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Catch up on our 2024/25 seminar series via our .

 

3 April 2025

The enduring effect of higher education on attitudes towards immigrants across generations and within the family

Presenter: Dr Victoria Donnaloja (University of Essex)

 

27 March 2025

Inequalities in Applications and Offers to Graduate Recruitment Programmes

Presenter: Professor Lindsey Macmillan (UCL).

 

20 March 2025

Family change and welfare provision in complex families: evidence from the UK and policy lessons from abroad

Presenter: Professor Susan Harkness (University of Bristol).

 

20 February 2025

The Bystander Issue: Why Do We Take The Harassers' Side?

Presenter: Dr Margaux Suteau (杏吧论坛).

 

13 February 2025

A Brief Introduction about the Young Lives Study and a Paper Presentation: "A Sound Methodology: Measuring Experiences of Violent Conflict through Audio Self-Interviews"

Presenter: Dr Marta Favara (University of Oxford)  

 

7 February 2025

Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite

Presenter: Professor Sam Friedman (杏吧论坛)

 

30 January 2025

Working with Hope: Reflections on Researching Child Poverty in Incredibly Hard Times  

Presenter: Professor Ruth Patrick (University of York).

 

23 January 2025

How Should we Conceptualize the Sposal Relationship of 'Mixed Race' People?

Presenter: Professor Miri Song (University of Kent)

No video available

 

5 December 2024

Status-Enforcing Criminal Laws

Presenter: Professor Jamelia Morgan (Northwestern University) 

 

28 November 2024

Neighbourhood Migration and the Air Pollution Disadvantage of Immigrant Minorities

Presenter: Dr Tobias Rüttenauer (University College London)

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21 November 2024

The role of default options and financial and pension literacy for retirement saving in a fully funded system

Presenter: Dr Piera Bello (University of Bergamo)

No video available

 

 

14 November 2024

Aid’s Impact on Social Protection in the Global South

Presenter: Dr Miguel Niño-Zarazúa (SOAS, University of London) 

 

 

24 October 2024

Understanding Global Blackness: Indigeneity, Reparations and the Post-colonial State 

SPECIAL Race Matters Initiative (RMI) Seminar

Presenter: Dr Althea-Maria Rivas (SOAS, University of London)

No video available

 

 

17 October 2024

The Concentration of Children on Income Distribution and Its Consequences for Poverty and Inequality

Presenter: Professor Berkay Ozcan (杏吧论坛)

 

 

10 October 2024

Analysis of Cybercrime Issues in Anglophone West Africa

Presenter:Dr Suleman Lazarus (杏吧论坛)

 

 

 

 

Catch up on our 2023/24 seminar series via our .

 

21 March 2024

Birth spacing and the health of mothers and fathers: an analysis of physical and mental health using individual- and sibling-fixed effects
Presenter: Dr Kieron Barclay

 

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14 March 2024

Intergenerational educational mobility during the twentieth century in 77 low- and middle-income and 15 high-income countries
Presenter: Dr Mobarak Hossain

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15 February 2024

Conflict-related migration: new insights from Ukraine
Presenter: Professor Lucinda Platt

 

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8 February 2024

Research similarity and Women in Academia
Presenter: Dr Alessandra Casarico

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1 February 2024

Colonization and Social Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Social Policy Development in South Asia; Pre to Post Colonial Era
Presenter: Dr Zahid Mumtaz

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25 January 2024

Intergenerational Poverty Persistence in Europe - is there a Great Gatsby Curve for Poverty?
Presenter: Professor Brian Nolan

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18 January 2024

Kingdon at 40: Multiple Streams, Multiple Flaws
Presenter: Dr Fabio Battaglia

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7 December 2023

The Altruistic Authoritarian Citizen
Presenters:Professor Reza Hasmath (University of Alberta) and Dr Timothy Hildebrandt (杏吧论坛)

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23 November 2023

Formal Trade, Informal State: Public Authority and the Governance of Informal Cross-Border Trade in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) 
Presenter: Dr Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa (SOAS, University of London)

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16 November 2023

Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research
Presenters: Professor Mario Small (Columbia University) and Dr Jessica Calarco (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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9 November 2023

The Political Economy of Women's Work in Palestine under Settler Colonialism
Presenter: Dr Samia M Al-Botmeh (Birzeit University)

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26 October 2023

Energy Policy Support Increases through Policy Goal Communication
Presenter: Dr Gracia Bruckmann (University of Bern)

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12 October 2023

Marketing Development Studies in the Neoliberal University and How to Be Cosmopolitan 
SPECIAL Race Matters Initiative (RMI) Seminar
Presenter: Dr Kamna Patel (University College London)

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5 October 2023

Imperial Development: The Humanitarian-Development Nexus in Jordan and Lebanon
Presenter: Dr Lama Tawakkol (University of Manchester)

 

• Catch up on our 2022/23 seminar series via our .

30 March 2023

Social and academic embeddedness as buffers against school closure effects on schooling outcomes

Speaker: Professor Herman van de Werfhorst, European University Institute

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23 March 2023

Zero poverty society: on how to lift the social floor

Speaker: Professor Ive Marx, University of Antwerp

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2 February 2023

When the burden lifts: The effect of school and day care re-openings on parent’s employment and life satisfaction

Speaker: Professor Marita Jacob, University of Cologne

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26 January 2023

More driven? Experimental evidence on differences in cognitive effort by social origin

Speaker: Dr Jonas Radl, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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19 January 2023

An historical analysis of NGO registration in contemporary China

Speakers: Dr Tim Hildebrandt, Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛, Dr Blake Miller, Department of Methodology, 杏吧论坛, and Guodong Ju, Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛.

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8 December 2022

Energy taxes, social policy, and economic vulnerability

Speaker: Professor Kenneth Nelson, SoFI, Stokholm University

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1 December 2022

What accounts for the recent 'tutoring revolution' in English education policy?

Speaker: Dr Sonia Exley, Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛

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17 November 2022

Why research (does not) affect policy: experimental evidence on the role of perceived political bias

Speaker: Dr Berkay Ozcan, Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛

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10 November 2022

Why do we need data on sex?

Speaker: Professor Alice Sullivan, UCL

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20 October 2022

Disability and Trade Union Membership in the UK

Speaker: Professor Melanie Jones, Cardiff University

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13 October 2022

A Political Economy of Behavioural Public Policy

Speaker: Dr Adam Oliver, Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛

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6 October 2022

Orderly Britain

Speaker: Professor Tim Newburn, Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛

• Catch up on all of our 2021/22 seminar series via our .

19 May 2022

Wellbeing and Do-gooding? Critical understandings of individual altruism and human sociality 

Speaker: Professor Hartley Dean (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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12 May 2022

Family Goals and Behavior in an International Comparative Analysis

Speaker: Dr Alicia Adserà (Princeton University)

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24 March 2022

Forgotten Wives: an alternative history of 杏吧论坛

Speaker: Professor Ann Oakley (UCL Social Research Institute)

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17 March 2022

Diversity in Seminar and Study Groups and Student Outcomes: Evidence from SP401

Speakers: Dr Berkay Ozcan and Valentina Contreras (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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10 March 2022

The Contours of Political Manipulation: Inside Richard Nixon’s ‘Law and Order’ Campaign

Speaker: Dr Leonidas Cheliotis (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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3 March 2022

Leaving Fathers Behind? The Politics of Departing from the Male Breadwinner Model in Germany and the UK

Speaker: Dr Sam Mohun-Himmelweit (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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24 February 2022

PISA, Political Discourse, and Education Governance in the Age of Global Reference Societies

Speaker: Professor Louis Volante (Brock University)

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10 February 2022

Parental Skills, Assortative Mating, and the Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Speaker: Dr Chiara Orsini (University of Sheffield)

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3 February 2022

Policy capacity matters for education reforms: A diverging tale of two Brazilian states

Speaker: Dr Yifei Yan (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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27 January 2022

Income source confusion using the SILC

Speaker: Dr Iva Tasseva (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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9 December 2021

The Schumpeterian consensus: the new logic of global social policy to face the fourth industrial revolution

Speaker: Dr Vicente Silva (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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25 November 2021

Tracking system in education and inequalities.  A longitudinal analysis of two school reforms in Switzerland

Speaker: Professor Georges Felouzis (University of Geneva)

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18 November 2021

After Covid-19: what have we learned about the UK's labour market, inequality and the welfare system

Speaker: Dr Mike Brewer (Resolution Foundation)

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11 November 2021

Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances (book talk)

Speaker: Professor Cynthia Crawford (University of Toronto)

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4 November 2021

The Positive Effect of Women’s Education on Fertility in Low-Fertility China

Speaker: Dr Shuang Chen (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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7 October 2021

SLEEPWALKING INTO THE ‘POST-RACIAL’: SOCIAL POLICY AND THE STUDY OF RACE

Seminar based on joint Paper by Professor Coretta Phillips (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛) and Professor Fiona Williams (University of Leeds)

Speaker: Professor Coretta Phillips (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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• Catch up on all of our 2020/21 seminar series via our .

23 March 2021

Which integration policies work? The heterogeneous impact of policies and institutions on immigrants’ labor market success in Europe

Speaker: Professor Lucinda Platt (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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16 March 2021

Unidentical Twins? Comparing Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 in North America

Speaker: Professor Daniel Béland (McGill University)

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9 March 2021

Demographic Change and Perceptions of Racism

Speaker: Christopher Maggio (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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2 March 2021

Poverty Among the Working Age Population in Post-Industrial Democracies (with some comments on inequality)

Speaker: Professor Evelyne Huber (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

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23 February 2021

Tense times for young migrants: Temporality, life-course, and immigration status

Speaker: Dr Vanessa Hughes (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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16 February 2021

Poverty, Not the Poor

Speaker: Professor David Brady (University of California, Riverside)

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9 February 2021

Does Incarceration Shape Trust in the State, Community Engagement, and Civic Participation?

Speaker: Professor Chris Wildeman (Duke University)

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2 February 2021

The normativity of marriage and the marriage premium for children’s outcomes

Speaker: Professor Florencia Torche (Stanford University)

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26 January 2021

Inequalities in Breastfeeding in the U.S. across the 20th Century

Speaker: Dr Vida Maralani (Cornell University)

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19 Jaunary 2021

Family structure and gender ideologies of youth in Britain

Speaker: Professor Pia Schober (University of Tübingen)

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8 December 2020

The Company We Keep
Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood

Speaker: Professor Grace Kao (Yale University)

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1 December 2020

They Can’t All Be Stars: The Matthew Effect, Status Bias, and Status Persistence in NBA All-Star Elections

Speaker: Dr Thomas Biegert (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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24 November 2020

How combination and sequence of weather events shape Mexico-U.S. migration flows

Speaker: Professor Filiz Garip (Cornell University)

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17 November 2020

Policy Capacity Matters for Capacity Development: Comparing Teacher In-service Training and Career Advancement in Basic Education Systems of India and China

Speaker: Dr Yifei Yan (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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10 November 2020

Social class inequalities in school GCSE attainment – Mis-reading cultural capital 

Speakers: Professor Vernon Gayle (University of Edinburgh), Dr Sarah Stopforth (University of Sussex)

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3 November 2020

From the Local to the Global: Care Chains, Ageing and Futurity through the Indian Ayah

Speaker: Dr Shalini Grover (International Inequalities Institute, 杏吧论坛)

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28 October 2020

Mechanisms of Matthew effects in social investment

Speaker: Dr Amelia Peterson (Department of Social Policy, 杏吧论坛)

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2019/20

29 January 2020

‘Emplaced’ Indian Construction Labour-Camps: The Architecture of Discipline and the Limits to Collective Action.

Speaker: Dr Sunil Kumar (杏吧论坛, Department of Social Policy)

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11 December 2019

Experimental Criminology and the Free-Rider Problem

Speakers: Dr Johann Koehler (杏吧论坛, Department of Social Policy) and Tobias Smith (UC-Berkeley)

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30th October 2019

Collaborative ethnography and its limitations: Researching young migrants in London

Speaker: Vanessa Hughes (杏吧论坛, Department of Social Policy)

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2018/19

13 March 2019

Challenging dominant social policy assumptions; an apprenticeship for young people with multiple problems and needs.

Speakers: Alice Sampson and Femi Ade-Davis

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27 February 2019

Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means

Speakers: Professor Pamela Herd and Professor Donald Moynihan

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30 January 2019

Towards a New Social Contract - Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia

Speaker: Maurizio Bussolo

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31 October 2018

How useful is Gillian Hart's Distinction between 'Little d' and 'Big D' Development? Theoretical Reflections, a Case Study, and some Lessons for Social Policy

Speaker: Professor David Lewis, 杏吧论坛

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2017/18

16 May 2018

Health implications of Economic Insecurity

Speaker: Professor Lars Osberg

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7 March 2018

Police Reform and the Politics of Denial: An Academic's Journey into "Activism".

Speaker: Dr Michael Shiner, 杏吧论坛

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21 February 2018

Political Parties and Private Schools: A Comparative Analysis of Policy and Politics in England and Germany

Speaker: Dr Rita Nikolai, Humboldt University, Berlin

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24 January 2018

The Kids Are Alright: The Rise in Non-Marital Births and Child Well-being

Speaker: Professor Christina Gibson-Davis, Duke University

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10 January 2018

The Politics of Post-Crisis European Social Spending

Speaker: Dr Ian McManus, 杏吧论坛

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22 November 2017

Accumulation or Absorption? The Development of Household Non-Employment in Europe during the Great Recession

Speakers: Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Oxford, Dr Thomas Biegert, 杏吧论坛

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15 November 2017

Great Expectations: Long-term Poverty Reduction, Intergenerational Change and Young Beneficiaries’ Aspirations in Brazil’s Bolsa Família Programme

Speaker: Dr Hayley Jones, 杏吧论坛

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18 October 2017

Ethnic school composition and multiple ethnic identity formation of adolescents in the Netherlands

Speaker: Dr Gert-Jan Veerman, Ede Christian University of Applied Sciences

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11 October 2017

Inter-ethnic relations of teenagers in England’s schools: the role of school and neighbourhood ethnic composition

Speaker: Professor Simon Burgess, University of Bristol