News Archive 2019

CASE Blog post
The Grenfell Inquiry Report gives the government a lot to act on

Anne Power outlines the key recommendations of the Grenfell Inquiry Report, and writes that the government, the London Fire Service, owners of multi-storey residential blocks, and councils must act on the findings.

You can read the blog post on the British Politics and Policy blog here.

CASE Blog post
Prioritising participatory poverty projects properly

CASE Blog post
Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Housing Plus and the wider role of social landlords in low income communities

Professor Anne Power, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Head of LSE Housing and Communities, wrote about the role of social landlords in low income communities. In her article she presents the reasons why housing is about far more than bricks and mortar. Housing is a many-sided social, physical, financial and environmental service helping communities to survive and thrive.

You can read the blog post here.

Speech at the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
Tania Burchardt

Dr Tania Burchardt was at the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in Dublin today talking about the importance of collecting and using equality data.

The presentation slides are available here.

CASE articles in LSE Global Policy Lab publication
Bringing Inequality Back on the Agenda

John Hills and Abigail McKnight have contributed articles to the LSE Global Policy lab publication on inequality.

 The report was distributed to all the delegates at the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France 24 - 26 August 2019.

If You Care About Poverty, Do You Have to Worry About Inequality Too? – John Hills

Why a More Systematic Approach to Assessing and Addressing Inequality Is Required - Abigail McKnight

CASE News
Launch of the Multidimensional Inequality Framework

Today we are delighted to inform you that we have launched the Multidimensional Inequality Framework (MIF). The MIF and dedicated websites are the results of a collaboration between academics in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) (Abigail McKnight as the academic lead), and practitioners in Oxfam (led by Alex Prats).

The initial project was funded through grant from the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) programme at the LSE's International Inequalities Institute and further funding for the development of the CASE website was provided by the LSE's Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fund.

For too long inequality has been conceptualised and measured within single dimensions. This has limited our understanding of inequality and restricted our ability to tackle it. The Multidimensional Inequality Framework provides a systematic, theoretically grounded approach to measuring and analysing inequality. Amartya Sen's capability approach, informs the theoretical foundation of the MIF, and leads us to look beyond simple measures of economic outcomes or subjective assessments of well-being to assess the quality of people's lives. Instead, we assess inequalities in the capability of individuals to live a life they have reason to value and one that they would choose for themselves. The MIF is structured around seven key life domains, within which we provide a selection of inequality indicators and inequality measures.

The dedicated website contains a toolkit with advice on how to apply the MIF, lots of resources to help you identify inequality drivers, candidate policies and how to take action.

Visit the LSE MIF website.

Keynote speech at the European Conference of Social Work Research
Tania Burchardt

Dr. Tania Burchardt gave the keynote speech on 12th April 2019 at the European Conference of Social Work Research in Leuven, Belgium, on “How could a ‘capability approach’ influence social work practice?”.

The presentation slides are available here (pdf)

2019 Human Development and Capability Association Conference
London, 9-11 September, 2019

Hosted by University College London, in partnership with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Birkbeck, the University of East London (UEL) and the London International Development Centre (LIDC)