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Research Excellence Framework

See below our REF 2021 case studies.

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Giving social housing tenants a voice

By Anne Power, Bert Provan, Laura Lane, and Ellie Benton. Read more...
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Improving the lives of disadvantaged people through better measurement of poverty and inequality

By Tania Burchardt, John Hills, Abigail McKnight, Kitty Stewart, and Polly Vizard. Read more...
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Better measurement of income inequality levels and trends

By Stephen Jenkins. Read more...

Annual Report 2023

See below highlights from our research in 2023, taken from our latest Annual Report.

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CASE notes:10 insights from 2023

Irene Bucelli presents the ten key themes of our research during 2023. Read more...
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Trends in adolescent disadvantage: policy and outcomes for young people under Labour, the Coalition, and the Conservatives (1997 to 2019)

Moira Wallace presents findings from her recently completed research project which explores two decades of policy on teenage disadvantage. Read more...
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Fair decarbonisation of housing in the UK: a sufficiency approach

Ian Gough summarises a novel proposal for tackling the UK housing crisis: one based on sufficiency. Read more...
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Deliberative workshops on economic priorities with citizens of Birmingham and Greater Manchester

Tania Burchardt reflects on the insights that this form of deliberation generates and the challenge of integrating them into a wider programme of research. Read more...
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Unpaid carers and unmet need for social care services in England

Nicola Brimblecombe investigated the extent and nature of unmet need for social care services in England from the perspective of unpaid carers, the reasons for this support gap and some of the consequences. Read more...
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Transitions to adulthood in an intergenerational family context

Eleni Karagiannaki uses data from Understanding Society to analyse how young people's transitions into adulthood in the UK are shaped by social and economic conditions.Read more...
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Considering issues of liquidity and a net wealth tax in the UK

Mann and Glen Loutzenhiser summarise findings from their work which attempted to assist the Commission in addressing the question of whether the UK should have a net wealth tax. Read more...
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Review of UK material deprivation measures

Abigail McKnight describes the research undertaken to review the UK material deprivation measures, the recommendations made and the revised measures for children, working age adults and pensioners. Read more...
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The changing wellbeing of UK workers: findings from a UK Quality of Work index

Thomas Stephens presents some findings from a new UK Quality of Work (QoW) index. Read more...
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Who counts in poverty research?

Daniel Edmiston sets out new evidence of deepening poverty in the UK. Read more...
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The sins of the parents: adult-behaviour-oriented child benefits in Europe

Kitty Stewart, Ruth Patrick and Aaron Reeves try to conceptualise the change of deliberately separating the entitlement to benefits from the calculation of family needs. using a typology of social policy for children developed by Mary Daly. Read more...
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Serving their communities? An update on inclusion of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities in "faith" primary schools

Tammy Campbell highlights that the finding that "faith" primary schools tend to educate fewer children with special educational needs and/or disabilities than their non-"faith" counterparts, holds regardless of the deprivation-level of the areas in which the children who attend a school live. Read more...
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LSE Housing and Communities - Annual Review 2023

Anne Power, Laura Lane, Eleanor Benton, Bert Provan, Ruby Russell and Jessica Rowan ouline continuous LSE Housing and Communities research focussing on homelessness, neighbourhood sustainability, and housing inequalities generally.Read more...
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The social and economic value of wheelchair user homes

Laura Lane and Bert Provan present research into the social and economic value of homes that are appropriately adapted to meet the needs of wheelchair users ("wheelchair user homes").Read more...
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The Children's Information Project

Polly Vizard discusses the Children's Information Project (CIP), a strategic research programme that aims at co-designing and delivering a series of innovations in the use of children's information, data and voice in policy and practice Read more...
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Knowledge exchange spotlight: The Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes in a Changing Britain (SPDO) research programme

Polly Vizard highlights the SPDO infographic and the SPDO videos, produced as part of the SPDO knowledge exchange programme. Read more...