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We host a range of events across a broad spectrum of topics relating to social policy. Unless otherwise stated, our events are free and open to all.

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Winter Term

January

 

22 Jan 2025

Book launch of Hartley Dean's Sociality, Social Rights and Social Welfare

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 6.30pm-8.00pm, Shaw Library (6th Floor of the OLD Building)

Hosted by the Department of Social Policy

This event will formally launch Sociality, a revised and extended 10th anniversary edition of Social Rights and Social Welfare (a book first published in 2015). It introduces sociality as a central theme, making a new and radical contribution to thinking about social rights and human welfare. The subject matter is of interest to scholars, students and practitioners in the areas of social policy, welfare rights and welfare law, human rights, social development, community action, and anthropological philosophy.

The discussion, it is hoped, will explore such thinking in relation to current real-life social care issues, but also in relation to rights-based approaches in prevailing social struggles and welfare crises.

Speakers: 

Hartley Dean, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, LSE.
Tania Burchardt, Associate Director of CASE and Associate Professor of Social Policy, LSE.
Nikky Cato, freelance author, writer and community engagement consultant and former Chair/Trustee of Brixton Advice Centre.

Chair: Kitty Stewart, Professor of Social Policy and Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE).

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How should we conceptualize the spousal relationships of 'mixed race' people?

Thursday 23 January 2025, 1.00pm-2:30pm, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21 and Online

International Social and Public Policy seminar hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Presenter: Professor Miri Song (University of Kent).
Chair: Dr Shuang Chen (LSE).

More information here

 

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Censorship in China: How Restricting Apolitical Speech Normalizes Control

Monday 27 January 2025 | 12.30pm-2.00pm GMT, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21

Presenter: Professor Tony Yang (Emory University)

Chair: Dr Timothy Hildebrandt (Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy).

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Working with Hope: Reflections on Researching Child Poverty in Incredibly Hard Times  

Thursday 30 January 2025, 1.00pm-2:30pm, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21 and Online

International Social and Public Policy seminar hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Presenter: Professor Ruth Patrick (University of York).
Chair: Dr Shuang Chen (LSE).

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February

 

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Arrested Analysis: The Unseen Reach of Sodomy Laws in Uganda

Wednesday 5 February 2025, 5.00pm-6.30pm, CBG 1.03

Mannheim Centre seminar hosted by the Mannheim Centre for Criminology

Speaker: Dr S.M.Rodriguez, Department of Gender Studies LSE.
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler (LSE).

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Born to Rule: The Making and Re-Making of the British Elite

Thursday 6 February 2025, 1.00pm-2:30pm, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21 and Online

International Social and Public Policy seminar hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Presenter: Professor Sam Friedman (LSE).
Chair: Dr Shuang Chen (LSE).

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Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) Online seminar series

Thursday 6 February, 4:30pm-5:30pm, OLD 2.21

Natural Disasters and the Electability of Women: Evidence from Philippine Mayoral Elections 
Holly Jansen (University of California San Diego)
Political signaling drives China's carbon market, not market signals 
Chen Xiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) [In-person presentation

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A Brief Introduction about the Young Lives Study and a Paper Presentation: "A Sound Methodology: Measuring Experiences of Violent Conflict through Audio Self-Interviews"

Thursday 13 February 2025, 1.00pm-2:30pm, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21 and Online

International Social and Public Policy seminar hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Presenter: Dr Marta Favara (University of Oxford).
Chair: Dr Shuang Chen (LSE).

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Authoritarianism and punishment in Latin America

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 5.00pm-6.30pm, CBG 1.03

Mannheim Centre seminar hosted by the Mannheim Centre for Criminology

Speaker: Professor Máximo Sozzo, National University of Litoral.
Chair: Dr Leonidas Cheliotis, LSE.

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The Bystander Issue: Why Do We Take The Harassers' Side?

Thursday 20 February 2025, 1.00pm-2:30pm, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21 and Online

International Social and Public Policy seminar hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Presenter: Dr Margaux Suteau (LSE).
Chair: Dr Shuang Chen (LSE).

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Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) Online seminar series

Thursday 20 February, 4:30pm-5:30pm, OLD 2.21

Do climate events drive support for climate change policies?Cèlia Estruch-Garcia (University of Barcelona)  
Safety Net or Self Reliance? U.S. Public Opinion on Federal Aid After Natural Disasters
Angie Jo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Rachael Kha (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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March

 

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The virality of racial terror

Wednesday 5 March 2025, 5.00pm-6.30pm, CBG 1.06

Mannheim Centre seminar hosted by the Mannheim Centre for Criminology

Speaker: Prof Geoff Ward, Washington University.
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler, LSE.

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Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) Online seminar series

Thursday 6 March, 16:30-17:30, OLD 2.21

Greening in Groups: Firm Concentration and Lobbying on Green Industrial Policy
Ryan Pike (Yale University)  
Supply Chains and Political Strategies: Analyzing Firm Responses to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism  
Lingbo Zhao (Penn State University)

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Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 5.00pm-6.30pm, CKK 2.04

Mannheim Centre seminar hosted by the Mannheim Centre for Criminology
 
Speaker: Prof Lilie Chouliaraki, LSE.
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler, LSE.

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Thursday 20 March 2025, 1.00pm-2:30pm, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21 and Online

International Social and Public Policy seminar hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Presenter: Professor Susan Harkness (University of Bristol).
Chair: Dr Shuang Chen (LSE).

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Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) Online seminar series

Thursday 20 March, 4:30pm-5:30pm, OLD 2.21

How Politics Percolates Through Science
Dahyun Choi (Princeton University)

The Impacts of Globalization on Political Knowledge: Evidence from Climate Knowledge in Africa  
Carlos Felipe Balacazar (University College London)   [In-person presentation]

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Inequalitites in Applications and Offers to Graduate Recruitment Programmes

Thursday 27 March 2025, 1.00pm-2:30pm, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21 and Online

International Social and Public Policy seminar hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Presenter: Professor Lindsay Macmillan (UCL).
Chair: Dr Shuang Chen (LSE).

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April

 

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Why Attitude Ambivalence Explains Tepid Support for Pro-Immigration Policies

Thursday 3 April 2025, 1.00pm-2:30pm, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21 and Online

International Social and Public Policy seminar hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Presenter: Dr Victoria Donnaloja (University of Essex).
Chair: Dr Shuang Chen (LSE).

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Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) Online seminar series

Thursday 3 April, 4:30pm-5:30pm, OLD 2.21

Green industrial policy in the voting booth: The electoral effects of the Inflation Reduction Act  
Aidan Miao (University College London)
Politics of the energy transition: a case study of electric vehicles policy from South Asia  
Anum Mustafa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  

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Exhibitions

 

PhD Atrium exhibition 2020

Exhibition: Education for Impact: promoting wellbeing and equality

Hosted by LSE Arts

Monday 20th January to Friday 14 February 2020

Atrium Gallery, Old Building LSE

This transformative and inter-disciplinary exhibition showcased PhD research being undertaken in the Departments of Social Policy, Health Policy and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences under the broad themes of wellbeing and equality.

More information here.

 

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Exhibition: How Social Policy Research Shapes the World You Live In

Hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Thursday 10 January - Sunday 20 January 2019

gallery@oxo, OXO Tower Wharf

This comparative and contemporary exhibition showcased Social Policy research responding to global challenges in areas such as inequality, work, family, poverty, migration and education.

More details here.