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...

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...

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...

💡 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

📢📖 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

📢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. 👇

📚 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

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...

🌎 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.

🚨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:

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

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...

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...

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

📢 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...

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:

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:

📢 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 ➡️

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:

📣 Line-up this week! The Politics of Defensive Welfare Inclusion & Exclusion: The Case of Social Policy for the Self-Employed Decentralisation, bureaucratic politicisation, & environmental performance: How political capture shapes multi-level environmental governance ➡️ buff.ly/eNB7xS7

📢 We are looking forward to the AFSEE Keynote Lecture on Wednesday 18 March! In the event, Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak and AFSEE Fellow Lily Jamaludin will discuss our world today, the stories that bring us together & the silences that keep us apart.

📺 Satellite images, geolocated videos, data dashboards — visibility has become a promise of justice. But is more evidence really leading to accountability? Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the limits of “evidence revolutions.” 📅 Wed 18 March | 🕠 5.30pm | 📍 LSE | With @aycacu.bsky.social

Join us today for a Book launch event: Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean 📆 Tuesday 10 March 2026, 5.30pm - 6.30pm ➡️ buff.ly/gBTmWHO

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Almudena Sevilla on becoming a Fellow of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social Wonderful recognition of her contributions to advancing equal opportunities in education and gender. Read more⬇️ buff.ly/wGJ3MDd

Book launch event: Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean 📆 Tuesday 10 March 2026, 5.30pm - 6.30pm ➡️ buff.ly/gBTmWHO

Book launch event: Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean 📆 Tuesday 10 March 2026, 5.30pm - 6.30pm ➡️

Police & People in London — What’s Changed in 40 Years? Join the LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology & UCL’s Centre for Global City Policing today for an afternoon event that reflects on four decades of change in policing. 📆 2pm - 5pm- In-person event, LSE buff.ly/01D07nW

Police & People in London — What’s Changed in 40 Years? Join the LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology and UCL’s Centre for Global City Policing for an afternoon event that reflects on four decades of change in policing. 📆 Friday 6 March 2026, 2pm - 5pm- In-person event, LSE buff.ly/01D07nW

A new school of government to train up civil servants might sound good in theory. But Kevin Zapata-Celestino warns that if this signals a return to the New Public Management logic of the New Labour era, this project needs careful rethinking.

📢 Upcoming event Professor Ching Leong will deliver the 2026 Annual LSE Behavioural Public Policy Lecture “Not a Drop to Drink: How Behavioural Biases Keep Us from the Water We Need, and How We Can Fix It.” 🗓️ 5 March | 6.45pm 📍Wolfson Theatre & Online

In our seminar this week, @zparolin.bsky.social presented evidence on why certain cash transfers toward families with children have failed to reduce intergenerational poverty. Catch up here:

🎉 Congratulations to Department of Social Policy PhD alumnus tcstephens.bsky.social who has been awarded funding by the EU Commission under its Horizon Europe programme, for a 2.5-year Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. ➡️

❓️ Are you a researcher working on the social dimensions of climate change & the environment? The Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub at LSE are hosting its second annual workshop on Tuesday 2nd June 2026. Call for papers is now open! ➡️

📢 Workshop: Closing Gender Gaps This workshop brings together researchers tackling why these inequalities endure and how we can address them, both through the persistence of gender gaps and potential policy solutions. 📆 12 March Register here: buff.ly/FbpakVF

In our seminar last week, @kevinguyan.bsky.social revealed how the fight for LGBTQ equalities is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day. Catch up here:

📣 In our seminar this week, @zparolin.bsky.social will present evidence on why certain cash transfers toward families with children have failed to reduce intergenerational poverty. 📆 19 Feb ➡️

📢 Upcoming event Professor Ching Leong will deliver the 2026 Annual LSE Behavioural Public Policy Lecture “Not a Drop to Drink: How Behavioural Biases Keep Us from the Water We Need, and How We Can Fix It.” 🗓️ 5 March | 6.45pm 📍Wolfson Theatre & Online

📣 In our seminar this week, @kevinguyan.bsky.social reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day. 📆 12 Feb ➡️

How will we know if the AI revolution is happening? In our Department seminar last week, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk talked about her research and what economic statistics could reveal as AI becomes transformative. 🎙️ Catch up here: buff.ly/pkRvKiH

📣 In our seminar this week, Jonathan Lilliedahl will examine why and how selective institutions & elite secondary schooling have acquired legitimacy within education systems committed to egalitarian principles, focusing on the changing Swedish educational landscape. 📆 5 Feb ➡️

🌏 Upcoming event | Governing with nature: towards transformative change? Find out how nature‑based solutions are reshaping urban governance and what this means for climate action, social justice, and cities. 📅 11 Feb | 🕡 6.30pm | 📍 In person & online #LSEEvents #Sociology