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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 2022

See below highlights from our research in 2022, taken from our latest Annual Report.

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John Hills cross-cutting framework for welfare state analysis

Polly Vizard reflects on the framework that John Hills developed for cross-cutting analysis of the welfare state in terms of public expenditure, policies and outcomes. Read more...
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A quarter century of change

Focusing on pensions and social security policy, Paul Johnson highlights some of the most significant changes we have witnessed in the past 25 years. Read more...
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25 years of CASE work on areas and neighbourhoods

Ruth Lupton reflects on CASE's research on areas and neighbourhoods has comprised both quantitiative analysis and the detailed study of the conditions and dynamics of particular neighbourhoods. Read more...
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Examining the impact of welfare reform on larger families in the UK - with the benefit of John Hills' insights

Kitty Stewart explains how her work on examining the impact of welfare reform on larger families in the UK was influenced by John Hills. Read more...
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Poverty in rich welfare states

Bea Cantillon reflects on the constraints weakening the capacity of the welfare state in richer countries to reduce poverty and the challenges faced. Read more...
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An anatomy of economic inequality: John Hills and the work of the National Equality Panel

Giovanni Razzu reflects on John Hills' contribution to the establishment, process and key finding of the National Equality Panel (NEP) 2008-2010. Read more...
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Housing and poverty revisited - John Hills' contributions

Mark Stephens shows that while considering housing costs usually raises poverty rates, taking account of "housing income" reduced poverty rates in England and the Netherlands on the eve of the financial crisis. Read more...
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Learning from John Hills on social housing

Becky Tunstall reflects on John Hills' unparalleled model on ways of thinking, researching and questioning the position of housing policy within public policy. Read more...
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Fuel poverty and its measurement: The Hills Review and recent developments

Abigail McKnight's article looks at the evolution of fuel poverty measurement in the UK and the significant role John Hills played in improving the way fuel poverty is measured and understood. Read more...
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25 Years of LSE Housing and Communities

Over 25 years, LSE Housing and Communities has developed a reputation for qualitative, grounded, action-based, policy-linked research, capturing the voices of people living and working in low-income and disadvantaged communities. Read more...
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LSE Housing and Communities Summary 2022

Here the focus is on three recent projects: the cost of living research, Sustainable Communities, and the Lancaster West retrofit impact evaluation. Read more...
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Tackling poverty and inequality: how policy toolkits can provide academic rigour to policy making

Irene Bucelli reflects on how two policy toolkits developed by CASE researchers in recent years have contributed to producing more systematic and theoretically informed approaches to tackle poverty and inequality, with a particular emphasis on policies with a potential "double dividend". Read more...
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The scale and drivers of ethnic wealth gap across the wealth distribution: evidence from Understanding Society

Eleni Karagiannaki's article presents new evidence about the scale and the drivers of ethnic wealth gap across the distribution in the UK.Read more...
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Researching child poverty and inequality in the asylum and immigration system in the UK

In this article Ilona Pinter presents findings from a social cost-benefit analysis of lifting "no recourse to public funds" restrictions for households with limited leave to remain or on a visa residing in the UK. Read more...
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Evaluating the (short-lived) US experiment with a child benefit

Jane Waldfogel presents results of recent research evaluating the US experiment with monthly Child Tax Credit payments, a measure that was introduced in response to the COVID-19 emergency. Read more...
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Thinking poverty: are our concepts fit for purpose?

Should income poverty, material deprivation, destitution, social exclusion, or definitions created through a participatory process by people with experience of living on a low income, provide the optimal basis for monitoring poverty and developing solutions? Read more...
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Knowledge exchange overview

We are proud that our research has resulted in two Impact Case Studies that were awarded a 4* world-leading grade in REF2021, building on our earlier Impact Case Study from REF2014. Read more...