Current Projects

The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) examines different dimensions of social disadvantage, and analyses the impact of public policy. These are our current projects and programmes:

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Social policies and distributional outcomes in a changing Britain

What progress has been made in addressing social inequalities through social policies in 21st Century Britain? Read more...

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Improving the evidence base for understanding the links between inequalities and poverty

CASE is collaborating with LSE's International Inequalities Institute to explore and fully research the connections between inequality and poverty. Read more...

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Intra-household allocation of resources

Do all the members of a household share its resources and hardships equally? Using micro-data from EU-SILC, we examine the sensitivity of poverty, deprivation and inequality estimates to different assumptions about intra-household sharing of resources in complex households, across Europe. Read more...

Multidimensional Inequality Framework

This innovative Framework has been specifically designed so that it can be adapted to measure multidimensional inequality around the world. Whether you are a policy maker, work for an NGO, or are an academic or researcher, the MIF website provides all of the tools and resources necessary to do this. Read more...

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Is there a social consensus on a riches lines?

This study seeks to explore opinions about what constitutess a standard of living that could be considered 'fully flourishing', and, by extension, if there is a point beyond that at which individual or household resources can be identified as being excessive. Read more...

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Investigating inequalities facing young children of special educational needs and disabilities (SENDs)

Tammy Campbell - British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow with CASE - explains her work looking at inequalities in attributions to young children of different special educational needs and disabilities (SENDs). Read more...

Dyadic longitudinal analysis of intergenerational exchanges

In collaboration with the LSE's Department of Statistics, this project aims to develop new methods for the analysis of longitudinal multivariate dyadic data. Read more...

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LSE Housing and Communities

LSE Housing and Communities explores the effects of poverty and social disadvantage, particularly from a neighbourhood and community perspective. We explore the impact of public policy on poor areas over time and aim to understand social realities and social change within communities. Read more...

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Investigating the impact of the Health in Pregnancy Grant

Supported by research funding from LSE's Social Policy Department and STICERD, we are conducting original research on whether the Health in Pregnancy Grant was effective at reducing cases of low birthweight and prematurity. Read more...

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City of Walbrzych - mitigating social and economic challenges

LSE was commissioned by the European Investment Bank to work with the city to look at how it was talking its problems, and share some of the good practice from other European cities who were tackling similar problems and successfully identifying what works. Read more...

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Needs and entitlements: How UK welfare reform affects larger families

Funded by the Nuffield Foundation, this research will enable better understanding of welfare reform's impact on larger families and contribute to the evidence base on the impact of separating benefit from need, for future social welfare policy. Read more...

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Inequalities in early education in England

Using data from the National Pupil Database, we are exploring inequalities in children's access to high quality early education and care (ECEC) by background (income, ethnicity and EAL), and how these have changed over the past decade. Read more...

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Testing and demonstrating the value of the growing up in England dataset

This work explores the potential for using the wave 1 of the GUIE dataset for building up an evidence base on the relationship between Roma, Gypsy and Travellers childhood circumstances and experiences and their educational participation and progression. Read more...

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Valuing what matters: from efficiency to sufficiency

A Leverhulme Fellowship has been awarded to Professor Ian Gough who suggests a radical new approach to addressing the gap betwee how the market values jobs and how valuable jobs are to the economy and society. Read more...

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Material deprivation

The Department for Work and Pensions has commissioned CASE to conduct a review of the Households Below Average Income material deprivation measures and the questions in the Family Resources Survey which are used to derive these measures.Read more...

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Transition to adulthood in the UK in an intergenerational context

The overarching objective of this research is to provide information to enable a better understanding of the contemporary transition from adolescence into adulthood in the UK within an intergenerational family context and how this has changed for successive cohorts of children in the UK. Read more...

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Policy review of child poverty solutions in selected countries

CASE has been commissioned by the Itla Children's Foundation in Finland to conduct a review of published international evidence on policies and programmes designed to reduce child poverty. Read more...

Determinants, dynamics and policy implications of deep poverty

Amidst a cost-of-living crisis, this project explores the changing extent and nature of deep poverty in the UK. Read more...

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Insecure lives and the policy disconnect

This project, funded by the ESRC, explores how multiple insecurities affect Levelling Up and what joined-up policy can do to help. Read more...