join us on our ‘Reform of Universal Credit Childcare, and Tax-Free Childcare’ project. This is a modelling project led by Dr Gillian Paull analysing o... Read more...

16 March 2026

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Gillian Paul writes about the impacts of minimum wage increases

Gillian Paull, Visiting Senior Fellow at CASE, LSE, discusses the recent increase in the minimum wage and its implications for delivering Government-funded preschool places. Her article is being published by the Early Ed... Read more...

3 March 2026

CASE News

British Academy Lecture by Ian Gough

On Tuesday 19 May 2026, Professor Ian Gough FBA, CASE Visiting Professor, will deliver the British Academy lecture "Planning for a sufficiency economy: lessons from Britain in World War II". Runaway global he... Read more...

17 February 2026

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Eleni Karagiannaki giving evidence to the Treasury Committee on the Financial Inclusion Strategy

CASE's Eleni Karagiannaki has given evidence to the Treasury Committee on the Financial Inclusion Strategy on Tuesday 3 February 2026. She participated in a panel made up of experts and academics, where representa... Read more...

4 February 2026

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The impact of the two-child benefit cap research

The two-child benefit cap restricted Universal Credit and Tax Credit payments to cover only the first two children in a family. This increased the child poverty rate for families with three or more children. Kitty Stewar... Read more...

19 January 2026

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UK ethnic wealth gap has widened over last decade

Wealth differences between ethnic groups in the UK have widened significantly since 2012/14, says new research by Eleni Karagiannaki. While overall wealth has grown, the gains have been unevenly distributed across... Read more...

16 December 2025