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

📄 Read the latest in our Working Paper Series: Caregiving Across Generations by Joan Costa-Font, Chiara Orsini, Nilesh Raut Read here: buff.ly/0bIRE3H

Minds that Dare – liberation of thought and expression: The ALM and Academic Freedom Join us this week to hear Prof Paul Frijters share his experiences in academia that led him to set up Academia Libera Mentis (ALM). 📆 Wednesday 28 Jan, 6.00pm-7.30pm ➡️https://buff.ly/VCdbvLP

📄 Read the latest in our Working Paper Series: Bridging the Wealth Divide? Examining the Role of Stocks and Shares ISAs in Reducing Wealth Inequality in the UK by George Rushworth Read here:

📣 Our seminar this week features Dr Zhuang Han investigating how structural economic change and cultural transformation shape the lives and aspirations of marginalized youth in post-reform China. 📆 22 Jan ➡️

NEW✨ The public-health approach to violence prevention triumphed in Scotland – why isn't it working in England & Wales? Supraja M. reviews Preventing Violence by Keir Irwin-Rogers @lbilli91.bsky.social, @fraser81.bsky.social Fern Gillon Susan McVie & @timnewburn.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social

We've got a fantastic line-up of events coming up! Come and join the conversations! ➡️ buff.ly/7J2nHPa

📢 New publication by Dr Mobarak Hossain in American Journal of Education investigating the link between authoritarianism and the World Bank’s promotion of decentralization reforms in educational systems across low- and middle-income countries. ➡️ buff.ly/KJoBtFc

🌍 Upcoming event | Sociology of hope In his new book, sociologist Adrián Scribano presents a theory connecting hope to classical sociological traditions, revolutions, utopia, social change, collective action, and more. 📅 Wed 21 Jan 2026 ⏰ 6.30pm 📍 Online

📢 Public Event Announcement Join us for Professor Hertog's inaugural lecture: "How oil rents fuel populist foreign policy" on 21 January 2026 at 6.30pm In-person and online tickets available 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/events/21-ja... #LSEEvents @lseevents.bsky.social @shertog.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to NHH PhD candidate Pallavi Prabhakar and LSE PhD candidate Diwakar Kishore (co-author) for winning the Best Paper Award at the Meeting of the Norwegian Association of Economists (47th edition of "Samfunnsøkonomenens forskermøte”). Read more here:

We are delighted to be joined by humanitarian, author and media host Zainab Salbi. At this exciting public lecture, she will discuss how women’s leadership is providing new pathways to address the climate crisis. Registration is now open ⬇️ buff.ly/52E72BT

🌟 Our master's programmes are accepting applications for September 2026! Our degrees span ✔️ criminology, criminal justice policy ✔️ international social policy ✔️ international public policy Find out more and apply ➡️

📣 We're hiring! We are seeking to appoint a highly committed and motivated Programme Officer to support the effective delivery of our undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, particularly regarding student assessment. ⌛ Apply by 18 January 2026 (23.59 UK time). 🔴

🥁 LSE's public events programme for Winter term is out now! Events are free and open to all so make sure you check out upcoming events from January through to April. Head to our website to see full details and to sign up for your free ticket. buff.ly/dA2AzLB

Join the Mannheim Centre for Criminology for a book launch on 30 January! The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction: Stories, Movements & Hope This event will bring arguments from the book into dialogue with policymakers and leaders from community organisations. ➡️

Join the LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub for a book launch on 22 January! Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China 📅 In-person event, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM ➡️ buff.ly/QO2uxEa

In our Department seminar last week, Dr Joanna Clifton-Sprigg talked about her joint work with Jonathan James, investigating the relationship between parental WFH & school absence in England following the COVID-19 pandemic. 🎙️ Catch up here: buff.ly/QPnWiQC

📣 Join us for our last seminar this term when Dr Joanna Clifton-Sprigg will talk about her joint work with Jonathan James, investigating the relationship between parental working from home (WFH) and school absence in England following the COVID-19 pandemic. 📆 11 Dec, 1pm-2.30pm ➡️ buff.ly/gycDDpV

One week left to apply! Are you a PhD student working on a criminological topic (broadly construed)? If you would like to discuss your work, meet like-minded people, & enjoy London, apply to join the Mannheim Centre for Criminology’s inaugural PhD Symposium before December 8th! ➡️

📣 This week, Dr Philip Noden will discuss some of the opportunities and challenges of carrying out research within Ofsted, illustrated through discussion of completed research projects. 📆 Join us on Thursday 4 Dec, 1.00pm-2.30pm ➡️ buff.ly/gycDDpV

In our Department seminar last week, Professor Thomas Hale (University of Oxford) examined the politics of climate change. With long-term goals in mind, he outlined strategies for tilting the politics and policies of climate change toward better outcomes. 🎙️ Catch up here: