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COVID-19 in the UK: where a...

03.03.2021

Contributor(s): Mandu Reid, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Mary-Ann Stephenson, Dr Clare Wenham | Women’s vulnerability must be considered in pandemic preparedness and response. We look at the role of UK policymakers in re-establishing the path to a more equal society for men ...

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03.03.2021 COVID-19 in the UK: where are all the women? Contributor(s): Mandu Reid, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Mary-Ann Stephenson, Dr Clare Wenham \| Women’s vulnerability must be considered in pandemic preparedness and response. We look at the role of UK policymakers in re-establishing the path to a more equal society for men ...
03.02.2021 Financing a Green and Just Recovery from COVID-19 Contributor(s): Naïm Abou-Jaoudé, Sharan Burrow, Rathin Roy, Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas \| How can we combine recovery from COVID-19 with the shift to an inclusive and sustainable global economy? Leading figures in government, business and civil society have pledged to “build ...
03.02.2021 Scroungers versus Strivers: the myth of the welfare state Contributor(s): Professor John Hills \| This episode is dedicated to social policy giant Professor Sir John Hills, who died in December 2020. In this episode, John tackles the myth that the welfare state supports a feckless underclass who cost society ...
03.01.2021 Life in a Post-COVID World: learning from Southeast Asia Contributor(s): Professor Hyun Bang Shin, Dr Nicole Curato, Dr Sin Yee Koh, Professor John Sidel \| Although the distinctive outcomes of COVID-19 in Southeast Asia are only now becoming clear, we expect that they can become the basis for innovative ...
03.01.2021 We Are All in This Together: has COVID-19 taught us how to save the world? Contributor(s): Dr Ganga Shreedhar, Professor Nick Chater, Sanchayan Banerjee, Dr Adam Oliver \| Can the massive shift in the way we now relate to each other, and the rules we choose to live by, help us tackle other collective threats ...
03.01.2021 What We Owe Each Other: a new social contract Contributor(s): Baroness Shafik, Juan Manuel Santos, Professor Amartya Sen \| What should a social contract for the 21st century look like? Launching her new book, What We Owe Each Other, LSE Director Minouche Shafik draws on evidence from across the ...
02.25.2021 The Costs of Connection: how data is colonizing human life and appropriates it Contributor(s): Mutale Nkonde, Professor Ulises Ali Mejias, Professor Nick Couldry \| Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias will discuss their book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism. Couldry and Mejias argue that ...
02.24.2021 Making Your Voice Heard Contributor(s): Professor Connson Locke \| Drawing on research from her latest book, Making Your Voice Heard, Connson Locke will look at how to develop your leadership presence and be more influential in the workplace. Discover a fresh approach to influence, ...
02.22.2021 Philanthropy - from Aristotle to Zuckerberg Contributor(s): Paul Vallely, Professor Rob Reich, Fran Perrin \| Join us for this talk by Paul Vallely who will be discussing his new book, Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg. The super-rich are silently and secretly shaping our world. In this ...
02.22.2021 Resilience Contributor(s): Professor Serene Khader, Professor Mark Neocleous, Dr David Westley, Dr David Bather Woods \| What do we mean by the term ‘resilience’? We trace the philosophical traditions of resilience and explore critical perspectives on its modern forms. Meet our ...
02.22.2021 SHORTCAST \| Data-driven Responses to COVID-19: opportunities and limitations Contributor(s): Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Orla Lynskey, Dr Alison Powell, Dr Edgar Whitley \| This is an event shortcast, a digested version of our live online public events series. This event was recorded on Thursday 15th October 2020. A ...
02.22.2021 SHORTCAST \| Growth and solidarity: cities reimagining human mobility in Africa and Europe Contributor(s): Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Giuseppe Sala, Marta Foresti, Professor Ricky Burdett \| This is an event shortcast, a digested version of our live online public events series. This event was recorded on Friday 9th October 2020. A full version is available ...
02.18.2021 Gender and COVID-19: a feminist economic lens Contributor(s): Professor Naila Kabeer \| Join us for this first lecture in our new series organised in memory of Sylvia Chant which will be delivered by Naila Kabeer. Professor Kabeer will use a feminist economic lens to analyse a range ...
02.18.2021 Wealth Inequality Across the Globe Contributor(s): Professor Kwang-Yeong Shin, Svetlana Mareeva, Professor Li Chunling, Professor Louis Chauvel, Professor André J. Caetano \| This event will introduce a special issue of The Journal of Chinese Sociology, which will showcase new analyses of wealth inequality and their ...
02.17.2021 How was Brexit for you? a reflection on what we learnt Contributor(s): Professor Catherine Barnard, Baroness Hoey, Dr Gerard Lyons, Sir Ivan Rogers \| Brexit represents the biggest systemic shock to the UK economy, society and politics for generations. Adapting to the 2016 referendum result has confronted established assumptions about the ...
02.16.2021 "World on the Edge": the crisis of the western liberal order Contributor(s): Professor John J. Mearsheimer, Professor Beate Jahn, Professor G. John Ikenberry \| This event will debate the crisis of the liberal order: is the cause of the crisis liberalism itself, or does it have as much to do with ...
02.16.2021 Let’s Talk Careers in a Post-COVID world Contributor(s): Dorie Clark, Dowshan Humzah, Professor Connson Locke, Simon Ong, Helen Tupper \| The impacts of COVID-19 on career prospects will differ across individuals. In this session we will discuss the groups of people who have advanced and those who ...
02.11.2021 Critical Race Theory and the Black Radical Tradition: engaging with structural racism in education Contributor(s): Professor Paul Warmington, Professor Sabina Vaught \| In the context of a global uprising for racial justice and the expansion of movements such as #BlackLivesMatter, universities have the opportunity and obligation to address structural racism. In the UK the ...
02.11.2021 Shaping Cities in an Urban Age Contributor(s): Professor Ricky Burdett, Kostas Bakoyannis, Professor Lila Leontidou, Professor Georgios Petrakos \| As cities struggle with the combined pressures of a killer disease and economic stress, the impacts of urban form on well-being, inequality and resilience are brought into ...
02.10.2021 The Recurring Crises of American Democracy Contributor(s): Professor Robert Lieberman, Professor Suzanne Mettler \| Join us for a discussion of America’s current predicament and how it differs from past threats to democracy in the US. You can order the book at Four Threats: The Recurring Crises ...
02.08.2021 Spaced Out Contributor(s): Dr Katie Beswick, Dr Julia King, Professor Antoine Picon \| City centres have experienced an exodus. Social distancing has emptied work places and theatres, and transformed the way we move through parks, streets, and supermarkets. At the same time, ...
02.08.2021 Going for Growth Contributor(s): Professor John Van Reenen \| How can the UK and the world get back to sustainable growth following the COVID-19 pandemic? Pulling together the lessons of 30 years of work on technology, management and productivity, John Van Reenen will ...
02.04.2021 Building a Caring Economy Contributor(s): Madeleine Bunting, Professor Diane Elson, Professor Lynne Segal \| The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has made us aware of an acute crisis of care that lies at the heart of global inequalities. Care has long been marginalised and ...
02.04.2021 Electoral Hostility: is the sanctity of elections under threat? Contributor(s): Jon Davies, Dr Sarah Harrison, Professor Michael Bruter, Dr Sandra Obradović, Adam Drummond, Thomas Hicks \| A mere few years ago, who would have ever expected some people unhappy with the results of a US Presidential election to forcibly ...
02.03.2021 Our Slim Window of Opportunity: what the climate change agenda must achieve in 2021 Contributor(s): Patricia Espinosa \| In a world beset by a global pandemic and an existential climate change emergency, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change Patricia Espinosa will provide her vision for 2021 and discuss why this year’s global climate change ...
02.03.2021 The Epic Potential of Empowering Women Contributor(s): Professor Linda Scott \| Linda Scott coined the phrase “Double X Economy” to address the systemic exclusion of women from the world financial order. In her new book, which she will talk about at this event, Scott argues on ...
02.02.2021 Building Resilience Through Data Centricity Contributor(s): Jacky Wright \| Join us for this fireside chat with Jacky Wright, Chief Digital Officer and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft US. Meet our speaker and chair Jacky Wright (@WrightJacky) is the Chief Digital Officer and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft ...
02.02.2021 Should we be optimistic? Contributor(s): Dr Tali Sharot, Dr Joan Costa-Font, Professor David de Meza, Dr Chris Kutarna \| Despite our growing collective pessimism about the state of the world, when it comes to our own lives, research suggests we are generally optimistic. After ...
02.01.2021 Defending the Future: gender, conflict and environmental peace Contributor(s): Hannah Bond, Bineta Diop, Helen Kezie-Nwoha \| There is a growing recognition of the need for the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda to take into account how the climate crisis poses risks to women and girls’ peace and ...
01.29.2021 Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism Contributor(s): Professor Mariana Mazzucato \| Join us for this public lecture by Mariana Mazzucato who will outline her new approach for governments to deal with inequality, disease and climate change. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. ...
01.29.2021 Power and Impunity: what Donald Trump and Boris didn’t learn from the Ancient Greeks Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cox, Professor Simon Goldhill, Dr Johanna Hanink \| Are we living in a world marked by a new impunity of power? Political leaders discard established norms and taboos that have guided the behaviour of their predecessors and, ...
01.29.2021 SHORTCAST \| Is it Time to Cancel Household Debt? Contributor(s): Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Professor Deborah James, Dr Johnna Montgomerie, Dr Jerome Roos \| Does the COVID-19 crisis mean that the time has now arrived for mass household debt cancellation? Central among the many social and economic policy challenges arising in ...
01.28.2021 Mothering and Work, Mothering as Work Contributor(s): Professor Shani Orgad, Professor Sarah Knott, Jess Brammar \| In this event we will grapple with past and present experiences of mothering. How can we tell a story of maternal labour in the past, in the absence of data? ...
01.28.2021 SHORTCAST \| Behavioural Science and a Post-COVID World Contributor(s): Professor Nick Chater, Professor Paul Dolan, Dr Grace Lordan, Professor Tali Sharot, Rory Sutherland \| The impacts of COVID-19 on society post-COVID and how we deal with them hinge on how politicians, firms and the public respond. What valuable ...
01.27.2021 The Politics of Inequality: why should we focus on resistance from below? Contributor(s): Professor John Chalcraft, Dr Flora Cornish, Professor Ellen Helsper, Dr Armine Ishkanian, Dr Sumi Madhok \| While it is now widely accepted that inequality is the defining issue of our time and there is growing research on the drivers ...
01.26.2021 Misinformation Contributor(s): Professor Lisa Bortolotti, Professor Quassim Cassam, Dr Cailin O’Connor \| Information may be power, but misinformation appears to be usurping the throne. From COVID-19 to QAnon, misinformation is more ubiquitous and more dangerous than ever. But why is it ...
01.26.2021 Empires Past & Present: empire around 1800 Contributor(s): Professor Odd Arne Westad \| Around 1800 the world was dominated by a number of predominant empires at different stages of development: Britain, France, Austria, Russia, the Ottomans, Spain, and the Qing. This lecture will discuss each of these ...
01.25.2021 The Impact of Brexit on Higher Education Contributor(s): Professor Simon Hix, Professor Wendy Thomson, Dr Beth Thompson \| Universities increasingly compete in globalised markets. The EU has encouraged student mobility through programmes like Erasmus. Graduate students, in particular, seek education across Europe. Researchers collaborate in increasingly dense ...
01.25.2021 COVID-19 and its Impact on Gender, Justice and Security Contributor(s): Dr Josephine Ahikire, Dr Nelson Camilo Sanchez \| The outbreak of a global pandemic has simultaneously revealed the fragility and robustness of health, education, economic, security, political and social systems. There is no shortage of exceptional responses to the ...
01.21.2021 Rebuilding the UK Economy for a More Secure Future Contributor(s): Anneliese Dodds \| As we head towards a year since the COVID-19 pandemic shocked not only global healthcare systems, but economies, many businesses are left wondering what the future holds and workers asking what will happen to their jobs. ...
01.21.2021 The Next Four Years: what should we expect for America? Contributor(s): Professor Desmond King, Mark Landler, Professor Paula D. McClain, Professor Theda Skocpol \| What will the next administration's international and domestic priorities be? A roundtable discussion with leading experts on American politics. Meet our speakers and chair Desmond King ...
01.20.2021 Solutions for a Planet in Crisis Contributor(s): Inger Andersen \| The planet is in the throes of the three connected crises of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. We urgently need to start delivering solutions or face major disruption. Inger Andersen, UN ...
01.20.2021 A Decade of Behavioural Science at LSE: A Fireside chat with Professor Paul Dolan Contributor(s): Professor Paul Dolan \| Join us for this fireside chat where Paul Dolan will be reflecting on ten years of behavioural science at LSE, discussing biases, narratives, happiness, resilience and more. We will be summarising the learnings from behavioural ...
01.19.2021 Warfare and Peacemaking in the 21st Century: who's taking responsibility to protect and promote peace Contributor(s): HRH The Countess of Wessex, Visaka Dharmadasa, Abir Haj Ibrahim \| In 2021, the UN Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security Agenda turns 21. The 20th anniversary year brought renewed commitments by member states, but the engine, ingenuity and ...
01.18.2021 Hayekian Behavioural Economics Contributor(s): Professor Cass R. Sunstein \| Friedrich Hayek argued for freedom of choice based on outsiders knowing much less than choosers so that interferences with personal freedom will make choosers worse off. This lecture will explore the challenge to that ...
01.18.2021 Key Workers and Inequality Contributor(s): Kate Bell, Deborah Hargreaves \| The vital labour of 'key workers' has been widely lauded during the pandemic. But can the trend of recent decades toward inequalities in earning and status be reversed? Meet our speakers and chair Kate ...
01.05.2021 What’s the point of social science in a pandemic? Contributor(s): Professor Laura Bear, Nikita Simpson, Professor Joan Roses, Dr Adam Oliver, Dr Clare Wenham, Professor Patrick Wallis \| In this month’s episode of the LSE IQ podcast we ask, ‘What’s the point of social science in a pandemic?’. On ...
12.10.2020 The 'True' Brexit: where are we now? Contributor(s): Professor Tony Travers, Jill Rutter, Vicky Pryce, Professor Katy Hayward \| In the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the negotiations for the UK’s future relationship with the EU look even more challenging. Now that the UK is finishing ...
12.09.2020 Why Aren't Policy-Makers and the Public Demanding That More Emphasis is Placed in Happiness? Contributor(s): Lord O'Donnell \| Join Gus O'Donnell and Paul Dolan in conversation, as they discuss the role of happiness in public policy. Gus O'Donnell (@Gus_ODonnell) was Cabinet Secretary and Head of the British Civil Service from 2005-2011 and is currently ...
12.09.2020 Report of the UK Wealth Tax Commission Contributor(s): Dr Andy Summers, Emma Chamberlain, Dr Arun Advani \| The unprecedented public spending required to tackle COVID-19 has been followed by debates about how to rebuild public finances and tackle inequalities exposed by the crisis. This event launches the ...

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