📢 New publication by Dr Mobarak Hossain (LSE) and Martina Beretta: "Community involvement and socioeconomic achievement gap in 14 sub-Saharan African countries" The article examines the role of community engagement in addressing educational inequalities. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0142...

New article in Population and Development Review. We look at how intergenerational educational mobility shifted across the 20th century, drawing on data from 92 countries, predominantly LMICs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ISI has a new website. Yes, one that works. Yes, also on your phone. No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim. Visit www.isi-munich.de/en Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Clara Fontdevila from the University of Glasgow will present our final seminar for the academic year this coming Monday, 16th June. Email or DM for the weblink, and please also feel free to join our growing community for future seminar updates: bit.ly/3v0vgaO.

A Nuffield College shaped cake! 🎂 Made by the College's catering team in 1994, for the Senior Clerk of Works' 80th birthday. From Nuffield College Archives, NCP A11. #isitcake #cakesky @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP Deadline: 9 June Please repost- thanks! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Ever wondered whether #modernisation 🏭💸 truly drives #EducationalMobility🎓? Join us tomorrow for a talk with @mobarakhossain.net, who uses data from 91 countries to show how mobility trends from the 1930s–1990s developed 👇 What if countries had done similarly without modernisation?🧐

📣Patterns of #intergenerational_educational_mobility from the 1930s to the 1990s across 91 countries 🌏 Join the QSS-CLS Seminar by @mobarakhossain.net Mobarak Hossain: Modernisation and educational mobility: A counterfactual approach 🗓️ Tomorrow 🕐 13:00–14:00 BST www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Very exited to share the amazing 🚀line-up for our QSS and CLS Seminar series @sriucl.bsky.social🎓 Weekly talks on #SocialScience topics like #Inequality, #Protests, #Migration, #EducationalMobility, #Ethnicity, and #Eugenics 📊 Wednesdays, 1–2pm (hybrid). Register: forms.microsoft.com/e/fHEP73Jdmz

📢 Great #internship opportunity in a wonderful team in @oecdsocial.bsky.social for students interested in #affordablehousing, #socialhousing and #homelessness 🏠 🙏 Please circulate and apply! @alibargu.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/mariss...

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I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

Hey postdocs, here’s an opportunity to develop your research plan with us - and eventually relocate to Turku with your own grant!

Hurrah: write-up of my Ruggles Lecture (with @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social and @nyecominetti.bsky.social) now out in Review of Income and Wealth, Open Access at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... ICYMI: our companion report at www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Postdoc position at U Michigan Center on Inequality Dynamics, ISR, start Sept 2025. Work w/ Tali Kristal (Haifa) and Pablo Mitnik (U Mich) on ERC grant on Income Distribution in US Manufacuturing, 1961-22. Quant skills important. Info here: cid-haifa-postdoc.tiiny.site.

PhD Position in Public Administration / Political Science at University of Bern on “Public Administration under Pressure": ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

We are very excited to share an open call for contributions to the World Yearbook of Education 2028. Please consider submitting your proposal, and feel free to circulate the call within your networks. reformedproject.eu/wp-content/u... About the Yearbook: www.routledge.com/World-Yearbo...

Our visiting fellow call is open again, have a look if you want to stay with us for a while!

New paper in International Migration Review! 📝📈 Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants. with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

WE ARE HIRING!! Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science (Associate/Full Professor) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN #demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4... DM or reach out *PLEASE RE-POST*

Does HE politicise today's students? Come along to the launch of a new ESRC-funded project on students and politics Online, 3 June, 2-4pm with @robfordmancs.bsky.social @janmcarthur.bsky.social @ralphscott.bsky.social & Gritt Nielsen www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...

We're hiring! 📢 Lecturer in Sociology position now open. We seek a scholar with a strong foundation in sociology, a record of high-profile contributions, and the ability to engage students and colleagues across diverse methodological approaches.

Call for papers on ‘Access and Geopolitics’ in higher education - for hybrid conference in Oxford on 3 June, jointly organised by @cghe.bsky.social #equity #HE #geopolitics #wideningparticipation www.researchcghe.org/news/access-...

⏰ Still time to register to watch (online) this afternoon's presentation of YL paper 'A sound methodology' (1pm-2.30pm) by YL Director @martafavara.bsky.social, @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social ⬇️ 💻 Book via www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic... 📖 Read the paper www.younglives.org.uk/publications...

Parental death increases child labour in #Ethiopia, especially unpaid household tasks, with school enrolment suffering. Losing a mother has the greatest impact. Urgent policies needed to protect vulnerable children #ChildLabour Read here - loom.ly/E8rbHBo @yloxford.bsky.social @unicef.org

Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

JOB ALERT: I am looking to hire two full-time pre-doctoral scholar to work with me in projects related to social stratification, human capital formation and health disparities. Data management and statistical analysis skills required. The position offers competitive salary and benefits.

We are excited to have Prof Gita Steiner-Khamsi as a speaker in our next seminar on 27 January! If you have not signed up yet, feel free to join our growing community: bit.ly/3v0vgaO. Or DM or email me for the link.

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in the field of #UrbanSociology, who can demonstrate expertise in the social and spatial life of the city, and how planning and/or design impacts urban life. Applications close Sunday 19th January 2025 (23.59 UK time).

A third review by Mobarak Hossain www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Happy to release long term effects of our boarding school RCT! The boarding school increases students’ chances of graduating from higher education by 60%, and divides high school drop out by 2. Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... policy brief: sciencespo.hal.science/hal-04819301

Almost tempted to contact them with a story and then not get back to them when they want to hear more and include it.

🚨 We are hiring! The #OECD is looking to hire one or several Economists / Policy Analysts to work on labour market and social policy, including on #inequalities. The vacancy is open until 3 January 2025. Please spread the word, retweet and apply! #EconSky smrtr.io/pfCMb

Delighted that our special issue on 'International student mobility within Europe: responding to contemporary challenges' has just been published! Pleasure to guest-edit this w/ @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social Daniel Faas, Aline Courtois & Suzanne Beech Our editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It seems that there was no Sociology Journals starter pack, so we created one: go.bsky.app/93ta3Gs -- do let us know which journals we missed!

"We are particularly interested in those working on housing (and issues of insecurity and sustainability) and policy and/or those with substantive expertise in Latin American policy contexts, but we will consider excellent candidates working on other areas of international social and public policy."

LSE Social Policy is hiring for a TT Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy! As someone who recently joined, I can genuinely recommend this opportunity. Details in the link below: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

We are excited to have Prof Jane Gingrich as a speaker in our next seminar on 11 November! If you have not signed up yet, feel free to join our growing community: bit.ly/3v0vgaO

Swing by tomorrow at 10AM ET/3PM UK for some new work on bureaucratic selection and teacher politics from Brazil with Julia Coyoli, Leslie Finger, and Jonathan Phillips. And check out the rest of the lineup Mobarak and Sonia have put together here: www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

We are excited to have Emmerich Davies as a speaker in our first seminar this term on 7 October! If you have not signed up yet, feel free to join our growing community of well over 400 members: bit.ly/3v0vgaO

I am organising the @popassocamerica.bsky.social session: "702 - Education and Inequality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries". Please consider submitting your paper to the session. 10 more days to go! #PAA

I am organising the @popassocamerica.bsky.social session: "702 - Education and Inequality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries". Please consider submitting your paper to the session. 10 more days to go! #PAA

We are excited to have Emmerich Davies as a speaker in our first seminar this term on 7 October! If you have not signed up yet, feel free to join our growing community of well over 400 members: bit.ly/3v0vgaO

Fancy a Visitorship at Nuffield College? 🙌 You're in luck! 😃 The Sociology, Demography & Social Policy Group have opened 2025-26 applications until 30 Sept ➡️ www.demography.ox.ac.uk/university-o... @leverhulme.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social

🚨 Exciting news ahead!🚨 Mark your calendar this term to join the LSE EduHub online seminar series featuring four very interesting talks. Don’t miss out—join our mailing list for updates: t.co/qEfsJVXrlT

🚨In this paper🚨 with Matthew Jukes, we examine when gender differences in socioemotional skills emerge and explore the socioeconomic/cultural determinants of these skills. We use Young Lives data with a comprehensive set of skill measures. Just out in the Journal of Dev Studies. OA: t.co/IwWq9mjura

LSE Social Policy seeks LSE Fellow (temporary lecturer) to contribute mainly to general SP course teaching, 2 year post, £1500 p.a. personal research fund, top department and colleagues. Excellent early career opportunity. lse.ac.uk/social-polic... Please forward to your networks

New preprint alert! **Credible causal inference beyond toy models** (Now in BlueSky!)

New paper (funded Nuffield Fdn) on the employment effects of UK's benefit cap. In late 2016, the cap (which limits the total amount of welfare ppl receive) was lowered. More people got less help from govt in the hope this would push them to find work onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....