Forthcoming events, seminars and recent publications from the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE
News
Congratulations to CASE PhD, Joel Suss on successfully defending his PhD thesis in May titled 'Local economic inequality in the UK: patterns, determinants, and behavioural consequences'.
Congratulations to CASE Associate Kate Summers on securing a post doctoral position funded by the British Academy.
A brief update from our former PhDs:
Aveek Bhattacharya is the Chief Economist at the Social Market Foundation. He has been researching public policy areas such as education, gambling, child hunger and competition in banking.
Nick Mathers returned to consultancy and is currently working on:
A global evidence review on cash transfers and child marriage for Girls Not Brides (publication due in September).
Developing tools for UNICEF to support operationalisation of shock-responsive social protection.
Forthcoming Social Exclusion Seminar Wednesday 7th July 16:30 - 18:00 Great Mistakes in Education Policy: and how to avoid them in the future Ruth Lupton (University of Manchester)
Registration is open and is required to attend our online seminars. Please register below: Social Exclusion Seminars
New Projects Awarded:
Abigail McKnight: 'Impact of the NMW and the NLW on different groups of workers, such as by gender, ethnicity and disability', joint with CEP, funded by the Low Pay Commission started in April 2021.
Ian Gough: 'Valuing What Matters: From efficiency to sufficiency' funded by Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship is set to start in September 2021.
CASEbriefs
Little fish, big streams: How do early in-class maths ‘ability’-groups and early teacher judgements relate to primary school children’s later maths self-concept?
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities within the English primary school system: What can disproportionalities by season of birth contribute to understanding processes behind attributions and (lack of) provisions?
How divided is the attitudinal context for policymaking? Changes in public attitudes to the welfare state, inequality and immigration over two decades in Britain
Kerris Cooper and Tania Burchardt
May 2021 Full Paper
Mapping Systemic Approaches to Understanding Inequality and Their Potential for Designing and Implementing Interventions to Reduce Inequality
Irene Bucelli and Abigail McKnight
April 2021 Full Paper
Can't save or won't save: financial resilience and discretionary retirement saving among British adults in their thirties and forties
In-class ‘ability’-grouping, teacher judgements and children’s mathematics self-concept: evidence from primary-aged girls and boys in the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Orsolya Lelkes (CASE Alumni)
May 2021
Published by Bristol University Press
How can we create a thriving life for us all that doesn’t come at the price of ecological destruction?
This book calls to explore our collective and personal convictions about success and good life. It challenges the mainstream worldview, rooted in economics, that equates happiness with pleasure, and encourages greed, materialism, egoism and disconnection.
LSE Housing & Communities
Community Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic: How Mutual Aid Can Help
Eleanor Benton and Anne Power
March 2021 Full Paper
The NCRC and the London School of Economics are launching the Energy Plus Academy; an exciting new knowledge-exchange programme to promote learning, skills, and local actions to tackle climate change.
More information about the Academy is available here.
Little fish, big streams: Early in-class maths ‘ability’ groups, early teacher judgements & primary schoolchildren’s later maths self-concept
Dr Tammy Campbell's work has received media coverage in the TES in March and May, The Mail, The Telegraph, The Times, and print versions including the Guardian, the Mirror, the iPaper.
Stereotyped at seven? Biases in teacher judgement of pupils’
ability and attainment
Dr Tammy Campbell's research was used in OFQUAL’s review, ‘Systematic divergence between teacher and test-based assessment,’ which received quite a lot of coverage and is informing the continued debate and scrutiny of what on earth is going on with assessments this year.
Inequalities in adult social care
Dr Tania Burchardt highlights inequalities in England in unmet needs for help with activities of daily living among older adults by age, gender, ethnicity and area deprivation. Watch the video here.
In case you missed it
Seminar recordings
Social Exclusion Seminars
Children’s Life-histories In Primary Schooling [CLIPS]: Persevering in exclusion? by Eleanore Hargreaves (UCL Institute of Education) Audio recording
Against the Odds: Why expecting schools to overcome disadvantage is doomed to failure by Sally Riordan and Michael Jopling (University of Wolverhampton, Education Observatory) Seminar presentation | Audio recording
