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Welcome to our first edition - July 2026

Social Policy in the Spotlight is your regular round-up from the Department of Social Policy, bringing together key moments from across our community, events, and wider School activity. In this editio...

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How can we help young people navigate misinformation? 🌐 New research by Assistant Prof. Mobarak Hossain LSE, and Assistant Prof, Jason Jabbari (WashU) explores the links between reading achievement, socioeconomic inequality and adolescents’ resistance to misinformation. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Congratulations to Lisa Harker CBE, Director of @nuffieldfjo.bsky.social and LSE alumna (MSc Social Policy and Planning, 1994), on being awarded a CBE in HM King Charles III’s Birthday Honours for her services to children and young people 👏 Read more: www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

New research by LSE’s Associate Prof. Timothy Hildebrandt and Assistant Prof. Blake Miller (University of Pennsylvania) is published. “The Safety Tether” analyses 861,042 NGO registrations in China, showing how local governments loosen or tighten control after a 2013 reform. doi.org/10.1111/gove...

The Safety Tether: How China Manages Civil Society Through Lawfare

How do authoritarian regimes benefit from civil society organizations' expertise and capacity while mitigating the potential risks they pose? Using machine learning and interrupted time series modeli...

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Professor Almudena Sevilla recently had the honour of having an audience with the Queen Letizia of Spain as part of a delegation from the Club de Ejecutivas Españolas en el Exterior. Read here: www.casareal.es/ES/Actividad...

🎉Congratulations to @stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social who has been awarded a FINDS Fellowship following a highly competitive process. ➡️Read more here: www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

The story of wealth in America isn’t just about Wall Street and Silicon Valley 💵 Join us to hear Eric Zwick discuss his forthcoming book The Everywhere Millionaire - a groundbreaking portrait of the hidden fortunes of Main Street business owners. Get your ticket ⬇️ buff.ly/RDkxBV3

Book your free tickets for the LSE Festival 2026: How to save the planet (from 18 May) What can we do to save the Earth, its people and our environment? Join us to explore the impact of global challenges and how we should tackle them at LSE Festival 2026. www.lse.ac.uk/events/LSE-F...

LSE Festival 2026: How to save the planet

What can we be doing to save the Earth, its people and environment? A programme of free events from Monday 15 to Saturday 20 June. Tickets released on 18 May.

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We’re pleased to share new research by Dr Federico Filetti, LSE Fellow in the Department of Social Policy, co-authored with colleagues from King’s College London, Leiden University, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and the University of Bologna. 👉 kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

Welfare State Deservingness in the Era of Mass Higher Education

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💡 How has the atomisation of human experience into data reshaped capital, competition and moral judgement? Join us for The Ordinal Society, a public event hosted by @lsesociology.bsky.social

The Ordinal Society | Free public event at LSE

6pm Thurs 21 May | Marion Fourcade and Rebecca Elliott | Free public event at LSE

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📢📖 Join us for the launch of Walking: A sociological field guide, edited by Emma Jackson. What does it mean to walk sociologically? Discover walking as a creative, critical and embodied research method. 📅 14 May | 🕕 6pm | 📍 LSE |🎟️ All welcome

Book Launch | Walking: A sociological field guide

Thurs 14 May | 6pm to 7.30pm | Free public event at LSE Soci

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📢We are hiring! We are looking to recruit two LSE Fellows to teach on our BSc and MSc in International Social and Public Policy whilst also being fully engaged in our vibrant research culture! 📆 Applications close 31 May. ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

Read Tania Burchardt’s article in the LSE Inequalities Blog on the case for an integrated, cross-departmental approach to reform based around the “social determinants” of need. 👇

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Should social and economic inequalities serve as *the* central framework for reforms to the UK’s long-term care system? Can Baroness Casey step up to be “the new Beveridge”? Tania Burchardt explores in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

📚 Citizens to Traitors: Bengali internment in Pakistan, 1971–1974 Ilyas Chattha will discuss his book on Bengali internment after the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and the making of “traitors” by the state. 🕒 Wed 20 May, 3pm 📍 Wolfson Theatre, LSE

Free LSE Sociology and LSE Human Rights Event | Citizens to traitors: Bengali internment in Pakistan, 1971–1974

Thursday 20 May | 6pm | Free and public event at LSE

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What is driving the rise in populism - and how can we stop it? Join us for the launch of the latest book by @liambyrnemp.bsky.social with @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social and @sarahobolt.bsky.social. Our speakers will draw connections between growing inequality and the populist surge. 🎟️ buff.ly/TUHgfDI

Congratulations to Associate Professor Dr Liam Beiser‑McGrath on being awarded funding from LSE’s Global Sustainability Research Fund for his proposal, “Status Anxiety and the Green Backlash: Understanding Distributional Resistance to Climate Policy in Advanced Democracies.”

How do Britain's 'modern slavery' laws deepen racial inequalities? This panel discussion marks the launch of the new book by Insa Lee Koch, bringing together ethnographic insights, leading anti-racism campaigners and lived experience. Tickets now available ⬇️ buff.ly/Hvsg8Xg

🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to host Professor Alison Liebling for the Centre’s inaugural Annual Mannheim Lecture. Tuesday 19 May, 4.00pm–5.30pm, Alumni Theatre, CKK www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

Mannheim Centre for Criminology | Annual Lecture

For the Mannheim Annual Lecture, Professor Alison Liebling will consider how we might ‘reinsert the human’ in our approach to prisons and broader criminal justice and organisational life.

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🌎 Migration as anti-fascist movement? Rethinking the question of solidarity Join us for our Annual Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Lecture, exploring migration, social relations, and transnational solidarity.

Annual Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Lecture 2026 | Migration as Anti-Fascist Movement? Rethinking the Question of Solidarity

Wed 7 May | 6.30pm | Free and public event at LSE

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🚨New paper klaxon!🚨 How does a police department manage to claim that it's "making progress"? And how does it do so even when people complain about its poor performance, corruption, or whatever else? sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... @chicagopolice.bsky.social

The Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub is hosting its 2nd annual workshop on 2nd June, bringing together researchers who are working on the social dimensions of climate change and the environment, and policy responses to these challenges. ➡️ More here:

Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub | Annual Workshop

The workshop aims to bring together researchers who are working on the social dimensions of climate change and the environment.

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Does Speed Improve Justice? Fast-Track Courts and Violence Against Women in India Join us for our last seminar of this term, with Dr Nirvikar Jassal presenting. 📆 2 April ➡️https://buff.ly/WZnDVkm

Department of Social Policy | seminar series | global research on social policy topics

The International Social and Public Policy seminar series presents cutting-edge research on global social policy topics.

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Dr Kevin Zapatan Celestino's research aims to tackle school bullying as an urgent policy issue in Mexico by better understanding what motivates students to become bullies. Read about this research and watch the lecture here: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

Tackling school bullying: insights from Mexico I LSE Research

Dr Kevin Zapata Celestino investigates the motivations behind bullying in Mexico, showing how understanding bullies’ perspectives can help tackle school violence and shape urgent policy responses.

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China’s controversial one‑child policy may have ended over a decade ago, but its legacy continues to shape Chinese society. Shuang Chen's research reveals decades of birth restrictions have reshaped family aspirations. Read about this research here: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

China’s one-child legacy reshapes family aspirations I LSE Research

LSE research by Dr Shuang Chen reveals that China’s one-child policy has produced a lasting “low-fertility trap’’, with only children now preferring smaller families despite extensive government incen...

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Segregation by the Dispossession of Aspirations: Young Muslim Professionals and the Politics of Othering in Rental Housing Markets, New Delhi, India Join our seminar this week with Dr Sunil Kumar & Rifan Rahim presenting 📆 26 March ➡️https://buff.ly/WZnDVkm

Department of Social Policy | seminar series | global research on social policy topics

The International Social and Public Policy seminar series presents cutting-edge research on global social policy topics.

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📢 New Elsevier publication featuring Prof. Stephen Jenkins, Assistant Prof. Iva Tasseva and Visiting Senior Fellow Dr Fernando Rios‑Avila from the Social Policy Department at LSE alongside co‑author Christopher R. Bollinger from the University of Kentucky. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings: Austria and the United Kingdom compared

We contribute new cross-national evidence about the nature of measurement errors in employment earnings, fitting the same error components models to h…

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In our department seminar this week, Dr Santiago Quintero, LSE Fellow, presented on ‘Decentralisation, bureaucratic politicisation, and environmental performance: How political capture shapes multi-level environmental governance’ ➡️ Catch up here:

Decentralisation, bureaucratic politicisation, and environmental performance

ISPP Seminar Series, Thursday 19 March 2026 Decentralisation, bureaucratic politicisation, and environmental performance: How political capture shapes multi-level environmental…

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In our department seminar this week, @maximeborg.bsky.social presented on ‘The Politics of Defensive Welfare Inclusion & Exclusion: The Case of Social Policy for the Self-Employed’ ➡️ Catch up here:

The Politics of Defensive Welfare Inclusion and Exclusion

ISPP Seminar Series, Thursday 19 March 2026 The Politics of Defensive Welfare Inclusion and Exclusion: The Case of Social Policy for the Self-Employed Presenter: Dr Maxime Borg (Department of Social…

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📢 New publication by Dr Mobarak Hossain in @bjsociology.bsky.social documents changes in global inequality of opportunity in education for women and men born between 1941 and 1983 with results showing a decline in global inequality of opportunity. Open Access ➡️

Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century

We document changes in global inequality of opportunity in education for women and men born between 1941 and 1983, using individual-level census and survey data on 46.7 million individuals from 95…

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2026 Annual LSE Behavioural Public Policy Lecture. Professor Ching Leong explored how behavioural insights on policy formulation shape water consumption, policy, and public understanding. Catch up here:

2026 Annual LSE Behavioural Public Policy Lecture

2026 Annual LSE Behavioural Public Policy Lecture: Not a Drop to Drink- How Behavioural Biases Keep Us from the Water We Need Hosted by the Department of Social Policy on 5 March 2026 Speaker:…

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